Our beloved BM (Blog Master) is under the weather so we’ve taken it upon ourselves to write the  blog…..does everyone hear the crickets? We don’t even know where to start……we’re just not Julie! But we’ll try…… Patty: I’ll start. This is Patty V: Our day started at 7am with a rally breakfast and us wondering…

Yeah, that’s our Patty V in the back of that group pic of Pancreatic Cancer Survivors…130 in all that showed up for Pancreatic Cancer Advocacy Day, can you imagine?  She’s ready to be front and center tomorrow as we visit our legislators…we have scheduled meetings with Sen. Bill Nelson and Sen. Marco Rubio and Congressman…

These trips always start the same way…we  head to the airport together…but just before this we meet at our final stop, Trudi’s house,  where we stand around and watch Jean figure out how to get all the stuff into the car. Some of us try to look busy while she arranges and rearranges everything, but…

We pre-gamed yesterday.  We were heading to the nation’s capital, and we needed to look JUST RIGHT. And so we met yesterday morning at Aqua Aveda Salon on Anna Maria Island.  Jane and Patty’s niece, Ali,  is the proprietor and we were very well taken care of… Stephanie was in charge of the pedicures, and…

  The six of us have been in touch a lot during the past two weeks or so but mostly by text…little updates, cute memes, inspirational quotes, inside jokes….Patty is often at work or busy with family…her niece Sara, whose middle name is Patricia after this fabulous aunt of hers, recently graduated from high school…so…