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Words of Wisdom…again…

May 15, 2010 – 6:05 pm

I have posted before the pictures of the WOW word collage. The words are from a song written by my friend david. The song was one of his last written before his first brain tumor recurrence in 2008. I’ve been listening to the song over and over for another project and just have fallen in love with the words. A late night creative expolsion and facebook chat with my friend Chrissy resulted in the word puzzle. Listening to the song and seeing the words on the canvas keep the little life lessons in the front of my memory.

Many have asked from my blog post and seeing it in person so I’ve decided I will sell this as a benefit to the writer, not me. david is fighting once again and I can’t think of a better way to honor him while he isn’t traveling as much. This will be offered as a gallary wrapped canvas over a stretcher frame. The canvas is square and will be available in 12, 16, 20 and 24 inch sizes. I am holding the 20 inch size.

If you are interested, please email me for pricing details – amydoerr@yahoo.com or through the contact me on this page. Local canvas will be shipped to my studio, non-local will be drop shipped to your location. The lab printed many yesterday that will ship to other locations on Monday, yipeee!

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The Amazing Nikolas!

November 23, 2009 – 9:25 pm

The last time I photographed Nikolas something was missing. If you looked past the hair, the sparkly smile and the dancing eyes almost made you forget that a child that age shouldn’t be missing hair.

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Nikolas was diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastom in April 08. He is doing well now and he is such a little fighter! I found some info so I could understand the type of cancer better.

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that develops from nerve cells found in several areas of the body. Neuroblastoma most commonly arises in and around the adrenal glands, which have similar origins to nerve cells and sit atop the kidneys. However, neuroblastoma can also develop in other areas of the abdomen and in the chest, neck and pelvis, where groups of nerve cells exist. Neuroblastoma most commonly affects children age 5 or younger, though it may rarely occur in older children and adults.

Nikolas is winning the battle and he has amazing hair!!!

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Way to go Nikolas!!!! Keep up the good fight : )

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Nikolas put his hand on his face and I just loved it. I gotta show another because he was just so precious like that.

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It’s OK

October 8, 2009 – 3:58 pm

My friend david wrote a song in Newton in 2001. He sang it the first time for my friend Kelly and me. Now all these years later, he asked me to put my photographs with his music. Crazy.

I’ve been working on this for awhile. I saw my friend Kelly a couple of weeks ago. Kelly’s daughter Mackenzie died of a brain tumor 3 short months after I photographed her. david’s music kept Kelly’s spirit company in the many many dark nights surrounding Mackenzie’s illness. When I saw Kelly’s face, I remembered the perfect image for the last picture of this slideshow. It was as if Mackenzie knew, she knew it would be ok, It’s OK. Thank you Mackenzie for your sweet gift to us.

I’m not sure I can put a you tube video in here, you might have copy the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s14ScYNsKIc&feature=channel

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Spencer & Carter

October 9, 2008 – 11:57 pm

I always love to reconnect with a friend. Spencer and Carter’s mommy and I both worked in the same department at Maytag and both have the same very cool first name : )

Spencer is a spit fire – a very good thing in my opinion! and Carter is a fighter! Carter was born with spina bifida. Thankfully, the spot of his opening was very low so long term his future is very bright! I saw him today and he was sitting in his car seat rather than laying which was a huge step for sweet Carter. I was reading in Wikipedia and there is a section of famous people with spina bifida. The Jack and Diane diddy guy, John Mellencamp. I never knew!

One side issue was that Carter was born with club feet. He is casted every week at the Univeristy of Iowa using the internationally know Ponseti method. Dr. Ponseti is 94 year old doctor and still working at the U of Iowa. He was there when my mom was a physical therapy student and she was amazed with him then. Carter is one of 150 children going through this right now at the U and was selected for a symposium last week. I am just amazed.

Anyway…. Carter got new casts the day he came to see me. These aren’t fiberglass kind, they were plaster. The plaster was still wet. It was just one of the most meaningful sessions I’ve ever had.

Here is Spencer with amazing eyes and Carter. I love how the light hits the casts and that sweet little dimple in his elbow.

A prayer for continued healing for Carter!

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Ummm, two more…

September 4, 2008 – 10:55 pm

My friend Rachel opened a new nail salon (called Polished!) in August and I finally took a few minutes to stop in. She fired up the massage pedicure throne, I was in love! OMG, if you haven’t had a pedicure yet from her, you must. Not only is she the best nail tech ever – really – that chair is to die for. I’ve got her number if you need it!

The shop was packed with women, I said it was just like the barber shop. We weren’t all getting ‘polished’ we were hanging out. I often am amazed how small our little world is and how we are all so connected. Rachel’s daddy is has been fighting a glioblastoma – short for stupid brain tumor that shows up too many times around me. The conversation went to Jace of course. Rachel went to school with Tara and Virginia’s kids were in love with Tara when she was their music teacher in Baxter. I know it is just a few county area but still.

So after one more visit to Jace’s page, reading Tara’s words and tears dripping on my lap, I just had to share two more pics. Two things Jace adored, his daddy and his blanket. BTW – I was looking for some pics this morning I had ordered and these just happened to be in the folder I opened. I have a bajillion folders. I think it was a sign from Jace to say hi one more time. It had to be.

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