We're sisters: Jessica & Christina. We're pledging to live sincerely. Our sister Vanessa's stage IV cancer started it for us, but every story matters! Join in.
Back in February we launched a Live Sincerely t-shirt campaign. This timing turned out to be more challenging than we ever imagined. We're finally checking in to say THANK YOU!
Vanessa Marie (nee Blust) Tiemeier, beloved wife of William Tiemeier, caring daughter of Andrew and Sharon (Grosser) Blust, and loving sister to Jessica
In 2006 I gave my sister Vanessa a little song called "Pictures" for her wedding. With V likely bedridden now, I'm a bit taken aback by its prescience.
"For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all...
The individual cells in her body don't know they are, as a team, losing the war. Each little cell in Vanessa is constantly, valiantly fighting against the cancer. She is exhausted.
A Christmas reflection on holidays of the past, what makes the season special, and (of course) Vanessa: "We don't have a coordinated magazine-feature tree at our house; it's very colorful and...
A current update on Vanessa, including: new pain, scans, progression, hospice, palliative treatments, day to day, V turns 32, metastatic breast cancer awareness, and joining in.
We have the strength to carry others only because we are carried ourselves.
A huge milestone passed by recently, rather unceremoniously - July 31 marked a full year of Vanessa being in hospice care. What an amazingly surprising
I've been thinking a lot about hope, and about words. ...My struggle, in the end, is trying to reconcile my hope, with my pain.
You may remember from Billy's guest post how he and V went to Ten Thousand Villages and bought 21 years worth of Christmas ornaments to give to Max,