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[anothermom2]

<p>So many inspiring thoughts are posted here. I can not hope to even come close. Just want to add my good thoughts for you to those already here.</p>

[binx]

<p>This in our paper today. Eric is a “local boy.”</p>

<p>[Gwinnett</a> Daily Post](<a href=“http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=18017&SectionID=7&SubSectionID=&S=1]Gwinnett”>http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=18017&SectionID=7&SubSectionID=&S=1)</p>

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But very little about Eric Shanteau’s life is normal anymore.</p>

<p>Not after qualifying for the Olympics just days after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. Not after delaying treatment until he is able to live out his Olympic dream.</p>

<p>…Shanteau admitted to being antsy about making his cancer fight public. Even after his first public comments on the story following Olympic Trials, the Austin, Texas-based swimmer walked away unsure if he had made the right decision.</p>

<p>Then he looked at his story from a different perspective, hoping it might be an inspiration to others battling cancer. </p>

<p>…“When you hear the word cancer, it’s scary,” Shanteau said. "I’ve become an overnight expert on my type of cancer. If there’s one to get, and if you have to deal with it, this is the one. I’m definitely going to beat it.

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[Faline2]

<p>LTS…so glad you are exercising and working to regain some strength after your ordeal in the hospital…thinking of you!</p>

[epistrophy]

<p>From ADad (4026, 4031):</p>

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

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<p>–Anais Nin</p>

[epistrophy]

<p>

Shell</p>

<p>Nothing, nothing at all
is born,
dies, the shell says again
and again
from the depth of hollowness.
Its body
swept off by tide – so what?
It sleeps
in sand, drying in sunlight,
bathing
in moonlight. Nothing to do
with sea
or anything else. Over
and over
it vanishes with the wave.

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<p>–Shinkichi Takahashi (Japanese Zen poet, 1901-1987)</p>

[latetoschool]

<p>Epistrophy, Binx, Faline, thank you…</p>

[marite]

<p>LTS, sleep tight.</p>

[mafool]

<p>Wishing you a good, restorative sleep, LTS</p>

[latetoschool]

<p>Thank you Marite and Mafool, and you as well…</p>

[epistrophy]

<p>living with lung cancer - and medical bills</p>

<p>

“Benefit for Peni Lotoza at Sak”</p>

<p>Lots of you know Peni Lotoza, the actor (currently in Die Mommie Die! at Theatre Downtown) and box-office manager at the Rep, and lots of you know she underwent surgery for lung cancer in June.</p>

<p>Now Sak Comedy Lab is holding a benefit to help pay Peni’s medical expenses. It’s called A Night of 1001 Laughs: The Healing Power of Laughter, and it’s set for Monday night.</p>

<p>Here’s the story:</p>

<pre><code>BENEFIT SHOW FOR PENI LOTOZA & CHRISTIAN KELTY

On Monday, August 4, Sak Comedy Lab joins forces with several Orlando actors & theme park entertainers to present A Night of 1001 Laughs: The Healing Power of Laughter. The show is a benefit for Peni Lotoza and Christian Kelty, two longtime members of the Central Florida theater community.

Peni Lotoza, a local actor and box-office manager at Orlando Rep, was diagnosed with cancer last May and had surgery to remove the affected lung in June. Her husband Christian Kelty, an original member of Sak Comedy Lab’s Next Generation cast, will perform in the show along with current Sak favorites and familiar faces from other area theaters and theme parks. There will also be raffle prizes generously donated by Blue Man Group, Orlando Broadway Series, Orlando Fringe Festival, Theatre Downtown, Toxic Audio and others. 100% of the money raised at the benefit will go to help with the couple’s medical expenses.

The event begins at 7 pm with mixing and mingling, and the show starts at 8 pm. Sak Comedy Lab is located at 380 W. Amelia Street in the Centroplex II Parking Garage, downtown near the Amway Arena. For more information go to Welcome to the World According to SAK. Reservations are recommended and may be made by calling 407-648-0001.

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<p>[Orlando</a> Sentinel - Benefit for Peni Lotoza at Sak - by Elizabeth Maupin](<a href=“http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_stage_theat/2008/08/benefit-for-pen.html]Orlando”>http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_stage_theat/2008/08/benefit-for-pen.html)</p>

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“Local Cancer Benefit”</p>

<p>Two Fort Smith women need the community’s help. </p>

<p>A cancer benefit is being held in honor of Lonnie Friend and Cathy Green, both employees of Gerber Products who are fighting lung cancer. </p>

<p>Their co-worker and friend, Stacy Caldwell, partnered up with Wilson’s Rib Shack BBQ and event coordinator, Eddie Higgins, to plan the event. </p>

<p>Eddie Higgins said, “The benefit will begin at noon and hopefully will go right up until midnight. We will have live music all day long, and we are just going to try to raise as much money as possible for these folks.”</p>

<p>The benefit will feature live music by Dave Holland, Inward Groove, Jessie Clark, Acoustic INSANITY, Automatic Writing, Mas Auga, and many more. Along with the live music there will be plenty of food and drinks. </p>

<p>The benefit will be held on Sunday August 3rd. Beginning at noon at Wilson’s Rib Shack on Highway 71. There is a $5 admission, with all proceeds and donations going to Green and Friend. </p>

<p>Being a breast cancer survivor, Stacy Caldwell knows how important it is to have support and help from friends and loved ones. She also knows how expensive treatments can be especially when they cannot go to their jobs. </p>

<p>“And so this was just our way to try and do a little something to help them, we wanted to do anything we could do to raise some money to help these ladies out while their not able to work,” Caldwell said.

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<p>[Local</a> Cancer Benefit](<a href=“http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8763134]Local”>http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8763134)</p>

[overseas]

<p>Thank you Adad for the quotes. They are being used. Thanks.</p>

[overseas]

<p>LTS, my very best friend has lung cancer. I just feel it so much more personally. My best thoughts are with you. I have been hit with cancer myself, my sister and my Dad and others. It has changed how I view everything. I read how you are doing daily. You don’t know who I am and I don’t know you. But I am sincerely with you.</p>

[soozievt]

<p>LTS…hoping for a stronger day for you today!</p>

[epistrophy]

<p>From ADad (4026, 4031):</p>

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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<p>–F. Scott Fitzgerald</p>

[epistrophy]

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“Washington Univ. prof wins $728K grant for cancer research”</p>

<p>The American Cancer Society has awarded a $728,000 grant to a Washington University in St. Louis professor for cancer research, the society said Friday.</p>

<p>Amy McQueen is the newest of the 12 current grant recipients in the St. Louis area. Her grant brings the society’s total investment in St. Louis to $7,885,500.</p>

<p>With the support of the society, Washington University and Saint Louis University researchers focus on new discoveries to help achieve the society’s goal of eliminating cancer as a major health problem.</p>

<p>McQueen, whose work combines social psychology, public health and medicine, plans to continue her research in cancer prevention and control and to specifically focus on cancer screening and tobacco cessation.</p>

<p>“Although my primary research focus is primary cancer prevention, I am interested in developing lines of research with cancer survivors to promote health and prevent future disease,” she said in a statement.</p>

<p>McQueen said about 40 percent of early-stage lung cancer patients continue or return to smoking within a year. She is interested in working with these patients and other high-risk patients to develop effective smoking cessation programs. She also believes that cancer survivors have an opportunity to inform and motivate family members to engage in healthy behaviors including cancer screening, diet and exercise.</p>

<p>McQueen would like to conduct research to better understand how cancer survivors communicate with and influence family members, then develop interventions to increase health behavior changes among families.

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<p>[Washington</a> Univ. prof wins $728K grant for cancer research - St. Louis Business Journal:](<a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2008/08/04/daily7.html]Washington”>http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2008/08/04/daily7.html)</p>

[zipyourlips]

<p>LTS, it has been a beautiful day out here in the northwest. I hope the same is true in “the other Washington” as well, and that today has boosted your energy and your strength.</p>

[latetoschool]

<p>Z, hopefully today is beautful for everyone on both coasts and in between as well…</p>

<p>Challenged today, prayers or even just happy thoughts are always welcome.</p>

<p>I am back in the hospital; they found a blood clot in my lung, but, thanksfully none anywhere else; we are waiting for the results of a brain MRI, and, if that is clean, we will get into a discussion about blood thinners…</p>

[epistrophy]

<p>and another</p>

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“Free Cancer program grows to year-round session”</p>

<p>Poudre Valley Hospital is expanding its free cancer support program to aid increasing numbers of cancer patients.</p>

<p>The program, Sharing the Cancer Journey, will run year-round, an increase from it’s previous twice a year programming schedule.</p>

<p>Patients aren’t affected by cancer only in the spring and fall,” said Liz Westers, a program facilitator and an executive administrative assistant at Poudre Valley Hospital.</p>

<p>Sharing the Cancer Journey will offer sessions on the first and third Thursday of every month, providing an array of information and support services to not only cancer patients, but also caregivers, family, friends and support networks. The average class size is approximately 22 people, Westers said.</p>

<p>Doctors, survivors and other specialists speak on topics like diagnosis and treatment, side ef-fects of treatment, nutrition, and exercise, pain management, communication, community re-sources, and complementary care. The information comes in addition to what many get from their oncologists or physicians.</p>

<p>**“You have to hear the information more than once,” said Michele Desnoes, a cancer survivor and a long-time panelist for the program. “I know personally that when I went to the physician the first time I brought my sister with me because I can tell you for sure I only heard about 1 percent of what they said.”</p>

<p>Expert information also complements personal information and story sharing between people who have gone through cancer treatment and those going through it currently.</p>

<p>“Having other people ask questions makes you realize that you have the same question and that you’re not stupid, confused or silly because other people are thinking the same thing,” Desnoes, a lung cancer survivor said. “It’s a pretty powerful place to be.”**

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<p>[Free</a> Cancer program grows to year-round session | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan,](<a href=“http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080804/UPDATES01/80804027]Free”>http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080804/UPDATES01/80804027)</p>

<p>(P.S. to LTS: As for the weather, actually we had some drama here in the Midwest this evening - severe thunderstorms, at least one tornado, folks losing electricity, etc. But what strikes me in reading your latest post, as much as anything else, is how very strange it must be for you to be shuttling back and forth, in and out of the hospital - accustomed in the past to running your own life, now reluctantly cast in the role of this thing that is poked and prodded, subject to all manner of tests, always waiting, waiting, waiting for the results of this one or that. How very odd it all must sometimes seem. Hey - hang in there!)</p>

[churchmusicmom]

<p>LTS, as always, prayers and tender thoughts…tender yet strong, like you!</p>

[NYMomof2]

<p>Hoping here in NY for a clean brain scan, and a rapid resolution of the clotting problem! I’ll be thinking of you today.</p>