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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Monday, January 06, 2003
How Do You Spell Relief?
R-E-M-I-S-S-I-O-N!!! Got a wonderful report this morning from the scans! All the nodes are smaller and the cancer is gone. Dr. Spigel wants me to have maintenance treatments of Rituxan once a week for four weeks six months apart, which will be in May since the last one was in November. I don't go back to see him until April. What another relief!! I am so glad!!
Mother and I went to breakfast when we left the hospital and then to Healthy Habits to get my vitamins and to Goody's to see what they had on sale. Didn't get anything. I went to Graham Ford Service Dept again to let them know the power steering fluid is low again. I just had the power steering pump replaced and the 30K mile service done on the Mercury Mistake. I miss Hondas so much and especially Jenkins & Wynne Honda Service Department. It's the # 1 Honda service dept in the nation, so I was spoiled. Anyway, they said the main power steering line that goes all over the car had a leak and would have to be replaced. Why didn't they notice that when they had it two days week before last, I wonder. So now I have to spend more money on the car having something done they should have noticed when they "fixed" it the first time. Pretty soon I'm going to need a telethon!!
I was talking to a woman in the waiting room who said she used to live in LA and that MLD was done before and after surgery there almost as a matter of course. California is more open to various things like that, but it needs to be offered in hospitals. They do have MLD therapists at Baptist Hospital, I've heard. People would heal so much faster, have little or no swelling, and minimal scarring. I'm going to do what I can to make them more aware of it here.
Let's all celebrate!!
5:03:00 PM
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