Lucille A. Noble

The next few weeks are going to be very crucial in the treatment of my husband for his cancer. I am going to write notes to all as we go down this new adventure of life.

DAY ONE: I had a wonderful telephone call from Margaret Rome of Active Rain. Here I was talking to a perfect stranger about the trials and tribulations of my day to day life caring for my husband with cancer and working in the fun and interesting business of real estate.

DAY TWO: To my great surprise and delight I have met through Active Rain this very personable and caring person, Margaret Rome. Margaret passed on clues, information and assistance to me by sharing her own day to day care and love for her husband who is a SURVIVOR of cancer for many years. THANK YOU MARGARET! And, also many, many thanks for your tremendous knowledge and experience you shared about the "Real Estate World". Not only did she help me by explaining how to better utilize Active Rain, her information with regard to evening open houses and open houses in general has given me a new perspective on advertising same.

DAY THREE: I just returned from a three day "High School ReUnion". This is a great class of people who all still believe that we are "16" and were all so grateful to see one another after so many years.

Working on the Committee for the last year to organize this reunion was more than just fun, it was an experience in patience and kindnesses to work with a room full of "overachievers". We quickley reverted to our old ways and spent a great deal of time laughing and eating pizza and questioning who ate the most. Thank God we finally started to go in the same direction. It was amazing that we all pulled together and turned the reunion into probably the most fun we have all had in a long, long, long time (does that make you wonder how many years the reunioln was for?).

So, the big night finally arrived and there we were 280 classmates with our names and our old year book pictures glued to signs hanging from our necks all craining and squinting to see who we were talking to from years gone by...what a sight....most of us with glasses attached to our noses...(there were those of us, of course, who could read without them, however, I was not one of them) ...as a woman I can HONESTLY (smile) say all the women were beautiful and had not aged a bit, and all the men had a bit of a paunch. I am certain the men would love to have their say here. Sorry guys, but you made up for it in wit and charm. (Do you think that should appease them?).

My dear friends Sue and Diana and I decided to tour our old haunts and our old homesteads. We took photos of us standing in front of our former houses critiqued the new paint, thought that the shrubs needed trimming and more flowers needed planting (and laughed and worried if the new owners would call the police on us for for trespassing).

And most of all missed our parents!

We were the Mom and Dad knows best generation. Very seldom questioning their wisdom and never if ever talking back to them...no sass allowed, go to your room and leave it to beaver. Our Mothers promised that they would have what they loved to call "Mothers Revenge" when we had children..and guess what they were right as usuall.

That night and during the rest of the reunion we all hugged, laughed and cried at the happinesses and sadnesses, of which there were many, that befell us through the years and we knew that some of us would not be there to share again at our next reunion, and so, with every friend we spoke to, we constantly promised to always keep contact and never to forget each other......I know we will never forget.

My husband has just decided that the cyber knife (what an awful name) is something that he is willing to undergo to relieve some of cancer in head and neck (on his tonsils). It will be done at Beth Isreal Hospital for the next four weeks together with erbitux a chemo treatment. I can only imagine how frightening it sounds to me let alone to him.. The minute you hear the word cancer everyone becomes frightened and never want to really discuss it with you. The only people who do want to are those that are going throught it or are the caretakers. Please understand that he is living with cancer, not dying with it. Why is it most believe that it is a death sentence and not a livable existence. Yes many do die, but there are just as many and sometimes more who are still going strong and have such a tremendous amount of faith. Please remember them if you have a friend, family member or acquaintence with same. It is much more encouraging to them if you do! Keep the Living with Cancer active!

Would love some help in figuring out how to link from active rain to a new site that I have..anyone responding will be greatly appreciated. Received a call from yahoo asking to become Yahoo site for Cape Cod Real Estate for Sale, is this for real or am I wasting time with it? I certainly cannot imagine that I was the only person on the Cape to have received this request . Has Anyone else heard of this. If it is legitimite it just might be an interesting place to work with. How about all the other places for example: Google or AOL, is this the same story with them?

I still have not heard from any one regarding the cyber knife...This is the day that I will be taking my husband into Boston to discuss this procedure. If you or anyone you know has had this experience would you kindly email me or answer with a comment on this blog. It is very important to us to hear from you even if it is just an encouraging word or two. I hope that this is not too difficult a request from you all, but we are very concerned about this. Lucille Noble (lnoble@weichertdunhill.net)

Hello All, I would like to hear from you about farming. I have not been terribly successful with this phase of real estate. My experience is limited. I have sent out flyers,and individual letters,but I am not certain as to whether they are properly presented. I keep wondering if the people receiving them are just tossing them out. Is this the way we keep our name in front of the public or are we aggrevating everyone with what they consider junk mail? I have tried to keep in touch with phone calls etc. I really think that maybe we should be a bit more personal in our information. Any suggestions out there or do you all feel that this is a waste of time?