These entries from my emails and journals from July, 2012, one year ago, tell the story of the hardest period in my daughter’s time of living with cancer. Elizabeth Blue was in the ICU after a recurrence of lymphoma in her brain. Since June 12, 2012, she had had two rounds of chemo which did […]
Read moreAnniversaries
Yesterday was June 12. Last year, June 12 was one of those life-changing, earth-shifting days. That day, we discovered that my daughter, Elizabeth Blue, had a recurrence of lymphoma and that there was now a fairly large tumor in her brain. I didn’t allow my mind to comprehend the potentially devastating outcome of this, with […]
Read moreThe End of our “Ordinary” Life – early July, 2012 emails
EARLY JULY As I share these emails, from early July of 2012, I realize this is the last period of time when we were living an “ordinary” life. Granted, my definition of “ordinary” had shifted, given that Elizabeth, my 22-year-old daughter, had already been through one course of chemo for lymphoma and was in remission […]
Read moreJune, 2012 – A New Challenge Met with Grace and Courage
For two and a half months, from March to the end of May, 2012 all was well. Elizabeth had completed chemo, and in April she and I were photographed together by a wonderful local artist, Jade Beall, who captured Elizabeth in her beauty, full of life, and the two of us expressing the love that […]
Read moreLucia’s emails about Elizabeth – Jan and Feb, 2012
Surprisingly, there are only a handful of emails I wrote during the initial 5 months of Elizabeth’s cancer treatment. Even on February 4, 2012, when Elizabeth had the PET scan results that showed she was in remission after only four chemo treatments, which we were overjoyed about, I only mentioned the news in an email […]
Read moreReflections on the early days of Elizabeth’s cancer diagnosis
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 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. […]
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