Thank you L for the surprise visit. Thank you for the rose and pussy willows. Thank you for playing the harp for me as I drew the final panel AND for your gift of music for all who were there today. Thank you for your support. As a sister-in-the-know your story provides us with an experienced lense to look through during all of this. Thank you for being part of the clinical trials years ago which make my treatment probably easier than your own.
Thank you S, cancer center volunteer, sister-in-the-know, who celebrated 5 years out during my treatment. Thank you for bringing your sweet dog around to all of us, her energy is so therapeutic. Thank you for your gift today. Let me explain: S brought me a box and told me that she just had to share something with me. When I opened the box and we looked at the angel figure (you can’t really see her wings here) and at my drawing we shared a glance and a smile.  There was no whiplash.
Incidentally, I was given a different angel of this series at the start of my treatments. She’s holding a lantern which has illuminated the dark times. (Thank you to another S for that one!)
Thank you J, patient navigator, for dropping by to show me your artwork and for talking art with me.  I look forward to lunch sometime.
Thank you K, my very own nurse.  Our conversation today was poignant and heartfelt. The ending of this treatment is bitter sweet. More sweet than bitter, because I know where you work and will certainly fulfill your wish for visits.
Thank you volunteers and nurses for the great balloon that you signed. The katz are playing with the tail and E wants to suck the helium out of it, but I’m not ready to share it. Mostly thank you for all of your TLC. You are an excellent staff.
Thank you friend S for taking me out to lunch, for the flowers and card, for your attention and our growing friendship. It was lovely to receive your celebratory energy as I walked into the restaurant. I can’t wait to make you a cheese bread!
Thank you readers of this blog for supporting my artwork. This particular series was so exciting to do and return to each week. Some waited with baited breath for the next panel, and the anticipatory energy was really exciting for me.  The finished work is 10″ in diameter.
I was also working on this pic of my boots since the beginning, it was the other part of my view during the infusions.
Thank you B, A, E, Chang Tzu, Guiseppi and Sofia, friends, family, loved ones for helping me through this particularly challenging part of the journey. It feels like a big chunk will soon be behind me and us.
Thanks Body for tolerating the invasions. This part is almost over. Each step we take this week will take us beyond the 7 day cycles we’ve been on for 3 months. Bravo.
BRAVO indeed! Beautiful! I am celebrating with you….woo hoo…
Yeah, I’m so glad to hear that this part is done ! Congrats. Now it’s time for a little get together, I hope. I’m sending love.
Wow the pictures are amazing! I’m partying here in NY for ya!
dear sweet P … i just finished catching up on your blog. i feel speechless; in awe of you more and more each time i read your passages. i have always told you that you have such a “wise old soul” in such a young-stah body. thru this experience, your “old soul” has soared to new heights. you’ve zoomed in from the depths of your heart, soul and being, so perfectly that all of us GO’s who stand with you can really “feel” exactly what you are experiencing in your head and in your body. and your artwork ~ just magnificant!!!!! the last panel and the statue your S friend brought you … WOW. i actually said that out loud when i was reading your entry. and the drawing of your boots, p; oh my gosh more than perfect. narry a scuff, i bet 🙂 they have carried you in more ways than one, i’m sure.
Be a good kid to yourself today. I know you try to do that every moment and also find plenty of room for the rest of your life. you wrote an entry on 1/25 about being at the center for your infusion and
seeing/hearing another woman there who was struggling. I worte down what you wrote because it just felt so meaningful for me about life in
general: “finding the balance of compassion for others and self care is always important to my well being. In having compassion I am able to do what I can to send energy out. This is what I can do.” it is such a powerful statement and action. I try and remember your words when I am feeling “compromised” in some way and I can’t quite go the extra step to give more of myself to a situation. You have helped me, p, in my daily life with your courageous way of being; of living; your example and your almost daily entries in your blog which have so impacted my heart.
i’m sending you a long and loving hug, you sweet thing. wishing you all of my very best and looking forward to seeing you really soon but i hope that you can take the time you need to work from home.
love you, me
Thanks, you all, for celebrating with me and us!
Congrats and WHOO HOO!!!! Iam so happy to read about the closing of your chemo treatments! healing, loving and revitalization WILL be yours lady! sending you HUGE HUGS and LOVE, ALWAYS!!! ps I need to get the cheese bread recipe, plus other family recipe thoughts too! I would love to plan a family reunion late this summer too,what do you think? love to all the fam! xoxoxo
I feel like I have missed an important week: I had a passing, pleasing thought of calling you on the cell phone as I walked on the beach this morning… But seeing all the people walking next to each other WHILE talking on their cell phones made me try to return my focus to the blue sky and sea. Can’t wait to walk around the golf course s’more!
Sending a ton of love and gratitude for the passing of the chemo milestone..
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I’m so happy D, that you absorbed the blue sky and salty sea instead of beaming up to the mother ship. That is so much more nourishing! I’ll absorb it when we hug upon your return!
I am catching up on your blog. My laptop has been out of commission for a month. It was great to see you over vacation. I hope you are over your cold. Your enthusiam and optimisim are amazing and contagious. I am so happy for you and your family that the treatments are now behind you. I send positive thoughts your way many times a day for a full, complete recovery.
Thank you for sharing A and E over vacation. I hope to steal them again soon. I thoroughly enjoyed all the time I was able to end with them. We shared many laughs and created some really cool memeories. You have done a great job with them. You should be very proud.
Take great care of yourself. Rest when needed. Those Katz will miss you when