May 7, 2001
As most of you know, I was scanned last Monday to see if any cancer remained after my brutal 5 month bout with high-dose chemotherapy. I got the results back today (Monday 5/7).
I am currently cancer-free and healthy!!
Words cannot quite express the shock and joy that I feel so here's a great song from 91:
I never thought my 5-month stay in the hospital would end!
I apologize to all of you for my increasingly morbid updates but what can I say? I experienced unparalleled agony as it seemed every day new forms of suffering were visited upon me. My chemo was horrendous and at the very end that I couldn't even stand up without vomiting and passing out. Utter torture. And yet here I am now, sitting in my sunny apartment listening to the birds chirp outside.
True, the cancer could return at any time within the next 5 years - I am to be scanned periodically to make sure it doesn't - but I don't believe it will.
Almost every day I received the most loving, inspiring emails from you, my intrepid viewers, telling me to hang in there and how much you loved me and the web page. I can't tell you all how much I appreciated this and I may collect some quotes from selected emails and put them on the next update for all of you to see.
Some of you even sent gifts and cards. That anyone would actually take time to send something really boggled my cancer-stricken mind. Among my favorite gifts were a viewmaster, a bucket of play slime, cash (!), various mix CDs, a Keihls gift box, homemade soap and even fishy lights (which I hung in my hospital room). KHZ of 'Bobby' fame sent me a gift pack of their music which was especially appreciated. Their album cuts are just as good as the Bobby remix, if not better!
These gifts really kept me going in all my hours of perpetual darkness. This web page, while costly and sometimes time-consuming, pays me back in the love of of those who appreciate it.
Before I leave I have two more songs to play for you. The first is from 1996. Close your eyes and take a moment as you savor its trancy glory to ponder my rejuvenating wit and beauty; and then savor a bit of your own life.
'Land of the Living' by Kristine W.
I can't wait, as I slowly get my strength (and hair!) back, to go out dancing again.
Did you get chills? Now close your door if you're in an office, turn your speakers up as loud as they go, and dance around your room to something a bit harder. You may have to repeat this clip because its that good!
I'm alive!
and just remember..
as you dance, we are a part of what you feel!
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If you'd like to read more of my cancer updates: