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A Personal Letter from Hildur Jackson October 7, 2010 I woke up this morning to my 68th birthday with a dream of dancing a wonderful waltz with my husband, flying over the dancing floor. My body felt cosy and painless and immediately my spirits soared. The last 10 days have been tough. I was afraid of losing courage. So much pain and discomfort. Now I know I will make it through the last two chemotherapies! After these on Oct 17 and Nov 8, radiation for 24 days in a row. It will be finished by Xmas. From New Years my chances of survival for the next 10 years should be almost like anybody else’s. And in Feb, my hair will be coming back. I kind of like myself without hair, much better than I expected, but hair warms and softens.
Aerial view of Hildur’s farm
I thank you for all your prayers and thoughts and for the wonderful work you are all doing. The idea of this keeps me going and gives meaning to my life. We expect to have the next GEESE meeting here in June 2011 with a week of educating the educators before or after, profiting from all the gathered knowledge. The Danish network wants to put up an EDE which might profit from this too. Duemosegaard now has two families with my daughter-in-law and two granddaughters having moved into one of the wings. We hope to be more people here, though last week we did have some other new occupants: 3 Icelandic horses, an old dream of mine. When my children were small we had these wonder small, strong horses and the children learnt a lot from handling them. Now they will be for my grandchildren, daughters-in-law, my brother’s children, and visitors. It’s quite a task to prepare for horses though! Also, an organic farmer, Jorn, is working here halftime. The fields are light green with clover grass and barley. We enjoy being farmers and hope to create a CSA, making it useful in the local transition. I send my love to all of you. Hairless Hildur
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