Many thanks to all who were present in person and in spirit.
Text of the service; Pictures of Rebecca (1958-2009)
Order of service (background image: live oak in front of Tallahassee home)
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The Memorial Service
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Memorial Service Details
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A memorial service for Rebecca will be held at the Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist at 2:00pm on Saturday, January 31. After the service, there will be a reception in the Jones Building Activity Room.
CCCHUU is located at 106 Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill, NC.
( Google map, Mapquest )
Gifts to Honor Rebecca
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rebecca believed strongly in many worthy causes. She would have been delighted to have donations made in her name to humanitarian relief agencies, environmental conservation advocacy groups, women’s rights groups, and civil rights groups. Perhaps the best way to help sustain her special contribution to improving many lives is to support the Child [...]
Rebecca Ruth Sheline Socolar
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2009 | 38 Comments »
Rebecca died at 11:00 last night. She peacefully stopped breathing while Yvonne was reading to her.
Rebecca had a massive GI bleed on Sunday night due to colon cancer with liver metastases, compounded by ITP (untreatable low platelet count in her blood). Her last two days were spent in the hospital. She was [...]
Update
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2009 | 16 Comments »
We’ve just come from our church, which held its service in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr, including a sermon by Tim Tyson (“Blood Done Sign My Name” — read it if you haven’t yet) with powerful music from Mary Williams. It was great to see that kind of spirit as we deal with [...]
No SIR
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2009 | 11 Comments »
We had a rough day. Rebecca was all set to head to the SIR treatment room when the news came that her platelets were too low for the procedure to be done safely. We’ll be spending the next few days doing various tests to try to understand the source of the platelet problem [...]
Update
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy New Year to all our devoted readers.
We had a lovely trip to Florida between Christmas and New Year’s day. The weather was perfect in Venice (just south of Tampa) and we saw 5 sunsets from the beach. We also got to spend an afternoon with Rebecca’s dad. Rebecca has been struggling [...]
To SIR with love
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We’ve waited to post on this topic until now because we weren’t sure we’d be going through with it. SIR (Selective Internal Radiation) is a technique for killing tumor cells by infusion of radioactive beads throughout the liver. A specialist in Raleigh has looked at Rebecca’s case and we all believe she can [...]
More Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2008 | 15 Comments »
The news is not surprising, which is not good. The tumor marker levels have doubled since three weeks ago. So we start chemo tomorrow. The drug we’ll try this time is Vectibix (http://www.vectibix.com/), which is similar in its action to Erbitux. We start tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. This first treatment will [...]
Numbing Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rebecca’s daily health report has been mixed for the past three weeks. She doesn’t have the horrible nausea and terrible headaches, but she does have worsening neuropathy — numbness in her fingers and feet — along with abdominal pain, particularly when she takes deep breaths. She also has some mild nausea and often [...]
