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Post by cherylf on Aug 6, 2009 23:20:40 GMT -5
Hello to all! I am just now getting around to signing on to this board, thank you to those who created it.
I have kept in touch with a couple of you (you know who you are) but have been really, really, busy.
About the same time that the old SD Foundation board switched to Inspire, my house burned down and life has been upside down ever since. That was almost five months ago. We are now rebuilding. We are lucky that everyone was safe and not too many precious things were lost. The garage was totally consumed and everything else was heavily smoke damaged, but all the photos are restorable.
I have missed keeping up with all of you, and to the newcomers, Hello. I will not be here often, but just wanted to log in and say Hi. I hope you all are still continuing to get well. Jess is doing great. She is working in an immunology research lab this summer and learning all about the immune system.
I miss you all,
Cheryl
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Post by terri9967 on Aug 7, 2009 6:07:05 GMT -5
Hi Cheryl.
Glad you made it to the board. Wow, so sorry about your house. My brother and his family went through that about 3 years ago. They lost EVERYTHING! My brother, sister inlaw and 2 neices lived in a double wide mobile home and within 52 min it was completely gone! So I know how hard it is to get back on your feet. Atleast everyone is safe.
Look forward to catching up with you.
Hugssss
Terri
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Post by cherylf on Aug 7, 2009 6:18:35 GMT -5
Terri,
Wow, I am sorry for your brother's loss of their family's home. Wee are really lucky because only the garage, laundry room and a bath were really burned. We lost all of our collected Christmas items, but it is just stuff. We have good insurance, and they are paying for our alternative living arrangements in a really nice rental house. At this point it is a mere inconvenience, but there are good parts too, like new carpe and new couches, so I am not complaining (well not too much).
Cheryl
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Post by aajmom on Aug 7, 2009 9:04:23 GMT -5
Cheryl, SOOO glad you're here! I'm terribly sorry about your house! When I was a kid our house burned down- now I get really freaked about fire. Glad everyone is OK- that's the most important thing.
What a great thing for Jess- maybe she'll help find a cure for this disease!! xoxox- Adriane
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Post by ndpblake on Aug 7, 2009 9:57:17 GMT -5
Cheryl F.
How nice to hear from you. I have been wondering where you were not seeing your name on the RBF board for a long time. I am so sorry to hear about your fire.
So many fires in California - my niece's house, that they rented, in Novato, CA burned down to the ground while she was away, luckily. Her husband had just died from a exceedingly fast progression of ALS which was terrible enough. He was President of ALS Research Foundation, and determined to find a cure before he had to go. Scleroderma doesn't seem so bad.
Stay healthy. Nancy
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Post by steve201 on Aug 7, 2009 10:29:12 GMT -5
Cherl!!
wow..first off..welcome back to the zoo....second...sorry to hear about your house catching fire....that's one of my biggest fears....all my cool stuff would burn nicely!!..haha..all kidding aside....your all healthy and well..and no one got hurt...that's the most important thing..
take care....life will continue and you'll get your house back in order...in the meantime...we're still here for ya!!...
visit when you can......
Steve
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Post by cherylf on Aug 7, 2009 16:29:45 GMT -5
Thanks all for the warm welcome back! Seriously, not to discount the trauma of fire, but at this point, if I told you about how nice my new kitchen will be you wouldn't feel one bit sorry for me. We are doing a few little upgrades with the reconstruction, so I am taking lemons and making pink lemonade. If you want to see an article on Jess from our hometown newspaper, follow this link: www.theloomisnews.com |
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Post by Randy on Aug 8, 2009 9:51:22 GMT -5
Cheryl,
Welcome here. Nice to here from you.
Great article about Jess!
The article was so "short and sweet!" Of course we all know that fighting SD is anything but short and sweet, and the AP is anything but short and sweet. But here is a great testimony published for the public to read and learn that there is a cure for SD. Yes, Jess is our poster girl! By chance are there any doctors who live in Loomis and can read?
Thank you again Cheryl for all you do, and thank you Jess for being such an awesome fighter and competitor to this terrible disease. What a champion!
We certainly need as much publicity as possible to make folks aware that there is a very viable option out there. Hopefully soon AP will be standard American College of Rheumatology protocol. Hopefully we won't have to wait for Jess to become a doctor and kick some butt around.
Randy
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Post by Nancy - South Jersey on Aug 9, 2009 23:20:00 GMT -5
Cheryl, Glad to see you on the boards again. That was a very nice article on Jess. You must be so, so proud. She is a beautiful girl and a great testimony for AP!!
Sorry about your house and all the inconveniences, but so thankful that no one was injured and that you will be rebuilding something even better. Take care!
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Post by steve201 on Aug 10, 2009 8:06:45 GMT -5
That is a great article on AP..and your daughter is gorgeous....I'd keep her locked up if she were my kid!!..haha..ok..just kidding....
Steve
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Post by Cubby on Aug 11, 2009 18:09:58 GMT -5
CHERYL: I also created a thread for this under AP protocol. SOOOOO glad you are here and very happy to hear that the rebuilding is in progress.
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Post by cherylf on Aug 20, 2009 22:22:39 GMT -5
The new cabinets arrived today, we got a new garage door yesterday, and the house is painted on the inside. The stucco is coming along too. It is really coming along. It is getting really excited. I will be so excited I won't be able to speak when they install my new appliances. We are really treating ourselves with top of the line appliances and two diswashers (and no I don't mean my husband and daughter).
Hope all is well with all of you. Just stopping by to read and catch up on all of the goings on and steve's humor.
Cheryl
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Post by kathsherman on Aug 20, 2009 22:53:56 GMT -5
Cheryl,
Your daughter is beautiful. So glad for her and happy to get the "word out" about scleroderma. I am so sorry to read about your house fire. You enjoy those "top shelf" appliances...
Kathleen
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Post by Cubby on Aug 23, 2009 12:04:19 GMT -5
CHERYLF: I am so glad the house is moving along for you! Will e-mail later.
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