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Thursday, July 16, 2009

St. Fiachra

(Yes, post # 3 for today - my 4 typing fingers are gonna wear out!)

I have the good fortune to be surrounded by the prayers and well wishes of several Annes (including Anns and Annas).

St. Anne is the patroness of housewives, women in labor, cabinet-makers, and miners. Well, I'm not a miner or cabinet-maker, and it's been a LONG time since I've been in labor (thank goodness!), but, I've always been a housewife, or homemaker, as I'd rather think of the life-time profession, which is good, as I'd hate to think someone's made a clerical error in granting me this attention!

Yes, I can see it now. Who sent Anne to look after Dawn? You should have sent St. Fiachra as he's supposedly in charge of knitters and gardeners, so he would have been a more appropriate choice.

Now, HOW many Fiachras do you know? That's what I thought. I'd be hoofing it alone!

Today's mail brought a gift from one of the wonderful Annes, and, to balance it out of course!, a note from the insurance company denying payment for the costS (yes, capital S) of my infusaport insertion, way back in October of last year, of all things!

But back to the good that came in the mail (I'm just gonna ignore the insurance letter, as it does give warning at the top: "This is not a bill". It's a good thing I'm not a cardiac patient. Then I'd think they really don't want insureds to live!)

She was concerned I might not have the right calendula cream for my radiation-tinted! skin and so she sent me a tube.



What a kind, thoughtful and perfectly needed gift! I will surely be using every bit of it to ward off fried chicken skin. And the lovely enclosed note card - lilacs and roses.

There aren't any flowers I love more than lilacs and roses! Such serendipity. I live for May's blooming of the lilacs. And always so sad when, 2 weeks later (sooner if it rains a lot), they all go brown.

Many blessings to be thankful for.
Posted by: Dawn Brocco / 7/16/2009 04:51:00 PM
Comments:
I CANNOT BELIEVE they denied payment for your port! Heartless barbarians! I don't know how anyone could do chemo without it.

So glad you got the cream quickly.
Anne
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:28 PM
 
Hi Anne,
I read the papers more slowly, and they're not gonna bill us for the port insertion. (as it was a covered procedure etc) Whew! It seems the hospital waited too long to bill the insurance company and so they may be out the $.

And I was wondering why I was receiving the various co-pay bills for the insertion just recently! Seems someone in billing mucked up.

Thanks again for the cream!!
# posted by Blogger Dawn Brocco : 9:40 AM
 
Whew! Glad that seems to be resolved.
Anne
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 10:45 AM
 
St Anne or Hannah, Jesus' grandmother is the patron saint of weavers and housekeepers. Her Saints Day is the 26th of July coming up here soon. In Spanish knitting is" tejiendo con agujas", weaving with needles, and weaving is "tejiendo en telar", weaving on a loom....They sure don't want the uninsured and uninsurable to live, but somehow we manage any way...I wrote you a long email months ago telling you how important it is that you chronicle these cancer treatments. It got swallowed up somehow. I read you all the time and it gives me the guts to keep on with my debilitating treatments-uninsured - for Lyme Disease. It's so important what you do on line, as it were. We got to keep on keeping on. And have a little fun: I revived my indigo dye pot. Forgotten how to do it but things are turning blue here. Thanks so much.
# posted by Anonymous Anna McCarthy : 3:59 PM
 
I forgot to say I used to have a long article on the use of melatonin in cancer treatment. I don't recall there being any lymphomas, just the more usual bowel and breast and prostate, but it was used alone for untreatable cancers (stage four) with quite a bit of success (what ever that means). These were huge doses of melatonin, like 50 milligrams. It's theoretically possible that I could unearth that article, but unlikely.
# posted by Anonymous Anna McCarthy : 4:11 PM
 
Hi Anna,
Thank you for reading my blog! And I'm glad it is helping you deal with the Lyme. Yes, we have to keep on!

And good for you for starting up your indigo pot again. I loved dyeing yarns indigo and watching them come out of the pot that limey yellow/green and turn blue before my eyes!

Don't worry about the article - I'll google and see if I can find it, though I think this radiation *should* do it for me.

They're using IMRT - high doses but very focused. Always reminds me of the IRT subway line in the city, which I rode every day!
# posted by Blogger Dawn Brocco : 10:24 AM
 
Oh dear, I didn't mean to imply that you were stage IV but that those of us who have had cancer might like to skip another round of it and melatonin looks very promising for that. I asked Joanna Macy if she was hopeful and she said "It depends on whether I've had a good night's sleep". Amen to that. You might read Donald Yance's Herbal Medicine Healing and Cancer. It's 10 years old but very interesting. Cancer treatments have changed but not herbs...Got to stir that dye pot, I think.
# posted by Anonymous Anna McCarthy : 4:00 PM
 
I knew you didn't mean that Anna! I was stage 3B, close enough to 4!

Thanks for book suggestion!
# posted by Blogger Dawn Brocco : 10:09 PM
 
Dawn,
Thank you for the St Fiacre link. You have a beautiful blog.
Best,
Linda
# posted by Blogger katknit : 1:02 PM
 
Thank you Linda, for your kind words!
# posted by Blogger Dawn Brocco : 4:13 PM
 
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