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Monday, April 18, 2005
Update on Mary Travers
From Christine Lavin, via the FOLKDJ-L
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:58:25 EDT
From: Christine Lavin
Subject: update on Mary Travers:
Mary Travers' bone marrow transplant is scheduled to happen in about a week. In her own words:
Dear Friends, I feel a bit like a ball player hanging on third, waiting for a hit good enough to bring me home. I'm getting as ready as I can for the transplant.
We found a match - well, almost. Nine points out of ten. I hate to say this but it's close enough for folk music.
I want to share with all of you just how much your words of encouragement, your prayers and all of your good thoughts and wishes have meant to me. The response that we have received on our web site has been overwhelming; it's impossible to know just how many lives have been touched by our music these past forty-four years.
Now, I know that there are a lot of you out there rooting for me and that has made all the difference in this terrible time. I feel grateful beyond words and sustained by your voices. I'm sure that it's part of what has given me the strength to fight and the drive to sing again.
So I can only say, thank you, thank you!
Mary
I am still collecting 'get well' messages AND jokes (and yes, she LOVES jokes) for Mary -- the email address is getwellmary@aol.com -- at the concert I did with Cheryl Wheeler at Sanders Theater in March, Paul Kehoe, who works on the website www.peterpaulandmary.com came onstage and made a plea for audience members to register their bone marrow AND send messages to Mary -- he has printed out thousands of them and she reads every single one. So keep 'em coming!
Thank you all -- Christine Lavin
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:58:25 EDT
From: Christine Lavin
Subject: update on Mary Travers:
Mary Travers' bone marrow transplant is scheduled to happen in about a week. In her own words:
Dear Friends, I feel a bit like a ball player hanging on third, waiting for a hit good enough to bring me home. I'm getting as ready as I can for the transplant.
We found a match - well, almost. Nine points out of ten. I hate to say this but it's close enough for folk music.
I want to share with all of you just how much your words of encouragement, your prayers and all of your good thoughts and wishes have meant to me. The response that we have received on our web site has been overwhelming; it's impossible to know just how many lives have been touched by our music these past forty-four years.
Now, I know that there are a lot of you out there rooting for me and that has made all the difference in this terrible time. I feel grateful beyond words and sustained by your voices. I'm sure that it's part of what has given me the strength to fight and the drive to sing again.
So I can only say, thank you, thank you!
Mary
I am still collecting 'get well' messages AND jokes (and yes, she LOVES jokes) for Mary -- the email address is getwellmary@aol.com -- at the concert I did with Cheryl Wheeler at Sanders Theater in March, Paul Kehoe, who works on the website www.peterpaulandmary.com came onstage and made a plea for audience members to register their bone marrow AND send messages to Mary -- he has printed out thousands of them and she reads every single one. So keep 'em coming!
Thank you all -- Christine Lavin
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Dear Mary:
My thoughts and prayers are with you today now that I've heard the news. Don't you just hate it when people only tell you how they pray for you when your sick. Without doubt you will be with me as I will be with you until this time has passed.
Paul from Phoenix, AZ
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My thoughts and prayers are with you today now that I've heard the news. Don't you just hate it when people only tell you how they pray for you when your sick. Without doubt you will be with me as I will be with you until this time has passed.
Paul from Phoenix, AZ
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