Comments on: March 21, 2007 http://localhost/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/ Reflections on Living at the End of Life - MDS and Leukemia Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.28 By: Dick Gale http://localhost/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-9544 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:45:37 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/#comment-9544 Hi Connie and all:

Your pressure, but our pleasure!! I like the addition of the next entry date, and the set date should certainly crank your head a bit. (In another life, I did a short community radio commentary (written out and read), and thinking of the next 3-5 topics really filled my head.)

Nice to enjoy your gradually appearing Spring there — our in Southern CA sort of crashes through, pleasant, but underlined in a worrying way by record low rainfall.

Seeking the Omaha Med Center advice sounds like an excellent idea. (There is so much these days about second opinions, variations in diagnoses, etc. A new book, How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman (an MD) has gotten lots of positive press, including a review in today’s (3/23/07) New York Times.)

Speaking of positives, know that you are still on the receiving end of our very strong and positive thoughts sent your way, daily by the dog and I, often by the dog and I, and this mother/my wife, Susan.

(How can a dog send positive thoughts?, you might ask. Our 30# probably/mostly wheaten terrier has been around. One of his many spiritual experiences occured when we were in a small (7 person) nonprogrammed Quaker meeting in a very rural setting where we lived in Oregon. The meeting is an hour-long circle of silence, with people speaking only when they wish. Few did at this meeting, and, as usual, at the end we all stood, hands clasped, in a circle. Quietly, our dog moved to the center of the circle, and looked up at all of us with loving brown eyes. /// More recently, late at night, when I am thinking about you and my (medically much improved) piano teacher, I will reach down from the bed and touch the top of his furry front shoulders. /// I think this is a spirital creature.

So, Spring ahead, and, quickly now, the next entry is in only three days!!

Dick, Susan, and (terrier) Booker Gale

]]> By: irene Beethe http://localhost/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-9265 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:17:29 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/#comment-9265 Thanks for sharing both “worlds” – the one of MDS that you are traveling through and also the new life that arrives in the spring.
You are in our prayers always and think of you often.
(If I would be a plant, I would be confused too…when is it “safe” to show myself above the coziness of the earth!)
Life goes on and for that, no matter the form, we give thanks!
Joy in Jesus,
Irene

]]> By: Fiona http://localhost/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-9255 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:01:43 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2007/03/21/march-21-2007/#comment-9255 We already have one plant outside, and it’s blooming! I can’t wait to see the crocuses. And it is so wonderful to be in content-ness of Spring’s arrival. I really love how Spring have came finally. Me and my Mom are tired of Winter! And I can’t wait to have a nice new Spring and Summer, can’t you?

Lots of Love,
Fiona

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