For some reason, I've been really tired, if that is the word, this past week,
prior to my going back to hospital for my next consolidation. I have read all
your messages, and send my sympathy, empathy and prayers out to those who are
climbing the mountain, those who are helping and seeing positive results, and
those who feel unable to help -- although they are not because their messages
show the love and support they are giving. A look, a word, a touch can say it
all. Even if we face a Niagara of seeming impossibility, we can in many ways
lift each other up, patients and helpers alike. So love and courage to us all.
And let's all remember those who, for one reason and another, such as age
perhaps, face the struggle in absolute dependency on the kindness of
strangers. God bless and help us all.
I want to thank those who have written to and about me. So far my journey has
not been all that difficult, and it has definitely been helped by the words I
have found in these messages. If I do not post any messages, that doesn't mean
I am not reading the postings of others. I read them every morning, at least.
I am looking forward to the end of my consolidations next month, and hope that
with the end of chemo real energy will return to me. Let me warn you, when
that happens you will probably be unable to shut me up!
Today I shall write my Christmas cards (in case I am kept in hospital again
beyond the expected five days), pack my bits and pieces for my week's
adventure, tidy up, and then, this evening, be driven around Manhattan by my
friend just to see it sparkle. Oh how I love this town at Christmas! (As
always.) Riding around the island, seeing the World Trade Center zoom toward
you, seeing the UN and the whole East Side ahead as you glide past the
bridges, catching a glimpse of the Rockefeller tree as you stop-and-start down
Fifth Avenue -- well, that puts images in your mind that make you forget your
broviac! This I know: despite my present "condition", which I shall overcome,
I have been, and am, blessed -- though I feel free to grumble now and again.
So, one and all, this will be my last message for the week. When I come out of
the hospital, with my white cell count way down, and about to be boosted by my
now-old-friend neupogen, I'll be back here dropping you a line. I'll miss my
visits to this magic place in computerland. (If you can rent a phone and a TV
in hospital, why not a laptop?...)
Meantime, I have printed out those messages that ask questions, and pardon me
if I do not answer them now but leave that until I'm home again and have more
energy than I do right now.
Wishing you all the best. God bless.
-- Ron
PS. Try soy milk!
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