Dani sent me this yesterday and I really wanted to share with Team Alison.
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ReplyDeleteI love the antlers Alison! Nice to see your smiling face. Thanks for the pic.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.
Hey Alison! I've been thinking of you so much since your journey began and I'm finally able to get into this blog and let you know!! I'm so appreciative of this blog to keep all of us who love and care for you appraised of your progress.
ReplyDeleteYou are a wonderful woman and awesome nurse and your smile and great wit is sorely missed around the unit. Sending love and prayers, Vicki M. :-)
Oh you little vixen!! I love it! I got your email today (we're kind of crazy with the holidays so email as been at the bottom of the list). I would reply to your email, but I have a fear of you over-exerting yourself to read it so I thought I would just send you a quick hello on here.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got the newsletter and the flowers! I was incredibly jealous of you getting those because the picture of them online was absolutely gorgeous. I hinted to Davy, but that got through like mud on a brick wall if you know what I mean. :)
We are all doing well and missing Monterey and California in general. Hurry up and get better so we can come down and head out to a DPB show to dance again! We miss and love you bunches and bunches!!
Alysia
Holy Smokes Alison!
ReplyDeleteI just got your email and have now read your whole blog - and my heart sank. No wonder I haven't seen your cheery smile/wave on my dog walks - you've been leading another life. So sorry you are having to go through this.
Here I thought you were still off having fun somewhere - well, you WERE in Hawaii. I've been on vacation and I am now recovering from bronchitis so I have been somewhat out-of-the-loop. Nonehteless, your two-doors-over-neighbors are all sending you huge hugs and lots of love.
Of course if my car is out there... I am there in "Berserkeley". Please let me know if you need anything. I can run an errand, or come tell a joke, feed the critters (cat, birds) etc.
Can you tell how much you are loved? If not... may I share a little poem with you by Shel Silverstein:
HOW MANY, HOW MUCH
How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many slices in a bread?
Depends how thin you cut it.
How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live 'em.
How much LOVE inside a FRIEND?
Depends how much you give 'em.
Hang in there kiddo - Love, your friend Bede
LOVE THE CHOCOLATE MOOSE LOOK. TELL ME, DID YOUR HAIR
ReplyDeleteGROW LIKE THAT AFTER CHEMO/RADIATION? STRANGE SIDE EFFECT?
I SHOULD KID YOU AND TELL YOU THAT IS IS AN IMPROVEMENT BUT
I THINK I LIKE YOUR CURLS BETTER. WHAT''S THE DO FOR JANUARY?
LOVE YA.
STEPHANIE
Now THAT's a great look! But it may be a little cumbersome the next time we go snorkeling!!
ReplyDeleteHi all. My first time trying to post on my own. We'll see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteEven though I figured I'd be posting cheerier stuff on my blog, I kind of needed to just say what was on my mind.
Rough day. My treatment plan has me going in for radiation five days/week and for lab draws weekly. This was one of my lab draw days and all I can say is I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life (and I've been scared a lot lately) when the results came back with critical potassium values that were terrifyingly high, to say the least. Thanks to Kirk for insisting we get the nurse practitioner to re-draw and re-run the lab or I'd be going through a nasty treatment that could easily have had adverse medical effects on me. This isn't the first problem we've had with the medical oversight of my oncology treatment and it's a little worrisome, to say the least, to have so little confidence in my oncology medical practitioner. Thankfully, the radiation team has my full confidence, and we'll get the oncology part of it figured out soon, I'm sure.
(Once we got the labs re-drawn, the results were all good and within the parameters the docs hope for so. Had it not been for the lab result fiasco, this would have been a good day.)
Radiation itself is no problem: they put a fitted mask over my face and lock it in and zap me 12 times in 12 different places. I don't get claustrophobic so it's no problem although since I'm starting to get moonfaced from the steroids, it's getting tighter every day. The chemo has a definite tendency to nauseate and to cause heartburn but that can all be managed with meds so bring it on. This tumor is going DOWN.
Kirk and I are about to sit down to a quiet dinner and a DVD and try to forget about chemo, radiation, doctors, and everything medical for the next few hours.
We love you. Thanks for keeping us so close in your hearts.
Hi Alison, you put a smile on my face with the lovely antler look! You couldn't look more beautiful. I think of you every day, and send you healing thoughts. I look forward when we can lunch again. Here's hoping for a peaceful, safe New Year! 2010 will bring good things to you!
ReplyDeleteLove ya,
Sandy Fiorenza