Ok, here are some initial pix from the ride around lake tahoe.
Thanks to all of you, many of you who came from this weird blog thing,
who donated on behalf of Leanne so that I could ride.
The 5 riders who rode in honor of Leanne raised $35,000.
Sum total for that one day, $8.5 million.
The goal of [...]
it does.
it truly does.
today leanne goes back to work
for the first time since january.
yes, she’ll be bald and yes, she’ll be tired,
but she’ll drive the same driver
and park in the same parking lot
and walk through those same doors
she’s been walking through the past six months
and, like that, go from patient to provider.
maybe you didn’t know [...]
yesterday, during the procedure,
they couldn’t get leanne numb.
it was a silly little thing, just a slice
through her chest and the removal
of the device that never worked anyway.
she made me put headphones on her
because she couldn’t stand to hear the sound
of them cutting her skin, the snipping and such.
and i saw them go through two full [...]
they put your chemo port in,
they take your chemo port out,
they put your chemo in,
then they pump venom into it for six months…
that’s what it’s all about.
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lee got her port out today.
i sat in a chair next to her and held her hand.
you have no idea how much i wish i could write that
it was [...]
