Deb update: Dec 19, 2007, 11:00 PM E.S.T.
Hi everyone, I got the chance to talk to Deb tonight and wanted to share what she said. “Basically, this sucks!” As you can see she’s still Deb. She’s concentrating on the very near term and getting some of the swelling down. If they can get that under control then she can look at treatment options. Word finding is getting harder and she is in a bit of pain, but right now it’s still manageable. She’s on her own tonight and tomorrow but her Mom, Dianne will be arriving in LA on Thursday night. She also said that her holiday card plans are on hold but that we should not use that as an excuse to send ours out late : )
She’s scheduled for another MRI in two weeks, assuming that symptoms don’t worsen. We’ll be updating news for everyone as we get it, and hopefully will be able to get posts from Deb and or her family when they are up to it.
Keep the faith!
Love, Amy Manning (aka blog maven)
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Thanks to Deb's Mom and Amy for the updates...God knows we hate to hear the bad news. I think I speak for everyone when I say we all love deb so much and we're all pulling for you DEB!!!! You have so many people sending out their postivie thoughts and prayers and engergy to you! I feel as though I don't know what to say, excepet that I love you very much and I pray for you all the time. My deepest heartfelt prayers are with you during this difficult time...keep your spirit up! Wishing you better health and improved strength! Love you lots!
Love,
Nikki
OK - I agree with Debster in that "this sucks". Positive thoughts, love, and all that is good go out to you. Keep your head up and stand proud.
Thanks to Mom and the Mannings for the updates. You know how impatient I can be about that....
Mollster.
Yes, thanks to the Mannings and Deb's Mom for the latest info.
Wow! What a tough time this is for all of you. I empathize deeply. My heartfelt prayers and positive beacons are with you. Keep the faith.
I believe in Deb's strength and power to heal.
Bea
Hope your Mom got in ok last night. Have a great visit and I hope the 'roids kick in and start to work on that damn swelling. I beleive that a new song parody is in order and am just trying to identify the perfect one - open to suggestions as always.
I agree with the song parody, I was actually going to suggest that too! I think it should be something very funny (we know how funny you can be oh mysterious one and of course Holiday related!....maybe a play on Santa Baby....with all the things she wants?
Yes, we are in serious need of a song...
I am toying with a few things and hope to have something later today/early tomorrow
Debbie & Family,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time. Please be strong and have faith that things will get better.
Bye and God Bless.
Patrick & Family
Debbie,
I have the (overdue)info on alternative treatments. The method is Tong Ren (Tom Tam in MA area is the practitioner). There are practitioners of this method on both coasts. I attached links to both below. Be well! I am sending you prayers and positive energy!
http://www.yinyanghouse.com/tongren/tamhealing_tongren_introduction
info for cancer:
http://www.yinyanghouse.com/node/2042
Hi Debbie,
I wanted to send my love and let you know that I am praying for you everyday. You are one of the strongest people I know and you will fight this and win.
I will continue to keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
I love you Debbie and hope you feel and get better soon!
Chantal
Debbie,
My love,thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family. Keep the faith and keep on trucking!!!!
Luv you
Mary
To the tune of Maniac from Flashdance
♪♫♪♫♪
Just a Mass girl on this Saturday night, she has found the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her back down, they all say she’s gonna win
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart, changing challenge to victory
She has danced into a danger zone, time for friends and family
There will be no gamma knife, she’s relieved that it’s RT
In a pink mask that was made for only she
She’s a braniac, braniac on the west coast
And she dances like Elaine on Seinfeld did
She's a brainiac, braniac with the most
And she's dancing like when she was just a kid
On the crazy west coast sanity is a place that most never see
It’s a hard warm place of mystery, that’s why Debbie fits so easily
She’s lived all her life for this moment in time, and fights to make it pass by
It’s her strength of heart and spirit you see that she can use to let her fly
There’s a strong connective heat, struggling, stretching, NO defeat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She’s a braniac, braniac on the west coast
And she dances like Elaine on Seinfeld did
She's a brainiac, braniac with the most
And she's dancing like when she was just a kid
♫♪♫♪
Fantastic tune! I like it!
Bea
why thank you :)
Debbie,
Our love and prayers are always with you. You are always in our thoughts. It is good to know your Mom is with you now. Take care. Our love to you and your family. Larry and Priscilla
Debbie,
I hope you and your mom have a nice holiday together. I will be thinking and praying for you to get back to your normal kick-cancers-ass-self!!!! Keep us posted!
Merry Christmas!!
Love - Galynn
Great song! Merry Christmas Deb and everyone else. May all your dreams come true.
Luv ya
Mary
Who asked for "Santa Baby"?
Santa baby, come and radiate me, in Cali
I've been an awful good girl
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, get this tumor out of my head - I said.
I'll put my mask on for you
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fung shui I’ve done
Think of all the colon cleansing - gotta run.....
Next year I could cleanse your colon too
I’ll leave out a plate of bliss balls for you
Boo doo bee doo
Santa honey, I wanna beat this and really that's
Not a lot
I've been in reiki all year
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, there's one thing I really do need, the cure
Glioblastoma multiforme
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, I'm filling my stocking with poop - oh shoot!
That colon cleansing again?
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Get the rats out of my Christmas tree
They’re really big not little mice you see
Hook me up and exterminate
Have Mollie to fry them up and put them on her plate!
Boo doo bee doo
Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, don’t sing
It makes me dance like a freak
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hi everyone,
All of the songs and thoughts make me laugh! Keep them coming since it makes me just shake my head and giggle! In mask or no mask...... :-)
Have a wonderful holiday and New Year this year.. I will write to you soon hopefully... just lots and lots to think about.
But, one bit of good news: I believe my mom isn't as scared of me as she thought she'd be! I'll continue to beat this shit :-)
Love you all! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!
Debbie
I was the Santa Baby requester, and I gotta say....that was great, you had me laughing and almost crying all at the same time, thanks so much for doing that! Deb, have a wonderful Christmas with your mom, we all love you and You will continue to beat this shit!!!!
Love ya,
Nikki
Hey there Deb,
I've seen you tear down some collosal obstacles without concerted effort, so knowing how determined you are brings about a sense of confidence in that you'll kick the crap out of this new tumor. Know that you are in both my thoughts and prayers. Take the time to relax and enjoy Christmas. I love the songs!
Love, Jess
the usual suspects have been ruled out for the Santa Baby lyrics - who is the aspiring, dare I say, successful writer of that one - come on fess up.
12/24/2007 11 PM EST
For Deb from Bea:
Wishing you peace and healing on Christmas Day and in all your days to come. I wanted to share this poem with you. I hear it often from my wise, local macrobiotic chef. He knows it by heart and loves to recite it aloud for the local community dinner crowd.
PAIN'S SOLILOQUY
by C. J. Buell
I am PAIN!
Most People HATE me…
Think me Cruel
Call me Heartless.
Study ways to bribe and fool me
Try by every means to slay me.
DOPE themselves with Anesthetics
Fill Themselves with Patent Nostrums.
CALL the Doctor with his POISONS
SEEK the Christian Science Healer
BEAT the Tom-Tom,
Build the Altar,
Burn the Incense,
SEEK to Sath the Wrath of DEVILS
PRAY to Saints and Gods and Angels.
NOT to cleanse or purify them,
Just to KILL the guide that warns them.
PAIN AM I, but when you know me
When you once have learned my secret
How I Come To Help
And BLESS YOU
WARN YOU, GUIDE YOU,
TEACH AND LEAD YOU.
When you know my loving nature,
How at first I gently twinge you
Hoping thus by kind reminder you will hear my voice and listen.
Sure am I that when you know me,
You will gladly then embrace me,
Call me friend and give me welcome,
Call me friend and ask my message.
This the message I would bring you,
This the reason for my visits,
This the warning I would give you,
This the secret I would teach you!
When you learn to live as Nature
In her great and boundless mercy,
In her tender loving kindness,
In her wisdom and her goodness,
Meant that men and women
Should live and labor.
When you learn to shun the by-ways
leading off to vicious habits,
When you learn to keep your body
Strong and Clean and Pure and Active,
Give it work in Right Proportion,
Give it FOOD AND AIR AND WATER
FIT to build its every member,
FIT to nourish every function,
When you Teach your Mind
Pure and Noble thoughts to harbor,
Drive out fear and hate and malice,
Cherish LOVE and kindly motive,
When you learn these things I've told you,
When you know them,
When you Do them,
Then no more will PAIN be needed.
This is then the truth I bring you,
That I hurt you, but to warn you,
NOT to harm you, but to heal you,
That I come to guide and teach you.
I am God's most blessed angel!
Sent to point the way to virtue,
Sent to teach the noblest manhood,
Sent to ROUSE the Soul to Action!
LOVE ME,
TRUST ME,
HEED MY MESSAGE.
I WILL BRING You PEACE
and BLESS You.
Merry Christmas Deb,
Thinking about you.
So would you like company next week? Oscar wants to play with Radar. I have Wed- Sunday off, shall we have a pet play date. Maybe shopping at Athropology? Paul's treat!
Ant
Wishing you a blessed Christmas and a healthy New year!
Deb,
Greetings from our house to yours on Christmas day.
Enjoy the day. Love the songs your friends have written. What a way to put a smile on your face. Our love to you, Larry and Priscilla
Happy Holidays to all!
Mollster
Deb,
Hope you enjoyed your Christmas day! Thinking of you always!
Love ya,
Nikki
Twas the day after Christmas, when all through the house
All the vermin were cleared out – no rats and no mouse
The stockings were emptied; the dinner divine
The hope for the New Year – leave cancer behind
The bustle was over, it’s down time instead
Visions of good health for Debbie in everyone’s head
And Mom with some projects from Debbie’s long list
Her visit is too short, she soon will be missed
Then Radar and Nala created such clatter
All sprang from their chairs to see what was the matter
Away to the red door all flew like some flashes
Tore open the screen like a bunch of jackasses
The sun shone down strong on the snowless ground below
Gave the warmth of its rays as the crowed shouted OH!
When what to all wondering eyes should appear
But a diminutive man, oh wait Charlie is here :)
But behind him was the real source of the noise
A large ripped bag that was spilling out toys
Some guy in a red suit – with curses and a kick
They knew in a moment it must be.... some crazy guy trespassing –what’s up with that?????
More rapid than eagles, the cops they soon came
Handcuffed the old guy as he called them bad names
You a**hole, you sh**head, you pain in the butt
Don’t you know who I am, feel it right in your gut?
And laying his middle finger aside of his nose
Well he and the cops soon came to some blows
And they heard him scream out as the car drove from sight
Merry Christmas, dear Debbie – gifts of courage and might
Apparently somebody watched too many COPS reruns this holiday season....
I loved that!!!! Great job!
An incredibly difficult song to spoof without getting all sentimental and freakish, but I've given it a whirl.
Auld Lang Syne = For Old Time's Sake
Lest all the madness be forgot
And the good stuff left behind
I'll re-cap the past year's history
For Auld Lang Syne
It started with a hairy dog
Sniffing something in Deb's brain
Then the Mannings conjured up this blog
To keep the East coast from going insane
In clogs and yellow jammie pants
Cedars Sinai's rehab queen
With manicured nails and top ten lists
And some chemo, in between.
Returning home her minions came
To decorate, and cook, and clean
Forced to drive that hideous Element
Disguised - lest they be seen.
Mohawks and Mullets were discussed
Fabulous Scabulous held on tight
A theme song spoof then astrology
For the Fung Shui Gemini
Thelma and Louise - Briard rescue
Cura-script and gaining weight
Taking naps, Reiki, more MRIs
And a bunch of good Ju-Ju.
A trip back East - with hula hoops?
Then back West to return to work
High ANA - disqualified
No matter - things look bright.
Vota Dosha - Bliss balls, and Basti (gross)
Deepak Chopra says MEDITATE
Dog whisperer, the Hollywood scene
Deb's done it all - it seems.
A new boyfriend, the Red Sox win!
Camp Keepsake turned out well
California all on fire - stay safe
The one year anniversary
A disappointing MRI - not in our plans but hey!
She'll keep on fighting
We'll be here
Praying for Deb every day.
Happy New Year Debbie and family!
New Year, new challenges, new beginnings, right? Blessings on you and yours.
Barbara
Deb!
Happy New Year! Wishing you peace and health today and always.
Sending lots of beacons,
Bea
Hi Deb
Happy New Year! Wishing you healthy and happy days in 2008!
Luv you,
Mary
Deb,
Happy New Year, may this year bring improved health and happiness to you!!! Love ya.
Love,
Nikki
Debbie went for another MRI today. The swelling is down significantly and the tumor has not grown in size over the last two weeks. She has a second opinion scheduled tomorrow at 11 a.m. PST with Dr. Yu, the doctor who did her initial surgery, to find out whether he thinks she can have surgery. If surgery is not possible, she will likely try another chemo drug, Avastin, which has been extremely successful in treating recurrent tumors.
Debbie has been feeling much better these days now that the swelling is down. She will hopefully send an update in the next few days. Her mom is leaving CA tomorrow and her dad is arriving in CA this evening. Keep the prayers and positive thoughts coming. The comments and get-well-wishes really keep her going.
Lots of love, Deb. Keep up the fight!
Amy
Thanks for the update Amy! That is good news to start off 2008, and I'm sure there will be more to come.
Best wishes for the New Year, Deb. You are going to kick ass!!
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