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July 16, 2007
It has been such a
long time since I've written and I am so sorry for the long
delay. I have been in bed for almost a year now. I have times
when I feel good and times when I feel really bad. But, I have
learned one thing about feelings. They have NOTHING TO DO WITH
FAITH IN GOD!!...
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May 8, 2007
Thank you for the
rooms full of flowers, the tables full of cards, and beautiful
little gifts laying everywhere. Thank you so much! I know I have
missed so many gifts I should have sent for these special
occasions. And then, trusting God to heal my sick stomach...
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March 6, 2007
Please forgive my
delay in writing. I have been really ill the past few months, in
fact, most of the time has been spent in bed, to ill to eat or
even go up and down the stairs...
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December 13, 2006
It’s little ole
me. Just wanted to give you an update. So many of you have sent
me e-mails and cards with well wishes and notes of
encouragement, which mean so much to me, thank you for keeping
me in your thoughts and prayers...
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October 12, 2006
I just want to
thank you all for your prayers, cards, letters, encouraging
words, e-mails, and gifts. I’m doing ok. Have good days and some
not so good. But I’m still hanging in there believing in the
Lord for a complete healing...
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June 22, 2006
I have been
reading your e-mails and receiving such comfort from them daily.
Thank you for your continued prayers on my behalf. You cannot
know how much that means to me. I think about you often and try
to picture your faces...
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April 17, 2006
First a much
needed apology from ME! I am so sorry I’ve gone so long without
an update that you have been asking for. It’s hard for me to
write to everyone when I’m not feeling good because I like our
time together to be uplifting and happy...
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February 17, 2006
A couple of days
ago I walked into my doctor’s office with the assistance of my
husband and my son James. His ministry has so graciously
provided someone to help him so that he can come and spend some
time with Mom. I appreciate that more than they will ever know....
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January 5, 2006
We had a wonderful
Christmas! Tammy Sue and her children, James 16 and Jonathan 15,
Jay, who turned 30 the 18th of Dec. and his wife Amanda, and Roe
and me. I baked a turkey, lots of mashed potatoes and gravy plus
sweet potatoes made with lots of butter and brown sugar and
topped with marshmallows...
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November 15, 2005
It’s so good to
have a chance to talk with you once again. Whoever thought that
the time would come when so many could be reached by something
called the computer and e-mail! What an exciting time we are
living in...
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September 20, 2005
Isn’t it wonderful
to feel fall in the air? It always makes me feel invigorated!
Makes me want to go to the mountains of NC and spend a day
picking apples, drinking apple cider and eating apple pie...
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August 11, 2005
First of all I
want to say thank you for the hundreds of precious encouraging
e-mails. I have them stacked knee high. Much to my regret I will
not be able to answer but a very few.
As you know from the Larry King Show I started Chemo-therapy on
the first of August...
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July 1, 2005
I am feeling
really good! I just got back from San Francisco where the new
documentary of my walk through cancer was shown at a film
festival there...
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June 16, 2005
I have been off
Chemo for a year and a few weeks ago I felt like I had broken my
back. The pain was relentless and severe. I went for an MRI and
they found a small spot of cancer (a small tumor) in my back...
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April 29, 2005
Every once in a
while something wonderful will happen in your life and you don’t
know whether to share it or not. But by now, you know ME. I
share the good stuff and the bad stuff. So here goes...
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March 28, 2005
A funny thing
happened yesterday. I couldn’t find my little Yorkie, Tuppins. I
kept hearing this little bark. I followed the sound and there
was Tuppins...
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February 22, 2005
It’s a beautiful
day here in Charlotte, NC. I hope it’s a great day where you
are.
This month was my grandson James' 16th birthday. We celebrated
by going out to dinner, everyone stayed at our house that night
and we spent the next day celebrating by SHOPPING! ...
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January 31, 2005
If someone were to
ask you, "What is your deepest fear?", what would you tell them?
A few nights ago I went to see the movie "Coach Carter". I have
never seen a movie that has touched me to the depth of my soul
as that movie did...
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December 27, 2004
Well, Christmas is
OVER! And I’m a “little bummed”! All the gifts that we all
worked so hard to shop for and wrap have been torn open to
squeals of delight or the look of “ho hum, what am I going to do
with THIS?”...
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November 22, 2004
My girlfriend from
Germany has been with me for the past week. We have had such fun
doing all the “girl” things! Eat and shop and talk, eat and shop
and talk! Ha! ha! Men don’t know the fun they are missing!
Ha!...
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October 20, 2004
My how this
computer age has changed the way we communicate! But I love the
little sticky thing they call a stamp! I like the one with the
roses on it! I'll have to admit though this way is much faster.
I can hardly keep up with the fast pace anymore. I think we all
need to "SLOW DOWN AND ENJOY THE SCENERY ALONG THE WAY!"...
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September 20, 2004
I want you to know
how MUCH I value your friendship. I try to picture you as I
write. Once again I want to thank you for your prayers on my
behalf. I am feeling so “full of life!” Today I scrubbed and
waxed my floors, did several loads of washing and even managed
to get a little shopping done! WHEW!...
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August 30, 2004
Just a little note to let you know I DO get all of your
emails and I DO read each one personally. I read them at night
before I go to bed. I laugh and I cry and I cannot believe it’s
ME you are talking about. In fact, I am keeping them all in
3-ring notebooks so I will always have you near...
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August 19, 2004
I FEEL FANTASTIC!!
I have been off chemo for 4 weeks now at my own request. After 4
months of chemo every 11 days I felt it was beginning to hurt my
body more than help it. I talked to my doctor about it and he
didn’t say NO! Ha Ha! I guess I must have sounded pretty
convincing. Ha!...
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July 19, 2004
Every day I look
around me and think about how good it is to be ALIVE and how
wonderful it is to live in the United States of America. I think
that I could have been born anywhere, BUT GOD and His great
mercy allowed me to be born free! I thank God for that!...
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June 30, 2004
I have happy,
happy news! Last Friday I had a CAT scan and a PET scan. Funny,
they sound like the same thing… cat and pet?? Ha! I never saw
the cat or whoever’s pet they are talking about! Ha Ha!...
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June 16, 2004
Well, I just
finished another set of chemo treatments today. I am always so
excited when I get a few days off.
Today I am very tired, my mouth is awfully sore, my hands & feet
feel tingly and wobbly! Ha! Ha! And I can’t taste anything! Not
even CHOCOLATE!! Boo Hoo! Ha! Ha!...
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June 9, 2004
Just a little
update from me! MY VOICE IS COMING BACK! Hallelujah!! “That’s my
Pentecostal background coming through!” If you have never
shouted HALLELUJAH, try it! You’ll like it!...
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May
31, 2004
As much as I hate
Chemotherapy, I have begun to see some humor in the whole process.
“EVERYBODY HATES IT!” It’s not just ME! We all HATE everything about
it! Ha! Ha! I’ve never ONCE heard one person say, “Man, I just love
chemo!” So, we have a big, “I HATE Chemo Club!” But we are all
sitting in a chair hours a day getting the stuff! We are wearing
funny hats, bright colors and carrying teddy bears or other little
fuzzy “comfort pals.”...
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May
19, 2004
I am feeling so
much better! Thank you for your prayers. It means more to me
than you could ever know to know that in my times of
discouragement and sometimes despair… your prayers are going up
on my behalf. Thank you, thank you, thank you!...
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May
7, 2004
I thank God every
day for YOU!! I really do!
I was supposed to start Chemo here in Charlotte last Monday.
Tests showed that my red and white cell count were down so far
that Chemo was not possible. I asked you to pray and I just left
the doctors office with a “good report”!! My count is up both
white and red and I can start Chemo again this coming Monday. I
will be there for 6 hours Monday and two and a half hours on
Tuesday...
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May
1, 2004
I don't know HOW
to say a proper thank you for the prayers you have prayed for
me. I KNOW what prayer involves, first of all you have to
actually stop and THINK about me, then you have to take your
valuable time to ask God to help me, and to heal my body. I want
to say thank you for that. I can feel your prayers, especially
during the discouraging times when I'm feeling sick and wishing
I didn't have cancer. When that happens I picture YOU asking God
to help me. And I feel better!...
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April 2, 2004
By the time you
read this I will have started the first phase of cancer
treatments. They will operate on me Monday (April 5) at which
time they will insert a catheter in my chest for the chemo
treatments. The actual treatment will begin on April 8th...
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March 7, 2004
Eight years ago I
was told I had colon cancer. The day before my birthday I had
surgery. It was successful and I celebrated my birthday, March
7th, with my doctors and my husband and friends at Eisenhower
Hospital in Palm Springs, CA where we lived at the time.
A few days ago I learned that I once again have cancer...
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