Lisa’s Story

Site created on January 4, 2022

Dear Friends and Family,

This is not a love story - when Taurus met Cancer, they didn’t hit it off.  

Taurus didn’t even realize Cancer had been hanging around until someone mentioned they saw them together in a photo.  Early chapters (still in draft form), indicate they may have been together for a while.  It sounds like Cancer may have even been rather persistent in establishing this relationship. 

Honestly, Taurus does not find Cancer attractive at all.  Rather rude and quite obtrusive, if asked.  Later chapters (really just an outline at this point) have them breaking up in the end.

Until then, at the point when this “not-a-love-story” ends, we are in the process of writing the chapters in-between. So, this is where we say thank you for visiting our site and helping us fill in the space in the middle of the story. 

Please join us in sharing your thoughts and prayers during our treatment journey ahead.

– and please, please, please make us laugh.

We are estimating that this relationship won’t last long, and our plan is to provide updates here on any major events that may happen along the way.  Lisa will be checking in when she can and otherwise will trust her incredible caregiving co-pilot Tim (aka Pisces) to keep this site updated with any news.

Thank you for your kindness and compassion,

The Rine Family (Lisa, Tim, Dorian and Becker)

Newest Update

Journal entry by Lisa Stromme

There is progress being made – very slow progress, but in the right direction.

Unlike last November, there was no evidence of any new metastatic disease with this last round of tests.

The whole house was scanned and they didn’t find any new messes that needed to be addressed.

However, that old mess in the damn party wing we didn’t know about…

It is all still there.

The moving crew has been packing, but they haven’t really cleaned that out yet.

There is still quite a bit of work that needs to be done over there.    

 

So, second verse – same as the first.

We are sticking with the same treatment regimen for another three rounds.

Then we’ll scan the house again.

The first three rounds were (so) tough, but they are behind us now.

We are going to continue on the same path forward, round by round, day by day.

I am going to keep telling my incredible husband and amazing kids how wonderful they are.

I am going to keep thanking all of our friends and family for supporting us through all of this.

I am going to keep sending love and well wishes to all of you out there.

Thanks for checking in.  

With Love, Lisa and Family

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