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A series of events this month, including surgery for a bowel blockage and another hospital stay a week later, revealing that my body is...
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Ali
- Jan 26, 2019
- 4 min
Shalom
When George and I were in Marblehead, Massachusetts, getting a second opinion on my diagnosis, we walked along a beach strewn with black...
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Ali
- Dec 7, 2018
- 2 min
Next step begins
Thanks for your patience as many of you have been hoping for updates. Here's the scoop: After surgery, things were progressing very well....
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Ali
- Nov 8, 2018
- 1 min
Post Surgery
Thankyou to all of you who have been patiently waiting for news. I am now home after what the surgeon felt was a very successful...
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Wakil Kurt Simpson
- Nov 7, 2018
- 1 min
Updates ...
For those of us who aren't part of the local community at St. George I wonder if someone might share what they know concerning Ali...
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Michele McMahon
- Nov 5, 2018
- 1 min
No catchy title...
I have a deep, thoughtful love for you, I'm thinking of you just about every time my thoughts are not turned toward work, sometimes I...
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Ali
- Oct 27, 2018
- 1 min
Surgery
Surgery will be early tuesday morning at Anschutz Medical Campus. George and the girls will be with me. I chose this photo for this...
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Ali
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min
Cornfields
We're back in Colorado! Address for mail is C/O Connie Shaw 3505 23rd street, Boulder, 80304. It feels good to be back in our home state,...
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Ali
- Oct 14, 2018
- 1 min
Heading West
Hitting the road tomorrow to head back to Boulder. The Oncologist we wanted will see us on the 24th, perhaps sooner if something opens...
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Ali
- Oct 9, 2018
- 2 min
Which Door?
So many of you have reached out, asking details, where to send things, what my plans are.... We are finalizing decisions about where to...
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Ali
- Oct 4, 2018
- 2 min
Pausing at the ocean
My friend Amy's brother and his wife live in Massachusetts. We are staying in their downstairs apartment by the ocean, while we have...
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rparker
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Dear Ali...
Thank you for reaching out to us as you through this journey. I'm thinking about you, hoping, and praying… Rob
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Linda Williams
- Sep 30, 2018
- 1 min
Thank you
Ali, I appreciate so much your sharing your journey with us. I believe this is our journey as well and you are the one doing the heavy...
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Ali
- Sep 29, 2018
- 2 min
Hitting the Road
After more than a week of no communication, I'm ready to say a few things. Today George and I leave Florida and begin a three day road...
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Ali
- Sep 21, 2018
- 3 min
Life Changes
I'm grateful for so much tangible love and support flowing in from each of you. Makes me smile often. At the end of my second week here,...
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Ali
- Sep 18, 2018
- 2 min
Hope?
Today is the first day I feel like I woke up in my body. From the moment this diagnosis came, I have felt terrified of my body, because...
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Ali
- Sep 16, 2018
- 2 min
Bring Your Live Heart
Amy brought this Rumi poem to my attention this week: Bring a hundred sacks of gold and God will say, "Bring the heart." And if you bring...
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Ali
- Jun 1, 2018
- 2 min
Verbing it
Walking up the mountain path on the west side of town, I had been listening comfortably to words that storied my friends' lives;...
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