Re: Goodbye for awhile

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In a message dated 1/5/00 6:24:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, wjshaw2@...

writes:

<< To Kat and Gretchen, and Joan, Alisha and and I better stop

with the names or I'll run out of space. I just want to let all my " CMT "

friends on this list to know that I'll be leaving for Fla. this Sat. the

8th and will be gone 'till late Feb., early Mar. As such, I will un

subscribe to the list later this week, maybe late on Fri. So if anyone

addresses a question to me and gets NO answer, you'll know why. But in

the mean time, I'll still be reading all the posts up late in the day

this Fri. And of course I'll re-subscribe when ever it is that I get

back. Bill

>>

HI Bill, I am glad you told us where you were going. I would have worried. So

what will you be doing in Fla? Don't they have a computer where you are

going. I would go through major withdrawl if I had to leave my puter behind.

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<< HI Bill, I am glad you told us where you were going. I would have worried.

So what will you be doing in Fla? Don't they have a computer where you are

going. I would go through major withdrawl if I had to leave my puter behind.

>>

I'm also wondering! I assume you will be lolling about on the beach, eating

bon bons and resting. Whatever you are doing, I hope you enjoy the

experience.

Kat

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To Kat and Gretchen, and Joan, Alisha and and I better stop

with the names or I'll run out of space. I just want to let all my " CMT "

friends on this list to know that I'll be leaving for Fla. this Sat. the

8th and will be gone 'till late Feb., early Mar. As such, I will un

subscribe to the list later this week, maybe late on Fri. So if anyone

addresses a question to me and gets NO answer, you'll know why. But in

the mean time, I'll still be reading all the posts up late in the day

this Fri. And of course I'll re-subscribe when ever it is that I get

back. Bill

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Sorry about your M-I-L Bill. That is a tough situation for everyone. It's

hard to say goodbye, yet it's very hard to see a person just lie there,

helpless, and not be able to help.

You probably need a Hotmail account in order to do email, or something of

that sort, but you'll probably be too busy to miss us. ;-)

Best wishes for a not too eventful trip, and peace for your M-I-L,

Kat

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In a message dated 1/5/00 11:36:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, wjshaw2@...

writes:

<< trying in our own amateurish way to " wake " her up. We were

there twice last year for a month each time and tried music by way of our

portable CD player's headphones. We got some real good facial responses

when we put on her favorites. We also popped a balloon right in front of

her face once when she hadn't opened her eyes for a day or so, and she

popped her eyes wide open. So we think she can hear well enough. >>

Bill maybe the " You've got mail " guy on aol can wake her up.

He says " You've got mail " as soon as something is in your mail box. It always

wakes me up. Maybe that will be all she needs to hear:)

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Wish though it were so, Kat, about the beach and the bon bons. My M-I-L

has been in a coma since Jan. 16th '99 and we'll be with her the majority

of the time, trying in our own amateurish way to " wake " her up. We were

there twice last year for a month each time and tried music by way of our

portable CD player's headphones. We got some real good facial responses

when we put on her favorites. We also popped a balloon right in front of

her face once when she hadn't opened her eyes for a day or so, and she

popped her eyes wide open. So we think she can hear well enough. She also

winced once, but only once, when she was given a shot. They've removed

everything except her feeding tube and trach, and she keeps plowing on.

She was and is a very tough old bird. (almost 87). She spent 3 months

with us each summer after my F-I-L passed away in 1988. But I'm sure

we'll make time to visit some of our favorite restaurants and malls and

other attractions. AND JENNY, my S-I-L who lives in the area lets my play

with her 'puter, but I tried and tried last year to retrieve my e-mail,

but just couldn't make it happen. When I got home, I usually had more

than 250 messages. I just hope all you guys will tell me all the

important stuff that I miss, after I get back. TTYL............Bill

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Thank you very much KAT, and you too Gretchen. Yes it is hard to say

goodbye. If my M-I-L woke up right now, she'd yell at all of her kids for

keeping her alive. But then again, she's staying alive on her own right

now. I don't believe the nursing home will allow the with holding of her

feeding, which one of my B-I-Ls has been trying to do for the last 8

months. The rest of us still think she should be given a chance. Maybe

we've lost touch with reality, but cest le vie. When my wife and I are

with her, we talk to her and each other and most of the time she'll open

her eyes and keep them open, once for more than 6 hours, on and off. We

never leave her while her eyes are open. The afore mentioned B-I-L goes

in for 5 minutes and leaves and always tells us she never opens her eyes.

He means well, they all do. My mother passed away last June rather

suddenly, so I didn't have to deal with that type of situation thank God.

Bill