Re: OT: My Blessed Day VERY LONG

[Guest guest]

First, so good to hear is going to be fine... other than a low

cholesterol diet, dang!

But , about your daughter, that's hardly sappy! That's wonderful! I

hope her reunion is everything she hopes for. You're a wonderful mother for

helping her with the quest, rather than making it difficult for her... some

mothers would do just that, resenting their lack of support during the last

30 years. You're a good woman.

>

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I'm sorry to read the other posts about Pawpaw and Granny but thankful you

> wrote ladies because it has brought me to sharing my most wonderful day.

>

> First let me tell you that and I had a scare several weeks ago when

> he

> had an endoscopy done and was diagnosed with a pre-cancerous condition

> called Barretts esophagus. The doctor told us his lower esophagus is very

> inflamed and took biopsies and although we have tried so hard to put it to

> the back of our minds, it has been harder as the days have passed. Today I

> was to the point of mania literally trying to stay positive and not think

> the worst. We got the very good news that he does not have any cancer and

> although he has to have the screening every couple of years and take

> medications as preventative because it is already pre cancer the biopsies

> were benign. I am so grateful I have just been up and down emotionally for

> hours since the appointment. We did however get the blood work results and

> found that along with his already high blood pressure that he has taken

> medication for several years for, his cholesterol is over 240. So, guess

> who

> is now on a diet and making lifestyle changes as of tonight?

>

> Now for another most wonderful thing I just have to share with you all

> because you are as my family. A bit of short history first if you are still

> with me.

>

> My daughter Angelene was 2 ½ when I was diagnosed with Still's and I was

> not

> married. I had a friendly relationship with her father but it was not meant

> to be so I sent him on his way wishing him a good life. He was from a large

> family of 7 children, all very close and his mother and I were as well but

> I

> lost touch when my daughter Angi was 3 just after getting sick and the last

> we spoke she ask that I always stay close but with moves back and forth to

> my families when ill the last we spoke was when Angi was 7. We have

> searched

> for them all these years. We have hired services, put ads in the local

> papers and I've even come within days and friends of friends of meeting up

> with her father but always missed finding them or their addresses or

> contact

> all these years. My Angi is my only child. Because of my Still's I was

> unable to have more children. She will turn 33 this November and has always

> had the most happy, loving life she says but desperately wanted to at least

> meet or talk to her other half as she puts it. We never spoke much about

> some of the things like the night she was born and how her Grandmothers

> were

> both there with me or her aunties and their personalities because she says

> she was so happy and so she says she thinks she shut that out and never

> asked so she didn't get hurt and I didn't offer what she didn't show a

> desire to know.

>

> Well! Last night while on classmates I found a friend from high school and

> looked up her last name and there was one of her Aunts. I found her phone

> number, address in Northern California and that led me to find another

> aunt,

> grandmother and father this morning living within 3 hours from here and

> within two streets of each other. Their phone numbers are listed with the

> addresses as well. She called her grandmother's number today but the number

> was no longer in service. Next she called the Aunt up north though, the

> longer distance and she was out but it is the correct family and she is

> going to try again and speak to her when she is home.

>

> So, after all these years my daughter is crying with joy, nervous but

> saying

> Mommy you don't know what a special gift you have given me and how much it

> means. You know what, I cannot even share this with you my family without

> crying with joy. I feel like the day she was born. I finally wrote to her

> at

> work after we talked and told her of the day and night she was born. She

> wrote back she never knew and how happy she was. I thought when she talked

> to them, it might help her know how much more she was loved than she's

> even known if that were even possible. And she told me that too. She

> thanked

> me for her happiest life and love for also for sharing the special gift of

> the night she was born.

>

> So dear family, my life is blessed and I am as well and had to share with

> all of you. I love you all. Sorry for being so sappy but for those that

> know

> me, well, I am.

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[Guest guest]

 thank for sharing this wonderful story with us all and also for being a good

mother and a loving stepfather . You really have given her a gift that is

priceless .

I also want to thank you for the card on behalf of your self and the sills

family I enjoy her .I got it to day and it gave me some warm fuzzes and the keep

the legs up part made me giggle a bit and then do just that LOl . tomorrow I

have a rummy appointment and I hope i am still swollen then as yesterday I was

not for my reg doc visit but i want them to see what is happening here any hoot

thanks for both and your family is blessed having you just like all of us here

are.

 hugs

 

the  rednecks

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