Goodbyes are hard

I got on My Chart early last week and happened to see an announcement that "Annie Acupuncture" (her last name is Nepali, not sure how it's spelled or said!) is moving to North Carolina to start a program there.  I'm not going to lie, tears were shed, more than once!  I don't know how to articulate the good she did for me.  No matter how uptight I was at the beginning of an appointment, I always walked out of the office relaxed and ready for a nap.  She worked magic with those needles, knowing exactly where to put them to give me maximum benefit during our time together.  Her belief system is based on ancient Chinese wisdom and medicine, which in so many ways made so much sense to me.  I will miss her more than I can say, I truly love her for her gift, her therapeutic approach to healing and well-being, mentally and physically. I'll look her up when I get to Raleigh.  

I got to visit another friend who is in the process of moving to Texas via Michigan.  Tina has been my fast friend since the day I met her in the late fall of 2017 at a breast cancer retreat in Park City.  She's been another friend who has laughed and cried with me, our diagnoses are very similar, but she's done it longer than me but she gives me hope and encouragement to never quit! This picture was taken weeks ago--she must have our selfie on her phone.  😂. But this picture I'll include is a few more of us, a lunch a while back. I love everyone of their faces, and miss them when it's been too long since we had lunch together!  We have big changes at Huntsman as our social worker is moving on to bigger and better things, so we'll have a new social worker over our group.  I'll miss Lisa too.  She's pretty much mastered how to run a group like ours, so she's on to better things on the research side of things.

Tina, Terry, Katie, Me, Ines - the whole lot are
amazing people!

I need to go to bed so I should sign off.  Just wanted to get those two things on here.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my people, so much!