Celebrating life while carrying burden of treatment...

Elizabeth says that when her father was told by the doctor of her diagnosis with Leukemia, "he was hysterical." But she told her father that they would set a date one year out to celebrate her surviving cancer that long.


click the arrow at the bottom of the video to hear her gladness in announcing a year of survival...




While celebrating a year of survival for Elizabeth, it has also been a year weighted with the rigors of re-occurrence and multiple collateral illnesses...all which take their toll on body and spirit.

Click the arrow at the bottom of the following video to hear Elizabeth discuss her experience of this year in treatment...





As Elizabeth just said it's considering the effect cancer has on one's family that is important to consider...

Meeting Elizabeth for the first time...

Hair, like a dark forest growing straight up, reaching for the sky from her scalp as if to say “we’re still here, we’re growing, we live,” is the first impression one can get from meeting Elizabeth for the first time. Her eyes speak of one who knows what she sees and has judged it truly. Her complexion is smooth and without noticeable flaw, a feature of youth which belies her journey in the last year. She greets with the voice of one who has experience rather than burden upon her tongue. But that very experience has actually been burden for her. For Elizabeth is dying of cancer.

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Elizabeth just recently celebrated her 30th birthday, “Celebrated” is intentional here. Over this last twelve months she has gone through rounds of chemo, hospital stays, procedures, exams, transfusions; the routine of life that becomes the battle which one wages on a personal front against such an invasion. From the beginning she marshaled her own forces against this challenge but she also determined that she would set a time to celebrate at one year of holding the invasion at bay. So making it to the age of 30 is truly a celebration for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth welcomes your comments and questions...watch for further updates over the next days and weeks...