I cannot even speak to the great well of joy in my heart! – in fact I have been coaxing it out ever since I heard the news from yesterday – switching gears can be hard but this news is like the warmth of a spring day – you forget the cold the very moment you feel it!

Also you slipped a new word by me in your blog so I thought I should post the meaning – I know I am not the only one who was wondering!

Main Entry: abey·ance
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French abeance expectation, from abaer to desire, from a- + baer to yawn, from Medieval Latin batare
1 : temporary inactivity : SUSPENSION
2 : a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested

As always, nicely said!

Love H

In the “olden” days, they used to sing a Te Deum on very special occasions. Is Charles busy composing one?

Peace and love
Jerry

http://www.mds-foundation.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004141;p=1

I was thinking about how MDS is a rare disease, and how your doctor has only had a handful of cases during his career. And how you are responding in a way unique in his experience. How can he predict what will happen next for you? (And wasn’t the wise doctor extremely reluctant to comment on what your future holds?) On the MDS foundation chat thread, some people talk of being in remission for *years*, even after progressing to leukemia. Surely each of them had this day also, so full of joy and hope. So why not say, we’re in undiscovered country? Anything can happen now, healing is possible, doctors have seen things they can’t explain and don’t understand, and isn’t this just what the beginning of a miracle looks like?

If it could happen for anyone, it can happen for you.

Surrounding you in love and glad to have you for my Mom,
Janna

ps: when my twins become teenagers, please don’t gloat when they
torture me!