BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!

Subject: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 10:41 AM

At last I have learned the result of all the wonderful postcards the Mudcatters sent to the swing dance teacher Marc Shepanek last June. The postcards were sent from around the world and were intended to cheer him up as he battled cancer.

Read about it on this thread: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters .

Last night I saw Marc running a USO swing dance at Glen Echo Park and he looks wonderful. This is the first time I have seen or spoken to him since I posted, requesting the cards getting sent to him. He has not regrown his big bushy beard, so he looks 15 years younger and even more good-looking.

Marc did not know who I was (I'm one of hundreds of students he's taught in group classes), so I shyly inquired about his health. He said he was fine. That didn't take me where I needed to go, so I asked him if he was still getting postcards from Iceland and Wales.

His face lit up! "So YOU'RE the one!! I wondered where all those postcards came from, from all those very kind people - some with no return addresses. It was wonderful, especially when all I could manage to do was go up and down stairs once a day."

"Please tell them all thank you so very much. It made such a difference to me. I've just had a check up and a pet scan and after six months I am doing really well. Of course you don't know for two years, but I'm optimistic. Please also tell the people that I'm paying it forward. This winter I'm going to be reading stories to children with cancer, and I'm going to be helping old people who can't write letters anymore to send letters for them. I'm paying it forward.

So I thank everybody who wrote to Marc. It was fun for me, too.

--Linda

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:02 AM

Bravo, Linda! Well done. Stealth healing!! Wodda game.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:34 AM

That would bring a tear to a glass eye Linda, thanks for sharing it with us.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:51 AM

Good to know he is doing better, Linda. Thanks for the update. He sounds like a great person.

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:55 AM

knowing that there are people who CARE...even about strangers....is good medicine for the soul as the body struggles....and there is some evidence that is can help the body, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 12:08 PM

I love the idea of paying it forward.

So glad that Marc is doing so well.

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 01:32 PM

terrific!

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: KT
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 01:38 PM

Brings tears to these real ones, too, Giok!   Thanks for sharing this with us, Linda, and for being the good soul you are! Best to Marc and to YOU!
KT

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:10 PM

Brava, Linda! Thanks for the update. It was fun taking part- I'm so glad that it worked!

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:27 PM

Yes...I'm a little damp too. It WAS fun! And glad it helped him!

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:51 PM

I love threads like this one. Way to go, Linda and way to go, Marc.

Subject: RE: BS: Postcards from Mudcatters - the Result!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 12:48 AM

good stuff, Linda & Marc