My New World

My New World # 15:  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

My New World # 15: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

PanCan: The Purple Stride I am so very, very grateful for the 200 plus of you who donated to my Purple Stride campaign.  We exceeded our $5000 goal but did not meet our goal of 500@ $10 each.  However, due to your incredible generosity, PanCan received their full donation plus. This was my poster with […]

By July 25, 2019 3 Comments Read More →
My New World #14: My Patient Voice

My New World #14: My Patient Voice

Recently, I was asked by my doctor, Dr. Wolff, to speak at a national symposium on pancreatic cancer at M.D. Anderson. The audience were researchers presenting papers on their latest projects, and, although I didn’t stay ’til the end of the day, Dr. Allison, M.D. Anderson’s Nobel Prize winner, concluded the conference. I wish I […]

By March 5, 2019 2 Comments Read More →
My New World #13:  Happy 2019!

My New World #13: Happy 2019!

A very Happy 2019!  While it’s been a long time since I posted on my blog, the New Year has been good for me. My life has  settled into an every other week chemo routine, and the treatments have been very effective.  My little monsters have not grown and seem to be resting:  they’re not […]

By February 5, 2019 7 Comments Read More →
My New World # 12:  Celebrations and Tribulations

My New World # 12: Celebrations and Tribulations

I have a wonderful feeling of accomplishment in achieving my two goals:  In April, I made it a year (50% don’t), and then celebrated my 81st birthday in June.  I spoke words of appreciation to my doc about getting me this far,  and I believe it has been one of my best years, I think, […]

By July 9, 2018 2 Comments Read More →
My New World # 11:   Spring Forward

My New World # 11: Spring Forward

SPRING HAS SPRUNG: It has been a very frosty winter for Houston,  and our landscapes are littered with dead sago palms and other tropicals.  Nevertheless, spring is beautiful this year as some plants seem to  have benefited from the cold weather, the azaleas are stunning.  And like me, for example.  My frosty winter is turning […]

By March 22, 2018 0 Comments Read More →
My New World: # 10

My New World: # 10

A TMI Health Update:  As you know, I have been taking chemotherapy every other week for the last ten months.  It’s been very good, my new normal, but after my last evaluation, we discovered that the tumors are growing a little again.  This calls for a new strategy and  an eight week round of two […]

By February 8, 2018 7 Comments Read More →
Groundhog Day Revisited

Groundhog Day Revisited

Almost everyone knows about Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog in a small Pennsylvania town who predicts the weather  each Spring.  If he sees his shadow, he runs back into his burrow for six more weeks of winter. This centuries old tradition comes from German folklore that holds that many animals can predict the weather and that […]

By February 2, 2018 2 Comments Read More →
My New World #9: The Season of Friends & Family

My New World #9: The Season of Friends & Family

It’s been a long interval between my posts as the trifecta of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are upon us all.  My favorite time of the year, I suppose.  I love Jitterbug’s joy at Halloween as she anticipates and greets the children most enthusiastically at the words, “Trick or Treat!”  She, of course, understands that phrase to […]

By December 15, 2017 7 Comments Read More →
My New World #  8:  THANKFULNESS

My New World # 8: THANKFULNESS

May I take back all my petty complaints from my last post (Everything’s Breaking Down (Except Me )?  Now, so much THANKFULNESS:  JITTERBUG has recovered from her bout of severe pancreatitis and has adjusted to the  meds which control her Addison’s Disease. Before, during, and after Hurricane Harvey, she was a very, very  sick dog and […]

By September 21, 2017 10 Comments Read More →
My New World #7: Everything is Breaking Down (Except Me)

My New World #7: Everything is Breaking Down (Except Me)

Let me say first, that my tests yesterday showed good progress and no new growth; however, I am about the only good news in my world this week. Most distressing is the illness of our little Jitterbug. She has been in the hospital for almost a week, and poor baby is very sick.  Her blood […]

By August 19, 2017 1 Comments Read More →