<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Spoke briefly to Deb tonight. She was sick with pain all day.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
She took a lot of pain meds but I don't think it helped too much. It literally takes her breath away.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
She talked about feeling badly that she has not been able to answer more cards and thank people for gifts. I told her I didn't think people expected her to be doing that right now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have to say I have deliberately underplayed a lot of her problems. The tumor is in a spot where it presses on nerves that radiate to her chest and back. Wearing a bra is very painful. Her skin on her back is becoming burned by the radiation. She is truly unable to eat, and often when she does she vomits over and over and over and over. She has thrush in her mouth that hurts, makes her mouth bleed, stinks, tastes terrible and changes the way whatever goes into her mouth tastes. What little she can eat, hurts.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So if you are waiting for a thank you, and not many of you are, you may be waiting awhile. She cannot even sit long enough to read her email. Now and then she is able to look at FB.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">She appreciates terribly the outpouring of support and love that she has experienced, and she wants everyone to know how grateful she really is. There are no words that really express her deep gratitude. So know that all who have sent cards and gifts and drool and hugs are hereby thanked, and loved in return. You have her back. Nobody could ask for more. To all of you you are wonderful. For Debbie, thank you all, from the bottom of her heart.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Don't stop believing. Don't stop caring for each other.</div>
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