[RC] Bekki Crippen Update & Color challenge - rides2far
Update on Bekki below:
Reminder to all. The "Bekki Crippen Color Coordinated Challenge" has a
virtual competition for bragging rights only! Get a good photo of your
horse with everything you've got in his colors and send it in some time *after*
May 24...but be rounding up those photos now. :-) Bekki is really looking
forward to seeing everyone's colors. She thinks she might even choose new ones
when we find her next horse. To heck with who can push a horse to do amazing
distances in rediculous times...this is we *really* care about....picking the
right colors for our horses and accumulating amazing amounts of stuff in those
colors! :-))
(From Bekki's Mom)
Thank you for ALL for your wonderful phone calls, cards, e-mails, flowers,
food, and gifts all telling Bekki that you love her and are praying for
her. She has been showered with your affection and there is absolutely no
doubt it has helped so much to get her and us through this part of the
challenge.
Her surgery went very smoothly--her surgeon removed both breasts and all
the lower lymph nodes on the left side. She woke up almost immediately and
was hungry! She was never nauseated and was eating a soft diet by the next
day and a normal diet the next. The evening of her surgery she was sitting
up in bed knitting her famous dish cloths and watching
television! During the three and a half days she was in the
hospital she knitted over 20 dish cloths and handed them out to every nurse and
caregiver that entered her room. I think she must have been the
favorite patient on that floor.
Since coming home, her recovery has been right on schedule. Her
drains came out on Thursday and she is slowly regaining her strength, but is
resting a lot. Today we went to visit her Grandmama Baumann and she
was glad to get back and lie down. The dogs have been wonderful; it's like
they know to be careful. Her poodle, Sanson, tried to climb up on her one
time while she was reclining on the sofa. We told him "No, you can't
climb up on Bekki right now," and he has not tried since. He comes and
kisses her gently or places his paw on her leg and just stares into her eyes or
brings a toy and puts it in her lap. It is so, so sweet. All the
dogs have come and given her kisses and all have been very gentle.
Thursday we went back for the path results and learned that the cancer was
only in two lymph nodes, so we are very thankful it had not spread
further. It is Stage Two and will no doubt require chemo and maybe some
radiation. We also learned that she is positive for the cancer genetic
mutation, so that raises her risk of all cancer considerably and will play into
the program they outline for her.
We are so thankful it was not worse and that it is treatable. We are
thankful for an excellent team of doctors and nurses and all the wonderful
agencies out there ready to help. We are thankful to you, our dear and
precious friends for your kindness and love you have extended to Bekki and to
David and me during this time. We could not have been so brave without
your support. And most of all we are thankful to God for providing life
and healing in so many ways to each of us every single moment of our
lives and now, especially, to Bekki as she recovers and goes on with her
life.
