First, I have to tell you all my thanks for your lovely comments on my previous entry !!!!
That deeply touches me ! You're really are the best mates people can have !!!

My surgery went well. They done it at 1.30 pm... me who wanted to be operate the sooner possible ! XD But I wasn't as nervous as I was excepted !
Now, the harder is in front of me... as I've got a scar of 4 X 7 cms (1.56 X 2.73 inches) at the left side of my torax (half on the side and half on the back) wich hurts rather well... Really hard to chose the right position for sleeping !

But the worse is my stomach !
OMG ! I think it's the medicines I took against pain wich make my belly burn like that !
... and, as a hapinness never comes alone... guess what, girls ?!... I've got my affairs !!! And God know how they are terribly painful, for me !
I didn't sleep a lot, last night wich follows my surgery... But I hope now I'm at my home (SWEET HOME !!!!), I'll sleep better tonight !

I act very slowly, and the smallest activity I do gets me tired as never...

Thanks again for all your comments, really !!!
Now I won't come back to work for 2 weeks, I think I'll have time to answer you... tomorrow morning ! ;)



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My surgeon called me during my holidays, telling me he prefered to operate on me earlier than expected... due to several arranging problems...
So, I had to make a short cut into my vacations and come back home sooner...

I'm currently preparing my little luggages... and myself to go to to the clinic.
I will have my surgery tomorrow (tuesday) in the morning (the sooner possible, that's my wish) but I don't know when they will give my freedom back ! ;)
If everything's allright, I could be back on Wednesday...
I will keep you on thouch, of course !

I bring with me all your friendship... and some of Geoffrey's pics, in my dear album ! ;)
I'm sure all that will bring me luck !!!

See ya, my dearest pals !!!
Take care and safe !
Love you all !!!



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Song especially dedicated to verlaine101
who let me discover this song...
But you're all my 'guiding light' !!!! ;)

I received an Email from Sarah... for you !!!! ;)

Hello to my fave supervisor (It's only me ! XD ) and to all my penfriends around the World,

I well received all your comments, but the week which just been spent has been very hard for me. As you know, after the chemotherapy sufferings, the transplant sufferings, here I am suffering again. I've got a serious reaction which begins to damage my liver (stomach ?). That's why the doctors decided to treat me under chemotherapy again. But I really didn't beared it and gave me too much other sufferings, so, they decided to treat me under this photo-chemotherapy. (see my last entry about Sarah)

I thought my sufferings were over, but unfortunatly not. Last week, I gave up, I couldn't stand all this pain, why me again ?... I have already suffered so much, why these other hardships ?

But, since Monday, I took fresh heart, I told myself that if I want to cure,, I have to find my force again to fight against this illness, and I pray again to have all my pains over.

Here you are ! I deeply thank you all for all your encouragement messages and your prayers, a big thought for Suzan, her card is magnificent and full of hope !
Thank you for all you do for me ! Mummy joins me to thank you all !!!
Lots of big kisses to you all and especially to my favorite supervisor ! (lol)

Sarah

And I would like to add all my own thanks to you all, my dearest Rushies-fellows, for all that you brought to our lovely little Sarah !!!!
By translating Sarah's Email and by typing it... I still have some tears in my eyes !!!

You are the best friends anyone could love to have !!!
THANK YOU !!!! ♥

At least !!!!! I can give you some GOOD news of your little Sarah !!!!!

You remember when I told you that her old marrow "fighted" against her new one ? (and faeriquene even told me that it wasn't a bad thing, in condition this doesn't be too long ! Thanks, Hon' !)
Well, the new marrow (so the healthy one) WON !!!!!
Sarah begins to make again white corpuscles (or globules), which is a very good thing... and most of all : doctors did some exams on these white corpuscles... and they are 100 % from the new marrow, so, HEALTHY !!!!!

OMG !!!! I'm so happy to share this good new with you, my lovely friends !!!!!!
Your prayers and thoughts worked !!!! and of course Sarah's courage did the rest ! Of course, the fight is far from being won... but at least, she recovers a little bit of her good mood !!!!

AAAAaaaand... I've a got a message for you all from Sarah's mum !
"Thank for Miss HEE and her "heart-chain" (or support network... but I prefer this first term !) ! Thank you all for all your prayers, thoughts... We are touched to know how everyone take care of us ! Thank you all, who pray for Sarah and her recovery/curing (?), and a special thank from me (so, Sarah's mum ! ;) ) for all your support !"

On a sadest note, Sarah isn't pulled through for all the same, as she remains in her sterile room, in order not to get any blasted bugs, like virus or germ or microbes, as she doesn't have enough white globules... and she must continue her chemo-therapy... and an "adult one", as the "child-one" isn't powerful enough for her and doesn't work...
So, after having her mouth, her throat and her skin burned... God knows how Sarah will react to her another chemo-therapy...

But I couldn't let you without knowing this first good new !!!!
I can tell you that I also, like Sarah's mum, deeply and sincerally thank you for all your comments, thoughts and prayers !!!!!
I LOVE YOU ALL !!!!! You are unique, you are the best !!!! ♥

... They are worse and worse...
Sarah has still got fever, her entire body is like burned by X-rays, and no one can't touch her without make her yell from pains...

She can't sleep at night, because of the noice of the several machines around her, machines where she's "connected" to(I don't know the right term in English), in around to help her in her miserable little life...

The most serious now, is that her "old" bone marrow doesn't accept her new one...
It's not a complete reject... but for making this marrow transplant/graft (?) works,the new marrow must "eat" the old... and for instance, the old marrow fights the new one...

And to complete all this, her parents tried to make her get up from her bed, to make her walk a little bit, and she has suddenly swollened...
Doctors really don't know what this new problem can be.

Sarah's mood is seriously touched, now... and her mother also looses her temper...
This woman didn't still have the force to answer to the several E-mails... but she deeply thanks ALL OF THE PEOPLE (you're in !!!!!!) who have got thoughts and who make prayers for her.

This fight is far from being succesful... I'm afraid it will be a long and hard path for Sarah, who really doesn't deserve all this pain and sufferings...

I told you about this girl for such a long time, and you are so much concerned for her, that I can't let you without a pic of Sarah...
Please, respect the right of her private life, and don't spread this pic everywhere.
Keep this photo for your own only, in your heart... I trust you !!!! &hearts

Pic taken last year, in June, during our School Feast.

For Sarah

Today, one of our young pupil, who has got a leukemia, has received a gift of bone marrow, after a hard treatment of chemotherapy and long days of horrible sufferings.
No one deserves that... and this girl less than another ! She's always in good mood, always has got her lovely smile on her face, is always a comfort with her friends... and she's really brave !

So, all of you who knows to pray, please, have a little thought for our little Sarah, who really needs all supports and help... and so deserves them... and your love !
Now, we hope everything will be fine for her, no reject of her transplant/graft (?) and no more pain !

Thanks for her ! ♥

I have FINALLY received my Australian Weather Calendar 2009 !!! (ordered in the middle of December !!!!... Next time, I will order it in October ! ;D )

As I love wild and huge landscapes, wild and huge skys... and of course Australia, I didn't resist to order this wonderful and giant calendar ! Waow !!!! It was worth for waiting !

Of course, the calendar is much bigger... and not tagged ! ;)

The cover

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I usually don't have the habit to do memes... but 2 of LJ users managed to decide me to this great one !!!!

From nost_nenime & robes_of_earth (thanks to you both !)
EDIT : And all my apologies for having missed kerrsmith2306's one !

01. answer each of the questions below using the flickr search engine.
02. choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. copy the URL of your favorite photo into this site.
04. share with the world!



1. St Catherine's Chapel, 2. indian food, 3. empty street..., 4. The moon above a lake of digital water, 5. Geoffrey Rush, 6. Muscadet, 7. I Still Call Australia Home, 8. Flavored Vodka 15, 9. Meet the Rest of The Goat family, 10. Missing Peace, 11. lazy sunday afternoon, 12. An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away?

1. First name: Catherine (and that pic just reminds me "Elizabeth" & "Golden Age" !)
2. Favorite food: Indian
3. Hometown: Toulon, France. This is one typical little street of my native town.
4. Favorite color: black... and as the Moon is also one of my crush...
5. Celebrity crush: Geoffrey Rush !!!! The One, The Unique !!!! I really ♥ him !
6. Favorite drink: The famous french white wine : Le Muscadet !
7. Dream holiday: AUSTRALIA !!!!! Where else ?!
8. Favorite dessert:To my big shame... Vodka... flavored with Caramel, Bubble Gum, Strawberry... sirups !
9. Career of your dreams: As far as I remember, I always wanted to be a goats shepperd !
10. What I love most in the world: Most of all... Peace, silence, rest, solitude...
11. One word that describes me:... Lazy ! SOOOOOOOOOOO lazy !!!;)
12. Livejournal name: apple4b... This name came to me very quickly... after my crush on Geoffrey when I saw the last 30 seconds of "Dead Man Chest" and the fabulous return of our beloved captain !!!! So what else than an 'apple for Barbossa' ?! ;)

One of the most beautiful and genuine human being left us today...
Sister Emmanuelle died in her sleep today... now, she's with the Big Boss, "her husband", as she used to say ! May she persuades Him to help Humanity !
May she continue her work !!!! There is so much to do here !



That woman was really one of the most awesome person on Earth...
A rebel... borned in a middle-class family, she had everything to spend an easy life in enjoyments and funs... but though, she decided to leave this life and has been entirely devoted to the poorests on this Planet earth...

At the age of the retirement (past 60's), she spent more than 20 years between the more destitute persons of the Cairo (Egypt), sharing their life and their misfortunes... and also their happiness...
She has created a lot of schools, especially for girls... a lot of hospitals... here, and everywhere in Africa, between the most forgivens...

And even when she was retired (forced by her religious superiors... she disturbed a lot of... religion references...), she was always on right fights !!!! always with the "forgivens of life" !

and she always had her legendary smile !!!! Her happiness of life... is a model !

She was the kind of sister of Mother Theresa...
Well, this woman was a HUMAN BEING... a genuine one...
No matter for her the religion of the person she had in front of her... For her, the human being was the only worth for it...
That's what I loved about her !!!!!!

I don't want to be sad about her disapearance... because, even if I'm not a Christian, I'm sure she's now with of The One she loved the more...

yallah !!!
That was her fave word !!!!
That means "go on !!! Continue your fight ! don't give up !"

We're all happy for her (she died in peace and is now between the hands of her Love of her life), but we also feel a deep and huge empty...

EDIT : "Give a man a fish, he eats a day. Teach him to fish, you feed him for life"
Lao Tseu

OMG ! What a shock !
One day after having seen laurageoffrush's post about our famous frenchie Gérard Depardieu and talked about him with her... I just read tonight that his son is dead, after contracting a virus that caused a devastating pneumonia, at the age of 37 years old...
TOO MUCH YOUNG !!!! DAMNED !!!!


REST IN PEACE, GUILLAUME

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For me, Pink Floyd is one of the best band in the World... and tonight, I heard a sad new...
Richard Wright, the keyboarder of this famous group left us...

R.I.P. Rick !!!!!



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Ingrid Betancourt, a French/Columbian politic woman, after more than 6 years of evil times, "emprisonned" in Columbian forest by Farks rebels is FINALY free !


The last pic of Ingrid we could see...

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I have got nothing related with her family, but I'm only a French Woman... and just because of this... I can feel all the joy, the happiness and o course the relief of her family and friends, who have expected this amazing event from soooooo many years !!!!!

Welcome back life, Ingrid !!!!!

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To erase these bad news and sad and so pathetic event, I would like to share with you a beautiful film :

"Himalaya, the childhood of a chieftain"
Himalaya is an epic adventure story set against the staggering backdrop of the Nepalese Himalayas. At an altitude of five thousand meters in the remote mountain province of Dolpo, Himalaya is the story of an ancient tribe who lead a caravan of yaks across the mountains, carrying salt from the high plateau down to the plains. It tells the classic tale of rivalry between an aging chieftain and the young daring herdsman challenging his leadership and the affections of his family.

The film is a sort of western - a Tibetan western - a universal and timeless saga of power, pride and love. The extreme environment of the Himalayas is magnificently contrasted to the delicacy of humanity and the beauty of Tibetan culture.
(from Wikipedia)

The extract I share, is a famous scene, where the caravan of yaks must go through a dangerous path, wich is a shorter way.
I put this film in Tibetan, and I added English subtitles.
Just this detail : the color of the lake is really natural ! ;)

As always, click on the pic to see the video...
And let you go with these beautiful landscapes and music !


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Hi -

Please join me in taking action to get China to end the crackdown in Tibet immediately! Send your message here: http://go.care2.com/14358889

Violence against protesters, monks and civilians in Tibet is quickly escalating as the deadly crackdown continues.

Only a few months away from the Beijing Summer Olympics, the Chinese government's violent attacks have already caused the death of around 100 people, while hundreds continue to be shot at, beat up and detained by China's security forces.

I just sent my message to protect the people of Tibet - please send your message here: http://go.care2.com/14358889

Thanks!

You know it's not my use to ramble... and that this LJ is entirely devoted to Geoffrey...

But I just learned a sad new...
Well, nothing serious for me or my private life, but a part of my youth and teen age has gone with the disapearance of one of the guitarist composer of one of our most famous group... so quickly carried off by this bloody illness...

So, I decided to post this entry as kind of a tribute to a man who never took himself seriously, who always remained free in his art and in his life and who always cheered me up with his great riffs on his guitar !


REST IN PEACE, FRED !

The last song of this group
Because music will be there forever !

I know !...
This is totally off topic, you know I rarely speak about my private life here, but what happened in my native department (and where I live during my holidays) was so shocking that I decided to post this...

I translated the whole story for those of you who don't understand the French language.

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