Re: have been feeling lousy

August 28, 2004

Althea, you have my continued prayers. Please come here to unburden

yourself anytime.

Is there someone outside of your family in whom you can confide? You may

feel better if you go to talk to someone - a person at a church,

community center, or women's group, for example.

Have you asked for help from your physician?

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] have been feeling lousy

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> I have been feeling so lousy it has been hard to put a smile on my

> face. It has been a terrible last 2 years and the going just seems

> to get tougher. I don't know sometimes how I get up in the morning

> and carry on. 2 years ago it was Jay's Mom - she passed away from

> colon cancer...then it was my Mom - bless her heart she is still

> alive thanks to a pace maker but she has congenitive heart trouble

> and doesn't seem to be getting any better.

> Now it is my Dad, he has brain cancer. I already miss talking to

> him but he is still here...I can't call him because i start crying

> on the phone and that is no good.

> I hurt so bad emotionally and physically. I know that stress makes

> my condition worse and that none of this is helping me but what do I

> do. Tell them not to get sick...it doesn't work.

> I feel so alone at times. How do I complain or ask for help when

> they are so much worse then I am. No I can't do half what I could

> do just a year ago. But it seems so trivial to me. It hurts but

> what is pain to death or impending death.

>

> I want you all to know you mean so much to me and I thank you so

> much for being here for me. I thank you so much for all your

> prayers.

>

> God bless,

> Althea

August 28, 2004