Leanna's Winding Path
Hi friends. Thanks for checking in on me. I thought this would be a good place to share with you the details about my journey in this life. I hope to keep it simple and honest.
I love you.
10 Oct 2011 – Shady Grove
October is of course Breast Cancer Awareness Week. And tomorrow, Shady Grove Hospital is hosting a Breast Cancer Awareness Event.
Well, you may remember that I stayed at Shady Grove when I had my minor little brain surgery. Well that’s where I met Jan Papirmeister. Jan Papirmeister , Cancer Care Navigator for Shady Grove, is a wonderfully enthusiastic woman. I used the time that we talked as an opportunity to share with her some information about the labyrinth. Many of you know that it has been one of my dreams to get labyrinths into health care facilities throughout the country. I think the labyrinth would help not only patients, but also those who are concerned about the patients too.
Well, Jan loved the idea of the labyrinth. She really loved my story and my work with the labyrinth and the thought of how she might be able to bring the tool to Shady Grove. Shady Grove is at the very beginning of planning the construction of a new cancer care unit. So she was even talking about the possibility that they might be able to build one, although that decision is still in the distant future.
In the meantime, we thought that finger labyrinths could be used at Shady Grove. If they were vinyl or laminated, they could be sanitized between patients. It was an exciting and simple concept. But then Jan started contemplating including the labyrinth in the bags they were going to give away at the Breast Cancer Awareness Event.
She asked me to choose the labyrinth pattern and to write something about it. I did, and I’m pretty proud of it. Apparently she had them printed on 12x12 pastel cardstock. It was not so simple to settle on printing on the cardstock. It took a good deal of searching for a place that could print a 12x12 page. We finally found a place and we have printed 100 for the event.
I’m going to go to the event and answer any questions about the labyrinth. I’m so excited about this opportunity. I hope that it touches some people’s hearts. I know it certainly has touched mine.
