Lori's Love Tribe

Thursday, February 19, 2009

As Ari and I walked across the parking lot to my drip appt. on Tuesday, there was familiar music being piped out there. It reminded me of the theme song to the movie The Exorcist. I couldn't remember title. Later that day, with a gallons worth of fluids and drugs all tubed up and dripping in to my body, I commented that it was tubular chaos. Ah yes, Tubular Bells. Beautiful music behind macabre art.

2 comments:

David said...: Hi Lori!!! Janice still can't listen to that song. The movie scared her half to death. Thinking of you all the time.
David; February 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Lori,
just sending you lots of love!
ML and Ted xoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoox; February 19, 2009 at 3:24 PM

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Lori's Journey Through Cancer

Lori was diagnosed with small-cell rectal cancer in July of 2008 at age 50. Upon her diagnosis, she was already in stage 4 (terminal) with metastases on her liver, lungs, and surface of her bones. She died 17 months later on November 22nd, 2009 after putting up a hell of a fight and enduring 4 different types of chemotherapy and intense radiation.

Small-cell cancer grows extremely fast and usually originates in the lungs, not the rectum. Lori's cancer was so rare that no studies on it are being done. To date, only about 100 cases of small-cell colorectal cancer have been reported, with 40% of them having the primary tumor originate in the rectum.

What does this mean? It means that only about 40 people have been reported to have the same type of cancer as Lori. 40!!! Therefore, there isn't any sort of specialized treatment options or research available. This was the most frustrating part of having cancer for Lori. She was ready to do whatever it took to heal and go into remission, but there were no good options for her.

How You Can Help

1. Donate to Lori's Love Tribe Fund:
http://advocacy.fightcrc.org/goto/lovetribe

By donating to Lori's Love Tribe fund, your money will be used by the Colorectal Cancer Coalition to award research grants to people doing cutting edge research on Colorectal Cancer. And hopefully, one day, a brilliant medical researcher will apply for a fund to research SMALL-CELL rectal cancer and the Love Tribe money will help.

2. Donate to the Sunshine Canyon Fire Department:
http://www.sunshine-fpd.org/donations

The Sunshine Canyon community rallied together when Lori needed them the most. The time and energy they devoted to caring for Lori will never be forgotten. They have come out of this experience as heroes to Lori's family. So, by donating to the fire station, you are helping to protect and care for the beautiful people of Sunshine Canyon just as they protected and cared for Lori.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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