S.

[Guest guest]

S.....Hi to another ...

"Normal"..now that's a word that defies description for most of us.

My normal changes with the hour, let alone the day or month.

About fathers......

I could post all night about my thoughts of my Dad who passed almost 4

years ago.( he was 90)

There isn't a moment in my day that I don't think about him. He never

had an unkind word for anyone.

No one ever said anything negative about him.A sweet, kind, puppy dog

sort of a man,

who held my hand to cross the street not for his safety but because I

was always his little girl.

He sang the "" song to me almost every night when I was little and

for many years I actually thought he wrote it for me.

I think we had this discussion before about the song.

My folks were really opposites..my Mom is 89, tough as nails, not

always the most supportive or positive

person. She was definitely the boss and my Dad just agreed...at least

that's what I thought.

Now here's the cute part...as they both aged their hearing got bad. My

Mom wore hearing aids

but my Dad chose not to. Whenever my Mom, even now ,is in a noisy room,

she just turns the aids off..they just make

all the noise louder ( don't believe the ads that say that background

noise is lessened...that's a lie).

Anyway, we were in a very noisy room at our club for Mother's day

dinner ( all of us including our kids who

were teenagers at the time). They were sitting with my folks at one end

of the long table and heard my Mom

complaining about her lobster dinner . They then heard my Dad very

audibly say ( he thought he was talking

under his breath)" Shut up Mickey and enjoy the***** dinner" My Mom

heard nothing...but the kids did!

They came running over to tell us. It seems that my Dad had probably

been cursing her out for many years

( under his breath...not able to hear himself!) So....he wasn't such

a puppy dog after all...good for him!!!

My Father -in-law once said that my Dad couldn't have been such a puppy

dog and lived with my pitbull Mom for 64 years!!!

I don't think you ever get over the death of anyone..the pain

lessens..the sweet memories stay.

Good night and have a great week-end.

Z fibriotic NSIP/05

Z 65,

fibriotic NSIP/05/PA

And

“mild”

PH/10/07 and Reynaud’s too!!

No, NSIP was

not

self-inflicted…I never smoked!

Potter,

reader,carousel lover and MomMom to Darah and Sara

“I’m gonna be

iron like a lion in Zion” Bob Marley

Vinca

Minor-periwinkle is

my flower

wrote:

Kathleen - Love, laughter and dancing. Rest assured we all support

you and your family as you find your way. Loss of any kind is always

terribly hard. I lost my dad 2 years ago and still find myself talking

to him, thinking I need to call him and tell him some trivial thing. I

know he is watching out for me and so will the people you love, watch

out for you. God bless.

What we go through is different every day, depending on where we are.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Nobody has all the answers but there is love

here. I can recite almost word for word what my VATS showed, looked up

all the big words, asked lots of questions, and still have to deal with

it as it comes. I once asked my doctor about something that was going

on. I told him I was trying to figure out what normal is now. He told

me there is absolutely nothing normal about this disease. Kind of sums

it up.

BTW - I think I even posted a picture of my favorite dancing shoes in

photos at one time. I gave them away a couple of months ago to a lovely

young girl who will make them sparkle with life.

I bounce in and out, mostly at night, on occasion. I tend to be full of

nonsense, except when I'm cranky. Pax.

S, Lubbock, TX

NSIP w/PF 12/2006 et al

> > > >

> > > > S.... wonderful good news. Good news makes us

all feel better!

> > > >

> > > > MamaSher; 70, IPF 3-06, OR.

> > > > Nasturtiums

> > > > Don't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

> > > >

> > > > Hi all - welcome Ray and

other news

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > Welcome to the Air family Ray. We aren't all about

doom and gloom

> > here because obviously some of us need to discuss our

derrieres and what

> > position we were in to check our expiration stamps. I

personally prefer

> > bending over, crooking my head backwards and just looking up.

Nah, just

> > teasing. I haven't been able to do that for simply years!

> > > >

> > > > Seriously, welcome to our world. Sorry you had to

be here but this

> > is a good place to be amongst your peers. No foolin. Did I

mention I'm

> > in Texas and we have a tendency to tell tall tales out here?

OH! The

> > Rattlesnake Roundup is in Sweetwater this weekend if anybody

is

> > interested. Bruce? Wally? No? Oh well.

> > > >

> > > > Good news today. Saw pulmo guy and he had nothin

but love for the

> > way my chest x-ray looked. The PFT's were good and my lungs

sounded

> > clear and I made it thru the winter without a flareup. So

yeah!!! I told

> > him the rheumatologist has decided I have RA, Sjogren's,lupus

or mixed

> > connective. Definitely something of the connective tissue

nature. He is

> > treating me with Plaquenil and I do feel better. We're just

going with

> > that as long as it works. I don't care what disease he wants

to call it.

> > And Doc was pleased so we're all good out here in

West Texas

> > tonight. Except for the rattlesnake thing.

> > > >

> > > > S, Lubbock, TX

> > > > NSIP w/PF 12/2006 et al

> > > >

> > >

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