I asking my ladies here to read a blog I have followed for some time now...this young lady has cancer and has very poor chance of survival. I have followed her for many months ...I guess two years now even before this blog. Anyway she is pretty powerful and every once in a while I ask people I know to pray or do whatever they do to send positive power her way...This seems like one of those times. Check her latest out: WELCOME TO BALDIE'S BLOG: Going Blind
I think you will see what makes her so special. Thanks to you all!
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Read her last entry, very moving and so sad. Will back up to older entries through the next week. It is so damn hard for people. After last summer with Mom I hear it so much more.
ReplyDeleteNow a friend’s husband with MS has major cancer where the chemo make his MS kick in stronger than ever (Dana Faber in the fall), and a very dear friend's brother has less than six months from liver cancer. She now realizes she needs to get her butt to FL to see him SOON, even if he does not want her there. Very impressed with her decision.
I pray most every night -- not much and very recited, started with respect for Mom. A decade on the rosary for her, a decade for Don, a decade for Linda's brother, a decade for Shauni (she'll be fine, just young and struggling)... adding another for anyone one else in need... better get started since I might watch AI for the first time tonight.
I remember reading her blog when you had mentioned it before. Such a need for prayers. Some ladies at the church I attend have been knitting prayer shawls to share with those in need of a wrap around hug.Although I do not sit still enough to knit, I can still visualize and wrap this young lady up in my prayer shawl for her.
ReplyDeleteHer story reminds me how pathetically I take the wonderful gift of health. Tis the Lenten season when concentrated reading has helped get me back on track, if not for just a while.
Oh Terry, my Mom had a prayer shawl given to her when she entered Mercy Hospital in Springfield MA last summer - we used it with her as long as we could it was covering her feet when she passed last summer.
ReplyDeleteIt's the only thing I remember taking back from her room the awful morning when she died. It's stored away now for her only granddaughter as a keepsake.
I am sobbing now... sad but need to think back - thank you.
Ladies you are so wonderful. I am sure she feels the warmth!
ReplyDeleteThis evening I timed myself on the rosary (I don't do the bottom part but up to all 5 decades)
ReplyDeleteI also thought about why am reciting... So, it takes me 8 minutes (I talk fast since from MA) 1.6 minutes per decade. As I thought of it really means 1.6 minutes each I am engrossed in thinking of one intention or person - such a small part of my day.
Was concerned I was only reciting since I am so analytic. Right now believing that just thinking of the past or a person's hardship for 1.6 minutes a day is good for God to know, and good for me to ponder on. A decade frees up next week (one is for someone having surgery Tues), wonder (and a little scared) about who will take it up.
So wish I could be more spiritual – but this is all I have now. Seriously considering volunteering or training for something in hospice but not sure I am ready yet.
Yes, Deb, I keep reading her back posts – she has the warmth around her, when she does go she will be with God and somehow will return the warmth to those who need it. I think that’s what Mom is trying to do with me now.
I too have thought about hospice volunteering when the time is right. I know I have much work to do to get myself grounded solidly enough spiritually to handle the pain of loss. The prayer shawl is another venue for my time someday. A precious gift for you to save to give your daughter someday. I have heard others giving them to new babies that come into the family. Ah, the Circle of life.......
ReplyDeleteI have lost both of my parents already. My Dad passed at age 56 and my Mom at 75. (just 2 years ago)I have many relatives and it seems I lose at least one a year. Some too young and others whose time has come. My insight has grown with each event and is possibly grooming me for the possibility of being a Hospice volunteer. God knows!
I have been reading her blog for quite awhile now and I am a 4 time cancer surviver myself. This girl is an inspiration to everyone. She is so very honest, so full of courage and love for all. Her love extends to all of us with her blog being an invitation to share her ups and downs, her laughter and her tears, an up close and very personal view of life....the reality of real life. I have shed many a tear reading her story and she and her family, especially that very cute son of hers, are in my prayers. She has taught me that courage, true courage, comes from deep within and never ever, no matter what is happening, stop laughing....even if you are laughing at yourself.
ReplyDeleteTerry, you would be wonderful as a hospice volunteer. I have lost 22 people in 14 years, including both my parents, both in-laws, a brother-in-law, a sister-in-law, and my husband. Believe me, I know the value of those precious volunteers.
Pricilla, I did not know... only know what you tell me about Patricia's son. All is so hard but so glad you are a survivor. I can only imagine how much support a strong person like you gives to your family others. BTW, overdue for an update, praying it is good.
ReplyDeleteReally thinking about hospice here. For Mom we never asked for the volunteers - only the nurse and home health worker. Am wondering if I have the strength and stomach to train and do what the health workers do - the one we had was so kind and wonderful to Mom and the rest of us.... Need to research, not even sure if it's a doable volunteer role.
I will tell you my experience with Hospice volunteers has always been so wonderful. I once asked one of the woman how she did it. Her response was so wonderful. She said that it had been such a privilege to be with so many people in their final hours, that the honesty and courage of they displayed had given her deeper faith in humankind and less fear of death. I think both of you would be wonderful and Hospice would be lucky to have you. Even if you decided it was not for you I believe it is so important to find out what that little voice in your head is asking of you.
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