Comments on: Lucky’s Rules http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/ A first-hand look at the good, the bad, and the ugly about pancreatic cancer. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: lisa http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-441 lisa Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:05:16 +0000 http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-441 Wow Lucky - what a 'ribbetting' post. Really good stuff. You have been soo good to Kate. Do you have a brother or a sister who could give me some support :) How about a friend or cousin??? Anyway,,,, you hit all the nails on the head. Although, I look forward to reading more about "Lucky's Rules." Tell Kate hi and that I hope she turns a corner soon from her treatment. Wow Lucky - what a ‘ribbetting’ post. Really good stuff. You have been soo good to Kate. Do you have a brother or a sister who could give me some support :) How about a friend or cousin???

Anyway,,,, you hit all the nails on the head. Although, I look forward to reading more about “Lucky’s Rules.”

Tell Kate hi and that I hope she turns a corner soon from her treatment.

]]> By: Susan Reynolds http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-440 Susan Reynolds Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:32:02 +0000 http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-440 Kate I'm stealing rule #5 and slapping it up on my wall - or website - or tumbler account or someplace because darned if that frog isnt the smartypants of the day to make it up. I mean it's so darned true. OK - all true but especially that one does it for me right now. Keep on keeping on. Kate I’m stealing rule #5 and slapping it up on my wall - or website - or tumbler account or someplace because darned if that frog isnt the smartypants of the day to make it up. I mean it’s so darned true.

OK - all true but especially that one does it for me right now. Keep on keeping on.

]]> By: Your Favorite Coworker http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-439 Your Favorite Coworker Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:59:30 +0000 http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-439 Hey Lucky - Did you know that Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer? Hey Lucky -

Did you know that Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer?

]]> By: Katie Karosich http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-438 Katie Karosich Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:18:28 +0000 http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-438 What I have learned after my mothers cancer diagnosis is that even if she doesn't ask for it, she needs a lot of help and so does my Dad. Here's how my friends and family have helped. My best friend makes cookies once a week and drops them on the door step before she goes to work. My Mom hates cookies but my Dad is a, "cookie monster". My Mom has always had her house stocked with fresh flowers. People send fresh flowers often and that makes a difference in her mood. She gets a couple of get well cards a day often from people who write once a week. If you write a card once it doesn't mean you shouldn't keep writing. Stop by, if she can't see you, well tell you. When you are there, clean up after yourself. Clean up whatever you can. Take out the trash, wash a car, put gas in a car. Pick up groceries... well pay you back. Walk the dog. Watch TV together. My Mom loves to hear what is going on in your life and doesn't often want to talk much. Thats ok, keep it light and happy. Water the plant's. Clean the fish tank. Bring by dinner, lunch, breakfast. (not enough to feed an army...then we just have to throw it out) The green man is right...there is always something you can do to help. I cannot tell you how annoying it is when people say to me, let me know if I can help. Figure it out. We have to. (sorry if I'm being a brat, it's just a sensitive subject) What I have learned after my mothers cancer diagnosis is that even if she doesn’t ask for it, she needs a lot of help and so does my Dad. Here’s how my friends and family have helped. My best friend makes cookies once a week and drops them on the door step before she goes to work. My Mom hates cookies but my Dad is a, “cookie monster”. My Mom has always had her house stocked with fresh flowers. People send fresh flowers often and that makes a difference in her mood. She gets a couple of get well cards a day often from people who write once a week. If you write a card once it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep writing. Stop by, if she can’t see you, well tell you. When you are there, clean up after yourself. Clean up whatever you can. Take out the trash, wash a car, put gas in a car. Pick up groceries… well pay you back. Walk the dog. Watch TV together. My Mom loves to hear what is going on in your life and doesn’t often want to talk much. Thats ok, keep it light and happy. Water the plant’s. Clean the fish tank. Bring by dinner, lunch, breakfast. (not enough to feed an army…then we just have to throw it out) The green man is right…there is always something you can do to help. I cannot tell you how annoying it is when people say to me, let me know if I can help. Figure it out. We have to. (sorry if I’m being a brat, it’s just a sensitive subject)

]]> By: Your Favorite Coworker http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-437 Your Favorite Coworker Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:01:06 +0000 http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-437 I can so very well relate to what Beth just said. When my daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, my father in law said that we had allowed her to eat too many sweets, thereby indicating that we had caused it. As for your advice to others, Lucky, good job! I refuse to be hush hush about the word or subject of cancer, but then, by now, you know I'm a bit bold anyway. Hopefully, when I spend time with Kate, that's not all I talk or ask about. As for just helping, I guess I'll just have to get Kate's address and rudely show up unannounced with a mop and a rake and a broom (or even my snowblower if it snows)! I can so very well relate to what Beth just said. When my daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, my father in law said that we had allowed her to eat too many sweets, thereby indicating that we had caused it. As for your advice to others, Lucky, good job! I refuse to be hush hush about the word or subject of cancer, but then, by now, you know I’m a bit bold anyway. Hopefully, when I spend time with Kate, that’s not all I talk or ask about. As for just helping, I guess I’ll just have to get Kate’s address and rudely show up unannounced with a mop and a rake and a broom (or even my snowblower if it snows)!

]]> By: Beth (Splashgirl) http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-436 Beth (Splashgirl) Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:51:17 +0000 http://www.katethaxton.com/survivingpc/2008/03/04/luckys-rules/#comment-436 If you have a friend diagnosed w/ cancer, don’t all of a sudden become a guru on health. We ate all of those foods that are supposed to prevent cancer. Oops, didn’t work, we still got cancer. Don’t try to fix us now. You can’t. You keep all that broccoli to yourself. After a cancer diagnosis, a good friend puts a beer in your one hand & a cigarette in the other and tells you, “We’ll figure it out together.” In other words, my lifestyle did not cause my cancer; don’t make a person think they did something wrong in the past that all of a sudden can be fixed with blueberries and broccoli. :-) If you have a friend diagnosed w/ cancer, don’t all of a sudden become a guru on health. We ate all of those foods that are supposed to prevent cancer. Oops, didn’t work, we still got cancer. Don’t try to fix us now. You can’t. You keep all that broccoli to yourself. After a cancer diagnosis, a good friend puts a beer in your one hand & a cigarette in the other and tells you, “We’ll figure it out together.”
In other words, my lifestyle did not cause my cancer; don’t make a person think they did something wrong in the past that all of a sudden can be fixed with blueberries and broccoli. :-)

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