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| julia hayes |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 6:11:49 PM
Ok, forgive me for bugging you all about my blog and constantly reminding you to head there but I'm feverishly posting stories about Aria..those early stories. I'm through the really hard tedious part and am now in the hard kinda-sorta fun part. I'm posting stories that show me truly on a launch pad of sorts. I'm observant, introspective, reflective and completely inspired. I've also been posting never seen before pictures of Aria. They are truly amazing!
The story that I would love for you to read "Aria is stuck in NOODLES" so inspired someone very dear to me that I was sent a 5 lb bag of instant organic noodles! I don't know, something about this story hit a nerve. After re-reading it today I laughed and cried remembering it all.
Farmgirls, many of us know the cancer journey. Some of us know it all too personally. Some of us know it only peripherally, but I think we can agree that we can all appreciate what it looks like. The truth is, sometimes it is really really ugly and other times it is over the top beyond the beyond magical. It is also everything in between!
This story for me acts as a reminder that we don't always know where people are coming from, what sets them off, what puts them in a particular mood. I was thinking today about myself in this story and I couldn't help but wonder, "What if I were a mother who had to go to work, even part-time, and deal with this kind of thing on top of that? What kind of person would I be? Would I be short, mildy rude, exasperated and annoyed? Would I be apathetic and flippant?" I don't know...I suppose when I read about me in this story, I realize just how vulnerable and frazzled I was. I realize that I was desperate for tenderness and understanding. I found heaps and heaps of it not only here on the forum but through my writing in general....
Enjoy...I wonder if you'll be able to eat noodles the same again. I know I can't!
~julia
being simple to simply be
Farmgirl #30
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| NudeFoodFarm |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 6:49:29 PM
Julia, what an amazing contrast between the Pre Steroid Aria and the post. Poor sweetie. Both my brother and I are asthmatic and as children we were often hospitalized at the same time (in the same room). The treatment was steroids and I so relate to the hunger, fustration and exhaustion (my brother and I would throw things at each others beds, those poor nurses and my poor mom, they thought it would be easier if we were placed together). I have to say the "noodles' story is one of a kind.
I wanted to mention that I never found a place where we can email you from your blog, which might be handy for someone who doesn't know you (as a farmgirl). Maybe there was one, I just never found it?
Anyhow. Kudo and keep on. It is interesting to read these entries from months ago and to see how playful you are now. May the good times roll, my husband and I are now raisin' our glasses of wine to your entire family.
Clink. . .
Cheers,
h
Nude Food Farm
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| ruralfarmgirl |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 6:48:22 PM
Hi Julia, Love that you remind us..especially me as I get more and more absent minded LOL.... You just ROCK!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
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