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Back & Better than Ever
Hello to everyone who is still checking my blog after a month of inactivity!
I am doing well! I’ve had my PEG and Port out plus re-immunizations and follow-up MRIs. Some of it set me back for days or weeks, but I am now looking to finally healing and then strengthening for the rigors of everyday life. I have new running shoes and walking sticks so I can make it past the mailbox and on into life. I’m trying a new strategy of leaving my brace for my dropped foot at home and using the poles for stability. I’ll let you know how it turns out!
My Mom and I visited my sister in Bellingham last week and took a day to ferry over to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. It was such a beautiful day, saturated with good memories and powerful surprises of how much I have healed. I now have enough wool to spin (on my spinning wheel) for a couple years after we visited the alpaca farm! It was great to go out for my first trip and to visit family and friends.
Though I have been to hell and back, I have realized that this cancer experience has affected a great scope of people, specifically caregivers. This is as much a healing time for them as it is for me. Heavy emotions and worries of my demise can now be laid down and a mantra of optimism and happiness can be picked up. I want to recognize those who have helped me and to let you know that I will be fine and that I couldn’t have asked for anything better – a restart on life with eyes grateful and happy.
I am so very much looking forward to the day I can see all of you again. Thank you for your support and I really hope you are having a great summer!
Serry
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What Can You Do?
Many people would love to visit Serry, or send her something, or just DO something that will lift her spirits. Serry and her family are so thankful for this outpouring of love and support.
Emails/Comments on the Blog
This is by far the most effective way to communicate with Serry and let her know you are thinking of her. She tries to read comments on here every night before bed and is strengthened to keep pushing forward. In addition, her family and friends read through the comments and are encouraged. Please keep posting here. This is the number one answer to "What can I do to help?"
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Relay for Life
We will be doing a Relay for Life team next year. Come walk with us or donate! The Brainiacs 
What's Going On?
Serry has Medulloblastoma -- brain cancer. So many people care about our Serry that we wanted a communication hub-- somewhere that friends and family can come to get updates on how she's doing and leave their love for her to cherish. Please take your time here, lift her up in prayer, give her a big cyber hug, and leave a comment by clicking the "Comment" button below any post. Those comments mean the world to her and will continue to give her strength to fight this.
Update: The MRI results are clear. It will take many years of monitoring to make sure it doesn't come back. For now healing is the big priority!
Wisdom
- Never, Never, Never give up. ~ Winston Churchill
- Attitude is everything
- Wag more, bark less. ~ bumper sticker
- Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall. ~Psalm 55:22
- Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve
- The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
- Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain
- Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ~Robert Collier
- If you're going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill
- When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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4 comments:
Hey, don't knock the previous author for the month of inactivity. ;)
Love you.
Wow Serry, that was great to read. Good luck with that walking!
Serry, I am so happy that you are starting to slowly but surely get back to "every day" things. I hope and pray that each day you continue to grow sronger and that soon walking will be effortless. I can't wait to hear about all the exciting things you will be doing through the rest of summer and into the fall! Love, Brandie
Hi Serry,
I've been thinking about you and decided to check your block tonight. Wow! Great news. I'm very happy for you and your family.
Best wishes.
Sheila
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