Friends of LTS, I need your help

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<p>Dear friends/fans of LTS,</p>

<p>Many, many days I was both inspired by her spirit and moved to tears following Late to School’s fight with her cancer and eventual passing. I now find myself with a very scarily similar situation with a “flesh and bones” friend. It doesn’t look good for her, although she is putting up a valiant battle, as she did 6 years ago with an extremely aggressive form of breast cancer.</p>

<p>I’m not close enough to be a bedside-hand-holding friend, but I do want to give/send/do something to show support. This is a family with a wide support network so the basics are covered. Visitors are restricted due to infection concerns, so this would need to be dropped off or mailed. I would greatly appreciate any ideas on how I can express my love and prayers.</p>

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<p>You might create a book using some of the inspirational stories that were posted for LTS.</p>

<p>A friend liked books of poetry to read because they didn’t require a lot of time or effort but still provided food for thought.</p>

<p>Regular notes mailed in might be supportive as well.</p>

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<p>So hard to go through this with a friend. When someone in my family had cancer, a friend sent me Harold Kushner’s book “The Lord is my Shepard” which does a beautiful job of going through the 23rd Psalms. I was not religiously inclined but it really was so uplifting and worthwhile to read.</p>

<p>When a good friend of mine was dying of cancer, I sent him the same book, but on tape so he could listen to it. I know he and his wife were not religious either, but they seemed to get a lot out of it. </p>

<p>Here is a link to 20 reviews of it on Amazon:</p>

<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Customer Reviews: The Lord Is My Shepherd](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1400033357/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1400033357/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending)</p>

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<p>Since you aren’t a quilter, you will need some help with this. Perhaps there is someone at your local quilt store that could help you put it together.</p>

<p>As she has a large group of friends and family, but visitors are restricted, a quilt of messages from each person would be lovely for your friend to have.</p>

<p>(Sorry, I’m assuming you aren’t a quilter, or you would have already thought of this.)</p>

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<p>Think about her family - what can you do for them ?</p>

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<p>Kelowna is right. When my sister-in-law was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive cancer, the doctor told us it was a family disease, as everybody close to her would suffer. He was absolutely correct. It was debilitating for my brother and her kids to watch her suffer and eventually succumb after 4 tough years. She recognized that it was almost as difficult for those who loved her as it was for her.</p>