[stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

Mon Aug 11 21:42:14 UTC 2014

OH, Thea, thanks so much.  I can give you a wuick update - we are now 4 
months into the journey with Bob and Acute Myeloid Leukemia, AKA  AML, a 
deadly disease.

That first writing told about the first episode when he was given a drug to 
help him sleep. Instead, it made him disoriented and he hallucinated and 
tore out the tubes for his centeral line - a TRIPLE LUMEN, which means he 
has THREE lines coming out of aan artery that goes into his heart.  In all, 
he had three very bad experiences with narcotics - and it is very clear that 
he can never be given such drugs again for any reason - there were three 
near-death episodes during the past 4 months caused by 3 different narcotics 
for pain.  Now, he can only take Tylenol.
To date, he has completed three rounds of chemo - his first hospitalization 
was for one month and he has been given two different kinds of chemo 
simultaneously in a coctail that in given through the central line, 24/l7. 
Two more subsequent stays and two more round of chemo followed.  He came 
home again, for the third time on July 12.  We received "the call" from the 
transplant director on Friday - a match has been found for him and we have 
to go next Monday, August 18th, to a 4-6 hour meeting with the team and the 
psychiatrist - to learn what comes next. We have been told to bring family 
and friends along for this meeting - Meanwhile, Bob has been very good the 
past week or so, doing yard work, and even riding his motorcycle just a 
little bit - his weight went down to 109 pounds after the third round of 
chemo - and it has gone up just a little bit the past few days since he is 
now eating pizza from the local pizza shop three times a day trying to get 
some weight back on his very very emancipated body.  He came home from 
getting some gas in his motorcycle last week and said it was "just too 
much."  I guess weighing only 109 pounds and driving a 500 pound bike is not 
such a great idea.  Just a week ago, he had to go to the hospital three 
different days and get 8 different blood transfusions. This week, he has 
been good - so far. He has slept a lot the past couple of  dyas which is 
good.   Bob has said, "I may not look very good, but I hafe Spirit." He sure 
does.

I started a FaceBook Community Page for him so we can keep folks informed 
about Bob's journey and also for information on this disease. The symptoms 
are subtle and once you know them, and put them together, you realize 
something is wrong - so we hope someone else may get an early warning if 
they should have this disease so they can get help much sooner than Bob did. 
For anyone who might want to see Bob's story on FaceBook you can just go to 
the page and click on it any time you like.  I was so surprised last week 
when one of the posts got over 600 visitors - so many people are checking in 
to see Bob's journey and most of all those people are possibly  praying for 
him which is the most important part of his healing process.   We walk by 
faith, not by sight on this journey and it's all in God's hands.  Thank you 
for asking, Thea.

The link:  https://www.facebook.com/boblambertdiary

We called it "Bob Lambert Diary" to give updates and photos to the public 
about this journey.

Lynda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Miss Thea via stylist
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 4:58 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

Oh my goodness, the poor man.
And I can only imagine how exhausted and scared you must be.
Thea

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:07 PM
To: newmanrl at cox.net ; Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

Thanks, robert. You all kind of know Bob from some of the things I have
written - motorcycling, dancing in the kitchen on a winter day, opening the
door for the "snow bunnies" and more.

Last night was a scene from a horror movie - I won't go into details but he
was disoriented and confused, and took off the tubes that are connected to
the "line" in his chest - an artery. Fortunately, he was found in time - but
it was the worst possible scene the nurse could imagine seeing when she took
a look into his room around 1:15 am.
My days and nights are filled with making plans for visiting and other
things we have to do now - everything is centered around getting Bob well
again and meeting the needs as they come up each day.  Thank you all for
your prayers - for that is what will bring him through - and I do mean
"bring him T H R O U G H - Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

>
> Lynda&Bob
>
> We do super enjoy your presents on this list! And yes, my first sentence
> referenced the two of you - Lynda&Bob --- note the two names are joined 
> via
> the & sign. And so I declare that combination to be a relationship
> designator similar to the placement of two names within a drawn figure of 
> a
> heart; these two people are in love, they are together.
>
> Our thoughts and strength are with you.
>
>
>
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