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Giovanni,

Lauren is very lucky to have you in her life, her mom said you are a barber and you even cut her hair and I find that so sweet. And you two are so young to have already been together for 7 years! Young love is a splendid thing!

Patty

Welcome to our little corner of the world, you will find a wealth of information here and the nicest people. It’s great that your mom is feeling good, keep us posted and ask questions if you have doubts or need information.

Patty

Sandy,

Thanks for your efforts to raise awareness. It was very kind of you to reach out to your old classmate, you provide her with comfort only you can give, you really know what she is going through in terms of grief and what she will confront in the years ahead as she navigates life without her husband. It will not be easy but she will not be alone.

Patty

Eli,

Thanks for sharing your great and good news. The hernias are unfortunate and an annoying complication but at least it is something they can just watch.

Having made the rounds to many different doctors with my mom I would have appreciated more humor but I can see where my mom might not have, even though she was a hilarious lady it was her body that was the punchline.

Patty

Joann,

I am so sorry for your loss and your children’s loss, this cancer takes so many good people from their families. “What would Dave do” is a great legacy to leave behind, to have provided an example of what is the right thing to do, that is something your children will always have as a compass to live by.

Please do visit when you need support, we all need each other.

Patty

BB,

I am so sorry she is gone. It is hard for a 15 year-old girl to be without her mother. Your daughter has learned at a young age that life is precious and not to be taken for granted but this lesson has come at great cost.

Poetry has comforted me greatly. I am no poetess like our Lainy but here is one for Susan by one of my favorites:

Dream Land

Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot.

She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a veil,
She sees the sky look pale,
And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.

Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast;
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain;
She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.

Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest at the heart’s core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break
Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace.

~Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Take care of yourself, I pray for you and your daughter.

Patty

Rob,

I can’t imagine a greater test of a relationship than supporting a partner through an illness such as this. Many people take a vow but not all are able to keep it. Your wife is indeed lucky to have you by her side and your daughter as well.

It is difficult to watch a loved one suffer. When we bear witness to suffering we truly begin to comprehend what it is to feel compassion and to love deeply. I pray for your wife, that she may know peace.

Patty