Just before David and I run out the door to start driving to Central Massachusetts, I thought I would wrap up the week. Only three more days of radiation upon return! David successfully returned to New York last night (Thursday) after a eight-and-a-half hour drive due to construction on the highways. Poor guy was practically comatose and needed sleep so I went out alone to meet my dear friends for dinner at an Indian restaurant in the East Village (fish stew amazing). It was a dinner celebrating Robert before he leave for Cairo (this weekend!), his partner Patrick who is staying behind a couple of months before joining him in Egypt, and my friends Theresa (college roomate, soul sister, etc.) and her partner Tim -- both amazing artists -- who came to NYC for the weekend to see me and say goodbye to Robert and see their friends Suchi and Greg, who I also met last night. I include a few photos of the evening -- me between Theresa and Tim, Robert and Patrick together and -- SINCE ZLATNA POINTED IT OUT -- a photo of me between Robert and Tim proving that I indeed still have more hair than many guys! ACTUALLY, today I really feel like a cat shedding. The hair is definitely falling out -- it is like the roots have just let go and it isn't attached to my head anymore! But I think it will be a gradual weekend shedding process. My scalp also is itching, which I take as a sign of fall out!
I also included two photos, which I feel many people who know me will appreciate. Okay -- the first one is the manicure I got yesterday. But that just leads to the story. Right around the corner, there is a NAIL salon. Very unassuming. A sign sticks out of an upstairs window reading "Nails by Viorica." You have to ring a buzzer to get in and go up some pink stairs. I first discovered this with my friend Evie about six months ago. But now that I am here I am going back. Unlike most in-out nail salons in New York, this place is staffed by four women and there are never too many customers -- it is quiet, they play classical music and pamper you. Who are the women? Two Uzbek Jews and two Columbians. It is fantastic! I can speak Spanish to the Columbians and dabble in Russian with the Uzbeks. They behave like a little family and worry about me. SO -- yesterday, as I was getting my manicure, Lyuba... (to be continued)
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Och och poor (cousin) David (kom op, man!!)
liked the manicure-story!
mara, I really think you should make this blogthing into a book or something...
Sorry, but I mean you do can write...
(33##@@!!%^&&***!!!) about your hair...(I lost mine once, when I had dengue fever) (so I know how one can feel..)(h o r r i b l e)
but, with your skull bone structure and your eyes...Mara: you can do this . Power!!!!!
In the meantime: enjoy your weekend (ach, how sad: in a porche..)( I used to drive a duck-van..now Hyundai as our village does..)So: happy weekend !!!!
love, Ems
porSche ??
dsorry David
Ems
Dear Mara,
Many greetings from Ireland were i'm on holliday. What a shock it was to hear about your braintumor. I just read your last blog and hope very much that the bad cells will be destroyed as effectively as possible. I really admire your open and almost matter of fact approach in this very difficlult time. Good that dear David is there for moral support. I wish you all the hope and luck in the world, much love, Jaap Mees
I give up----where are the pictures? As you can tell I read the blog everyday and am so happy you feel you are able to share this experience. I feel so fortunate that I am getting to know you. What a wonderful person you are as evidenced by all the love coming to you from your fiends. Sending love, Liz
I can't believe I wrote fiends----Obviously I meant friends :)
hi mara,
i'm a friend of joanne brody's and i am a volunteer at sloan-kettering and i would love to meet you! great blog, btw ... you sound as wonderful and high-spirited as my dear friend Jo!
i'm usually there on tuesdays and thursdays and if you're not up to it, no worries. but if you are, pls let me know ...
i work in the patients' library (great place) in the recreation dept. on the 14th fl. of the main bldg. just visit (and/or ask for Greg, my boss and friend and GREAT guy who's been working there for years) or call me at 917.854.7165 or email me at leahrh@gmail.com
would love to meet you!
but more importantly, keep up the good spirits and feel good!
take care,
leah (hyman)
Hi Mara, just wanted to send some good vibes your way...i'm thinking of you as always and continue to follow your blog religiously! you amaze and inspire me everyday. can you believe little flo!?!?!?! another amazement.
Keep loving life (and by the way, i'm still annoyed at that silly doctor from the other day). i'm glad you and david are back together! I love you. Julie
Hey!!
It's Sundaynight (here, that is)
No blog yet ??? Are you stuffing yourself with something gorgeous...? Lunch ? Dinner? Outings-with-the Porsche ? French fries ?
Nou nou nou
Hopefully we'll get some p i c t u r e s tomorrow...
A good site about heads: www.mooihoofd.nl ("beautiful head"") a good initative by Dutch women..
Blog you! Love, Ems
Logging on from Tbilisi dear to send you good energy from the Caucasus. Our ST/Health workshop formally starts tomorrow morning and who knows how many of us are up right now with that ole jetlag. Like others who've logged on here, I'm hanging on every blog entry, so stop all the joyriding in the porsche and get back to posting!! Your fan base needs you!!!!
Love, Lmck
Mara,
Love the blog, it is SO you.
OK, here's the list of songs. Note that I polled a panel of six experts using a pre-tested survey instrument, but the Arrow pointed to transitive preferences and thus there is no solution.
* Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting, Elton John
* Tom Traubert’s Blues, Tom Waits
* Bad Brain, Ramones (attached to separate email)
* Hunters’ theme, Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev
* Under My Thumb, Rolling Stones
* Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky
I'm also sending by separate email a scan of a drawing that my daughter Katherine made for me during some bad times this summer, I would put it on the document stand on my desk every morning to cheer me up, so I hope it works for you, too.
Take care, we're all sending good thoughts to you from Bawlmer,
Andrew/Donna/Ted/Katherine
Dear mara,
Ems, my grand niece, told me to look at your blog and so I did and I was very much impressed. You must be a very courageous person! I am the daughter of Lieske Havelaar and I think that your friend David can tell you all about that branch of the family. (I met David shortly in september at the funeral of my cousin Peter, his uncle).
In my opinion you are a very brave fighter, enjoying life as much as is possible right now.
I admire you for that and although we never met I feel the urge to write to you, telling you that I think a lot about you and what you are going through. I wish you all the strength of the world to go on fighting, to go on living and to be your beautiful self!
With much love,
Machteld van Woerden (from Holland)
Mara, you wonderful sister. Where are you? We miss you. I thought I would try to leave the blogging to others but felt the need to tell you I love you and need to see those pictures that you forgot to upload. Come back to your computer.
Mara - you know that you are going to have to run this blog forever don't you or we will all get withdrawal symptoms! Hope the weekend was great. Hugs and hugs and more hugs.
Hi Mara, Hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend! We just want to wish you good luck for the last three radiations! I wonder what you say about my English mails because you're only used to get German ones from us. Hugs, Gadi and Lilly
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