Striding to save lives...

Hello Community

I wanted to forward an email from a friend of mine who is doing a cross country ski marathon for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training.

I was asked to be an Honoree for their Team along with some other people.

If you feel called to support her in raising money for Research for Blood Cancers please read on.....

Have an amazing weekend and don’t let the end of year and Holiday Madness take you away from that peaceful place inside of yourselves.

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Dear Friends and Family –

For the third year in a row, I’m training to ski in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training. Once again, I am training to cross-country ski 25km (about 15 miles) in The Tour of Anchorage.

This year, I am dedicating my season to two amazing friends who were diagnosed with forms of blood cancer since the 2006 Tour of Anchorage: Victoria is bravely and gracefully battling acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in San Francisco, while one of my oldest and dearest friends, Barbara, is tackling B-cell lymphoma with humor and confidence in West Virginia.

Both of these women are on their way to beating these ugly diseases. I love them both. It is because of them that I am compelled to brush off my skis, get up at 4:00am every other Saturday during ski season, hit the snow again, and ask for your support.

I need to raise a minimum of $4,200 in order to participate, but my personal goal is to raise at least $8,000. I know I can do it because, with the generosity of my supporters, I raised $7,000 last year and the year before.

The Tour of Anchorage (http://www.tourofanchorage.com) takes place March 4, 2007. I will have turned 54 by then. If you can make a donation of $54, one for each year of my life, that would be fabulous. Of course, a donation of any size is greatly appreciated.

To make a donation online and for more information, please visit my web page:

http://www.active.com/donate/tntgsf/Peggy07

If you're not comfortable making a donation online, please make a check out to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and mail it to me:

Peggy Simon
550 Shannon Way - #6110
Redwood City, CA 94065

If you know anyone else who would like to support me in this effort, please feel free to spread the word.

If you'd like to learn more about this year's team and what we’re up to (trainings, photos, people), check out the public areas of our team web site:

http://abxcski07.tntteam.com/perlcode/index.cgi

Thank you SO much for your support!

All the best,
Peggy
Peggy Simon, CPCC
Argus Coaching
www.arguscoaching.com
650-551-0454

Tick Toc...

Hello All

Time is such a funny thing. I can hardly remember how long I have been out of the hospital and how much longer I am on house arrest. I think I haven’t even been out for a month and I guess that means another month or 2 for house arrest.

There’s lots of coughing and sneezing people out there shopping like mad....so I feel safe and cozy here.

It is certainly a practice to find contentment with doing nothing AND not being able to do what I might want to do. So I am finding the lessons in this phase of my healing.

As I feel stronger I want to do more. I have been doing more laps around my neighborhood and am moving around my house more and finding more energy to cook and take care of myself. I even do a little yoga.

My parents are an overflowing Spring of love, help and support. And Noah jumps in when he is not working. I am learning how to let go of my need to control but it can be challenging at times. I’m figuring out how to find privacy in a house full of 4 adults and 2 kitties.

I got permission to go to David and Mark's house (my brother and his partner) for Christmas Day. So this is good and it will be nice to be in their home. This weekend Noah and I drove to Half Moon Bay, about 30 minutes south of here and sat in the car and watched a storm crash around us. WOW!!

From the inside out my body is growing and taking form. The donors cells are still finding their way around and setting up shop making a home in my body, integrating with the other parts of myself. It is a miracle and it is happening inside of me. What a strange and wonderful thing to have a part of someone else in me fighting to save my life.

My prayers have been deep and strong and my spiritual practice has really been called to action. I’m learning to love myself with out hair and the sense that my body is not the same anymore. I’m learning where my beauty really comes from. I’m learning more and more the importance of family and love and dedication and respect and patience and always Faith.

I hope that your holiday preparations how ever you celebrate are filled with Love and ease and Peace, After all it is all about the LOVE

Sweet Dreams

Namaste
Victoria

Finding Flow...

Hello Sweet Community!!!

I had a huge email typed out to send out. In the middle of the email Bridget called from the clinic to tell me that they got my results back from the Biopsy.

I am in REMISSION!!!!!

Yippie. This is the first time in 7 months, even after that hard round of chemo I wasn’t in remission. My chromosomes are all where they should be. And if I have anything to do with it that is how they are going stay.

Of course I am still on house arrest and happy to be there away from the holiday mall craziness and the flu season. I am committed to continue to do my part to continue to heal my body in everyway. I will continue to get Bone Marrow biopsies every 3 months for a year and then once a year for the next 5 years. Generally staying in remission for 5 years is a sign of the Cancer not coming back. So today we crossed a huge threshold.

The power of prayer and intention is strong strong in my heart. I KNOW the power of prayer and faith and have never doubted it.

I feel sooo grateful and so blessed for all that has been given me and my family during these times. I am already grateful for all the love and support that is coming in the future.
It is all about the Love and I so feel love in the deepest deepest way

Thank you Thank you Thank you to all of you and all you have given in so many ways.

Namaste
Victoria