{"id":76,"date":"2010-04-16T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/prayers-for-alicia-san-francisco-chronicles-cancer-writer.html"},"modified":"2010-04-16T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:08:50","slug":"prayers-for-alicia-san-francisco-chronicles-cancer-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/prayers-for-alicia-san-francisco-chronicles-cancer-writer.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for Alicia Parlette, San Francisco Chronicle’s Cancer Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was working in the Bay Area when one of my competitors, the San Francisco Chronicle, began running “Alicia’s Story<\/a>,” a first-person account from a young copy editor who had been diagnosed with a rare form of sarcoma cancer. The compelling 17-part series, which started on the front page in 2005 and transitioned into a blog and a book, raised a lot of awareness (and some funding) for sarcoma and inspired many people — ranging from members of her family’s Lutheran church to agnostics who had never met her — to start praying for her. But most of us lost track of her when she stopped blogging a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Today, the SF Chronicle has an update on Alicia<\/a> Parlette: five years after her diagnosis, with her fiance and dog and lots of friends by her hospital bed, the 28-year-old has started receiving palliative care. People are flying in from all over the world to say goodbye, and in the meantime, “Parlette is enjoying watching episodes of ‘Law & Order’ with friends, eating her favorite frozen yogurt that her brother, Matthew, brought her from Roseville (Placer County), and praying with the hospital chaplain and a deacon from her Lutheran church.”<\/p>\n

Alicia’s friends want to protect her privacy, but they are sharing some information on a blog for all the people out there praying for her at this time<\/a>, linked from Facebook <\/a>and Twitter <\/a>accounts. Here’s a link to Beliefnet’s collection of prayers<\/a>; the blog and Chronicle story also include information on how to help donate to her medical costs.<\/p>\n

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