A Note from Debbie.....

It's been one amazing year and now I am happy to say I am cured. Please see below for my journey through cancer....


Hello my friends, on August 4, 2008 I was diagnosed with Cancer.

As you can imagine the initial shock was great, for me, Doug and our girls. We've now got a great team of colorectal doctors, learned a lot about what is ahead, and have gotten our minds wrapped around it. So now we are in the "let's get this thing out of here" mode and feel very confident that, with prayers and support of my friends and family, by next Spring I will celebrate being cancer-free.

Please join me in this journey of Recovery, and visit this blog from time to time for updates, to post your comments, and read others'. If you're new to Blogging (as am I!) new postings are at the top, click the Archives at the left and scroll down to start at the beginning, then press "Comments" to read responses, and please add your own! And if you will, leave your name and how we're associated, as opposed to Anonymous (thanks!). Email Doug for instructions if you have trouble, ddavis@archifects.com.

With much love,
Debbie

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Lovely luncheon

Today I got together with 3 ladies that were in the Healing Circle group from a few months ago. It was at the home of Julie Clark, of Baby Einstein fame. We talked and shared our experiences and where we are now in our treatments and recovery. Before we had lunch, we retired to the theatre room and watched the movie "Crazy, Sexy Cancer," a video journal of a young woman's experience filmed from the first day she was diagnosed through her remission 3 or 4 years later. Watching it made me wish I had my family take more pictures and video of me this past year so I'd have a visual of what I felt and looked like, thought and experienced, but at the time I probably wouldn't let them, and they respected my wishes. That's why I'm thankful for this blog, so I can at least go back and re-read it - someday. I haven't yet. Not sure when I will.
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Laurey said...

Baby Sister- Can I put my two cents worth in? This was a life or death experience for you. Someone not in your shoes can only contemplate and NEVER know the horrific yet sometimes joyful expedition you have endured. I think you should copy your blog onto disc (maybe twice for good measure) and put them away for safe keeping. Pull it back out on every five year anniversary of your recovery from now until your 100th birthday and watch it while you and Doug sip a good bottle of Champagne. Until then, skip off into the future and keep doing and being what you are-- a gift to this planet! Only once (at the beginning) did a thought come into my head that I would NEVER let happen again- "the world would not be a happy place if it didn't have 'our Debbie' in it. I love you sooo much. Thank you God for continuing to share her with us!

September 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM

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