Friday, May 20, 2011

Two

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It's official: sledgehammer therapy works. I started off the day with three hours of pounding and destruction. Sometimes the tears were ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Week

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I find myself in the thick of the week leading up to the second anniversary of her death. Overwhelming memories. On this date, such-and-such...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Sue

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My blog friend, Sue, has inspired and comforted me a lot over the last years. She has made lots of blog friends feel better with her words a...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Teal Out

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Sam Houston State University's Colleges Against Cancer, a student club affiliated with the American Cancer Society, sponsored a SHSU ...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Proton Therapy

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MD Anderson asked me to post a link to the video below, about a boy who survived cancer through the use of proton therapy. But first, here i...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Rest in Peace, Elsa Dias

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Elsa Dias died early Sunday morning after a ten-year battle with SARCOMA. Despite the fact that she submitted herself to several experimenta...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

WWMD

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I finished loading my groceries in the back of the car and pushed the grocery cart between the nearby cars in the Sam's parking lot--jus...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Faith

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I find that my faith has been strengthened through all of this. Initially, doubts, but, ultimately, a recognition of the obvious: we will se...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Marine

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Joel and I were recalling a time about a month after Maura's death. It was a good 90+ degrees, a hot a humid Houston summer day. And the...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Blue

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I suppose it's inevitable. The bloggers I follow are mostly people fighting cancer of various kinds. One of them just found out she has...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Dear Friend,

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First, never ever ever apologize for writing to me. You are right: I DO get it. I'm one of the few people you know who truly gets it. I ...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Rest in Peace, Elizabeth Edwards

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May God comfort her family and friends.
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Toi noi tieng Viet khong gioi

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A few months ago, my cousin told me that creating "new neural pathways" was the best thing that we could do for ourselves as we tr...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

Thanksgiving

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Plan A: With Joel working a 12-hour shift on Thanksgiving Day and the girls being out-of-state/country, I had chosen to stay home last Thurs...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

1 1/2

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One and a half years today. Exactly. And today is exactly one year since Card Blue passed away. and today is exactly two months since Jill p...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Mermaid, Part 2

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Mermaid seems to be the Maura theme o' the month. Ater we rented the mermaid beach house, and Matt sent the video from Korea (posted las...
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Mermaid

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Lydia asked, "Do you think that we could have a normal Christmas? Joao has never seen us as a normal family." She's right. Her...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Bully

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Joel and I went to a movie a couple nights ago--a movie about a boy and a vampire girl--a kid vampire. I thought it would be twilighty and ...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Easy

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Here's an easy peasy thing you can do every day for the next week or so to promote SARCOMA AWARENESS. Click on the link below. Ooh and a...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Social

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During Maura's final days, while she lay in a hospital bed at M.D. Anderson, her room filled well past the fire code limit with friends ...
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