CELEBRATION OF LIFE 12-14-10 at SINAI

A Celebration of Life will be held at Sinai Hospital on December 14, 2010.  The celebration will be in the Zamoski Auditorium from 12:15 pm until 1:30 pm.  All are invited!  The celebration will feature a slide show presentation as well as speakers to honor Rhonda's memory.

LISTEN TO THE FUNERAL ONLINE

The Sol Levinson Funeral Home Website (www.sollevinson.com) will have an audio recording of the funeral today beginning 30 minutes after the service.  This recording is available for the next 6 months.  To access the recording select the blue "Daily Funeral Schedule" button.  Select Rhonda's name from the list of funerals.  At the bottom of the Rhonda Fishel page select "Listen to Audio of the Funeral Service".  If you can't find the link, check the "Archive" section of the website.

RHONDA'S OBITUARY FEATURED IN BALTIMRE SUN TODAY

Here is a link to the article about Rhonda in the Baltimore Sun today.  The funeral will be held today followed by a gathering at Rhonda's brother's home.  Mickey is preparing her part of the service right this minute.  She seems to have more energy today...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-rhonda-fishel-20101123,0,2291512.story

UPDATE ON MICKEY

I imagine many of you are wondering how Mickey is doing.  She is understandably exhausted and sad!  She is in a rather reclusive place after what has been a month-long ordeal.  We were talking about it today and she said it was like running a marathon--continuously, for an entire month.  It seems to me that both Mickey and Rhonda have been running parallel marathons since Rhonda's surgery on October 25, 2010.

We have had many discussions of the many kindnesses and acts of love that have been shared with Rhonda and Mickey.  I know that Mickey truly appreciates these efforts and is grateful for the love, support, and help offered by so many of her friends, family, and colleagues.  She is just so tired and inward-focused now that she can't really convey her thanks--so I have appointed myself her representative in this regard.  So, on behalf of Mickey, I want to convey sincere thanks to every single person (and pet) who has given love, support, help, prayers, and healing energy.  And, just as importantly, I want to offer my heart-felt thanks to you as well!

SERVICES FOR RHONDA

Services for Rhonda will be at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at
Sol Levinson Funeral Home
8900 Reisterstown Road
Pikesville, MD  21208
There is an online guest book at the Sol Levinson Funeral Home web site if you would like to leave a message for the family.  This is the link-- http://www.sollevinson.com/.  I am told that the online guest book will only be available until the time of the funeral.  Please feel free to use this blog to leave messages for the family at any time.

Following the services all are invited to the home of Rhonda's brother, Larry, and his wife, Nancy.
Dr. Larry and Nancy Fishel
15 Shaded Glen Court
Owings Mills, MD  21117

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Sinai Hospital Cancer Institute.
Sinai Hospital Cancer Institute
2401 West Belvedere Avenue
Baltimore, MD  21215

A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date at Sinai Hospital.  Details will be published on this blog as soon as they are finalized.

RHONDA PASSED

Rhonda passed away peacfully a few minutes ago.  A service will be held at Sol Levinson Funeral Home.   We will post details soon.  Thank you to all those who shared their love and support!

TURN, TURN, TURN

I have been writing this blog which might give some the mistaken impression that I am high tech... but such is not the case.  Just a few minutes ago my iphone suddenly began to play a song that Rhonda asked me to download for her while she was in the ICU a few weeks ago.  I didn't even know how to download a song until Rhonda, in one of her seemingly semi-lucid moments, asked for Judy Collins' Turn, Turn, Turn song. By the time I figured out how to download the song to my phone and started to play it Rhonda was no longer awake...  So, a few minutes ago that song just started playing from my phone.  I hadn't even used the music function of the phone since I downloaded Rhonda's request.  The lyrics just seem so poetic.  Rhonda could be quite poetic, especially in her presentations about giving and recieving bad news.

TURN, TURN, TURN (originally by The Byrds)

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late