Nancy (Adair) Weatherspoon
99 August 03, 2007 at 12:39 PM PDT
It is another gorgeous day on Orcas Island. Phil has gone to TN/KY for
his family reunion and will return on Monday. I feel alone!! He has
been such a great caregiver that I had a little panic attack when he
left. When he returns, I have encouraged him to go on a long
backpacking trip somewhere! He is going to do that. I am still far from
back to normal (rabbit pace) and am still turtleing around. Sometimes I
feel like I will be a turtle all my life. My doctors say I will be
pretty much healed by November!!! Until then, I am to do what I can and
no more. Energy comes and goes, but it is coming more than not. I have
a big compression bandaged arm and breast and that is very very
annoying and hot and bothersome. I do about 3 hours of exercise/massage
each day. So, my healing is not fast enough for me, but I am healing.
Thank you again for being my support team!! Love, Nancy
98 June 28, 2007 at 04:16 PM PDT
Yesterday I had my mammograms on both breasts and I have NO CANCER!!!
Then I had my appointment with my medical oncologist and she said that
I have lymphodema in my right breast and it needs to be treated to
prevent further infections. Radiation did a lot of damage to my tissues
and it messed up the lymph drainage. So, the good news is NO CANCER.
The other news is the continued fatigue and the new lymphodema. I start
therapy soon for the lymphodema. I asked my plastic surgeon about the
fatigue....he said it is quite normal, I asked my oncology surgeon and
he said it is quite normal and I asked my medical oncologist and she
said it is quite normal. They all reminded me that I have been through
alot in just one short year...my medical oncologist told me to be the
turtle and go slow and easy and not try to be the rabbit and keep up
with what I used to do. It is good to be home...we have tons of weeding
to do, windows to wash, and house to clean. We still have to unpack
suitcases and groceries. I am good for nothing!! Poor Phil...he is
quite frustrated with me right now. I AM grateful that I don't have
cancer, but I am soooooooooooooo tired and very very teary-eyed. Thanks
for all your prayers and support during this adventurous year.
97 June 04, 2007 at 02:43 PM PDT
I am home..resting and taking time for me. My plastic surgeon and his
team examined me thoroughly and found no infection, found clean and
healing incisions, and pronounced all good. I do have some redness on
my right breast and some temperature (hotness) so he gave me an
antibiotic and told me when and how to start on it. I am to mark the
red area with a sharpie and then watch the change. If it (the red area)
gets bigger for 2 days I am supposed to start the new antibiotic and
call him. So far all is well and the redness seems to be just a faint
blush. I have my major appts with the oncology team and mammograms and
blood draws at the end of the month. Phil flew back to VA and I will
join him if I feel rested in two weeks. Otherwise, he will join me at
the end of the month in Seattle. I miss John and Yang and Charlie (and
most of all, Phil) but we made plans to stay there through the end of
June. My friends here are really being supportive (bossy) and I love
them for that. The dogs are full of love and giving me lots of it.
December 29, 2006 at 03:02 AM
PST
Had a good visit to SCCA yesterday. They found that the new large
and very hard lump in my right breast is a sercoma....a cavity filled
with either blood, lymph fluid or something else...all are benign. I
will meet with my surgeon in about a month and he will decide whether
to biopsy it or not. The possibility of it being a recurrence of the
cancer is very unlikely. They also found several calcifications in my
right breast and called them milk of calcium. They are nothing to worry
about now, but they just wanted a baseline to keep watch. There are
several of them. My medical oncologist said I am doing very well and
said, "Go forth and live!" It was a wonderful day and it is a wonderful
life!!! I am so very very grateful.
Love to you all.
Nancy
December 02, 2006 at 10:12 AM PST
I have a cold and it just seems to be a cold. WOW!! I have something
pretty ordinary. I love being commonplace, run-of-the-mill, normal,
regular, average, and yes, even mundane. Let's hear it for the common
snotty nose, sore throat, and cough!!!!
December 01, 2006 at 12:29 PM PST
I thought everyone knew that I had SD!
Spasmodic dysphonia (SD), a focal form of dystonia, is a
neurological voice disorder that involves involuntary "spasms" of the
vocal cords causing interruptions of speech and affecting the voice
quality. SD can cause the voice to break up or to have a tight,
strained, or strangled quality.
I had BOTOX injections for over 20 years every 4 months into the
vocal cords to help the spasms...then I had the experimental
Denervation-Reinnervation surgery which involves cutting the nerve to
the affected vocal cords and re-innervating the muscles with another
muscle to prevent muscle atrophy.
I almost forget I was part of that experimental medical
research....in fact, I was one of the first patients to receive BOTOX
injections.
November 29, 2006 at 02:25 PM PST
We are back from our trip to VA and DC area to visit with John and
Yang. I did it! We had a great visit and Thanksgiving and found out
that we are going to be grandparents in March!! We stopped in Seattle
and spent a day and part of a day with Paige. We sure had fun with all
of them. I am feeling stronger each day but still have major bouts of
fatigue. I tend to overdo because I feel so good and then have to deal
with the fatigue. We are having some great stormy weather here and it
is snowing right now! I am taking the investigational drugs for the 5
year hormone therapy and will soon start a new genetic testing study. I
was asked today to be in a spasmodic dysphonia study. Man!!! They love
to get ahold of someone like me! Whatever I can do for medical research
is fine with me. Thanks again for all the cards, gifts, flowers, notes,
and calls. I still need and appreciate them. Tears still flow
freely...the snowflakes falling make me weep, the birds eating madrone
berries make me cry, sad movies make me sob, listening to Christmas
songs makes me cry.....let's just say that I am very grateful and
touched by each and every little thing.
November 14, 2006 at 01:23 PM PST
I am feeling good, but I am also feeling the fatigue of the cancer
and the cancer treatments, but I think I am "right on schedule". I have
been resting and trying to regain my strength and think that I am ready
to try a trip. So Phil and I are flying back to see our son John and
his wife Yang. Even though we have talked to John frequently and
emailed daily...it has still been hard not seeing them during this time
dealing with cancer. So, we are going to DC/No.VA to spend a few days
with them.
From: "Nancy Weatherspoon" nancyweather AT centurytel.net
To: cjones AT technidigm.org
Subject: update
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:20:23 +0000
Hi fellow classmates:
Just an update on me.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer and have been under the care of
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, University of Washington Medical Center,
and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. I have had surgery and will
begin radiation soon. I was offered chemotherapy for six months
and weighed the odds very carefully and finally decided not to do the
chemo. Surgery, radiation, and hormone therapy were not
options.
I meet with my radiation oncologist tomorrow. The six weeks of
radiation will be followed by a five year hormone therapy. I have
been part of several clinical studies and trials and am excited to be
under the care of such a fine team of excellent doctors. If you
want to check on my "updates" you can go to the CarePage provided to
patients by Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. You go to CarePages.com and sign in as a first
time
visitor. Set up your own member name and password and then you
may go to my page......the exact name of my page is:
Nancyweatherspoon.
Hearing of Ted Wilson's death from cancer should remind all of us that
cancer can strike at anytime. We each need to remember to live
each and every day to its fullest!
Hope
everyone is well, happy, and enjoying life!!!
Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
From:
Nancy Weatherspoon
Sent: Feb 24, 2005 5:15 PM
Subject: If you ordered Road to Awakening and got a message back that
it was not available....
Dear friends and family,
I want to apologize to you if you ordered Road to Awakening and then
had Amazon.com write to you and tell you that it was not
available. THE PROBLEM IS FIXED NOW.
Four people contacted me right away when that happened to him/her
(including our son John) and I contacted my media person and she got it
all straightened out.
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLACE AN ORDER ONLINE WITH NO PROBLEM
NOW. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, PLEASE EMAIL ME AND I CAN GET "MY
PEOPLE" RIGHT ON IT AND FIX IT.
"Ingram, the wholesaler to Amazon.com, was temporarily out of stock of
Road to Awakening while the printer fixed an issue with the cover.
From the books we received, I noticed that a little bit of your name
was cut-off. Therefore, we had the cover designer move your name in a
little and submitted the revised cover to the printer. There was
temporary unavailability of Road to Awakening while the printer
exchanged the files. It appears that your son placed the order at that
time.
Road to Awakening is now available again through Ingram (for retailers
to purchase). As I explained in my welcome e-mail (see excerpt
below),online retailers should have availability to consumers one week
after the Pub Date. The Pub Date for Road to Awakening is
February 15. Therefore, you should see availability on online retailers
by February 22.
Pub Date - The Pub Date is the point at which a book is available to
retailers to purchase. Within one week after the Pub Date, your book
will be available for consumers to purchase on online retailers.
Reunions will be available by special order in bookstores through
Ingram. This is also an important date for your publicity campaign,
because it is when your book is "released" and much of the publicity
efforts are centered around it.
On another note, I have submitted the book description correction
several times to BarnesandNoble.com, but the "addition" to the book
description still remains. I will continue to submit the revision to
them. I also submitted front and back cover images to
BarnesandNoble.com which should appear in the next few days."
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING ME IN THIS VERY SCARY ADVENTURE.
IT IS THRILLING AND EXCITING, YET SCARY ALL AT THE SAME TIME. I
HOPE YOU BUY A BOOK AND LIKE THE BOOK.
LOVE, NANCY
From:
Nancy Weatherspoon
Sent: Feb 4, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: Update on my book
I wanted to let my old high
school friends know that my book is coming out February 15, 2005.
If you are interested, check it out:
If you want to purchase
one......you can order it after February 15 from Amazon or order it
from your bookstore.
I just returned from TV,
radio, and print training with my literary publicist and Phil and
I will be off on a book signing tour after the book comes out.
The schedule is being planned right now and one of my towns will be
Tucson. Maybe I will see some of you there.
Already it has been a
wonderful experience and a dream come true. Thanks for letting me
share.
Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
From: Nancy
Sent: Oct 6, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: from Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
Fellow classmates,
I will not be attending the birthday party in Tucson, but hope that all
of you have a great time.
As for me, my schedule is filled right now with scary and wonderful
experiences. My first novel is being published and should be
available to buy at Amazon and all bookstores by the end of
November. I am working with my editors, design teams, publisher,
and media people and they are planning my schedule for the next two
months. I hope to have a book signing in Tucson......still have
lots of family and friends there. I feel totally blessed to have
a great literary agent and a media team which is top notch! I am
anxious to see the book design and learn what the title will be!
I just had a photo shoot here at home on Sunday. My first feeling
of what is to come.
First question everyone is asking me: What is the name of the
book?
I don't know! That has been the hardest part. We now
have a team of 12 working on the "right" title.
I hope the book is a success and that you all will buy and read
it. I will sign your copy, if you want. It is a historical
fiction book set in the 1950's.
Have fun at the party.
Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
Dear friends and
family,
I am so impressed by this poem that I want to share it with you.
Love, Nancy
This poem has been circulating since 9/11/01.
It has been kept alive and moving since 9/11. In memory of
all those who perished that morning; the passengers and the pilots on
the United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders. Our prayers go
out to the friends and families of the deceased.
IF I KNEW
If I knew it would be the last time
That I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute
to stop and say "I love you,"
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
Well I'm sure you'll have so many more! e,
so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything just right.
There will always be another day
to say "I love you,"
And certainly there's another chance
to say our "Anything I can do?"
But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
you'll surely regret the day,
That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today,
and whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them
and that y ou'll always hold them dear
Take time to say "I'm sorry,"
"Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes,
you'll have no regrets about today.
Subject: Christmas letter to all of you from me
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003
10:15:07 -0800
From: Nancy Weatherspoon
Dear Friends,
Merry Christmas, 2003. My heart is overflowing with joy and all I can
say is, “Dear Lord, thank you for this new house, thank you for the
love you have shown to us, and thank you for our many many blessings.
We thank you for one more Christmas and the opportunity to write
greetings to friends and family.”
January 2003 found us packing up 39 years of married life and 25 years
in one house. What fun!! We gave away most of our furniture
and other stuff. We even drove a rental truck across country to
Denver and then to Virginia to deliver furniture and stuff to Paige and
Chad and then to John and Yang. It was Phil’s idea of fun and I
must admit, it was.
My dear brother-in-law Larry Grim died in January and Phil and I went
to Texas for his funeral. Larry had asked Phil to sing at his
service and Phil honored Larry.
Then back to Redding to tell our friends good-bye and Paige and Chad
came to help us move to Orcas Island in northwest Washington. It
was quite an adventure.....the guys had to carry all the stuff down the
hill to the house and trudge back up the hill to the U-Hauls. It
was cold and rainy and they did a great job. Paige and I were in
the house trying to put boxes out of the pathways. Thank God for
their help.
Phil and I unpacked and Phil built shelves in the pantry and a floor in
the attic and we were ready for our first visitors. Shar and
Cassie came to visit and they loved the house. Soon, we went back
to Redding for a party, Cassie’s graduation, and the Relay for
Life. Back to Orcas where Paige and Chad brought their two dogs
and their kayaks for a week’s vacation. While they were here, my
mom had a stroke and we flew to Tucson for her death and funeral.
She was one week shy of her 96th birthday and I miss her very very
much. Phil sang at her funeral and she would have been so happy
about that.
After that we had a full summer with Phil hiking in the Sawtooths while
the dogs and I camped out in Stanley, ID, then to visit with Phil’s
family in KY, TN, and MO. Back to Orcas and then we flew up to
John and Yang’s in Virginia to help them with landscaping and planting
trees. Then to Denver to Paige and Chad’s to help with
landscaping there. Back to Orcas where our vets from Redding came
and did a de-barking surgery on Nicolas. In between all our
travels, we have joined a wonderful church, made many friends, made
plans for the garage/guest house we are having built and have started
fixing up the attic into a writing space for me. We have
made many trips off island to visit friends and relatives,
to pick up and drop off house guests at the Seattle airport, to see
plays in San Francisco and to do shopping.
As for our kids: Yang and John are doing well and are trying to play
more. John works in a huge DC law firm using his
neuropharmacological PhD and his intellectual property law
degree. He loves his challenging work. Yang works for a new
company just 10 minutes from their home. Paige flies for United
and loves flying and her dog Denali. Chad is preparing for
a new career as a firefighter, and is excited about the prospect of
beginning training with the West Metro (Denver) Fire Department
soon. They, too enjoy “playing”. Ivan (Chad’s dog) is a big
sweet huskie and a fun (and talkative) member of the family. As
for our own dogs, Mysch, our 16 year old border collie died before we
moved here, but Nicolas and Max ( our two other border collies) are
well and happy and love it here.
Phil is buying his new kayak and a double kayak for both of us.
He loves all the hiking here on the island. He is busy managing
our little forest here and doing the work on the attic. He sings in a
men’s group and may join the Orcas Choral Society. I am
researching a new sailboat to possibly serve as a fishing boat
too. Meanwhile, I am writing on my book and doing a lot of
goofing off.
We have had many visitors and house guests here and we love that.
Fact is, we have had several repeaters so far. Please consider
coming to see us. There is endless beauty and peace here. Thank
you for being part of our lives and please share our new home with
us. Merry Christmas!!
Love, Phil and Nancy
Phil and Nancy
Weatherspoon
pwspoon AT centurytel.net
PO Box
322
Nancyweather AT centurytel.net
1251 Spring Point
Road
Cell phone 360-378-755
Deer Harbor, WA 98243-0322
Home phone 360-376-4523
From: Nancy Weatherspoon
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:26 AM
Hi there.....
If you are interested in finding out about where we
are
and how to get here and all that stuff.....there is a really cool
website
for our homeowners' association.
http://www.springpt.org/
Nancy
From: Nancy Weatherspoon
[mailto:nancyweather@centurytel.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:56 PM
To: cjones@technidigm.org
Subject: Re: AMPHI Classmates Info and Web Page
My new email is Nancyweather
AT centurytel.com
and my new mail address is: PO Box 322, Deer
Harbor,
WA 98243-0322
Later,
Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
From:
NancyWeather@aol.com [mailto:NancyWeather@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:40 PM
To: amphi1962@technidigm.org; cme1st@lvcm.com
Subject: Nancy Weatherspoon's new email address
We are in our new home and I have a new email
address.
I am sending this on Friday,February 28 about 11 AM and I will not be
able
to receive any email for 24 hours....so you can still contact me at the
aol. address for that short time.
OTHERWISE.....PLEASE WRITE SOON TO ME AT:
nancyweather AT
centurytel.net
From:
NancyWeather AT aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: Moving soon so here is the new phone and
address
Phil and I are moving soon. We think that we
will
probably leave Redding February 14. We have to wait for a PO
Box...they
have a waiting list and we are number 3 on the list, meanwhile we have
to have General Delivery mailing address. We will have our phone
connected February 21 on Orcas.
New information:
Phil and Nancy Weatherspoon
1251 Spring Point Road
Mail: General Delivery
Deer Harbor, WA 98243
Home 360-376-4523
Cell 530-524-9355
pspoon AT aol.com
Nancyweather AT aol.com
Orcas Island
San Juan Islands
From: NancyWeather AT aol.com
[mailto:NancyWeather AT aol.com]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:16 PM
To: amphi1962 AT technidigm.org
Subject: new address for Nancy Weatherspoon
Phil and I will be moving to our new home soon and
our
address is:
Phil and Nancy Weatherspoon
General Delivery
Deer Harbor US Post Office
20 Jack and Jill Place
Deer Harbor, WA 98243
We have to have general delivery until we can get a
p.o.
box. There is a waiting list and we are number 3 on the list for
a box of our own.
From:
NancyWeather AT aol.com [mailto:NancyWeather AT aol.com]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:36 PM
To: cjones AT technidigm.org
Subject: thanks and new info from Nancy Adair
Weatherspoon
I really enjoyed the pictures of the
reunion.
Thanks so much for sharing them.
Just to let you know that we are moving to Orcas
Island
in Washington State. It is a lifelong dream of mine to live right
on the oceanfront and we found our dream waterfront house on
Orcas.
It is in the San Juan Islands. We fell in love with the island
and
the people there. Look us up if any of you are up that
way!
We are on Spring Point right next to Deer Harbor.
Thanks again for sharing the photos.
Nancy Weatherspoon
From: NancyWeather AT aol.com
[mailto:NancyWeather AT aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 5:39 PM
To: charlie AT technidigm.org
Subject: Pictures from Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
Phil and I spend most of our time
travelling....here
we are in May, 2002 in Phuket, Thailand.
From: NancyWeather AT aol.com
[mailto:NancyWeather AT aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 5:45 PM
To: charlie AT technidigm.org
Subject: Pictures from Nancy Adair Weatherspoon
These are recent picture of our family:
taken
at John's graduation from Law School in May, 2002.
The people are: Nancy, Phil (my husband), Paige
(our
daughter - a United Airlines 757/765 pilot), her fiance Chad, Yang
(John's
wife), and John (our son - a neuropharmocologist/intellectual property
lawyer). Paige and Chad live in Denver and John and Yang live in
Fairfax, Virginia. John is with a DC law firm and Yang has her
own
company.
From: NancyWeather AT aol.com
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:10 AM
To: charlie AT technidigm.org
Subject: Nancy Adair information
Nancy Lee Adair and Charles Phillip Weatherspoon
live
in Redding, California. Nancy (class of 62) and Phil (class of
60)
are both retired and are spending most of their time traveling the
world.
Nancy's email is: Nancyweather AT aol.com
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