<p>I am so so sorry to see this. Condolences. :(</p>
<p>aibarr,</p>
<p>Pantene also has a program in place for hair donations. Eight inches is the minimum requirement. More info at [Pantene</a> Beautiful Lengths](<a href=“http://www.beautifullengths.com%5DPantene”>http://www.beautifullengths.com). Dd donated 8 inches this week.</p>
<p>applicantmum thanks for the info. Son donated to locks of love we later heard not so good things about them. But they were only place we knew of then. Will forward new info to friend’s daughter</p>
<p>Offline for a few days and the sun falls out of the sky.</p>
<p>LTS thank you for bringing us all together and for the many lessons shared and learned on your thread. I will remember you always. </p>
<p>LTS’ caregivers, friends and especially D, a hug - the kind with the little massage that causes shoulders to melt - and a prayer that you always have such hugs available to you.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if there will be a memorial service in DC?</p>
<p>Eddie,
Marite has made contact with LTS’s D, but last I heard, did not get a response.
I know her IRL name and have not found any obituary.</p>
<p>Mominva -
I don’t know her IRL name, but have been looking in the Washington Post. I couldn’t find an obituary that fit with her. Would think that there would be a service of some kind in the DC area. Maybe her DD would let Marite know soon, if she is able. I feel like I’ve lost a friend, even though I never knew her IRL. What a strong, brave, funny woman she was.</p>
<p>I finally feel like I can post something. We’ve been on the road to NC and back and I had not heard this very sad news until a fellow CC poster contacted me. I have done nothing but think constantly of LTS since then. I only spoke to her privately a few times, mostly about care available at MD Anderson and our medical center, and a couple of other nonmedical things…but I want the world to know, in those few personal communications, I developed such a strong impression of LTS as a good, solid, decent person…the kind of person who leaves a big hole when they are gone.</p>
<p>I will be praying for her daughter and those who loved her. And I will pray for us because we really did lose a good friend.</p>
<p>I am so, so sorry… While I always expected, in the back of my mind, for this to happen (even as I was praying against it and felt horrible for expecting the worst–I’m a pessimist by nature, bad trait or not), I was still bowled over and deeply saddened and shocked to her the news–I guess I thought it never really would, that LTS would keep beating the odds, that she would be posting here for years to come, that she would hang by that tiniest margin of hope for a long, long time. My heart aches for a person I never really knew… How much more it must hurt for those who did know her. My prayers for her daughter and everyone else in her life…</p>
<p>I didn’t know LTS. I didn’t know Randy Pausch. But I am angry about their deaths. Especially LTS’s death. We have just made no progress with extensive small cell lung cancer. The median survival time of this is disease is what ? 8, 9 , 10 months?! And that’s after chemotherapy! If LTS had not done chemo and radiation, she would have died in weeks.
Well, I am fed up with chemo and radiation. I want a new approach to fighting cancer. So for now, I am going to support the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. I am going to search with a search engine called goodsearch.com. Everytime I search through this site, goodsearch will donate a penny to ACGT. And when I write my checks to charity, my money is going to support gene therapy for fighting cancer.
Maybe gene therapy will be a total bust. I don’t know, but I feel we have to try something radically different.
Sorry, LTS, it’s not much. But it’s the best I can do.</p>
<p>I am bumping this up…
My guess is that we still do not know anything? I mean we as a group?</p>
<p>It has happened to me before. Someone I met in cyberspace has been diagnosed with cancer and was sharing with us all they way till she was gone. Took about 2 years and many people on that board became very close to each other. When our friend died we collected some money and purchased a beautiful wreath. Three of us that lived in the same city that funeral was being held delivered the wreath, met with husband and kids (little kids).
Since I was overseas this was the only way for me to have a closure - pictures of that grave.
I guess I am lacking closure here.
Any ideas?</p>
<p>I have contacted LTS’ D again, but she has not yet responded. Please be assured that I will let everyone know whatever I do hear.</p>
<p>I just read the posts about her passing today. Like others, and so many times before in my life, I thought she would make it for a while longer. My condolences to all the mourners.</p>
<p>That’s a good description of the way I feel - lacking closure. I have thought many times since that awful morning, when we heard the news, that there is a reason for funerals and memorial services.</p>
<p>yorkyfan, I have also been angry about Randy Pausch, LTS, and a few people I know IRL who were taken far too soon by cancer. I have not wanted to post about how furious this makes me among the lovely messages that people have written. But since you have opened the subject, I will say that I agree with you, and I like your idea.</p>
<p>When my Dad died prematurely at the age of 54 and I was 21–I didn’t really want contact with anyone outside my immediate family for awhile. It felt invasive. I wonder if LTS’s daughter needs time–maybe a lot of time–before she can be open to outside contact.</p>
<p>Dear all:</p>
<p>LTS’ D has just contacted me. She is extremely thankful to all of us. Some details: LTS has donated her body to medical research. After two years, her body will be cremated.
There will be a memorial service on August 30. Those of you who live in Florida and would be interested in attending can contact me off-line for more details.
LTS’ D did not discuss donations or other kinds of help as yet. But she is busy trying to deal with the myriad details involving her mom and also assessing her own future, which was put on hold when her mom was diagnosed. I expect it will be a little time before she can attend to issues that are not of immediate urgency.
Here is a quote from her message:
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<p>Thank you Marite!</p>
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<p>This is so much LTS in my word. She is reaching out and trying to help !</p>
<p>Maybe we could somehow deliver the collage of red shoes to the service? Just a thought…</p>
<p>always thinking of others, even in the afterlife. Giving of herself so others can benefit. what an amazing gesture.</p>
<p>Thank you for passing that on, Marite. </p>
<p>The donation of her body to medical research is so very LTS!</p>
<p>More from LTS’ D</p>
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