Re: tangentially cf-related

[Guest guest]

n,

Your Mother-in-law sounds pretty neat. I can relate to her feels

after her sister died. You've have an interesting life, full of

interesting people.

Do you know how the homeless guy wcf that you picked up and took to

your clinic is doing now?

Gale

> It was handy and rather amusing to have my husband's

> German born mother-in-law (nee Rosenbaum) and my German hubby

around for rearing the kids ( and doing other

> things). My mother-in-law spoke flawless English with an

> accent (Koln) that made Henry Kissinger seem intelligible.

> The kids adored all 4' 10 " of her, and I patiently put up with

> her strange notions of baking. One day we went out in the

> car, always her secret and sacred place and she began to

> talk about her own family and I learned for the first time that

> she had lost a younger sister at age seven. I have a more

> clear idea of what it might have been now. She cried, and I

> mopped her up with Kleenex and on we went to the store.

> She told me that she had never really believed in God since

> her sister died, but that she did pray. So I took her to our

> Rabbi, and he listened patiently and said that God was very busy

with a huge universe which he had allowed to " go its

> own way, " and had left us more or less to our own devisings.

> So, when the youngest was born with cystic fibrosis, she felt less

that God had " done it to the kid, " and more that it

> was a fluke of the Universe as God was so busy. We did not quite

get into discussing evolution, but she figured out

> the hereditary factor, and when I told her that there were

> children, for example, my mother's brother, who had died,

> most likely of cystic fibrosis, she felt, she told me, that we

> were all in it together. There was no blaming of either family,

for which I oved her so much, and am grateful to this

> day, many years after her passing, which was peaceful. The

children mourned her as did we, but were thankful, as

> were we that we had her in our lives.

> Love to all on these lists, coping with cystic fibrosis, as best

> we can,

> n Rojas, whose husband, Hans Steinkellner, died of

> cancer 19 years ago, when our children were in adolescence. Thbat

is twelve letters, gang! M.

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