Today is the 6 year anniversary of the day my daughter Elizabeth came home to hospice care, from a devastating week in the ICU. This has been a week of many tears, and some small sense of almost-embarrassment – that it’s been this many years now, and these anniversaries are still so full of emotion. […]
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(One of Elizabeth’s essays when she was almost done with her first (and we thought only) round of chemo, followed by her musings on titles and structure for the book she planned to write about this experience. God I love her mind and and am so grateful to have these writings…) Beginning to Leave the […]
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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 […]
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