<p>LTS, just wanted to let you know that I check this thread several times a day. I bet there are many CCers who don’t post often but are praying for you. Take care.</p>
<p>LOL. I remember the purchase of that 'stang. That was a fun thread. Bet y’all were zipping.</p>
<p>and +1 on the Buckley.</p>
<p>Me too, to all of the above. God speed.</p>
<p>Speaking of music and Jeff Buckley, how many of y’all remember his brilliant singer/musician/songwriter father Tim Buckley?</p>
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<p>Like Jeff, he had an amazing voice with incredible range and expressiveness. Like Jeff, he was a musician who couldn’t be easily pegged stylistically. And like Jeff, he died way too young.</p>
<p>hey, LTS. I thought we’d better share. ;)<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ</a></p>
<p>I love Tim Buckley.</p>
<p>LTS, Your former oncologist’s behavior is truly bizarre. I’m glad you fired him. I seem to remember that you have an appointment with the new doctor soon - tomorrow? We’ll all be waiting to hear the new plan.</p>
<p>I’m glad that you and your daughter went to the White House today. I love going there, too. </p>
<p>I’m not surprised that you had a delayed reaction to the dismal news. After all, you went directly from the doctor’s office to a work-related conference call, didn’t you? Then you planned and packed for a long-distance move. No time for a reaction until you were in the car, with nothing else to do - not even allowed to drive! I’m glad it was only a short-term loss of appetite.</p>
<p>Hooray! you made it!
Hope things go well tomorrow.</p>
<p>I heard Hallelujah for the first time when I saw Shrek. I embarrassed my entire family by crying during a cartoon. It is one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard. That is a song I listen to when I feel reflective … as I imagine you have felt in the past few days, LTS.</p>
<p>My mom has fired several doctors over the last few years. She never had to do it in MI, but she is in FL now & the doctors have not been quite the same in her experience. She is an RN & won’t put up with anything less that what she knows she should hear! Good for you, LTS, for doing the same.</p>
<p>Lots of prayers continue to be with you.</p>
<p>DS loves Tim Buckley as does another guy on his hall. I met Tim Buckley in late 1967 and saw him perform. So moving.</p>
<p>KD Lang has a beautiful version of the Leonard Cohen song, too. Her album is 49th Parallel, all Canadian songs.</p>
<p>Oliver Sack’s book is so interesting explaining that music is just so intrinsic to the human experience.</p>
<p>One thing we can really thank Shrek for, popularizing this beautiful song. </p>
<p>Hope you are up to hearing it now lts.</p>
<p>Yes, the discrepancy is very bizarre, especially the doctor’s lack of transparency. </p>
<p>oops. Cross-posted about Shrek!</p>
<p>I think your move will give you new strength, I really do.</p>
<p>There’s a cartoon making the rounds showing Obama as Prez in front of the White House; he’s saying “That name’s got to go.” :)</p>
<p>Laughter, the best medicine.</p>
<p>LTS…be well.</p>
<p>NYMomof2, you’re right, it was a delayed reaction - the conference call had already been scheduled for some time with multiple participants, so, there simply wasn’t time to go into an emotional downward spiral. I would have cancelled if I could have but why? I wouldn’t be any less cancerous in a day or five, (besides, I haven’t yet cancelled or postponed even the first business commitment due to cancer, although scheduling is a little weird). Then, as soon as I hung up the phone, I immediately began packing. I had already made arrangements with the new doctor two weeks ago, sensing that things weren’t quite right with the existing team but not really having anything concrete to go on…</p>
<p>I really didn’t want to drive. I was in no psychological condition to do so. </p>
<p>I love to watch the other people watching the WH. It’s about three-four blocks from my office, and, I love to walk over and see what the other visitors are up to. Sometimes they’re protesting something; most of the time they are tourists of course; ALL of them are going to use a camera at one point or another, and, I love watching people, so, it’s endlessly fascinating. </p>
<p>One day last summer, when I knew Cheney’s motorcade would be leaving soon, I decided to wait for it, so, in my suit, hose and heels, I sat down on the curb, and watched all the people watching for Cheney. It was fascinating, especially when the parade of shiny black vehicles finally appeared. I forgot to look for Cheney because I was so busy watching the people watch Cheney…it gets really fascinating to watch the secret service watch the people lolol…</p>
<p>All this makes me wish I lived in DC and could see the WH–and the people watching the WH–any time!</p>
<p>btw, Leonard Cohen wrote both the words and the music to Hallelujah. Such a beautiful song.</p>
<p>My favorite LC lines: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Brilliant!</p>
<p>LTS,
I need to go back a few pages…sorry. My mother passed away from a simply horrendous disease that ravaged her previously healthy body. She was much older than you, but I was still her daughter, and it was incredibly important for me to be with her as much as possible. She was very distressed that I was taking time away from my own family. Every day when I arrived she said to me, “Why are you here?” It plagued her no end that I took this time away from my own kids. But, it was so important for me to do this, and I am sure that your daughter is mature enough to know what she is doing. It is vitally important for her to be with you if that is her decision. She will not want to have any regrets about not spending as much time as she can with you. You can trust me on that one. And you don’t even know me. ;)</p>
<p>I wish I had footage of you lts, sitting there in your impeccable attire watching people watch the WH.</p>
<p>It reminds me of seeing Lily Tomlin perform. She was making an analogy to Andy Warhol’s painting of Campbell’s soup cans. She said, “The play’s the soup, the audience is the art,” because every night she watched the audience respond to her play and found it beautiful.</p>
<p>I don’t need footage - the image is so vivid:). I imagine somehow a suit with pink tones to it, black pumps, perfect stockings, that long hair, on the sidewalk on a hot but not excruciating summer day in DC. Maybe a bead of sweat on the forehead. The concentration on your face.</p>
<p>LTS
I have been reading this thread from the beginning, not really “knowing you” but awed by your courage and drive to fight your disease. I have been praying for you since the beginning.
During the middle of this thread I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It is an early stage type but in a gray area where I have to make some decisions regarding chemo. I feel I have learned so much from you…I feel equipped to fight my cancer battle even though it pales in comparison to yours.
I have a wonderful nurse who is my lifeline and the one thing she has drilled in me from the beginning is to read every single pathology and test report for myself. It has already helped me.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. It has been so important to me and I know countless more.
Praying for you and your daughter everyday.
Peace</p>
<p>I was trying to think of something to post in the thread “one of the best books I’ve read in the last 6 months is . . .” and all I could think of was “the CC thread-'Support for Latetoschool”, as it is more interesting than any of the books I have been reading. </p>
<p>LTS- your writing is inspiring, as are many of the replies that have been sent your way. Thank you for sharing.</p>
<p>keymom, I am sorry to hear of your diagnosis, and I wish you the best in the months ahead. I’m sure you take comfort in the fact that your disease is in an early stage. Your nurse sounds wonderful, and I’m sure that many reading this thread will benefit from her advice, as well as LTS’ shocking experience last week. </p>
<p>I agree with Karen that this thread is more interesting and inspiring than most books!</p>
<p>keymom: Will add you to the list of CC’ers that I “pray for” along with lts.</p>