Trip to Lourdes France

[Guest guest]

Hello all! Here it is on the 11th. Rosemary I am thinking of you. A good

friend of ours had a baby on Tues. (the actual day that was 9/11) and they

named him after their brother who was killed at the WTC. His and the baby's

name is Novotny. It was very hard to see 's nephews get

up and read names of other victims from the list and end it with and our Uncle

!!! Not an easy day!

Well, it has not been an easy week. Moe was in Columbia last week for a CT scan

only to show that the Crohn's is acting up again and she lost 5 more pounds.

She is now 93lbs 5 ft 3 and 13 years old. She was put back on prednisone for 45

days! I hate steroids!!!!

Jack is doing very well. We've got him potty trained. He is speaking a little

french and he wont be 3 until Oct. He will start preschool the beginning of

Oct.

Kate, wocf, has strep for the 6th time in a year. We will be visiting the ENT

when we return from our trip.

Our Trip: On Sunday, God willing, at 5:10 pm EST we will be on our way to

France. The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization, will be paying for

Moe, Jack, Me and . The AOH, another Catholic organization, held a raffle

to pay for Kate. We are going for a total of 10 days. This is a pilgrimage to

Lourdes. For those of you who are not familiar with the background....Lourdes

is a town in France where The Virgin appeared to St. Bernadette when she

was young. A spring formed and the water from the spring is holy. Now I am a

realist. I don't expect to go with my children and have them come home CF and

Crohn's free. As we al know we don't always get what we pray for otherwise we

would have all won the lottery by now. What I am looking for is even harder

than the children being " cured " . I am looking for my husband to get it! I want

him to move out of his shack by the river Nile and come back to the real world.

That's all I want. HONEST! I can deal with the rest just give me some HELP! I

will kneel down at the grotto and say a special pray for all of us to be granted

this. I just wanted you all to know about it and keep us in your thoughts and

prayers for our LOOOOOONG journey.

Meg

Mom of 3

Moe 13yowcf & Crohns, Kate 8yowocf, Jack almost 3 wcf & gerd