Hi. Patrick again. Leni visited the doctor on Monday. He decided to postpone her next chemotherapy session until she is a bit stronger. She also needs to get her fluid intake up, as well as her white blood cell count. We've started medications to help in this area. We'll be back in his office for a follow up on March 10, and make decisions then on continued chemotherapy.
Once again, she loves hearing from you - either as comments here on the blog, or in cards and phone calls. We constantly read these to her, and it brings a smile to her face, and tears of happiness to her eyes. She feels very loved and very lucky to have such great friends and family. She and I are working on a more detailed post, which we'll try to get to you soon!
Thanks once again for thinking of us - please do not underestimate the power of positive thinking. Hearing from you today gave her great peace as she settled in for the evening.
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Dear Leni and family - Thank you so much for the medical update. Leni you are in my thoughts each day as I travel the roads of Northern CA to and from my work sites. I get to see sunrises, sunsets, hawks gliding in the winds and of course, the cows, lots and lots of cows (you just knew there had to be something funny!)
The plans are coming together for my 50th birthday party. My family is flying in next Thursday from Maine and Tenn - they are so looking forward to leaving the snowbanks and freezing weather behind, for a few days. I am so lucky to have friends who are helping pull this together. I am very excited and am looking forward to the party.
As you continue to grow in strength, energy and stamina, know that you are held in many hearts and many strong spirits are keeping positive thoughts.
be well, barb
Leni, you are in my prayers, every day, every minute. You are such a spirit and I am blessed to know you. Beth Wooley
Good morning, Leni. We are so pleased to hear better news both from your "blog" and from Karen's email. We want to send you all the encouragement we can. We've both been through a bit of this cancer business and here we are to tell the story. Jim with his bladder cancer and me with my stage four metastatic breast cancer. We were both diagnosed in 2002. I had a rather grim prognosis (6 months, they said) and here I am. So we want you and your sons to know that there really are miracles. We truly believe that lots of love and lots of prayers (especially Sr. Elizabeth's prayers) and lots of wonderful medical help kept us going and continue to keep us going.
Leni, if you don't feel like eating much, I found rice to be a great meal...breakfast, lunch and dinner,actually. It's good with cream of mushroom soup, with sugar and butter, and just plain.
We would love to do anything we can to be of help. We're retired and so should have lots of free time! But we do keep going. This weekend we are going to Monterey to celebrate our daughter's 10th or 40th birthday (leap year child) and Jim's 70th. I've already celebrated my 70th and it is very liberating. We'll be home on March 4 and ready to help with errands or shopping or anything else that might be of help.
In the meantime, we send all of you our love and our prayers. Take good care of each other,
Jim and Honoruth Corbett
Dear Leni
We are delighted to hear encouraging news both from your blog and
Dear Leni
You might be able to tell that this is our first visit to a blog and we had a bit of a time trying to get our message posted. Of course, we are the ancients and we are not technologically very good!
But we are delighted to hear encouraging news both from your blog and from Karen's email.
Since we've both been on the journey you are now on, we have a bit of sense of what you are going through. Jim and I both have cancer, Jim's in his bladder and mine is stage four metastatic breast cancer diagnosed as that in 2002. I didn't have a very hopeful prognosis (six months) and here I am, thanks to lots of love, lots of prayers (especially Sr. Elizabeth's) and lots of wonderful medical care from great docs. Miracles do happen when all of that is working for you!
Leni, I remember that eating was a chore and I found RICE...plain, with butter and brown suger, with cream of mushroom soup...it really helped.
Please know that we are both praying for you and your family and we send our love to all of you. We'll be out of town celebrating 70th birthdays (who would have thunk?) this week end but back on Tuesday. We're very good at running errands, shopping, and anything else that comes along. Please call us anytime.
xoxo
Jim and Honoruth Corbett
Dear Leni,
You and I don't know each other, but I feel as though I know you as I have the pleasure of working with your son Michael, and I think we are good friends, and spend some quality time in the car traveling around the state to meetings and to conferences.
I had the good forture to attend a leadership retreat exactly a year ago in a special place in West Virginia, Shepardstown. One of the classes during the week involved identifying crafting messages to those who have been influential in our lives, and then actually sending the messages to those people and those who support them. So this message goes to Cath, and Mike's brothers and all the family as well. I can count on one hand those individuals who have been particularly influential in my life, and your son is one of them. So I have been remiss in sending my messages.
What I would like to say about Michael is that he has a gift, a gift of listening to others, being able to synthesize, getting the the heart of what is being said, valuing what he hears, and enabling that person to feel valued and talented. What a gift and a treasure! This gift is being felt around the state as Mike serves as a leader in our geospatial world. And you are the source of that gift, and I recognize the gift, and I hope to pass it to my 10-year-old son as well.
Hope you feel better with time. Thanks for Mike, I really appreciate him.
Regards and God bless,
Carol Ostergren
Leni,
My Magdalene sister. We do not know each other personally, but we have probably seen each other at various events at St. Francis. Your faith, perseverance, and love are a great model for me.
Please know you and your wonderful family are in my prayers. Your openness to our caring community gives us one more opportunity to see Christ in our lives.
Waht are some of the family's favorite foods? I could probably bring by a meal one evening in the next couple of weeks.
In that holy space where you tell Him everything and He understands, there are angels who stand in wait to hear His every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy? I stand with them for this you have done for me. (Marian Williamson)
Leni
Keep the positive thoughts and LIFE will show us the bigger picture. You are loved
Karl
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