Sandy Beardsley
Living with a Brain Tumor
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06/01/06
Children and Love…
Filed under: General
Posted by: Dan @ 10:12 am

and Hope… Faith… Courage… Strength…

Tuesday, the day after the great hike, Sandy and I drove the 35 miles to Orondo School where she teaches. It was a surprise visit and her coworkers and the kids were as thrilled to see her as she was to see them. She works with some incredibly loving and supportive folks. [ Thank you for the gift certificate to Jan’s Hanging Gardens Shop. We’ve already used it to buy a couple of huge, wonderful hanging flower baskets for the garden patio. And thanks for the “Birdsley Inn” birdhouse - it will soon be a home to a swallow family. And thank you again for the generous donation to the Brain Tumor Fund bank account. ]

And of course it was wonderful to see the kids again and watch their excited reactions when they spotted Sandy. She got so many hugs from these great children - they almost lifted her off the ground at times in big group hugs. We were both in tears - joy mainly - it was so touching to see this huge outpouring of love they all have for Sandy. What a gift. A funny moment… Sandy was showing some of the kids the staples and shaved area on the back of her head, explaining that her hair will grow back soon. One little girl looked at me and back to Sandy… “Will your husband’s hair grow back too?”

And we also learned how truly loving and caring these kids are. They have been selling wristbands - with individual words on unique colors - Dream, Strength, Courage, Love, Hope and Faith. All the money they are raising is going to Sandy - a wonderful act of kindness. It’s amazing seeing all these multi-colored wristbands on the kids…

Orondo kids and staff, you’re the greatest!

On our way home we stopped by my office at the Forest Service to see some folks I work with and haven’t seen in a month. Thanks again to my coworkers for the great banner and all the gifts and all the support. I’m blessed to work with such wonderful folks as well.

Last night we had a delicious dinner with Bill and Sue at their beautiful home way up Icicle Canyon… more healing energy to be in the mountains with friends.

Later today, a big event - Sandy will have the 22 staples taken out of her head incision. And we’ll meet with her local oncologist to go over the next round of chemo drugs, which will start soon.

The Gnome is sporting a new LiveStrong hat band…

And he’s looking forward to seeing you in the Garden of Friendship.

Dan

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