I am surprised as I look back, at how few emails I sent out last November and December (2011) to my family and friends during Elizabeth’s early days and months of dealing with cancer. There was relatively little drama going on, and we both tried hard to keep our outer lives looking relatively unchanged. We […]
Read moreEulogy by Elizabeth’s best friend: Samantha Salazar
This eulogy was written by Samantha Salazar, Elizabeth’s best friend for the last 4 years of her life. They lived together for a time, then far apart for a year while Elizabeth was in Seattle – I know she missed Samantha deeply during that time, and finally in studio apartments next door to each other. […]
Read moreObama Poem ~ in the Huffington Post!
Today, the day before the November, 2012 presidential election, Elizabeth’s poem about Obama was published in a blog on The Huffington Post! She wrote this poem when he was first running for president in 2008, when she was 18. She always hoped that it would get to President Obama, and it’s getting closer by the […]
Read moreWelcome to the Arizona Cancer Center
11.9.11 ‘Welcome to the Arizona Cancer Center’ An emotional reaction and relog of my first experience at the Arizona Cancer Center when I was sent there to have blood drawn before chemo on Friday. Today (11.9.11) is Wednesday. I am very swollen and can’t breathe that well. “Welcome to the Arizona Cancer Center if that’s […]
Read moreMy emails the first week of Elizabeth’s last year: November, 2011
These are the emails I sent to family and a few close friends when we were in the first week of discovering that Elizabeth had cancer. Saturday, November 5, 2011 Hi all, I am writing because Elizabeth is in the hospital today, waiting to have a biopsy on a mass that is in her chest. […]
Read moreOut of the Blue
On Friday, November 4, 2011, my world completely changed. My older daughter Elizabeth, 21 at that time, called me as I was finishing a qi gong class at home. She was in tears, having trouble breathing and said something was wrong, she was in so much pain she was headed to the Student Health Center […]
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