I'm slowly getting better, and it feels good to just say it out loud. I still cannot get away with not taking the muscle relaxant and pain medication before bedtime, as it leaves me with lots of pain the following day. However I'm finally off all antibiotics and other medications. Yay!
I ran today. I haven't run like that in years. I stopped track shortly before graduating high school, due to an ankle injury. Almost coughed up a lung today, but I ran. I needed to. This morning I came online to check on emails and catch up on some of your blogs, perhaps even make a post myself. Answered and email or two, and off I went to begin my blog-hopping. First stop, Amanda. I recently found her site, cancer. it's not just an astrological sign anymore. She blogs about her husband Eric, and their battle with cancer. A wonderful, beautiful, young couple. He had been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, the same my husband had sixteen years ago.
Eric passed away Friday night.
I was angry. I was heartbroken. I needed to run. So, I ran... for Amanda.
Keri is another online friend. She runs. She has the longest list of amazing people she runs for. Keri runs for their cause. I admire her greatly. I can't run like she does, but she is truly an inspiration.
Read The Cancer Blog's tribute to Eric here: The Cancer Blog
Smooches doll. I'm glad you are improving. and you ran??? THAT is amazing. Truly. You have more stamina than I do if you ran with pain. Amazing.
Thank you for your beautiful words. My list got longer today. And my bloglist! Whoa! I found some incredible people online today. I have just increased the number of people who will be inspiring these feet to keep running all the way through the next five hundred miles, Zee... :( Too many people with that cancer bastard.
Love and healing peace to you, luv. And deep slumber tonight.
I need to exercise more -- not running but something. I think I'd be more likely to do it if it were someone else and not for myself. Hmmm.
glad you are on the mend, zee :)
I just wanted to come by and send you hugs and my warmest thoughts. I am so glad to hear that you were able to run and are doing better.
My heart is with you and Amanda! A knee injury prevents me from ever running again but I am running in my thoughts.
I had been reading Amanda's blog. I cried when I read of Eric's death. I can't imagine the horrorible pain she's in today.
I think running for her was an incredible way to honor her and Eric.
I went to that blog and it just... it hit home with me. Her husband was being treated by the same hospital that treated my father's cancer.
They did a bone marrow transplant when they knew it wouldn't work.
And my father died a month later.
These things make me sad.
I'm glad you are feeling better and on the mend.
Thanks for honoring Eric's life. My heart breaks for Amanda. We all need healing in so many different ways.
You asked about the pattern for the toques... It's a genious friend of mine who turned the pattern for the Pomatomus socks from knitty.com into a toque. She described how and I copied. There really isn't a real pattern for it, but you can ask some genious friend to look at the sock pattern for you maybe?