Just sharing.....

I wanted to share this email that Uncle Pete sent me. It is all the support I am getting that makes me feel like I am not alone.  I am looking forward to being the support others need once this is behind me. Thank you Uncle Pete & Aunt Kay

 

 

Dear Cathy and John and Christian and Haley,

We are holding you close to our hearts tonight and sending good thoughts, prayers.  Just remember, there are good cancer stories out there.  I have heard many of them in my travels as a myeloma patient ambassador/speaker, and I am one of those  stories myself. 

Yes, the  word stops you in your tracks and changes all sorts of things--mostly about what is really important in life.  The small stuff is consigned permanently to the  small stuff pile.   And while

no one probably needs that much improvement, the psychologist who interviewed me for my stem cell transplant told me that "cancer makes everyone better."  (I thought, wryly, at the time, that I had been working on the content of my character for long enough. maybe??)  But I will say
this:  it brought my brother and I back together in a way I wouldn't have thought.  I shall be eternally grateful for that.

We shall think of you every day.  And when things get the scariest, just imagine a whole circle of us standing around you.  You will not fall.  And if I can help you in any way, please let me know.

One of the educational outreach people from Millennium Pharmaceuticals (they fund my travels) is a colorectal cancer survivor.  I like her very much.

Our blessings and love,

Aunt Kay and Uncle Peter