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Thank you for celebrating a friend by giving hope to others.

Dear Friends, August 5, 2008

Please keep my sweet little Lauren, who is 10 years old, in your prayers.

We found out that she will have to undergo 10 weeks of chemotherapy for chondroblastic osteosarcoma

(bone cancer). Because it is bone cancer, her whole body will have to be treated.

Lauren is the little girl I babysit, along with her brother Matthew. She is the daughter of my cousin Carey.

If you open your bible to the very center, you will open it to the book of Psalms. There are several prayers, pick the one you like best.

I like Psalm 121 "Assurance of God's Protection"

Thank you and God Bless, ~Anne

Please contact me regarding donations in Lauren's name - you may also want to see if your company has a matching gifts program! Remember, it is tax deductible. There is also a guestbook and journal on CaringBridge, contact me for more information.

American Cancer Society Office:

Bux-Mont

High Point Professional Bldg

700 Horizon Cir Ste 201

Chalfont, PA 18914

Phone: (888)227-5445

Fax: (215)712-3298

Special Rose

~a poem by Anne Ditmars

We love our little Lauren

She is one special rose

From red to yellow

Purple and pink

An endearing blessing

We surely bestow

The Flowers a poem

by Robert Louis Stevenson

All the names I know from nurse:

Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,

Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,

And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, fairy things,

Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,

Tiny trees for tiny dames--

These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs

Shady fairies weave a house;

Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,

Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grown-up people's trees,

But the fairest woods are these;

Where, if I were not so tall,

I should live for good and all

Psalm 121

Assurance of God's Protection

A Song of Ascents

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills

from where will my help come?

2 My help comes from the LORD,

who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot be moved;

he who keeps you will not slumber.

4 He who keeps Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is your keeper;

the LORD is your shade at your right hand.

6 The sun shall not strike you by day,

nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all evil;

he will keep your life.

8 The LORD will keep your going out

and your coming in

from this time on and forevermore.

Here are the colors that represent the

different kinds of cancer:

Pink--Breast

Teal--Ovarian

Orange--Leukemia

Black--Melanoma

Emerald Green--Liver

Teal/White--Cervical

Dark Blue--Colon

Gold--Childhood

Kelly Green--Kidney

Purple--Pancreatic

Purple--Leiomyosarcoma

Lime--Lymphoma

Pearl--Lung

Peach--Uterine

Grey--Brain

Blue--Prostate

Yellow--Bladder

Yellow--Sarcoma/Bone

Periwinkle Blue--Esophageal

Teal/Pink/Blue--Thyroid

Burgandy/Ivory--Head & Neck

Lavendar--General Cancer Awareness

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2008 07:34 PM, EDT

Lauren has been in the hospital for her Methotrexate treatment since Tuesday. The treatment itself is only 4 hours but then they give her a 'rescue' drug to help flush the methotrexate out of her body. The nurses tell me that most kids don't get nauseous from it, but Lauren has been nauseous over the last couple of days. They are concerned because she's not eating and she's on the edge for needing feeding assistance. They said she could get out of the hospital once everything has cleared out of her body, which may not be until the weekend.

COLUMBINE

a poem by ~Anne Ditmars

A ballerina

A party dress

A dancing sprite or two

A song of sunshine

From the meadows

And woodlands

To the backyard garden

Aquilegia

Queen of the Faeries too!

LOVE IN THE MIST

Anne Ditmars

A soft whisper

A wispy frolic

Wonderful waves of green and blue

Feather light threadlike leaves

Airy and delicate

Striking yet waiflike

Ethereal

A floating blossom

Devil in the bush? No way!

Nigella