Ron:
We will be thinking of you and will miss your caring consideration.
Lisa
At 11:10 AM 12/7/97 EST, you wrote:
>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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