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The Big C
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The Big C |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA 
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The Big C I took out the pictures of Christmas preceding just to see you - smiling and whole only a year has past and here you are a fragment of yourself wasted and waning an apparition gaunt and ghostly - chemo and radiation now a part of your everyday vocabulary and sometimes I can’t seem to find the words we spent last Christmas planning futures but never planned for this and I curse hospitals and doctors who hold life in their very hands as I watch yours slowly sift through mine I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S |
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gilead Senior Member
since 2008-03-10
Posts 1067nevada, USA |
The Big C took my father down, and it left a hole in my soul. In whatever way I can, I will share your pain. Your poem is a bittersweet testimony to life's propensity for hardness. I wish you and yours well. Art |
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Seoulair Senior Member
since 2008-03-27
Posts 807Seoul S.Korea |
sigh! wish you well! |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I truly feel for you Ruth and agree with Art. Cancer took my daughter in 2000. She was only 34 and it does, indeed, leave a hole in your soul. I will be thinking of you and hoping for a miracle. Ida |
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sewasham Senior Member
since 2006-09-11
Posts 714Oklahoma, USA |
So sorry Ruth, I lost both of my parents to cancer. Watched my strapping Dad waste away from 230 lbs to 150. You'll be in my thoughts. Take care. Steve |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Thank you all for your kind words and offers of prayers. This was written in response to my mother-in-laws diagnosis of stage 4 ovarian cancer and the subsequent surgery and chemo she has undergone. Although she has only one chemo treatment to go now and is doing well ( at 70 pounds thinner than her normal weight ) she was told last week that reoccurance rate is greater than 70% in 3 years time and if the cancer reoccurs it is much harder to treat the second time around. We are living one day at a time here and being thankful that we have this time together at all. Ruth |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Taking it day by day is sometimes all we can do, m'friend. I know your pain, and my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Make her every day special as only you can, Ruth...it helps. |
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Robert E. Jordan Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Ruth, Dieing is part of every life. We seldom get a choice on how it happens. Bobby |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ruth....it is so heart breaking to see the ravages happening from cancer. My thoughts are with you and yours.  |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
HootieGal~ Prayerful thoughts to your mom-in-law~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Fine writing...hoping for strength...hugs...James |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
Dear Ruth.. you and your family are in my prayers.. love RDB Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight......... |
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