One short month later .....

Only a short month ago, I was making big plans for wintering in Santa Barbara and Ojai, going to school, promoting my electric bicycle business in that warmer climate, and reconnecting with friends and family in that special place  I love so much.  

HA!   Make God laugh ..... tell her your plans!!!

As it turns out, all my life since I was 14 (when my father died at age 50) I had been writing on medical forms that he died of stomach cancer, which is apparently non-hereditary. While speaking with my step-mother, who I basically have not been around since my father's funeral 40 years ago, she confirmed that -- no, he had actually died of pancreatic cancer.

I feel that this is important to share with all of you because I imagine that many of you were thinking: if "state-of-health/does-everything-right Nancy" can get cancer, we're all toast!  So, as it turns out, I am the "good-luck/bad-luck who knows" recipient of my father's pancreatic cancer gene.  This explains alot.  It is good to know the source of this malady.

Within the last month, my life has taken on the pursuit of many strange, fascinating, and bizarre studies. I've been to the Marin Chapter of the International Association of Near Death Studies and listened to many a story of people who have peered through the veils and come back to tell their experiences of the other side.  I've received a Vedic Astrology reading revealing a probable (but not determinate) sense of when I might be passing to the other side myself.  I've been through a Native American Lowampi healing ceremony. I've been signed up for Hospice and given access to all the palliative care I could possibly want.  I've been poked and prodded, given many a blood sample, and now have a pic-line port in my arm that makes me partially bionic - so that I may get IV's of all sorts.  I am going to be receiving psychic-surgery treatments, hands-on-healing, and more love and support than a girl could possibly hope for in her wildest dreams.

How's that for an interesting month?!

A support team is forming around me, and I often feel the strangest mix of elation and sadness.  People from all segments of my life have been reaching out to me, and I am so grateful for all the love that is being sent my way.

I have much more to share, and will do so soon.   For now, I'm off to play music with friends!