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I posted this under "I need, I need, I need!!!" then started the message inside with "To tell you all Thanks!" but it didn't seem to get many responses... I am greatfull for the ones I got, but I was thinking maybe I chose the wrong title... so here it is again in case you missed it. I just wanted to be sure to get the message of "I am thankful for my family here" out to everyone.
I come here pretty much daily just to check in (or check in on) and get the warm fuzzy feeling just knowing you all are all here 24/7.
I make it to chat when I can and when I need to...
One night I really needed to chat, with someone I knew and that I could lay down my brush with and just talk with.
You see, my grandmothers have been doing their best here to shake things up, and a fine job they were doing for a while too.
One suffered a hemorragic stroke on July 23rd and needed emergency brain surgery to remove the blood clots in the back of her head. She survived it and the stay at Kaiser. And, she just made a landmark recovery move last weekend- she took a 5 hour car ride to see the wedding of the little girl that grew up next door to her. I nearly cried seeing her there...
On the first night of grandma's stroke I was awake late that night and feeling alone in her house. (I had traveled three hours to get to where she lived and left the kids and hubby at home.) Grandma has this very old contraption she calls a computer and lucky for me it had a modem in it... I dialed up her online service, loaded Letterville and clicked on that magical green button. I was HOME!!!
I didn't know what I needed, I had been busy all day getting or doing what everybody else needed and forgot about me... until I landed in the Letterville Chat Room- I needed family.
I am so thankful that the "boyz" were there telling rude jokes and the women there were keeping up with them, and off to the side I could have serious conversations with some I knew better than others... for that I can't begin to express how much it meant to me, but say Thank You!!!!
When it was my other grandma's turn to land her butt in the hospital with congestive heart & lung failure and a panic attack the size of her oversized tuna boat she drives (well, that's what she calls it... driving that is), I had the strength to make that 3 hour trip again knowing I would have people there for me too... inside those little old lady computers they all have now- with my family inside them, always there always ready!
Thank you!
The soppy but sincere side of the Moon
(As you can see it took me near three months just to post this... is it too soppy? is it corny? oh heck with you all- I want you to know I appreciate you!)
Have any of you out there felt this way too? About our family here?
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net
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Heck yea thats soppy,....... but it doesnt matter, we all are like family here. I hope your two grandmas are doing better now.
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As a matter of fact, I felt this way yesterday. As I was coming home from running some errands, there was a group of people stopped at the end of my driveway. Seems this little dog had been hit. She had no tag, just a flea collar and the poor old girl wasn't doing real well. Someone else from close by had gone and gotten her pet porter and another woman was on the phone with the humane society trying to get them to come get her. I almost cried standing there looking at the poor girl (I get very emotional about and attached to animals instantly). We carefully got the scared little girl in the porter and put her in my truck, I drove her to the humane society. (It was quicker than waiting for them to come get her). They already had the vet on standby. I was so upset when I got back yesterday, I had to sit on the floor and hold my dog for the longest time, telling him I love him. Anyway, I then got on chat and just needed to talk to someone about it. I know this isn't nearly as serious as your situation, but after I started to fell better about the girl (I trust the vet, it's the same one my whiner mutt goes to), I got really pi**ed at someone for either dumping her off or letting her run without a tag. She may have had a tattoo or microchip to identify her, but she still shoulda had one of those little tags with her name & phone # on.
Anyway, sorry I rambled on here, but I understand exactly what you mean by this place being family and needing someone to talk to at times.
Hope your grandma's are doing better. Tell them if they pull any more stunts like that, you'll send Guido to kick their butts!
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa
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Stef, You know you can always come here for hugs and support. You can also come here for direction and correction and teasing. Problem is we often express the wrong love at the particular moment.
Family stuff, eh?
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
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