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going well for our family. We are all doing well with school and jobs. Ally
(and Mommy, a teacher) will be finishing up school in about 3 weeks. Ally has
enjoyed 3rd grade this year, and is still involved with dance. Her recital is
coming up in mid-June. <br /><br />We continue to work on putting weight on her. It
is a slow process, and she has not gained much over the past 5 months, but she
hasn't lost any either. Hopefully a hot summer full of ice cream will
help.<br /><br />Over the summer Ally does need to have ear surgery. She has a hole
in one of her ears from the tubes. They are going to take some cartilage from
another part of her ear to fix the hole. This will mean no swimming and ear
plugs in the shower. There is also some hearing loss with the weeks to months
recovery process, so we split the difference and scheduled it for the very end
of July, so she would only miss a couple weeks of the local pools being open,
and hopefully some hearing would come back before school starts. She is not
looking forward to this, and is mostly upset that it will hurt for a while, and
she will be dizzy for up to a week. I promised her lots of cartoons, snuggling
on the couch, and waiting on her hand and foot for a couple of
days.<br /><br />That's about it for now. I will be sure to update after the
surgery.<br /><br />Happy Almost Summer!</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span></span></b>
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Mom<br /><br />Earlier this month we visited NYC for a visit with the Long Term
Follow Up Care Team. Ally had blood drawn, an echocardiogram, and an EKG. We
got a call today that all of her tests came back looking good! That is good
news, as her treatment has the potential to do real damage to her heart, but so
far it is looking good. The biggest concern for Ally right now is her weight.
Over the year we were gone from NYC Ally grew about an inch, but lost weight.
We are trying to add calories to her wherever we can (back to whole milk, ice
cream for dessert often, full fat and calories yogurt, etc.) We are also trying
to add benacalorie into some of her foods; despite the amazon reviews you can
taste it in many foods, and it tastes gross. She has already gained 0.6 pounds
this month! We go back to MSKCC in NYC next December. <br />In the meantime we
are headed up for a check in with our NH team near the end of January.<br />Happy
New Year! </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">♡</span></span></span></div>
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the March, and after the volunteers get-together, we walked to Ground
Zero. It was difficult for both of us. He, who has lived in this city
most of his life, and who has been there before, and for me, whose first
time it was. <br /><br />There <i>is</i> a presence there not like anything else I've ever felt. And memories. And, yes, tears. <br /><br />And, after the tears, anger that this unspeakable tragedy has been used as the pretext for so much additional evil.<br />
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</span>puddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472602120015210301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15963477.post-88868054739202703262015-01-13T01:02:00.000-05:002015-01-13T01:24:14.834-05:00Five Years Cancer Free<div style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">
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five year survival rate. January 7th marked five years for Ally! She is one of
the lucky ones. Meeting the five year mark means that the likelihood of her
cancer coming back is significantly smaller, although it is never 100% certain
to never return. We are so blessed to have Ally. She makes us laugh, she makes
us proud, she makes us joyous, and she makes our hearts burst with love. Her
amazingness is something I have never seen an equal to. Every day we have with
her is a gift. We know we are lucky with her outcome. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Bright;"><br /></span></span></span></b>puddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472602120015210301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15963477.post-36679766003319674522014-12-16T16:35:00.001-05:002014-12-16T16:35:22.152-05:00<div style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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scanned was 6 months ago. This was the longest we have gone between scans. Our
scanxiety will have to wait even longer now, because her oncologist thinks this
should be her last scan. This is great news, in that she feels Ally has
progressed enough to not have to scan her. This is also nerve wracking, as
there will always be that element of not knowing for sure. Her oncologist did
assure us that if we felt, for any reason, that something wasn't quite right, we
would go ahead and scan. We will head back to DHMC in 6 months, just for a
check in.<br /><br />Our next appointment brings us to MSKCC in December. This is
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pleased with her progress (she has gained over 5 pounds in the past 6
months...she is actually in the 5th percentile now!!!) and spending the weekend
in NYC.<br /><br />Thanks for following us and sending your positive vibes, thoughts
and prayers our way. I'll be sure to update about New York.<br /><br />Happy
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so many other families do not get to send their children to school.
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time or a skill you have, making cards, or sending in a little boredom buster to
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Life is strange, the paths we take, and are sometimes forced to take. In the late eighties when my mother in law came from China to live with us, we gave her our bedroom and moved to the rec room. She'd had dreams of streets paved with gold and was very disappointed. I tried to tell her how well her son was doing, but it didn't meet her dreams. They spent several hours together every night. In the event, she was telling him he could do better than what he had, than me. He tried to start his own business on top of a very demanding full time job. I was working 16 hours a day on a new crafts business and both of us working against a recession. She left the next summer for her daughter's wedding in China. When she returned, my marriage was dead, and he was living with a new woman who'd been helping him with the side business. She hated the new woman and her kid, and finally decamped permanently for China. Josh married the new lady a few years later, had a little girl and left her less than a year after the marriage. Both businesses went belly up in Bush's little recession, I sold the house and tried California, and was back in a year, and ended up here. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Philosopher Of The Land (The Unified Theory of Everything)<br /><br />Birds to the mulberry tree<br />dessert after insect meal<br />do they carry the life force to the mulberry seed?<br /><br />The grazing cows stirring the plants<br />rough tongue made to rend the green curtain<br />there for certain life is given and received.<br />But new tree under fence post telling of birds.<br /><br />Seeing the whole<br />Bugs and birds, plants, animals<br />under a wide sky, blessed by the sun<br />under a watchful eye, a knowing eye<br />"come bos"<br />come I know greener pastures.<br /><br />I know greener pastures.<br /><br />So with Dan's gentle call<br />first the wisest begin to follow<br />(he does not fail them)<br />for rain falls on just and unjust<br />and not needing to wander 40 years<br />find a promised land under a watchful eye<br />as they pass the gate.</b></span></div>
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fishing camp had "morning meditations" of poetry this year and William
Carlos Williams was a feature one morning. Sent me on a Frost jag since
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part of the last stanza since the</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3]"><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[0]"> hornet got it wrong That really takes away instead of gives. </span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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As long on earth </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[13]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[14]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[15]">As our comparisons were stoutly upward </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[16]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[17]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[18]">With gods and angels, we were men at least, </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[19]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[20]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[21]">But little lower than the gods and angels. </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[22]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[23]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[24]">But once comparisons were yielded downward, </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[25]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[26]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[27]">Once we began to see our images </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[28]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[29]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[30]">Reflected in the mud and even dust, </span><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[31]" /><br id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[32]" /><span id=".reactRoot[1].[0][1][1]{comment551328264924402_87238715}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0:3].[0].[33]">'Twas disillusion upon disillusion.</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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surgery. In the pre-op appointment the surgeon asked if we would like him to
fix up the scar from her Mic-Key button (feeding tube), so we got 2 for the
price of 1! Ally's belly actually hurt her a lot more than the port scar (up in
her collar bone area). She was on pain meds for a few days. Her port removal
scar sticks out from her shirt. A few of her classmates have asked her about
it. We asked her what her response it to it, and she told us she just pretends
she didn't hear the person until they stop asking her the question. We told her
it's okay to tell the other person she doesn't want to talk about it. Ally is
realizing that not every kid goes through what she went through, and I think she
is nervous and anxious to talk about her treatment with other kids.
Understandable!<br /> <br />On the Ally medical front: Ally will be scanned again
in April. She just got 4 shots in her legs last week (we are re-doing her
vaccines). She weighs close to 36 pounds!!! Her dentist appointment went well
today...of course she needs to floss more; but don't we all?<br /><br />Thanks for
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For more on Neruda and Pinter’s Lecture check out http://www.redpoppy.net/journals/<br /><br />Peace,<br />Neftali
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<br />puddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472602120015210301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15963477.post-63806043490738054562013-02-15T18:41:00.000-05:002013-02-15T18:41:03.664-05:00Thanks, Barb!<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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<b>Life Changes<br /><br /><br /> So much has to do<br /> with hope, the sense<br /> of light, of kindness<br /> and goodness, and beauty<br /> now that we can be<br /> aware, sit for a while<br /> talk to a friend. Before<br /> our lives were a scurrying<br /> racing across the meadow<br /> chased by hawks, searching<br /> for sustenance, a place,<br /> watching, moving, gathering.<br /><br /> What to do now that we<br /> haven't<br /> the need to leap to the <br /> tree<br /> bounding from branch to<br /> branch<br /> finding the nuts and hiding<br /> them. <br /><br /> What's an old squirrel to<br /> do? </b></div>
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puddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472602120015210301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15963477.post-9015627472641001452013-02-01T13:53:00.000-05:002013-02-01T13:53:16.759-05:00<span style="color: #7f007f;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Bright;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">= </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Bright;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #fe00fe;">♡♥♡</span><span style="color: #7f007f;"> <span style="color: #c27ba0;">Awesome Ally Amazes Again!</span>
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Mom:</span></span></span><span style="color: #fe00fe;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #7f007f;"> <br /> <br /><b style="color: #8e7cc3;">Everything went
well. We are home, resting, watching cartoons and taking pain meds. <br />A nap
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