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| GiGi58 |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 08:51:21 AM
Good Day to everyone!
I know I am new here and don't know many of you, but I already feel a kinship and love from everyone here. I am hoping it is not out of place to make this request, but I feel the need for some support. So, I am asking for some prayers and good thoughts to come the way of my family. My mother, who is 81 years old, was taken to the hospital on Saturday evening in congestive heart failure. When I talked to her on Sunday and Monday, she was feeling much better; however, she needed to have a colonoscopy. That procedure was performed early this morning and the doctor found a large tumor and says it doesn't look good and is doing more tests. She is going to have to have surgery, no matter what. My mother lives in Billings, Montana, but I live in Phoenix,Arizona. I have been making plans to move there within the next 6 months and the only reason I haven't yet is because I just had some major surgery and can't make the move quite yet, but maybe it will be too late.
I do know it could be her time to go (I hope not, though), but for some reason when it is one's mother, it just is such a loss. We all have only one natural birth mother and over the last few years, I have been able to mend a lot of fences with her and become quite close to her. And, I feel it is my responsibility to be the caregiver and be there by her side. I plan on making the trip via car as soon as I find out how bad things are (and, maybe with everyone's prayers, they won't be all that bad), but money is super tight since I have been on disability from work. So, the plan is to put some things on EBay and try to sell whatever I can (and, I have a lot of stuff), or check with some local shops on some of the antique and vintage jewelry I own, but time is of the essence, I believe. I just know that God is here for me and will make sure everything works out the way it is supposed to work out. It is in His hands, for sure.
Thank you so much for any and all prayers and positive thoughts. They are so much appreciated!
Have a wonderful day to everyone!
Gayle (aka GiGi)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain" |
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - May 26 2008 : 5:15:54 PM
Gayle- I'm so glad to hear that your mom is doing better. You being home with her will be such a blessing. You're a good daughter!
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
Wherever you go, there you are.
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| Alee |
Posted - May 26 2008 : 2:21:23 PM
Gayle- I am so glad to hear your mom is recovering! We will be in Montana in less than a month! We have to have lunch some time!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our new blog:
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com |
| GiGi58 |
Posted - May 26 2008 : 12:48:02 PM
Good Day to everyone! I thought I would let you all know that I am back from Montana and being with Mom while she was/is hospitalized and underwent colon surgery. She is still in the hospital but improving daily. Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughts while I have been gone. This is the first I have been on the computer for over a week. Mom did have colon cancer and they cut out about 6 inches of her intestines, but the doctor says they got all of the cancer. It was a tumor about the size of a golf ball and it had actually gone into the lymphs, but he says he can see no more cancer in her. Yippee!! We were all (my brothers and sisters) happy to hear that news. She still has a way to go, but she is 81 years old and this is the first major surgery she has ever had, other than a hysterectomy 40 years ago and cataract surgery for her eyes, so, this was major. We thought we had lost her the day after the surgery because she had a reaction to the morphine in conjunction with the anesthetic and she went into a very deep sleep that they could not get her out of. It was touch and go.
I will be moving to Montana within the next 3 months to become her primary caregiver and live with her. I have been off work, now here in Arizona, for 3 months after having my right foot re-built with 3 fusions and a neuorma (swollen and inflamed nerve) removed, so I have to go back to work for a period of time to take care of insurance and things like that. But, the sooner I can get back to Montana, the better.
Sorry this is so long. I so appreciate all of you and it looks like I received some very exciting items from MaryJanesFarm in the mail while I was away. What a nice welcome home gift! I will write on another forum about that once I get a chance to look it all over and drool over it.
Have a wonderful day and it is GREAT to be back!
Gayle
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain" |
| Lainey |
Posted - May 21 2008 : 07:59:37 AM
Gayle, I know how that feels. My mother suffers from congestive heart failure and has to be hospitalized often for it. You and your mother will be in my thoughts and prayers.
(Hugs)
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/ |
| Corinnelouise |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 8:55:20 PM
Gayle, praying for both of you.
Please let us know what you put on Ebay maybe we can buy from you and help ?
Hugssss
Corinne
Sister # 101 |
| nubidane |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 6:31:17 PM
Gayle
All of our moms are precious. My prayers go out to you & yours...Farmgirl HUGS |
| CountryBorn |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 6:24:13 PM
Gayle, I am sorry to hear your Mom is so ill. I will pray for her and for you.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
| Alee |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 5:55:13 PM
Gayle- I will be praying for your mom to recover and for the finances to come into place for your visit!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our new blog:
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com |
| GiGi58 |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 4:07:58 PM
Thank you everyone for your sweet thoughts and for the prayers that you are saying for mom and myself. It is so appreciated. You are all the BEST! I still have not heard anything, so I guess, as the old saying goes, "no news is good news", right? But, I am here waiting right by the phone for any changes. Thanks, again! This means a lot to me and to mom, too, even if she isn't aware of it right now. Smiles (sort of) and Hugs! GiGi
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain" |
| ruralfarmgirl |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 2:54:33 PM
GiGi,
Isnt it so true that the kindship one feels here....is almost instant....and for me it is somehow deepend when we are able to share in each others lives on this level.. So thanks for the oppertunity. Of course I will pray....for all of you!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
| mommom |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 2:50:01 PM
Maybe the news won't be so bad. We have to be positive, right? Will pray for her and for you to be able to be with her. Take good care. Susan |
| Tammy Claxton |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 2:17:51 PM
Sending prayers out to your mom and to you as well. Have Faith...
Crafty Bay Farmgirl Chapter
"A friend is someone who does things that count, but never stops to count them"
Farmgirl #152
http://countryintheburbs.blogspot.com/ |
| Marcy |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 09:20:50 AM
Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Take care and know we are thinking of you,
Marcy
Farmgirl #170
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
| Annika |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 09:14:26 AM
You are both in my prayers. I hope that it all turns out ok.
Hugs and well wishes
Annika |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 09:09:02 AM
Agreed...I'll be thinking of you Gayle and your mom. Where there is a will, there is a way--I will be praying that you can scrape together some funds to at least get yourself to Billings. After that, let the wind blow whichever way it does. If it feels important for you to go to her, then it is.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| napafarmhouse1885 |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 09:02:42 AM
gayle,
you and your mom are in my thoughts and prayers. please keep us posted as to how she is doing...and how you are doing too...
best,
napafarmhouse1885
www.napafarmhouse1885.com
please visit my blog
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
