Guest guest Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 I am so sorry to hear your having such a rough summer. You have been in my thoughts and prayer, while back I ask anyone if they heard from you because i have not seen you post since the flood. And Tracie left me know you were ok and helping with the baby. to deal with hubby and daughter having skin cancer that has to be tough. My ex-brother inlaw had melanoma and had to have a few lymph nodes removed but has been hanging in there. I do keep intouch with him, since Seth's dad died. I still feel a connection to him even thou im remarried. Him and his wife are great people. Well i will not keep you, but just wanted you to know i think of you often and hope your doing fine. many hugs and hang in there darlene. in pa Update on Darlene --warning--long! This is long, so you may delete if not interested............. Dear Sarc family, I have not been very active for the last few months and I do apologize to all of you for that. It has been a terrible spring and summer for me and I am hoping it will start to get better soon. As you all know, I have been helping with my preemie granddaughter since last November and she is doing great! I try and keep her on Monday and Friday only now.........when I can. I have had several flare-ups since the first of 2008 and in April I thought I had finally gotten better. I was feeling better and breathing better, but it did not last but about a week. I came down with another flare, and another, and ..... well, you all know how that is. Then came the floods in our small town. We had to evacuate and were gone for 4 days. I frantically sort of grabbed things to take and left my house in a horrible mess..........and, sad to say, it is still in that mess. I try each day to pick up a little and try to get back to normal. You cannot imagine what it does to a small town when a flood hits. The smell was horrible when we came back. 2 of our highways in the area (main roads in and out of my town), are still closed! Both had part of the road completley washed away and the one nearest to our town is unbelievable! Where the road was, is a ravine, 22 ft deep and over 40 ft wide! No idea when it will be fixed................ On top of that, hubby has been fighting skin cancer and going to the Doc for surgeries very often. Has had several this summer already. His Doc is 88 miles away, one way. Then about six weeks ago, one of our daughters (here in town) had a place on her arm and went for a biopsy and you guessed it, it was cancer. When she went back for surgery, she had 2 more spots, also cancer, and about 3 weeks later, she went back for more surgery and found another place on her leg. Thank God, it was NOT cancer.........so she is doing ok for now, but this has been really hard on our family. Then we heard from our daughter in Georgia, and she had another seizure! This is the daughter that had a brain tumor in 1992 and had surgery............we came very close to losing her then. And we were getting another new great grandbaby and her mommy was having problems through her pregnancy, but all has turned out well there......we have another great granddaughter and she is a doll. Born just last Saturday. With all this going on and on my mind, I have had to help my daughter answer the phones at work a lot this past two months (she is the one with skin cancer). When evening comes, I just collapse............and not sleeping well at all. I have been up for the last two nights. I have been reading the messages and doing some behind the scenes work on the list but have just not been able to be active on the list much. I have a lot of problems going on right now with the sarc. Someone wrote in about the little bumps on your face and etc.......I have had them for many years and so far, they have never gone away. When I have a flare up, they get bigger and then get smaller again when the flares let up. I also have the purple spots mostly on my arms and legs. When someone touches me, it leaves a mark -- if I shake hands, it leaves a big purple blotch and my arms have them all up and down them. I also am haveing trouble with my stomach and severe diahrearer -- plus having severe headaches again............actually, I am a MESS! Ok, I have rambled on enough! I do apologize for the length of this message. I will try and be around more and help more. I have been keeping ALL of you in my thoughts and well wishes.... I know Tracie has had a rough summer also and like she said, I also appreciate all that our Mods have been doing. THANKS! Lots of hugs, Darlene NS Co-Owner/Moderator It's time to go back to school! Get the latest trends and gadgets that make the grade on AOL Shopping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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