[Oe List ...] Fwd: Thanks & update

[RICHARD HOWIE]

Dear Beloved Community around the world.  Here is a message that  
Janice Ulangca sent to Dick and me on July 25, which I hope all of  
you will be comforted by.  Throughout this challenge in her life she  
remained a SPIRIT WOMAN!
Love to you all, God's Grace & Peace,
Ellen Howie in Altamont, NY

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Janice Ulangca" <aulangca at stny.rr.com>
> Date: July 25, 2013 6:12:19 PM EDT
> To: "Dick & Ellen Howie" <rhowie3 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Thanks & update
>
> Ellen, thanks for your birthday call and your original art birthday  
> card.  I had lunch with friends that day and another lunch on the  
> following Sat. so felt well celebrated.
>
> My treatments are going well, the oncologist said when I saw him  
> before Chemo Four last Tuesday (July 23). The previous Tuesday I  
> had a mid-course CT Scan. They inject dye, then have you lay down  
> and go through the scanner. When the oncologist discussed the  
> results, he said the breast mass which was very big can no longer  
> be seen, and lymph nodes growths under arm almost gone. These were  
> the only places that a full body scan in May found cancer. Each  
> chemo starts a new cycle of needing to do nothing but respect the  
> "war" inside, and kind of creep around taking care of myself  
> between naps, then gradually a little more energy until next cycle  
> starts in 21 days. I have 2 more chemo cycles - total of 6 - then 2  
> injections of antibodies, whatever they are - each of these 3 weeks  
> apart. This will take me up into Oct. Does seem long. And since I  
> don't find the energy to do much in the way of exercise, I can feel  
> myself getting a bit weaker with each cycle. It will take some time  
> to rebuild strength - there's a special group for cancer survivors  
> at the Y where I had been going.
>
> This is a good time of year to go through this intensity - lots of  
> fresh food at farm stand just a mile down the road - & farmer's  
> mkt. when I can get there on Sat. Much better than snow on the  
> ground! I much appreciate friends giving me rides to the hospital  
> for the chemo - could drive there fine but driving back would be  
> another story.
>
> Hope your summer goes well, and family's doing fine.
>
> Best to you and Dick,
>
> Janice

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