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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan 
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
Dear Lyra, my sweet friend, this one hits hard, I almost could feel the pain. I hope with all my heart that you are ok, but I'm so afraid it's your own pain you're writing about. You've given the pain a face sweet Poetess A sad, but beautiful write. Lots of HUGS to you pal. Titia Like scattered leaves...my words will flow |
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SmartChick Member Rara Avis
since 2001-09-23
Posts 7081On A Journey To The Unknown |
Oh my dear friend Lyra, I sure hope you aren't suffering with alot of pain. I worry about you alot. I hope you are okay. |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks for your reply, Titia... Unfortunately this was written about the pain I have been feeling. I haven't been able to describe it well, so I thought that if I wrote a poem about it...it might help. But I am not a person who is used to having much pain and so I am completely incapable of describing whether it feels like bone pain or muscle pain, or some other pain. On Friday, I will have a bone scan and I probably won't get the results until the middle of next week if I am lucky. In the meantime, I am having a hard time walking...but otherwise, when I sit or lie down...it doesn't hurt at all. I still hope to see you in Florida. If I can't make it...you will just have to come and visit me here in Michigan and bring everyone else with you...  ~ hugs and painLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks Sue... It is about that pain in my left thigh, which seems to keep getting worse when I walk, but it goes away completely when I am sitting down or lying down. I won't know what it is for almost a couple of weeks, so for now...I am taking lots of Motrin and trying to stay off my feet.  ~ hugs from a lame chipmunkLyra |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (big hugggssssss) Oh Lyra, I understand how you feel talking with you and I hope your next check-up goes alright as my thoughts and prayers are with you! (sad sigh) This is powerful, sweet friend, I am always here if you need a shoulder to cry over or someone to comfort you, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Lyra, thank you for sharing! May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." |
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WhiteRose Member Elite
since 2002-07-23
Posts 3208somebody's dungeon |
Oh how well I know the feeling. I have arthritis in about 30% of my body now. You have described the pain I often feel very well here. My heart goes out to you sweet lady. |
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NewEnglandlazurlu Member Rara Avis
since 2002-01-04
Posts 7470A Mountain Paradise |
AHHHH! Ouch that hurts. I can certainly relate Hon as I'm miserable most of the time with arthritis in both hips. The picture is exactly how I feel first thing every morning. Grrrr..... If you're hurting too, feel better. Hugs, Marti "Even if life is full of thorns, |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Oh, Lyra...I'm so sorry for your pain, but glad at least that you can have relief when you get off your feet. I guess you should listen to that message from your body...you think? I hope you feel better soon. Let us know how your test goes...Hugs..gentle ones. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Madame - little chipmunk I felt your pain when I read this. I only wish there was some way that I could help. Stay well chipmunchin, stay well... BC |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much for your reply, Noah... I will have the bone scan on Friday, but won't know the results until the middle of the following week....if I am lucky... I'll keep everyone posted... ~ ouchy hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks for your reply, Anne... I haven't been able to describe the pain because I have never really had much pain in my life (really!) And I can't tell the difference between muscle pain and bone pain, so I thought if I wrote a poem about it...it might help. All I know is that it hurts to walk and to put any weight on it...but when I am sitting down or lying down, I rarely feel it. Next Friday, I'll have a bone scan but won't know anything until midway thru the following week.  ~ hugs from a limping chipmunkLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks Marti... I am hurting pretty bad if I try to walk... The pain is in my upper left thigh and I am very worried that its a cancer metasteses. I won't know for about a week and a half, but in the meantime...everyone is telling me that it sounds like a muscle because metasteses are supposed to hurt all of the time and mine doesn't hurt when I am sitting down or lying down. I've never had arthritis or anything like that so I really am not too familiar with pain... I know this will make you jealous but I even went thru one labor with hardly any pain and one with no pain.....and no anesthetics... I guess I must be a callous... but this really does hurt when I walk. ~ hugs from a lame chipmunkLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Martie... I will keep everyone informed, but I probably won't know anything for about a week and a half. I am taking the full prescription dose of Motrin and I know that its helping because when I wake up in the morning, after not having taken any all night...the pain is definitely worse... ~ hugs from a chipmunk without her scamperLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks Bill... You can help... Please pray for me, that it isn't a spread of my cancer... ~ thanking you hugs from a slowed down chipmunkLyra |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Lyra~ I can relate to the pain ... but certainly not to the level of anxiety you're going through~ May God in His tender mercy be with you, dear lady~ And I think He is ... I really think He is~ *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Dear Lyra, I am so sorry that you have such pain. I know that if each and everyone of us in Passions could take a bit of it for you, we would. Instead we will pray for you. Be brave sweet lady. Prayers are on the wing. Chris  |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Lyra, just as there are all kinds of pain, there are all sorts of ways to write about it to try to take our mind off of it, to try to minimize it. If you feel better sitting down, then by all means, sit, and write of it, and in some way, perhaps you will minimize it to a bearable extent. In the meantime? We shall all keep you in our prayers! |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Marge... That is what everyone has been saying, but after losing a husband and a son in just a little over a year and then 14 months later, being diagnosed with one of the most aggressive and rare cancers that exists... I am beginning to think that God is beating on me... and I am very very scared... thanks so much for your prayers...they are very much appreciated ~ lots of hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much for your prayers, Chris... I sure hope that God is listening!!! ~ hugs from a lame chipmunkLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much for your prayers, Karilea... I am scared but I am also so very annoyed that I can't get up and scamper around like I usually do. Every time I want something, I have to ask David to get it for me... As it doesn't hurt me when I am sitting down, I often forget that its there and then I get up and start to walk and it hits me really hard... that was actually the inspiration for the poem... It just won't be ignored...that obnoxious monster! The prayers mean more to me than I can tell you...  ~ hugs from a chipmunk who has lost her scamperLyra |
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ShadowRider Senior Member
since 2001-07-14
Posts 1038USA |
~Mega-sighs and empathy~ Munk-age, i am saddened by hearing the degree of the pain caused, and i am sure most of it is not all in the nerve receptors. This poem had a dagger-point emotional level to it that perfectly described an indescribable feeling. I hate, so much, that you have to go thru this, time and time again. I wish, if only for a few days, i could bear your pain and let you enjoy a day without it. your friend, always jeff [This message has been edited by ShadowRider (08-25-2002 11:40 PM).] |
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GenXer Senior Member
since 2001-12-15
Posts 583USA |
Lyra, I'd hadn't seen you over in WCP, so I thought I'd check over here. When I read this, I knew I was reading about physical pain you were feeling. I certainly hope it is not what you are fearing it may be. I will certainly keep you in my thoughts. Dave |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
I walked for you this morning. Denver had two walkathons this morning. I got off the bus at the "wrong" park, and walked two miles in the cancer research walkathon, when Sara and I had intended to go to the AIDS awareness walk...three miles away at a different giant park! But now I see I was at the right park all along. Thanks for helping me get my sense of direction today. But I am really, really sorry about your PAIN. Healing thoughts are on the way over the Rockies...er, that's the wrong direction! I am so turned around here, I don't follow the NEWS...as I should. hugs, Kacy |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Dear Friend, This verse has consumed my heart today. It lingers in my ear and touches every tender part of me, To you, dear friend may the days be kind, may the nights be peaceful and may your heart bathe in the wells of friendship. For you have many. Hugs over hugs Liz |
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SimplyGold Senior Member
since 2002-07-10
Posts 1453 |
Dear Lyra, I just read of your discomfort and I want so much to make you feel better. I am at a loss except to say, I am here for you any time you need me. I wish you relief and peace, these thoughts could not be any purer. Love, Electra  By the power of love and all things great through shear collective will, we demand that this discomfort disapate, reduced to a tiny ball so that you can throw it far away! |
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SimplyGold Senior Member
since 2002-07-10
Posts 1453 |
Dear Lyra, I just read of your discomfort and I want so much to make you feel better. I am at a loss except to say, I am here for you any time you need me. I wish you relief and peace, these thoughts could not be any purer. Love, Electra By the power of love and all things great through shear collective will, we demand that this discomfort disapate, reduced to a tiny ball so that you can throw it far away! |
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SimplyGold Senior Member
since 2002-07-10
Posts 1453 |
Dear Lyra, I just read of your discomfort and I want so much to make you feel better. I am at a loss except to say, I am here for you any time you need me. I wish you relief and peace, these thoughts could not be any purer. Love, Electra By the power of love and all things great through shear collective will, we demand that this discomfort disapate, reduced to a tiny ball so that you can throw it far away! |
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SimplyGold Senior Member
since 2002-07-10
Posts 1453 |
Dear Lyra, I want so much to bring you relief. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Know that I am here for you any time. I am just a phone call away. I didn't realize my first message repeated so much. I just really want to take your discomfort away... Love, Electra [This message has been edited by SimplyGold (08-25-2002 04:10 PM).] |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Jeff... but I wouldn't want to share this pain with anyone. It is actually a bit better today, but on Friday and Saturday it was exactly as described in the poem. It seems to come and go in some kind of cycle and I have no idea whether its related to anything I did or didn't do or eat. But today, I have been walking around without even limping very much although I am trying to stay off it as much as possible because tomorrow it could boomerang right back. Sorry... I can't and won't share it with you , but thanks for your kind offer... ~ big thank you hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Dave... I have been away from WCP because we have visitors constantly for the past couple of weeks... Friends and family... and its been fun, but I haven't been on line much and have lots of catching up to do. Hopefully, I'll get back to WCP again soon. Interestingly, the pain seems to have lightened up a great deal today. I can almost walk without a limp. David thinks its muscle related and has been begging me to see a sports med doc, but I have a bone scan scheduled for Friday and would rather start here than get involved in something which I don't think its likely to be because that might cause it more harm than good. If it isn't cancer, then I will see a sports med doc and we'll try to fix it and I sure hope that he is right and I am wrong... but the problem is... the chipmunk is never wrong... she eats those smart acorns and they give her BRAIN POWER! Thanks so much for keeping me in your thoughts. I'll be in touch and let you know... ~ hugs from a brainy chipmunkLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Oh Kacy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so very much Now you know that you were in the right place afterall.... I appreciate that so very very much! I would love to scamper over to you and give you a big in person, but I would probably get lost. BTW, Michigan is east of the Rockies LOL.....You just must get your bearings and its so hard when you live in a new place. ~ big hugs of thanksLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Liz... Thanks so much for your very kind words... Pain is very frightening, especially when one has cancer. I know that I wouldn't be half as scared if I hadn't gone through it with my first husband. David and the rest of my family keep telling me that it sounds like muscle pain, but I know that is wishful thinking... I wish that too, but this is feeling familiar to me and I am getting scared. I have a bone scan scheduled for Friday but probably won't have any results til the middle of next week... I'll keep everyone informed. ~ loving hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Electra... Thanks so much for your caring... I know that you really mean it because you sent it to me 3 times... LOL I don't know what this pain is, just yet. I have a bone scan scheduled for Friday, but won't know results til the middle of next week. David and the rest of my family keep telling me its muscle...but I am really scared. Today it actually seems to be a bit better than it was... Maybe it was all of those prayers... ~ big thank you hugsLyra |
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Gemini Senior Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 1203Wisconsin, USA |
Prayers are with you dear, try to get rest. I'll hope for the best. Thank you for sharing. |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so very much for your kindness... Gemini... ~ hugs for helpingLyra |
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