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leanne weinshenker is a woman and a mother and a physical therapist and a wife and a lover of cheese and one who does not like needles and a baltimore gal at heart and a friend of many and a small dog accepter and a flat-footed being and a woman of many pairs of black pants and a petite lady and a reader of books and a cheater of scrabble and, yes, a survivor of lymphoma. yes, a survivor already.
her email is: lskolmanATyahooDOTcom
daniel weinshenker is a man, maybe, but more likely to be a father and a husband and a teacher and a cooker of egg sandwiches and a writer and an eraser of one and only one blog and a jerk and a lovely guy and a bay area guy at heart and a fluffer of pillows and a listener and a teller of stories and a caretaker and a pain in the ass and a drinker of lemon soda and a survivor, yes, a survivor of his wife surviving cancer. already.
his email is: danielATscatterstickDOTcom
21 Comments
January 12, 2007 at 3:59 pm
yes, and lee is a person, a beautiful person, outside, and even more inside who is loved dearly by so many people mainly because she is everything you say and so very much more. she’s very lovable, for starters, and very compassionate and also very funny, but maybe not right now, or maybe right now also, i’m not sure. and one thing that’s happening lele, is that all these people who love you and have good, positive energy of all kinds, we’re all banding together in a large crowd and gathering our love for you and copious amounts of our energy and we’re sending it directly to you, in fact it’s already started coming. you may feel it as a swish of warm air, or a soft blanket enveloping your body. you may hear it as a lovely melody in your ear (sung by someone other than me), or a laugh that suddenly appears in your throat. or maybe you’ll see it when one of the multitude walks thru your door, or maybe even when we don’t. and it’s not going to stop, it’s begun and it will keep going for as long as we all have it to give, and that is beyond forever.
January 15, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I’m going to the plant nursery to buy a plant for Lee today.
I’m gonna name it Lymphy.
I will love it. I will sing to it. It will sit next to me in my office on the window sill. And everyday it will lean a little more towards the sun.
It will grow and be strong and beautiful.
When all this hell is over I will send you the plant. It will be yours to have for the rest of your LONG life.
And, one day, Lydia & Lomo can plant it in their garden. (I’ll send you a photo of the plant as it grows)
January 16, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Leeanne, we who are your Book Club sisters are thinking of you every moment. We’re sending you our energy and our good thoughts of health, comfort and peace. We are beside you in hospital - if only in spirit - holding your hand and stroking your hair. We care, we love you, and we send you all the awesome Book Club girl power we’ve got between us. We are all there with you.. right now.. and every day.
January 16, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Dan, Leanne, and Lydia,
Our whole family has been getting daily updates from Sib and Dave and we’ve had your family in our thoughts and prayers since the day we found out. We’ll continue to keep you all there.
I just spoke with Ford and Cath who are in L.A. on their way to New Zealand. Coincidentally, they’re travelling with a team of doctors from Topeka, to whom they immediately relayed your most recent update. All of the docs, and I believe there are 4 of them, were super positive about Leanne’s situation. In fact, they reminded us about Lance Armstrong who had brain cancer and every other kind of cancer you can imagine and then went on to win how many Tours de France? Needless to say, we’re expecting some big things from you, Leanne!
Thank you for sharing this time in your lives with us via this website. In return, we’re sending you all of our strength, courage, love, and support. Use it at will. We have infinite supplies.
All of my love,
Christie Ross
January 18, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Lee/Dan:
If good thoughts and prayers can help, you have mine.
ted
January 18, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Leanne -
Constant love and support surround you in my heart. We hold you all in the highest light.
Best - Sam
PS - Please reach out anything I can offer. Sydney would love to play with Lydia anytime (I have been in touch with Cami).
January 19, 2007 at 5:43 am
You guys are incredible! The positive energy is oozing from all of your words! I will be thinking about 3 of you a lot over the next few weeks and look forward to the bad, sad news turning to stories about your recovery.
Also, I call “shotgun” to be on Leanne’s team next December for Game Night at the Ross’s cabin in Edwards!
January 19, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Leanne:
your old mt washington neighbor here…and visitor to northwestern…david is married and lives in chicago now…too cold for me…
anyway i am so sorry to hear about your health so wanted to write to you and send you my thoughts for a healthy recovery….
i am in santa fe, new mexico where ive been for 10 years…i love it…
wishing you the best
-stephen rubin
January 20, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Lee and Dan,
I have never met either of you, but I feel like I know you. I work with Cami Mueller and am also friends with Margaret Withers.
I read your blog every day. My husband and I think of you and pray for you all through the day, every day. We have four children - we had one almost 11 months ago. I wonder, “what if that was me going through this when I was pregnant?” and I cannot comprehend what that would be like.
Every day I realize that whatever Kirk and I are dealing with is trivial compared to what is going on in your lives. This makes me appreciate life, my children, my health, my family so much more. Which is sad, that I didn’t before. This could be me, or any of us.
We love you. We pray for you. We admire your strength and courage, and we will be ones to sign up with Cami to get on the dinner schedule :)
All our love, thoughts, and prayers,
Laurie & Kirk Harris
January 21, 2007 at 3:20 am
i mostly do not watch tv
i rarely read the news
i watch my world
choose what view is in my scope
would often have to move my view
to gaze upon what i could feel good with
i found your world
it found me
hear words
horrible
pain
loss
death
i resisted them
but cannot draw away
fix my gaze upon you every day
and i feel it coursing through me
wave after building wave
beauty
love
strength
love
family
love
connection
love
trust
love
life
love
forever
love
it is who you are
you are living beauty
you are living power
living fullness of every piece
of life
the life that moves through us
yet we are fortunate for the whif
i love you for the gulps you take
the grace with which you feel them
i love you for those you have around
the gift of how you feed them
and more for the deepness
of which you exhale
filling us
with you
with who we are
my view is full
of you
everywhere i look
i feel it deeply
it feels good
you are in our thoughts and prayers
you are our thoughts and prayers
thank you
Blessings..
January 21, 2007 at 3:56 am
I have contacted every prayer group I can think of to pray for you. I hope you feel His presence.
January 21, 2007 at 5:55 am
You don’t know me. I’m 17 years old. My father is friends with Leanne’s father. He recieved an email informing him of Leanne’s condition, and the link to this blog was attached.
When he first told me, last night, I went online and looked up what exactly the disease was; I had heard of it before, but didn’t know anything about it. When I mentioned to him earlier tonight that I had looked it up, he told me about the blog and forwarded the email to me.
I’ve spent the last hour on here reading and re-reading your story. I have awwed at your pictures and cried for your loss and I feel as if I know the three of you; I wish I did. After reading this, I feel the need to see you and hug you and make everything better. I know I can’t. And I know the last person you want a hug from is some stranger you never knew existed. But I wanted to let you know that I am here for you, if you ever need anything that I can somehow help you with. You will be in all my prayers and I want you to know that I will think of you, pray for you, and love you every day.
I debated whether or not to even post this, figuring you had enough on your plate to deal with. But then I remembered reading that Leanne read every comment and they made her happy to know that all her friends and family were thinking of her. So I realized that if I could do that, if I could make you happy for just a moment, than it would be worth it to leave you this message.
Have hope and love and smile whenever possible. I truly wish you all the best and I send you all of my love.
~ Jessica
January 21, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Leanne, Dan, and Lydia,
Have been thinking and praying for you often in the past week. Cannot begin to imagine what you have already and are going through now. Please know that if you need a meal sometime or something else let us know. We would love to help out in any way that we can. I know that many at Kaiser PT miss you and wish you all the very best. Let us know.
Alan and the Krolls
January 23, 2007 at 12:55 am
Leanne, I just missed yoga class cause I can’t do downward dog with a stuffed up nose and eyes that keep flowing crocodile tears. Also, can Lydia share some eyelashes with me please!? It’s been over a year since I saw you and believe me I always wonder “how is Leanne and family?”, esp. as I drive southbound on Colorado Blvd. from DIA for the not frequent enough visits to my home. Now I know the answer….. I told a friend of mine here in Chicago as da’ bears were about to win the NFC championship game about your situation (as hours before I had learned of your survivorhood) and his first response was “I wish I could take the cancer away from her…even take it on personally, so she wouldn’t have to”. Wanting to make things all better for you, Dan, and Lydia, I felt this sentiment too.Nobody wants cancer, nobody wants to know cancer, I don’t want you to know cancer. Especially not you Leanne!Ugh. As all your friends, family, and new friends have commented, please use us…use us for whatever you all need. I am sure all request will be fufilled with the greatest satisfaction; please let us surround you with support and love as ultimately this is what will get you through this (and mongolian beef - yum!). You are truly a star and I hope to see your shining face very soon as the next time I fly in, I will definitely detour off Colorado Blvd.! Huge hug, Kai Tao
January 23, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Dear Daniel and Leanne,
I just recently learned of this amazing unbelievable journey you are on, and wanted to add my voice, thoughts, love, support, concern, hugs, offers of help to the rest.
All wishes for the least amount of pain and the most amount of healing in the shortest amount of time.
Much love,
–Sara
January 24, 2007 at 3:38 am
Lee,
It’s been a long time since we’ve crossed paths, but Sibby recently shared your news with me.
My heart breaks for you and your family, for all that you are going through. I can see that you have a very strong support system, and have built an amazing marriage and family.
Wishing you the strength to keep fighting this, and letting you know that our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. We will keep following your ‘beat down’ of this monster.
Best,
Tania
January 25, 2007 at 4:27 am
Leanne and Dan,
I never knew you well, but our paths crossed some years ago and you made a big impression on me when my husband, Ted, discovered, very unexpectedly that he had a brain tumor.
You brought my family some amazing lasagna and really went out of your way to offer whatever support one offers someone in my position at the time.
I was overwhelmed by your gestures, calls and those of so many others. Ours was such an unexpected situation; one day he had a headache, the next day he had brain surgery, and then a week of his being unconsious and waiting for the diagnosis. Then three more wondering if he’d ever be the same again. In those dark times, I initially didn’t even know if he’d survive and if he did, if the tumor would continue reoccuring, and we’d be going to chemo, ourselves. I had so much fear and anxiety about how I would handle raising two small children alone, how I would cope without Ted, what we would do, where I would go . . . But as if it were a miracle, they identified the tumor and determined it was highly unlilkely it would ever come back. Within 3 weeks he recovered completely. Within 3 months, he was back at work, fully functional, and completely the same person I met 10 years ago. That was over 2 years ago.
It happened to us. It could happen to you. I know absolutely nothing about your disease, so perhaps it is unfair of me to say so, but just based on my own experience, I’ll risk it.
You clearly have one of the most loving relationships I’ve ever observed, and a support network beyond comparison. You are amazing people to share something so personal with so many. Thank you - may you be blessed with the strength you need to handle it all.
Lauri Thonus
January 31, 2007 at 1:54 am
Dan, Leanne & Lydia,
My name is Liz Carnival. You have never met me. My younger sister is very good friends with Signe Ringdahl. I learned of your situation a few weeks ago. You have been in my thoughts and prayers. God works in strange ways, but I do believe in the end he always makes things right. I will continue to pray for all of you as you are all going through such a difficult time. I admire your openness to share this with family, old friends and new friends. Keep the positive thoughts! If you need anything, I would be happy to help. Until then my family will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.
Thinking of you all,
Liz Carnival & Family
February 11, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Hi,
sweety greetings from ITALY.
I’m Roberta’s sister and I know about your sad story through her and even if I don’t know you personally and I live very far from you I’m a fan of you.
All the energy coming out from this blog is sure a good medicine for all us.
Ciao
February 12, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Dan, Please let your beautiful wife know that people she has never even laid eyes on are praying for her, without ceasing. My husband and I live in Baltimore and are friends of Carley and Kevin’s. Your whole family is in our thoughts and intentions.
March 19, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Lee -
Good to see that beautiful smile! It’s been a long time since we talked. Stay strong for all of us. Dan please continue to take care of those L’s! That is the 1st time I have seen your daughter, she is adorable. Love Always…
Rob, Alyssa & Robert
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