25 Dec Not the news we were hoping for…
Repost from December 6 - With Cathy, our mom and myself all down at the same time, we need your prayers...
Our Journey
25 Dec Shizzle Girls Need Your Prayers
Repost from December 1st - Hi Friends of Shizzle! My name is Liz Kamyszek and I'm writing on behalf of Shelly and Cathy! They are going through a tough time right now. Shelly just had another surgery on her shoulder and has a 6-month recovery ahead of her. She can't drive...
25 Dec Cathy’s Journey to Kick Stage IV Metastatic Cancer
Written by Cathy Blood Thanksgiving Week 2016 - As you may have heard by now, I recently received some bad news. Here's the past week in a nutshell.
07 Apr Finding my way back with paint therapy
Finding my way back
For the first time in over a year, I'm thrilled to be creating again. I lost my passion for painting this past year between the divorce, my diagnosis of cancer, major surgery, long recovery and almost losing our mom to an unexpected heart block. After spending months in physical therapy and basic survival mode, I'm finally climbing out of the haze. The fog is clearing and I can see hope for a better tomorrow. Painting furniture is therapeutic, having lost that lust was like losing part of my inner soul and I'm so thankful it's starting to come back. I tried the Frenchic for the first time when I returned to work after surgery. Cathy had raved about it for months and it didn't take long for me to understand why. Frenchic is absolutely dreamy and just what I needed to spark my passion for painting again.
27 Sep The Cancer is Gone, My Arm has been Rebuilt, now the Long Road to Recovery
Words cannot express the overwhelming gratitude I have for all the friends and family who've come along side the girls and I since I was diagnosed with cancer. From my primary doctor, Kristi Kern, to my orthopedic oncology surgeon, Dr. Joel Post, I've had nothing but exceptional care. Chondrosarcoma is an extremely rare form of...
09 Sep My Results are in ~ It’s Cancer
Dr. Post called with my biopsy results and told me I have a very rare form of bone cancer called chondrosarcoma.
18 Aug Thank you for your Prayers…
Our Jenison Shizzle Shop will be closed Wednesday, August 19 as my family and I meet a team of doctors at Spectrum Health's Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion. At this point, I'm not sure what the future holds for me. They haven't determined yet if the large bony lesion inside my humerus is malignant or...
24 Dec Merry Christmas!
My sister Cathy and I would like to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas! May you and your family be blessed with the most incredible joy surrounded by the most amazing friends, enjoy the happiest of times and create treasured memories that will last a lifetime! I'm also feeling for...
15 Mar “Quiet Place” Beach Table
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I've been buried lately in an endless mountain of paperwork. Can I just say that getting everything ready for your accountant is pain in the butt when you're self employed with a painting business? I can't stand paperwork, so for me, this is torture. "Lets go off by ourselves to a...
08 Mar Shizzle Style Paint Workshop at Michigan State University
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Michigan State University is BIG on being GREEN! Table painted by one of our students at our last workshop Their hopes are once you "Go Green", you'll "Stay Green" They have an amazing facility on campus called the MSU Surplus Store. They're rethinking every aspect possible to reduce the amount of trash that ends...