2017 Review

 Okay - this is a lie. I actually cannot review 2017. At all.
There is just too much there that I don't want to think about.
Too much happened. Too many dark places to go. Or not go.

So instead I am going to focus on something that came to me the
other day as I sat in the infusion chair getting platelets.
(Update on my platelet issue - the prednisone is not doing what it is
supposed to. That's actually okay. It means two things - one is that I
will be receiving a different, hopefully successful treatment in two weeks.
The second thing is that I will then be weaned off the pred. Hooray!)

What I realized is that the real heroes of this past year have been all of you out there
that have done so many random acts of kindness for others.

Anyone of you who has donated blood, platelets, swabbed a cheek for
the bone marrow bank - thank you! Not only have you kept me alive and
going, but you have helped so many other people out there. And what
I think is most amazing is that most of you did this without knowing who it
would help. Or in what circumstances. It was giving of some of your own
life sources to help someone else in need. That is an amazing thing. The fact
that today's science can do that is also an amazing thing.

2017 has really beaten me to the ground. I am too nervous, anxious, scared, frightened,
etc to have any resolutions for 2018. I do know that I have a bar mitzvah to plan. I
intend to be there and have a great time. 

 But the bottom line is, I could never have survived 2017 without every single one of you -
whether you just read this blog, or gave me a hug, or a phone call, or an email, or just prayed for me. If you donated blood or platelets or your bone marrow. I am here because of you.

You are all my heroes.