The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 2

[lmartin2711]

Elin, I am so sorry to hear about your Mom. I will remember your family in my prayers. Please keep us updated.

Lynn

My sister in PA just called to tell me that our Mom was taken to the hospital late tonight. She is completely unresponsive but the last report was that her vital signs are OK. Not sure what the heck that means. She is 85 years old and not in the best of health. We had to move her from Assisted Care to a nursing home in August and she has not been doing well lately.

I have not seen my Mom since the fall and was planning to go up next weekend. So I am feeling badly now. It is so very hard to live 6 hours away from those you love and have your own family and life that has to be maintained. Anyway... please keep us in your thoughts. Thanks, friends.

 

[marcij]

Elin -- PD and prayers for your mom and you and the rest of your family.

 

[KMH1]

Happy Birthday Lynn!

I hope you have a great weekend!!!

Amy

 

[KMH1]

My sister in PA just called to tell me that our Mom was taken to the hospital late tonight. She is completely unresponsive but the last report was that her vital signs are OK. Not sure what the heck that means. She is 85 years old and not in the best of health. We had to move her from Assisted Care to a nursing home in August and she has not been doing well lately.

I have not seen my Mom since the fall and was planning to go up next weekend. So I am feeling badly now. It is so very hard to live 6 hours away from those you love and have your own family and life that has to be maintained. Anyway... please keep us in your thoughts. Thanks, friends.

Lots and lots of

Amy

 

[marcij]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LYNN!

I hope your birthday is extra special!

Marci

 

[PNO4TE]

I heard from the doctor this a.m. My mother is in the ICU and on oxygen and has responded to some stimuli overnight. She cannot be intubated due to her COPD. they have called in a pulmonary specialist to see if there is further deterioration there and also her cardiologist is running an ECG today to determine the state of her congestive heart failure. Her physician told us not to come running from Allentown, Boston and Virginia... but it is so hard to wait and not know.

Their prognosis is not good. If she revives from this "bout" they will send her back to the nursing home with a move to hospice in the future. And they are telling us that we may only have her with us for 6 months or so.

Please keep praying and thinking of us... Your thoughts mean more than I can say.

 

[bethbuchall]

HaPpY BiRtHdAy, Lynn!!!! I hope it's a great one!

 

[bethbuchall]

I heard from the doctor this a.m. My mother is in the ICU and on oxygen and has responded to some stimuli overnight. She cannot be intubated due to her COPD. they have called in a pulmonary specialist to see if there is further deterioration there and also her cardiologist is running an ECG today to determine the state of her congestive heart failure. Her physician told us not to come running from Allentown, Boston and Virginia... but it is so hard to wait and not know.

Their prognosis is not good. If she revives from this "bout" they will send her back to the nursing home with a move to hospice in the future. And they are telling us that we may only have her with us for 6 months or so.

Please keep praying and thinking of us... Your thoughts mean more than I can say.

Elin, my thoughts and prayers are definitely with you and your family.

Beth

 

[tink2020]

Hi y'all!!!

I've only gotten this page read and just wanted to pop in and and say HELLO!

Mac... sorry about the DVC thing...I don't understand it but you have my sympaythies.

KristineN...you're DD looks adorable.And how sweet of Deb and Cinderella!

Marti ...OMG I can't believe your trip is this weekend.You and Skunka have a BLAST!!!



I have a bunch of stuff going on in RL,some quite stressful , so I haven't had much time to DDA. I think about y'all a lot. Everyday I keep everyone in my prayers and pixie dust to all in need. Hopefully my life will chill out soon and I can hang out again!

Take care DDA.

Thanks for checking in! Hope your "real life" straigthens out soon....

 

[bethbuchall]

I could use some prayers and pixie dust for my sister-in-law today as well. She found out in August (when she was pregnant with baby #5) that she had a brain tumor. She had a beautiful baby boy in December, and today is the day for the brain surgery. I am 6-7 hours away from them. I have three busy kids here, and I know that I couldn't really do anything there, but it is hard to feel so far away and helpless.

Beth

 

[marcij]

Beth -- sending prayers and PD your SIL's way, and to you, too. I hope the surgery and recovery go well.

 

[tink2020]

We head for NC tomorrow morning at 6:30 am and the funeral will be Friday morning - we will spend the rest of the weekend at Nancy's and head home on Sunday

I am not sure that I will get to post -

I hope everyone has a great weekend

Mac - I am sorry about the DVC points - but I started a WHOLE thread JUST FOR YOU!!! what more can I do?!?!?

Marti - have an AWESOME trip and birthday - I can't believe I wont get to talk to you for a week!!!!!! I am so glad you are feeling better!!

I hope everyone starts to feel better and GO DVC!!!!! Best decision we ever made!!

Thank you all for your support this week - it has really meant a lot to me!!!

I will miss you guys!!

kate

Kate and Nancy -- you all are definitely in our prayers throughout this weekend. Take care of yourselves and each other and enjoy the time spent with family surrounding this weekends events...... we'll miss you!

 

[Tammi67]

It doesn't get much more off topic than this...

Anyone active in church? I am Lutheran...I just got back from a congregational meeting....we had to vote on whether or not to remove the Pastor from our church, effective immediately. As much as I feel like it was a necessity...I can't help but feel guilty. It amazes me, I have never experienced the amount of poltics in the work place that I deal with at the church level.

Ok..I'm done. My head is just spinning. Sorry for the rant

Kristine

OMG - I'm sure that was a very hard decision. If you know that you did the right thing, try not to let it bother you. It's easier said than done, I'm sure. to you.

 

[Tammi67]

Use to be a lutheran, joined to take communion with wife. Pulled her away and into a church that wasn't dead though. They weren't very supportive when we lost our son and couldn't give us any answers on his salvation.

The joy of having a stillborn child that couldn't get baptized. We know where he is and that Mya has her own personal Big Brother Angel.

We now go to a Non-Denominational and love it.

That's a very touching story, Mac. I'm sorry you didn't have a spiritual community to support you and your wife when you went through that. Thanks for sharing.

 

[tink2020]

And I sooooo want to be Kate - she is stunning - even when she's all sweaty and bedraggled from running through the jungle!

Um, Clare.... you know that a particular queen might think you are talking about her with this one....

Although she might wonder how you've seen her running through the jungle

 

[tink2020]

Hey, a huge milestone & everyone missed it. marcij got 4000.

Yay Marcij!

 

[tink2020]

Here's a picture of Matt - I used the frame that TravelinGal used - thanks for that!! Then I erased the background on Matt's picture and smooshed the two together - here is the result:

Ladies and Gentleman, another designer! That looks great Marti!

 

[tink2020]

I find this sexiest and degrading, just because I have man breasts doesn't mean I have to be called one of the girls.

 

[Tammi67]

My sister in PA just called to tell me that our Mom was taken to the hospital late tonight. She is completely unresponsive but the last report was that her vital signs are OK. Not sure what the heck that means. She is 85 years old and not in the best of health. We had to move her from Assisted Care to a nursing home in August and she has not been doing well lately.

I have not seen my Mom since the fall and was planning to go up next weekend. So I am feeling badly now. It is so very hard to live 6 hours away from those you love and have your own family and life that has to be maintained. Anyway... please keep us in your thoughts. Thanks, friends.

Elin, I am so sorry to hear of your mom's hospitalization. Please don't let guilt eat away at you now. You did your best. Your family and your mom will be in my prayers. I am traveling to the Pittsburgh area on the 27th. If you need anything or there is anything that I can do to help, please do not hesitate to ask.

 

[tink2020]

Here's the same frame from TravelinGal but with a different picture of Matt. Paul had to help me with this one....

Ok, where is that frame from? Did I miss TravelinGal? I'm confused