Morning: September 16

If you would like to send Ron a note / card, please use our apartment address. I will check it each day. He was admitted to 8B but will probably be changing rooms to 8A when a room is available in the BMT unit. This is his 7th stay on 8B, so our medical friends are taking good care of him. He didn't arrive on the floor until 8:30 last night, so it was a long and upsetting day. They have an overload of patients..maybe it was the earlier full moon. This morning Ron is having a flex sig scope to determine if the GVHD has effected his GI tract. Regardless, he is on high dose steroids to treat the effect of GVHD on his skin--itchy rash and redness; almost like a sunburn.

Ron Hover
1455 Oak Valley Drive
Apt. 103. Bldg. 26
Ann Arbor, MI
48108


Following are words that I saw in the infusion area of the cancer clinic yesterday when Ron was in a pre-hospital room after being admitted at his morning appointment. I found them comforting.

Be gentle to yourself...
Take kindly the counsel of years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth..
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle to yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, the universe is unfolding as it should. Peace...