Thank you kativicky. It is good my daughter and I are together to walk this grief journey together. She is our only child and we have years of good memories. So even though there are many moments longing for his presence we also have years of good memories.
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Thank you looking in. It was devastating as he was a good candidate for the Stem Cell Transplant and his Multiple Myeloma was still considered low risk so we were hopeful for a good outcome. We knew the treatment was going to be aggressive and recovery would be several months. What was so upsetting was the Chemo got rid of the Multiple Myeloma but gave him so many complications he couldn't re
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Dear Cheryl, thank you for sending love and warm wishes.Yes, the loss is deep and heart wrenching. My heartfelt condolences to you in the death of your dear younger sister. How fortunate you and your husband were able to help with her care and give some respite to her husband. Stem Cell Transplant can produce miracles but the Chemo is brutal and it was the complications from the Chemo that
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Dear NormaRae. How we loved that weekend in Atlanta. I remember it felt like we had known each other forever. Yes Gene and I did have a good relationship. Thanks for that favourite saying and it's true that I was fortunate to have our love for all those years but the downside is saying goodbye and it is damn awful. The wound of grief will develop scar tissue and the memories are salve to th
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Thank you. Yes, we enjoyed many years out of the Church and had a long and happy life together. Life is present moment, only moment. And we are doing our grief that way, we'll have moments that bring us to tears and then moments that have us laughing. We had a lot of fun together as a family and memories are the salve to our grief.
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AmIDarkNow? Thank you. As you pour a glass of JW Platinum I shall pour a glass of Chambord Liqueur in remembrance.
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Thanks Devoted Exmo. It was a long and happy union and the grief is deep and brutal but I am taking it one step at a time. The paper work is overwhelming and I swear it's easier to be born than to die. The paper work seems endless. At least I haven't had to deal with Mormons and a Bishop who would insist on church doctrine talk at a funeral versus talking honouring Gene's life. Gene
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Thanks summer. We did have a long and happy marriage. Yes, it is wonderful having our daughter Sonnet here. When she falls apart I comfort her and when I fall apart she comforts me. I am a retired Registered Nurse and was a Hospice nurse and used to facilitate Hospice Bereavement groups and I make sure that I don't let my own grief not allow Sonnet her grief as she is grieving the loss of
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I have been “inactive” on the board for a long time but Eric and a few others knew Gene and I. I am heartbroken as Gene died on the 13th. of December at UAMS Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He started Chemotherapy here in Florida and when it wasn't giving the expected results he was referred to the Multiple Myeloma Institute in Little Rock. He started treatment in Little Rock in July an
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Eric I hope your health issues are resolved and that you will be okay. Your website when we found it way back when was such a help to us, especially me since I had a harder time making the break from that church. Even though Gene and I left together we never had our names removed. I dragged my feet about having my name removed and Gene never pushed the issue (he was happy we'd left the chu
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Maybe they started teaching her at 17 and told her to wait until she was eighteen and then she wouldn't need her father's permission. The missionaries wouldn't want her father to have a chance to talk her out of it. Forward some years and she wants her father at her wedding and he can't go and she remembers those words of years before,"not to tell her father, because he would be prompted
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You could have a little oil dropped on your head and be healed. No, wait, you'd still be sick but have oil in your hair. Seriously, NormaRae I hope you feel better SOON.
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I agree with you. Nurses used to be so proud of > their caps along with the black stripe signifying > an R.N. The day when they received their caps > during their training was a very big deal. You > could tell which school a nurse graduated from by > her cap. And the white dresses looked so pretty. &
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I don't know why it is but too often people seem to think that when we take care of ourselves and don't bend to their wishes we are mean. No, you are not being mean. You are wise and set sensible boundaries in order to take care of yourself. You are not responsible for your brother's behaviour and I'm going to make a judgement of him, this "lovebombing" you is really about him.
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Yes, randyj is a hero. DH and I met randyj and he is the real deal. A great guy and a walking encyclopedia.
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blueorchid Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No Man Knows My History has a special place in my > heart and I will take Fawn's well researched "lies > and deception" over all the TBM arrogant > unsubstantiated hearsay that there is. All > Mormons know is what they heard in church. I didn't know about "No Man Knows My History&qu
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Just browsing Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > **HOWEVER SHE DEMAMDED THAT HER NAME MUST BE LEFT > ON THE CHURCH RECORDS,JUST IN CASE THE MORMON > CHURCH WAS TRUE** > > JB I JOINED just in case the church was true. As an investigator I told the missionaries that since they believe that people are taught the gospel on the other side aft
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and commanded I return my seer stone so I cannot translate any more.
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Monson will learn to Skype and Primary Children all over the world will get to see their Prophet wiggle his ears.
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cludgie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and all the missionaries talked about encountering so many > crazy people. I used to try to calm them with the fact that it > was because they were serving in a large city. I thought you were going to say "No, because you are the crazy one." Sorry, I just couldn't resist that cludgie. We lived
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It depends who you are. A Mormon Presidential candidate didn't have to wait a year. He and his wife flew from Michigan to Utah the day after their civil marriage. You can buy anything for money.
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madalice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > why was Jesus resurrected with > scars on his hands and side? Nobody has ever given > me a reasonable answer to this. When I was a member I remember being taught in Mormon Sunday School that when Jesus returns to the earth every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ and that the sc
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caedmon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Focus group? Harassing the faithful to attend > more faithfully? or maybe translated yet another way....Harassing the faithful to pay their tithing more faithfully? It's all about the money, just sayin' :-)
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They said:- "........The saffron robes of the Buddhist monk. All are part of a rich tapestry of human devotion to God." Buddhist don't believe in God.
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I believe bringing a child that is not wanted into the world is worse than choosing an abortion. Phase, it seems that you made the best decision for you. It seems people want to make having an abortion a moral issue and a choice a woman needs to feel guilty about. I don't agree with that.
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