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Topic: Iditarod Musher in need of Healing Light
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angel_of_hope
Knowflake Posts: 1022
From: Palmer, Alaska (the valley)
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted May 16, 2006 07:44 PM
 
Famous vetran iditarod musher Susan Butcher has been battling Leukemia ... this week she is to undergo stem cell transplants. The family is desperatly in need of some healing light ... please pray for her and her family in this time of need. You can follow the story by visiting www.susanbutcher.com - which also features the latest article from the local newspaper.  Susan Butcher ... i wish you nothing but the best of the best in all your treatments. Everyone here is praying and pulling for you. Love and lots of White light to you and your family during this troubling time.  Angela~ ------------------
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.~Morris West If you keep doing what you've done, you'll keep getting what you've always got.~Peter Francisco IP: Logged |
thebigeliza
Knowflake Posts: 309
From: CT,USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted May 16, 2006 08:37 PM
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Sending lots of love and light
also thank you for your love and light for my mother ... luekiemia is tough, im sorry she is going through it. Sending rainbows ~~~*~~~ love,ElizaIP: Logged |
teaselbaby
Knowflake Posts: 903
From: Northeast Ohio
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted May 17, 2006 05:30 AM
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aqua
Knowflake Posts: 2631
From: dreamland
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted May 17, 2006 07:34 AM
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angel_of_hope
Knowflake Posts: 1022
From: Palmer, Alaska (the valley)
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted May 17, 2006 01:07 PM
Ever since i was a lil girl, in elementary school, i was a Susan Butcher fan. When i thought of Susan Butcher i thought of her long brown braids. She was famous for her braids. I think many people have the same thoughts when thinking of her. I was looking around on her website yesterday and found pictures of her since having the chemo theraphy and radiation treatments ... and her braids were gone. (which didnt surprise me, except that she looked totally diffrent. But still Susan Butcher to me. It's interesting to note that, for those that are unfamiliar with the iditarod, it began as a rescue mission to get supplies and vaccinations to the rural villages of Alaska, delivered by sled dogs. And now here we are pulling for one of our own Mushers. Susan received her stem cell transplant early this morning around 1 am ... here's the updates, via her husband. news updates 17-May-06 01:56 AM - David : Susan's stem cells landed at Seattle airport at 9:30 PM. They had traveled with a courier from somewhere in the US. They did not have to go through security. They were recognized as life savers.
They traveled by car or cab to the Fred Hutch Research center to be evaluated and prepared for susan. They are living in a safe environment but also one that will kill them if they do not find a new home. Susan will provide that home. Sometime tonight they will come here looking for that new home. It has been prepared for them. Cleaned out from the last residents yet still cozy and safe. They will start new familys there that will proliferate and fill Susan's marrow. They will send send their children out to bring oxygen to Susan's body. The children will bring her food. They will fix her if she is injured or sick. Finally when they mature will defend her against any of the leukemia that may lurk in some recess of her body. It is a gift but these new residents must learn the neighborhood. They must learn who is a friend and who is not.......
ALERT: THE STEM CELLS ARRIVED .. AT 12: 35 AM. The bag they are in is small. About the size of your hand. The liquid inside is watery. It is redish pink color with a hint of orange. 349 millileter's. millions of cells. The nurse who brings them is cheerful. She lets us hold the bag. It gives real meaning to the phrase holding ones life in your hands. Untill they are in, one drop, one fall, one puncture and it would all be over. She goes away to get another nurse to help with the infusion. It is quiet on the ward. No activity except the rythmic sound of the IV pump and the hepafiltered air being blown into the room. They return and hang the bag from the pole next to Susan's bed. The nurse attaches the tubing to Susan's central line. She pushes the button on the pump. The fluid starts to flow and at 1:08 PM May 17th Susan's second life begins, her second chance,her do over. You can see if you look close enough the different colors of the liquid slowly making their way down the tube sending the new cells on the journey to their new home. Tears ran down my face reading this ... but a warm fuzzy feeling ran over me toward the end ... i think everythings gonna be alright. Thanks Liza and Aqua!!! Everyone else, please keep this Champion in your hearts and in your thoughts. Ang~ IP: Logged |
Harpyr
Moderator Posts: 2151
From: land of the midnight sun
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted May 17, 2006 05:48 PM
I've admired Susan Butcher since childhood too. IP: Logged |
Harpyr
Moderator Posts: 2151
From: land of the midnight sun
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted August 01, 2006 01:21 PM
Susan's leukemia has returned.  They gave her the choice of going home or starting over and she's decided to continue to fight the cancer. So she will need another bone marrow transplant. Please send this strong, admirable woman some healing light.  IP: Logged |
Harpyr
Moderator Posts: 2151
From: land of the midnight sun
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted August 06, 2006 02:52 PM
Sadly, Susan lost her battle on Saturday. IP: Logged |
angel_of_hope
Knowflake Posts: 1022
From: Palmer, Alaska (the valley)
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted August 07, 2006 01:37 PM
I was out camping this weekend and just heard of this great loss this morning.She will be missed deeply - but ALWAYS remembered and NEVER forgotten. IP: Logged |
aqua
Knowflake Posts: 2631
From: dreamland
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted August 08, 2006 01:28 AM
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noreenz
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posted August 10, 2006 06:11 PM
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