<p>Thank you, Marite, for passing it on, I know we are all eager for any crumbs of info, even though I never met LTS, I miss her presence every day. Do let us know if an obit or anything is published</p>
<p>Thank you so much for sharing, marite. I’m in tears again. LTS donating her body for medical research sounds so much like what she would do. Fight that cancer like heck while she was alive, and help others to fight it after her death. What an incredible, incredible woman.</p>
<p>Agree with all of the above.</p>
<p>I will tell you what I have been doing this summer, and it is helping me now. I have been working on an embroidery piece that will be auctioned off to benefit Breast Cancer research. This is an all-volunteer operation that is in about its 5th (?) year now, though this is the first year I have been inspired to create a piece to be auctioned (I dare not call it “art” though some of the pieces are by real artists and sell for handsome sums.) The pieces are all fashioned around ordinary bricks…turning a mundane, even ugly, object into something beautiful with paint, fabric, beads, and other things.</p>
<p>The originator for this “brick auction” was a friend of mine who fought a good fight against breast cancer. At one point she said she felt like she had been hit by a load of bricks. She was inspired to turn her pain into hope for a cure. Now her friends carry on this fundraiser, and every year it gets bigger and better.</p>
<p>So as I embroider, I think of her, and my other friends who are still fighting cancer, and now, latetoschool.</p>
<p>Marite:</p>
<p>Thanks so much for following up with LTS’s daughter. It’s wonderful to hear a bit of her voice. </p>
<p>One measure of consolation in being a parent, I guess, is provided by the knowledge that although our own voice may be silenced when we die, our children’s voices will not be.</p>
<p>Epistrophy - did you submit your red shoes for the collage?
Yes, this is your first grade teacher speaking ;)</p>
<p>Kelowna:</p>
<p>Not yet, but I’m working on it.</p>
<p>Speaking of red shoes, an old Elvis Costello song has this refrain: </p>
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<p>thanks so much, Marite for letting us hear a word from LTS’s daughter…another intelligent, articulate woman who made her mother so very proud. I am proud of her daughter, for the stellar part she played in being present in the worst of times when LTS could not go it alone. May their true blue non-cyber cirlce of friends be very present for her daughter now and in the future. Perhaps if she does wander over to peruse this thread someday when her present allows her to consider doing so, she will know even more clearly that her mother counted her daughter’s loyalty and support as Golden. LTS often talked about how much she wanted her daughter to embrace her own future and enjoy and relish her own turn at life, as we parents never want to bring any hardships to our children. LTS expressed many times that she was really impressed with her daughter’s crafting of her own life and with her daughter’s decisons and direction.</p>
<p>Thank you, Marite.</p>
<p>I saw someone across campus yesterday with red shoes and I wondered if she was also part of Team LTS. </p>
<p>It feels like a secret code now.</p>
<p>And, again, thanks for the update Marite and love to LTS’s D.</p>
<p>How nice to “hear” LTS’s daughter.</p>
<p>I miss LTS.</p>
<p>LTSD, courtesy of Marite:
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<p>With this in mind, I’ve begun to research existing organizations.</p>
<p>I bring this to the group, knowing that many are much more informed than I. Opinions? First-hand knowledge? Other knowledge?</p>
<p>In the Boston-area, there is the New England Home for Little Wanderers (very Victorian sounding!).
[The</a> Home for Little Wanderers: History - The Home for Little Wanderers](<a href=“http://www.thehome.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_history]The”>http://www.thehome.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_history).</p>
<p>As for college scholarships for children of single parents, I’ll have to do a bit more research. There are scholarships for single mothers, but it is somewhat different. If this proves too restrictive, I’d be inclined to donate to Berea College.</p>
<p>Though I loved the sound of the Red Shoes Foundation, LTS and her D are so right about the abundance of different foundations. Surely gifts would be better given to existing foundations with a good track record.</p>
<p>This is not a foundation, but something I saw recently that made me think of LTS. [Lotsa</a> Helping Hands](<a href=“http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/]Lotsa”>http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/) Our church is using this website to organize volunteers to fix meals for church members who are ill or who have new babies. I remember that LTS bemoaned the fact that many cancer sufferers don’t have loving caregivers like she had. I thought I’d put this website out there in case any of you have someone you know who has cancer. You could use it to mobilize help for that person.</p>
<p>I couldn’t help but think of LTS when I heard the sad, sad news that a former staff member of another site passed away from lung cancer at the age of 41 (nonsmoker, otherwise in excellent health, etc). So, so sad–may they both rest in peace. </p>
<p>His blog is here: [Crush</a> My Cancer](<a href=“http://crushmycancer.blogspot.com/]Crush”>http://crushmycancer.blogspot.com/)</p>
<p>Psych- thanks for the link…I read parts of the blog. Dr Wu was a very nice man. It 's a shame he did not make it.</p>
<p>Thank you for posting this. I read through his blog, and it looks like he lived live to the fullest right up until the end. He is an inspiration.</p>
<p>My dear friend kept a blog on blogspot while she dealt with rounds one and two of breast cancer. I treasure being able to go back and reread her posts. There are some truly hilarious accounts of cancer-related mishaps … hard to imagine that they could be funny, but they are. </p>
<p>I have always believed in the power of words, and I think the internet provides a means for beautiful souls to give us wonderful inspiration.</p>
<p>Wow…so hard to believe that it’s been almost four years since LTS passed away. Her story/fight still comes to mind as others have been diagnosed with that insidious disease…and whenever I see a long haired blonde in red stillettos…</p>
<p>Dr. Wu lived in our area- An amzing , intelligent man,
We were all humbled by his faith and upbeat nature</p>
<p>thank-you, Psych_</p>