Just when you thought nobody was reading??
Shelly,
I couldn’t find another way to contact you, so thank you for contacting me.
You see, I recently spent several hours “with you” recently reading your blog from start to finish -- and then the various web listings I saw you (and sometimes your husband) when you appeared for the MARF (My late husband had Meso and passed 11/18/2002.)
I began reading it because I noted your husband’s name listed on the MARF magazine with so many large donor amounts in his name to MARF. I wondered who he was and why so many were inspired to give so much. I wondered if I could have done better to raise funds.
Then I wondered how your husband was able to survive so long. (My husband died 5 months after diagnosis and he only had mild symptoms a few months earlier. We tried valiantly and went from New York to Houston in our short journey.)
Then I read it all the way your through to the end to see what your book was going to be about. I would like to read a story that turned out quite differently than ours had – but I guess it is the same in the end. I’ll be one of your first purchasers.
So, really, I wanted to say that I admire what you have accomplished, that your pain is the path I’ve been down and I commiserate with you, and if it helps at all: in the years to come, you will find yourself smiling every time you think of him with far, far less pain and sadness.
I also wanted you to know that I really believe in your Craig bird story as I have a similar story centered around dimes. I’ll tell you more if you’re interested. I still get my “messages.”
Chris Hahn and Roger know me as Cathy Dorf. Herb Dorf was my late husband. I remarried last year. Oddly enough, two months later I was diagnosed with a rare and deadly liver cancer -- for which I miraculously lived through after its removal. That was not the anticipated result but I was fortunate and am grateful. No one knows why but I have to wonder as there are some ties to the oil drilling that they are doing “near” where I was living then as that has become our new normal. Too many children were found to have leukemia during that time and I have to wonder if they used benzene, a known cause of many things, including liver cancer.
I would love to hear back from you and perhaps I’ll make the next Symposium and actually meet you. To you, Shelly, I raise my glass. Bravo for your fundraising, your courage, your website, and your book!
Cathy Dalton
I couldn’t find another way to contact you, so thank you for contacting me.
You see, I recently spent several hours “with you” recently reading your blog from start to finish -- and then the various web listings I saw you (and sometimes your husband) when you appeared for the MARF (My late husband had Meso and passed 11/18/2002.)
I began reading it because I noted your husband’s name listed on the MARF magazine with so many large donor amounts in his name to MARF. I wondered who he was and why so many were inspired to give so much. I wondered if I could have done better to raise funds.
Then I wondered how your husband was able to survive so long. (My husband died 5 months after diagnosis and he only had mild symptoms a few months earlier. We tried valiantly and went from New York to Houston in our short journey.)
Then I read it all the way your through to the end to see what your book was going to be about. I would like to read a story that turned out quite differently than ours had – but I guess it is the same in the end. I’ll be one of your first purchasers.
So, really, I wanted to say that I admire what you have accomplished, that your pain is the path I’ve been down and I commiserate with you, and if it helps at all: in the years to come, you will find yourself smiling every time you think of him with far, far less pain and sadness.
I also wanted you to know that I really believe in your Craig bird story as I have a similar story centered around dimes. I’ll tell you more if you’re interested. I still get my “messages.”
Chris Hahn and Roger know me as Cathy Dorf. Herb Dorf was my late husband. I remarried last year. Oddly enough, two months later I was diagnosed with a rare and deadly liver cancer -- for which I miraculously lived through after its removal. That was not the anticipated result but I was fortunate and am grateful. No one knows why but I have to wonder as there are some ties to the oil drilling that they are doing “near” where I was living then as that has become our new normal. Too many children were found to have leukemia during that time and I have to wonder if they used benzene, a known cause of many things, including liver cancer.
I would love to hear back from you and perhaps I’ll make the next Symposium and actually meet you. To you, Shelly, I raise my glass. Bravo for your fundraising, your courage, your website, and your book!
Cathy Dalton
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