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Deborah Meyers Lung Cancer Caregiver Notes

October 22, 2009 - 7:26am 135 reads 1 comments

Following are notes from caregiver Deborah Meyers on her stay with me.

Care Giver notes for Monday October 12 thru Thursday October 15
Deborah Myers

I arrived at the airport this morning as Lisa (sister) was dropped off. Melissa is so happy to be home right now and it shows she looks so pretty and it is great to see her driving. It has been about 2 months since I saw Mel and at that time she was still in the hospital. Today is a fairly good day we stopped for a salad and then went home to the condo for a rest. The nausea is bad today, but at least she still has an appetite which makes her Doctors happy. We watched the dvd’s of her trip to Italy and Japan with Wes, it was so much fun! Then we went for a walk around the block. Melissa inspired me the last time that I was here to go back to Utah and open a dance studio again. I was her dance teacher when she was a young girl in Park City. So with a business partner “Maria Marcotte” we actually worked our tails off to open in September. It has been a lot of fun talking about how to market it with Melissa because she is the expert. The name is Urban Studios & Performing Arts. The studio is dedicated to Melissa.

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Diane Porter

Melissa,

Thank you so much for posting your caregivers' notes as well as your own. I always read them and learn something new. Today I loved reading the details about CTCA, the dance studio and the scholarship Melissa is setting up. Thank you so much. And it's so good to know that Melissa still has friends, family and fans buoying her strength and keeping her spirits high.

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