Communication on all fronts
I cannot tell you how wonderful it has been to get emails, calls, cards, responses on Facebook, RT’s on Twitter- every kind of communication possible today! Going through this hellish process is so difficult but going through it alone would be much worse. Now I feel the love and support of so many friends, near and far. Friends from my life now and friends from high school, friends from real life and from cyber space! All the comments and support are valuable and help me get through the weeks and days. The comments on posts, the words on responses on Facebook all come through on my e-mail so I get to read them everyday. I am grateful for all of them and feel so thankful for the caring community of friends I have made in my life.
Tomorrow I meet Dr. James Kolker, Radiation Oncology at PA Hospital, which I will need after I heal from the surgery. I need a lot more information about that whole process. He will be communicating a lot to me!! Norman is going with me with pad and pen in hand to take notes. Of course, the next day he is getting a bone scan for his own problem. My advice to you- stay young!! ( if it’s not too late)
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Hi Linda,
I am so sorry to hear what you are going through, but I look forward to hear positive results in the near future. Refua shleima!
Love Daniella and Reuven
thanks for your support!!
The two of you are still the youngest (old?)couple I know
thanks!!
I agree (that you are “the youngest (old?) couple I know”!) Good luck tomorrow. Thinking about you all the time. Talk to you later. Love, rochella
Linda,
We are leaving for Israel today and I have a note for you ready to put in the wall. Thinking of you.
Marlene Goldfarb
How sweet!! Thanks so much, that’s great!! Enjoy my favorite city!
We are following you everyday. Both you and Norman remain in our prayers.
May Hashem grant the two of you a long long life! Amen!
May you both grow young, to 120! 🙂
Barbara and Raymond Price xoxoxoxoxoxo
thanks!
Linda, thank you so much for sharing your journey with us on this blog. As with everything in your life, you have created a loving community. You have a knack for doing that whether it is about art, cancer, fighting hunger, or whatever. Sending love, hugs, and healing prayers, Susan Richards
Linda, remember you’re a fighter! Don’t let this thing win! (You have my prayers and good wishes, good friend.)
thanks to a dear ARTsister!! i appreciate your constant support.
Linda,
I only found out about this a short while ago. Have faith in modern medicine; your cancer was caught very early.
My thoughts and prayers are with you. I’m sending a big hug and a cyber bowl of chicken soup!!
Love,
Amy Bursky
thanks for your support and the soup with no calories!
Best wishes, Linda, for your speedy recovery in body, mind and spirit!! You are in my thoughts.
Blythe Hoyle
thanks blythe for you support. good to hear from you!
dear linda, if there is anything i can do, let me know. (i had lobular also…less common than ductal, and i missed 3 years getting a mammogram….. bad,bad, bad thing to do) sounds like your going thru the motions and examining your emotions right on. you will not believe you went thru all this when you reread your blog 20 years from now !!!! hang in there. refuah shalema.
thanks randi. you are the only other lobular person i think i know!! i look forward to looking back on this as a blip on the screen of my life.
Linda! I have been so out of it lately with my own treatment that I just noticed this today for the first time. Who would have thought both of us would be diagnosed with this nasty breast cancer slightly less than a year after our residency last July at Vermont Studio Center.
I was diagnosed on June 6 after many weeks of tests etc. Mine was finally discovered with the MRI. That was a funky experience, right? I only have one small lump, that never would have shown up on a mammogram, but it has already caused activity in my right lymph nodes. Because I have the triple negative varitey they are throwing heavy duty chemo at me first in the hopes that it will shrink or possibly even disappear before my surgery.
I will follow your progress eagerly here and hope that we both will be able to say in another 6-7 months that we are cancer free! Let me know if you would like to talk at any time.
I hope you are still finding time for your creativity. I’m doing my best to keep my work going because I think it is a key part of my healing.
Take care,
-Joyce
it’s scary how many women get breast cancer!! glad we found it when we did. i am creating wince are is a haven for me and as necessary as breathing.i do want to talk to you too. what is your number and where do you live? same time zone? we are now not on creative sisters but sisters going through cancer together. we will fight the battle and win the war! talk to you soon,
linda