Yoga Now

What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

The blogging community, once again has amazed me. Just when I think the entire Internet has lost it’s mind over scandal you come along with support…OVERWHELMING support and wow me…AGAIN.

I’ve always wanted to take yoga but I never took the time to do it. There was always studying to do for school or a conflicting class schedule or the kid’s karate schedule or SOMETHING. Excuse after excuse.

Now more than ever is the time to do the things that are good for my body, mind and spirit. Now more than ever is time for me to do the things I’ve been putting off.

First you helped me do the biggest thing on that list and that was to take Cam and Teenie to Disney World. I just started making the scrapbook from our trip so that they will always have a book of full of memories to remind them of the best vacation, the best time and all the love we shared during that trip.

That trip changed our family and brought us closer together. The relationships between us became stronger as a result of spending seven days…24 hours each of those seven days…together. We came home and still LIKED each other. If it were not for you I would never have had that time with my family.

Then there have been the past 24 hours…

I love making bracelets. Especially awareness bracelets. I try to make them as pretty and as simple as I can so that they can be worn every day. I also don’t make anything I wouldn’t wear. There have been plenty of times I’ve made a bracelet and thought, “ewwww, I wouldn’t let and old lady wear that!”. O.K. so they don’t come out that bad but I’ve been known to rip bracelets apart and start over again.

So, yesterday I put some bracelets up for sale and there is just one left. I even took some extra orders because I’m accommodating like that. Some of you were very, very generous and donated money because you either don’t wear jewelry or because you could.

To be honest, I didn’t think more than one bracelet would sell.

Because of you I can take yoga for 12 weeks, pay for 5 rounds of chemotherapy co-payments and 3 months of medication co-payments.

I’m not sure if you can possibly understand the magnitude of all of that. That’s life, I mean LIFE SAVING for me. So essentially if you purchased a bracelet, an anklet or if you made a donation you helped save my life.

That’s totally not what I expected to happen.

Once again I find myself in a position where I’m not sure how to thank you. I can’t bake a cake but I can keep kicking cancer’s ass and keep fighting.

Now, if I could only ENROLL in the yoga class. I’ve left THREE messages today and no one has returned my calls. I was hoping to start tonight, because I’m impatient like that. It’s just that I’ve waited so long to do this, like years, that I really don’t want to wait any longer.

If I wanted to go skydiving, would you help me out with that? JUST KIDDING!!!

Do you have things that you’ve been wanting to do? If you had a year left to live what are some of the things you would do. Not obligations…but things in life that you’ve put off either because you haven’t had the time or you haven’t had the money.

If time and money were not an issue but time was what would you do? How can you make that happen if time and money are and issue because you never know what’s going to happen tomorrow.

I know I never expected to hear, “Lisa, I’m so sorry, I’m so very sorry but you have cancer again,” but I can tell you that every since March 31, 2008 I have lived each and every day differently. Today I don’t put off what I can do tomorrow because I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Neither do you.