Thursday, December 20, 2007

UPDATE

Just wanted to let my friends know that a setback landed me back in the hospital on Monday night, and left me staring up at those huge lights the OR again on Tuesday morning. I didn't want to bring my laptop to the hospital, fearing it might be lost, unfinished masterpieces and all, but mad boredom (and excesive TV watching) made me change my policy.

Many thanks and much love to everyone who has sent good wishes, cards, prayers, and gifts. I hope to be home and up to writing more on Saturday afternoon.

BLISS to all as you celebrate the holidays!

52 comments:

Anonymous said...

More bliss back to you, dear. You are proving to be the mightiest person I know.

Peace and healing.

xoxo
Tish

MB said...

Patry, much love and strength to you.

marja-leena said...

Bliss, forbearance, get well wishes and love to you, Patry!

Zhoen said...

The only way to see those lights, is to be the one responsible for turning them on. Heal well. As best you can.

Deirdre said...

So sorry to hear this. I hope you're feeling a little better now. If boredom is setting in I call that a good sign. xoxo

Olivia said...

Positive energy and healing love sent your way, Love, Olivia

Tinker said...

Patry, wishing you heaping bushel baskets full of bliss, healing and love!!!~xOx

Lisa said...

Feel better. Much love from Denver.
xo

Marilyn said...

Patry, thinking of you and holding good thoughts for you. Hurry home! Much love, Marilyn

Maryanne Stahl said...

namaste, patry.
happy solstice.
bliss.
love.
peace.

elsie said...

Thinking fiercely good thoughts for you - feel better.

Crockhead said...

Sorry, Patry. Keep fighting. Your friends are cheering you on.

Sky said...

i was afraid of hearing this news after what you'd said, but i am so glad to hear that you will be back home in time for christmas. love to you and ted. guard that laptop! x0x

Fred Garber said...

Patry...I am praying for you! Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Katherine said...

sweet patry . . . sending you love and smooches and well wishes and all sorts of wildly amazing good energies across the net from someone you've never met but who celebrates your radiance as i were basking in it, then shining a mirror so that your loveliness beams its goodness right back to you . . . yes :)

rdl said...

OMG P., i can't believe i'm just finding out about this, thank goodness for the blog. A-law told me actually. I'm glad you're doing better already! I'll talk to you soon.
Love,
R

Gary Boyd said...

Patry...You reached out to all of our lives with your writing. More than any other person I read, I have been obliged to read your posts out loud to my wife...even when my voice was being blasted with radiation itself.

If the love I see pouring in can't help to lift you up, then something is wrong with this world...Peace, healing and yes...much bliss. The world has too few voices that can make me cry...

Anonymous said...

Much love and light to you, Patry! We are all thinking about you, and we are with you.

Glad that you have your laptop with you! That seems just about right. :)

Anonymous said...

Patry, my thoughts are with you. It was a shock to come back to see if you were here posting again only to find you in difficult times. Blessings and Peace.

Lynne Griffin and Amy MacKinnon said...

Thinking of you often and wishing you even more strength. May the holidays bring many sweet moments as fuel in healing.

Hannah

Sustenance Scout said...

Ditto on all of the above, Patry! Thinking of you as I shovel today, and remembering how much you liked the photo of my front door with its snow-dusted wreath and Santa on guard last year. Please let us know when you're back home again! Love, K.

steve on the slow train said...

Patry, You don't deserve this. Keep fighting, and remember all of us who love and admire you. And Ted, bless him, has our thoughts and prayers as well.

Steve

Larramie said...

Be well, be home and believe in the magical spirit of Christmas, Patry!

Anonymous said...

Oh, Patry, I'm so glad to hear from you, but so sorry you suffered a setback.

Big, hopeful thoughts and squashy hugs to you and Ted.

xoxo

Sharon Hurlbut said...

Patry, you are in my thoughts. Love, strength, and joy to you.

Becca said...

Oh, Patry, I'm sorry to hear this - be strong, and get well! You will be in my thoughts and prayers this holiday :)

Jessie said...

i'm sending you love and healing thoughts. keep writing. it's good for you. ;)

happy holidays and peace to you,
j.

Jean said...

Much love to you Patry. I'm off to a Buddhist retreat over the Christmas season and you will be much in my thoughts, over here in the green and frosty countryside of South-West England, both on my meditation cushion and off it.

Patry Francis said...

Thanks for all the wonderful comments. Gary expressed my feelings best: if all the love expressed here can't lift me up, then something's wrong with this world. But it has, it has...and more than you know.

December 22 and I'm still in the hospital. Hoping to make it home for Christmas eve...

Left-handed Trees... said...

I am thinking of you *often* and wishing you well. Love and light to you, Patry.
Love,
D.

robin andrea said...

I've been wondering how you are, and my RSS feed didn't show the updated post until this morning. I hope you are recovering and will be home by Christmas Eve. I'm sending all the best healing thought and wishes your way, Patry. Love flies a thousand miles, my heart to yours.

paris parfait said...

Oh Patry - wishing you strength. You are in my thoughts and prayers. xo

Anonymous said...

Get well soon! My Fred and I are thinking of you!!!

Love,

Laura

Judy Merrill Larsen said...

Oh, Patry, sending Christmas hope and love and miracles your way. Wish I could bring you some soup, too!

Judy

floots said...

i've been away and just checked inkoaj
sorry to hear of your setback
but delighted to know that you're ok again now
best wishes

Lynne Griffin and Amy MacKinnon said...

Oh, Patry, I wish for you patience and knowledgable doctors, a formidable immune system and extended moments of comfort, great hair days and the most delicious cup of tea you've yet tasted. I pray most of all for good health to find you again -- very soon. And I wish you bliss.

xo,
Amy MacKinnon

deb said...

One more sender of good vibes, I'm seconding the emotion of all before me ... grateful for who you are/what you share, and the impact you have. Sending love, lifting you up ... (and kicking cancer's nasty ass). xo Deb.

LitPark said...

Right here with you, Patry. xoxo

Therese Fowler said...

Wishing you bliss, love, and steady healing from here on out.

xox Therese

Patry Francis said...

All your good thoughts, prayers and vibes must be working. It's December 23rd and I'm HOME!

Anonymous said...

I finally get a chance to catch up on friends' blogs and am shocked to see all you've been going through!

But, I'm so glad to hear you're home for the holidays!

Sending cyber hugs your way!

Judy Merrill Larsen said...

What wonderful news. Home sweet home, I know.

Larramie said...

Patry, your homecoming is wonderful news for us all. Now it's time for that cup of bliss. Cheers and hugs to you!

Sustenance Scout said...

Welcome home, Patry!! :) Thanks for the wonderful news! K.

Lisa said...

So glad you're home. A very Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
xo

Nick said...

Sincere wishes to you & yours for the holiday season!

Anonymous said...

Happies and warms to you this holiday season.

RobinSlick said...

Oh, whew. I've been so hoping you'd be home in time for the holidays and well, just hoping in general.

Here's to a happy and healthy holiday, Patry and family. With so much love and positive energy coming to you from all over the world, I hope tonight finds you blissed out to the max. I know just reading your most recent update made me feel that way.

xo

Robin said...

Patry,

Sorry, but you being sick at the time when I need you as a mentor is not acceptable. You'll have to cancel this illness and get back to our regularly scheduled camaraderie and inherent fraternization. Sorry for the hassle.

xo,

Robin

Tinker said...

I'm so glad you made it home, Patry - wishing you a blessed and blissed, very merry Christmas~((hugs))

Anonymous said...

Patry, I only discovered your blog in mid-December. So sorry to learn you have been back in hospital since then, but glad you were able to be home in time for Christmas. My thoughts are with you.

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