Spring Fling for the Queen

There are a lot of reasons to celebrate this season as Hope Springs Eternal...

Chris Van Burgh (a.k.a. The Queen) just celebrated three years of surviving cancer! With surviving cancer comes a fight, with a fight comes treatment, and with treatment comes medical bills.

Please join her friends - Liz, Cathy and Sheila - in this “Spring Fling for the Queen” fundraiser for Chris. All donations, no matter how large or small, will help fund her fight against lung cancer.

With every donation a flower will be planted in a Garden of Hope in Chris’ backyard. Each flower will have a stake with the name of the giver on it, so all summer long Chris will know she is surrounded by her friends, family... and HOPE.

Donations may be made out to Chris Van Burgh and mailed to: Sheila Russell • 2511 E. 13th Street • Cheyenne, Wy 82001 (Photos of the garden will be posted on her blog later in the season.)

Thank you so much!
Questions? 307-640-0486 or sherussell@bresnan.net

Take part in your own rescue

Good grief. I have really been a whiner the last few months. Got myself into a little hole. Well, it is time to get out. Time to remember HOPE.

Bernie Siegel, M.D. wrote, "in the absence of certainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."

I wrote a while back that I needed to move from dealing to healing. I stumbled a bit...on both of those.

I just read part of a chapter from Michael Lerner's book, Choices in healing: Integrating the best of conventional and complimentary approaches to cancer.
(http://www.commonweal.org/pubs/choices-healing.html)
"Healing is an inner process through which the human organism seeks its own recovery--physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually."

Another gem, from the Cheryl Richardson web site, http://www.cherylrichardson.com/,
"The quality of our outer life is always dependent on the quality of care we give to our soul."


January 17th will mark two years since my Uncle Guy died. He was a life force. He always said, "Take part in your own rescue." How true is that? I miss him so much.

Time for healing. Time for HOPE.

hugs,
chris
p.s. Special hugs to you Gloria.

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I just have not had anything to write about and I wasn't feeling very clever...writer's block? I have also been overwhelmed by the money part of all this treatment. I was looking at an insurance paper and on December 5th, chemo day, it cost $7,500.00. ONE treatment...ONE day! (next week will be chemo treatment #45--I am glad I am bad at math. That number must be staggering.)

Then I got the appointment letter for my next PET scan and I will need to pay them $680.00 before they roll me into the machine. And, of course, I also have chemo that day and they will want their check. New year, new deductable and starting over on the total I pay... mind boggling. Makes me want to barf in my shoes. Perhaps I did not need to barf on yours...

Thank goodness I have insurance and sick leave and am able to get treatment and keep my job.

Hmm, I am guessing I should have been satisfied with the writer's block and waited for a happier topic! This is a downer...quick, someone tell a joke!

hugs,
chris