This will be the place for my update on my beautiful wife’s progress. A little background.

In the fall of 2012, we moved from Hilton Head Island, where we had lived for 30 years, to “really rural Ridgeland” South Carolina on the banks of Boyd Creek, a tidal estuary off the Broad River. We had friends here and made more wonderful friends when we arrved. That keeps happening.

Through self examination, Nora noticed something wasn’t right in the fall and contacted her primary care provider, Stephanie. Nora went in for a check up and Stephanie immediately began to set up a team of doctors, headed by Dr. Virginia Herrmann, who specializes in breast cancer and teaches breast surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston.

Nora has been diagnosed with “triple negative” cancer, usually found in younger women (as I’ve always thought of Nora). Bottom line, it’s more agressive and needs special chemotharapy, a (double) mastectomy and radiation therapy. This will be a long process.

As you probably know, Nora is a stubborn, aggressive, onery, “take no prisoners” sort of person when it comes to someone or something she can’t abide. She cannot abide cancer.

Nora is also a very private person and while phone calls and emails and texts will be greatly appreciated, her focus will be on fighting this stuff. Which is why I created this blog. I ENCOURAGE YOU to join the blog, leave Nora notes, pictures, whatever. Come visit as often as you’d like. Even more often. Tell your friends, her friends, heck strangers, about the courageous young lady. We’ve been together 30 some years and I still find her (see above, i.e. “stubborn …”) an amazing person.

I’ll post updates as they happen. Show your love by joining the blog. Everyone loves Nora (well, I’ve identified 3 really low lifes who don’t, but they are being taken care of as we speak … they are being escorted to the Sabarmati Ashram (Gandhi) where they will have to give the peace sign every 10 minutes (for those who support Nora) followed by that other sign (somehting to do with “the bird”) to show their hatred of breast cancer. They will be at Sabarmati for 8 months.

This is where you can talk to Nora. Please let us hear from you!

Paul