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Dalia

dalia3001

About Me

Hi everyone! I am now officialy an ex-ballerina, a crazy ballet teacher and a happy newlywed. I danced for 15 seasons with Ballet San Jose, formerly Cleveland Ballet, and now teach at the Ballet San Jose School. My husband, Gareth Hughes, and I live in San Jose. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Interests

Ballet, dance of all sorts, travel, cooking, and (don't laugh to hard) World of Warcraft. Blame Gareth.

Music:

Ladycop , Red Snapper, Blonde Redhead, Elliot Smith, ABBA, Arvo Part, Bob Dylan, eighties stuff, Henryk Gorecki, Kate Bush, Phillip Glass, Primus, etc.

Movies:

Four Rooms, Freeway, Kill Bill, anything directed by Kevin Smith

Television:

Battlestar Gallactica!!!! The Office, America's Next Top Model, House, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, Project Runway. I know it's sad that I like reality TV.

Books:

Right now I'm reading anything I can find about Rome, Venice or the Amalfi Coast, as Gareth and I will be traveling around Italy in October!

My Blog

Woohoo!!!!

Oh dear, I've waiting so long to post, sorry everyone.I have lots of news, Gareth and I bought a house which we are decorating and remodling and about to move into, it's wonderful and I can't wait!But...
Posted by Dalia on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:16:00 PST

No pump either!

Tomorrow I was scheduled to go in and get a PICC line inserted in my arm, start my treatment for the lung thing intravenously and get a needle biopsy done of the fungal infection in my lung.Then, at 5...
Posted by Dalia on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:41:00 PST

No cancer!

Hello all!Well the great news from my latest PET scan is that it shows no sign of cancer. And that is really very very good news. I'm having some trouble focusing on it, however, because, a fungal inf...
Posted by Dalia on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:45:00 PST

A Clean Scan!!

I did finally have my PET/CT scan, and it shows no sign of cancer at all. Obviously, that's the best news we could have hoped for. This scan was even cleaner than the ones they used to declare me in r...
Posted by Dalia on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:26:00 PST

A good doctor's visit.

I just got back from a checkup with my doc, and things are looking good. I am feeling well, and this Sunday I get to leave the home without my mask and return to a normal diet, go out to dinner see pe...
Posted by Dalia on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:27:00 PST

Happy New Year!!!!

Hi everyone!Sorry I haven't posted in so long. The time in the hospital, Dec. 9 through the 28th was probably one of the hardest periods of my life. For most of the time I wasn't allowed to leave my t...
Posted by Dalia on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:52:00 PST

Heading to the Hospital

Well, because I was doing so "well," they bumped up my treatment calender. I had my first of five major chemo treatments leading up to my transplant last Saturday as an outpatient. I have one more out...
Posted by Dalia on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:47:00 PST

Doing well, and a bit of a break...

Hi all!Sorry I haven't been so great about posting lately.My first day of apheresis was Thanksgiving. Even though the docs thought it would take 3-5 days to harvest enough stem cells for my treatments...
Posted by Dalia on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:26:00 PST

Feeling better with some good news!

So I woke up this morning with a phone call from my favorite doc, Shane Dormady, who called to tell me that the thing on my arm they thought was a new cancerous growth may very well not be. So I am fe...
Posted by Dalia on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:23:00 PST

Getting started

Home from having the cathetar implanted, and feeling reasurred by the docs that the new thing in my arm is not something about which they're too concerned. Feels good to get this party started....
Posted by Dalia on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST