This is Trisha. Trisha was my classmate in 4th grade, my first year at HBA. I remember that she was very tall and much more outspoken than me (don’t laugh, but I was very quiet at the time). I know, we look crazy young even now, right? (Come on, give us that much.) But check [...]

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Uhh, so . . . sorry if you’ve been trying to get here but have been getting shut down by that silly “Error establishing a database connection” message. I was working on a side project and changed the passwords to my MySQL databases and then promptly forgot to update the config file for this blog. [...]

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A week from Sunday, my friends Pedro, Liana and I are going skydiving. It will be the first time for each of us. Skydiving is something I’ve always joked that I want to do as part of my bucket list (I really hate that term, but I know that even if I didn’t say it, [...]

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Hahaha, I love this picture so much, I had to blog it. May Rose, Tina and I had lunch today, and let’s just say Tina was the only one who didn’t have a purple purse. Love, love, love this shot, especially since I’m all “cancer nerd” (MR’s term), with the NCI clinical trials pamphlets in [...]

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Ty and Marcia at Eddie George’s Grille 27, July 2008. Cancer robbed the world of another really awesome person this past weekend as my dear friend Ty Wakefield succumbed to the osteosarcoma that had been causing him so much pain for the past four years. Even though he went through seemingly endless treatments that robbed [...]

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Court, me, Angie and Nikki with (say it with me, Vicky) Sanjay Gupta in 2008. I’m having a hard time figuring out how to follow up that last blog entry. Thanks to everyone who’s left such kind words here, as well as on Facebook and Twitter. It really means a lot to me, as well [...]

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Two of our good friends from work, Karla and James, got married today. I feel like it’s super special when you’re friends with both the bride and groom because then you can be sincerely happy for both of them, and this really is the case for James and Karla. Love, love, love them. And Karla [...]

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Texted briefly with Mrs. C today, and Courtney is doing well! She can’t get up or get around by herself, but she is doing much better than she was last week. They feel like they’ve figured out the cause of her confusion so are trying to control that by regulating that particular medication. Court is [...]

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For those of you who got my e-mail this afternoon, sorry for the duplication. I just don’t have the emotional energy to rephrase. Heard from Mrs. C today. It’s been a bad day b/c Court tried to get up by herself and ended up falling. Fortunately, she didn’t get hurt. She has been getting confused [...]

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I haven’t posted a Courtney C. update in a while because I haven’t been able to get in touch with Mrs. C., which has been making me super worried! But I guess I should have more faith than that. The happy news is, for the most part, during the Era of Silence, Mrs. C. reports [...]

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