Miracles do happen!!!

Today, today, today we're having a birthday! TODAY!!! Liz Noll turns 86. And miracles fall from the sky as the test results show that her esophagus is healed, healed, healed. Hallelujah and thank you all! Now let's figure out what we can collectively pray for next. Open wide Lizzie! You can eat again!

Send some love to Liz

Could I ask you a favor? All of you? Starting tonight and every night until my mom's 86th birthday on March 1st, could you set your timers for 9:30 pm eastern time? Then could you spend 3 minutes meditating, praying, loving on her? Her esophagus was torn during a test and it needs some healing. Open your hearts and help close her esophagus. Send some love to Liz in Fort Myers! Thank you!

 

Hospital days...

You can read a little story about our stay...

Tonight

Nutrition begins tonight. Through a picc line which was inserted yesterday. Seems absurd that a picc line put in yesterday afternoon can only get the nutrition tonight. But that's the way the ball bounces around here it seems. Can only mix up that yellow lipid rich goop once a day as it takes several hours to get it all together. Looking forward to some sustenance.

Found out today that the hospital stay will be extended one more week. Ugh to that says Liz. That'll make nearly 3 weeks total.

Lizs' Heart on Valentines Day 2011

Hello all,
As it stands now, there won't be valve surgery in the foreseeable future. It seems the issues from the valve arent' great enough to warrant opening her up for a new valve. Risks measured = less risk from the current valve vs. risk from the surgery. My mom is glad about that. The esophagus is painful but is seemingly clearing up as of this afternoon. ENT did the scope yesterday with a camera sent through her nose and down to her esophagus. Amazing little camera. I might be able to stay until Saturday or Sunday - pondering what needs to be shifted around. I would like to stay and then Damien and Sophie arrive on the 26th. Thad has postponed his journey until he gets further news.

Spirits are a little low today but I think it's because of no nutrition. Nothing by mouth for 2 days now and really nothing much even before that. If it goes much longer, we'll try to get a nutrition IV put in (thanks Rita for that info)

Love to all,
Bern

It's Official

one day at liz's

It's official, 126.

That was the yearly count of the grand fourth of July party at Liz Noll's lakeside mental health and healing center in Denville, N.J. The party was by all accounts a smashing event and a joyous day. The weather was hot and the water cool as deep human connections were made and maintained. But the big event on the fourth is just the cherry on the top of the cake that is the summer at Liz's.

The Lakeside center opened early this year, july 25 was the day the first arrivals (this reporter included) started streaming in. As of this writing there are still folks reaping the good will that Liz so generously offers. The official summer open house season officially ends august 13 when the two grandchildren of her 6th son Damien (who when I spoke with him was extremely happy to have his children Terah and Thibault Noll benefiting from extended time in the new jersey wellspring) get on the plane for their return home to France.

Liz's Lakeside Center (LLC) is the site of a month long coming and going of folks happy to be where they are, namely Liz Noll's house in the fat days of summer. Liz generously and cheerfully houses all comers (at times there were up to 2o over night guests). She also provides the food, drink, and requisite transportation and logistics to maintain them. Her actions are the model for the communal living experiment that she produces and guides each year. A Herculean task for anyone, at 85 Liz Noll is still chairing the event with great aplomb.

In brief - Liz Noll: A Valiant Women.
A great shoutout of thanks for her continued being, and her loving example of sharing.

Fourth of July is coming!!!

Have you heard? Of course you have because it's like the 20th annual or something along those lines.

But this year we're adding something new! This year, as always we are asking you to bring a dessert. Sow, what's new you might ask. Well, this year we're having a contest! So bring us your favorite custard, pudding, cobbler, cake, or tart. Bring us your great grandmother's pie or the latest sweet treat you've pulled out of the pages of Martha Stewart's rag. We'll have a host of international judges, prizes and lots of good times to boot!

See you there. Where? At Indian Lake of course. When? The fourth of July as always. Come around one and stay till later than you think you should.