LOCS - "Love of Chellie Supporters" - Thank you Jessica for all of your Love!

Dear Friend,

     Jessica lost her locks in support of her cousin Michellie - they are on their way to Angel Hair for Kids in Toronto to make some lucky child a wig of beautiful blonde curly hair.  Michellie had her locks cut off and donated them to Angel Hair for Kids before chemo made it all fall out.  We have started LOCS - Love of Chellie Supporters - events and fundraising to help fight and treat teen Hodgkin's Lymphoma, as well as to help raise funds for the support that those fighting the battle against cancer on the front lines.

20 years ago, the outlook for a teen with Michellie's diagnosis was not as good as now.  Now we can be hopeful, even confident that she will win her battle, but the fight is long and hard.  Maybe 20 years from now, with enough knowledge, we'll be able to say this cancer was beaten.   Maybe we will be able to talk about how treatments have improved so much, and those receiving the treatments do not suffer so much, nor so long, as they do now to fight this battle.

     Whatever the strides are to hope for, they come with support.  We are asking for your support through the LOCS fundraising link we have set up on the Canadian Cancer Society website.  We hope to show Michellie and her family what a difference her fight is making for the future of cancer patients.  Please help us by supporting this kick-off event of Jessica cutting her prized ponytail!  She was willing to go as short as she needed to in order to ensure that she could donate her hair, and make Michellie proud of her.  She set a personal goal for us of $200.  I know we can reach that.

     If you are able, please consider donating $1 per inch of Jessica's donated hair = $10.  You can donate online, and request a tax receipt back.  If you wish to give us your donation directly, we will collect them, and then send them all in and update the fundraising thermometer for those, too!

     Please keep Michellie and her family in your thoughts and prayers.  They are feeling the love and energy from all across Canada, and it is keeping them going. 

     If you have your own idea or event that can be added to LOCS or a challenge we can send out, please let us know!  It is amazing what a determined group of people can accomplish.  Let's show Michellie and family what we can do from L.O.C.S. - Love Of Chellie Supporters!

Jessica & Charlene & Family







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Step 1 - What does short hair look like?




Step 2 - Gulp!



Step 3 - 4 ponytails to get all the 10 inch LOCS



This one's for you Chellie - short is all right!

 

 

 




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Saturday, January 22nd

Friday was a pure rest day for all of us.  Michellie spent most of the day helping her friend Morgan design healing bracelets.  With the strings wrapped around her big toe, she was all grins trying to decide on green/blue/white or should she add purple?  Anyway, Morgan is launching a healing campaign shortly for anyone wanting to wear the bracelet in support of the healing of Michellie's system. 

We also spent the day trying to determine if she should eat fruit, bread, vegetables etc. with her yeast infection. There were so many conflicting reports on what to do.  Our final decision was that if we chose food to be healing food, it would do the trick.  So, we had fresh strawberries and raspberries with real whipping cream flavored with vanilla and stevia for a treat. (Did you know that Stevia is an anti-fungal herb?  Thanks Evelyn Mulders for your herb book of knowledge). And, we followed the fruit with veggies and dip.  For supper we made our first home made pizza from scratch, and Michellie declared it the best pizza she had ever eaten.  She had put ranch dressing as the base and loved it.  So, we finished the night satiated and happy about it.

The night had some challenges with joint pain causing Michellie some problems.  With the wind howling outside, Mom got to crawl into Michellie's cold sheets to do some healing work and diminish the pain.  Mom fell asleep before Michellie and started the snoring (I am sure she was lying about this - only Dad snores).  Michellie was so kindly awoken at 5:30 am when Missy crawled in to share her love with us.  Standing on Michellie's shoulders she spent a few minutes licking Michellie's bald held and purring.  What a sight!  Hunter could not be out done, so he bounded up and joined us to purr at Michellie's feet.  With lots of love to go around, Michellie received the benefits of the Pet Reiki treatment.  (We are so glad to have these cats! Did you know that cats have a positive energy field that they exchange with us when we need negative or lower energy removed from our bodies?  Interesting theory isn't it?!  Sure explains all the love we receive each night.)



Michellie's energy this morning has climbed significantly.  Her room is once again cleaner than ours and she is all dressed up and ready for action.  It is amazing how quickly she can bounce back.  Of course, if she is feeling stronger, then Sam can come for a visit, so the incentive is definitely there.  Oh, the advantage of having youth on her side.  Well Grandma, I think stuffed chicken is in order for tonight - that was always a good feeling recipe for me!



Happy Robbie Burns Day Celebrations!  This was a long time back!



For those people looking for a wonderful reference page, Bev Chen sent me the following website:  http://www.thecancercrusade.com/.  I really enjoyed the layout and the information.  There were some great jokes there too!