If you haven’t yet heard, my friend Joe Hillman — volunteer extraordinaire and the subject of the “Familiar Faces” column I wrote in the current issue of Teton Valley Magazine — is at Madison Memorial Hospital right now.
On Wednesday morning, in his straight-forward, no-nonsense way, he told me he was going to have his first chemotherapy that afternoon. I learned this between extended bouts of coughing — but he still had a smile for me. The best news, we heard today from Lori Hillman, is that he responded well to that first treatment!
Dee decorated a big piece of kraft paper today for Joe’s friends to sign at the bookstore; Susie Fenger is delivering this banner card to Joe on Saturday morning.
There’s a Caring Bridge site set up for Joe, too. Use this link to go directly to his guestbook (to write a message we can read to him): http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/joehillman/guestbook.
You can access the site by going to http:// http://www.caringbridge.org, entering joehillman in the box where it says “visit the site” (his name with no spaces), as well.
I told Joe if anybody could beat this, he could…… We want his smiling face back on Main Street and at the Seniors Center!
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