Quilt Power!

      Two comfort quilt packages went out recently. I had not had any requests for a while, so I was glad to move these out! Pixel Chain and Wanda's Butterfly Quilt were bagged up and delivered to the people who had requested them for someone they knew. Both were for women with sudden stage 4 cancers.

    A year ago, I received an email request from an unknown woman stricken with multiple cancers and other horrible physical issues who somehow found my name online. I took a chance on sending her a quilt. I sent some photos to choose from, and she picked a denim one with hand dyes that had been overlooked by many. She was given 4 months to live. I did not hear from her for a long while and I feared she did not make it and prayed she had got the quilt and it gave her some comfort. After months, I heard from her and she was recovering from brain surgery and a hip replacement. After a long while, I heard a couple more times about treatments and sickness. A couple of weeks ago, I received an email about her miraculous progress. I am not sharing any name or identifying info, but I have to share her words because they keep me dedicated to quilting and praying in such times as these:

"Hi, hey, howdy, hello,  how ya doing? LoL....... Hi!

I'm feeling pretty good my doctor says I've beat the odds for my diagnosis of advanced stage metastatic cancer.......

I wanted to share with you

They did an mri of my brain and all the lesions are gone even the little tiny ones they weren't sure about are gone but the 2 large ones that they were concerned about because they were pushing inwards against the main artery in my brain are completely gone.......

I am able to be up and walking now sometimes I have to use my cane but I'll take a cane over my wheelchair any day they had told me 4 and a half months but they aren't putting a time on my life now I have responded better than they expected and faster than they expected to treatment they said if I can keep my attitude and energy like I am I have a chance of beating this they said treatment is not a cure but to prolong my life and give me better quality of life but sometimes there are people that can and do beat it and they don't want to give me false hope but I have a chance of being one of those people .......

If cancer had a face I'd punch it right in the face....... 

It's having support that is making it possible to beat this

Total strangers have shown me so much love and support ,

People like you that's what's made this possible people like you put the human in humanity"

     So a huge thank you to those who have helped me in accomplishing getting comfort quilts out there. Thank you to Wanda, Gwen, Quiltdiva Julie, Maureen, and others for supplies and quilts. Thank you to friends and strangers who provided funds for batting, books, bags, etc. Now, pass me the kleenexes.