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02-11-2008, 01:42 PM #1
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02-11-2008, 02:43 PM #2
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Hugs, Christine.......I am sorry. Don't beat yourself up about feeling bad.....it is just really hard to digest that someone who still has a lot of her life ahead, and is a mom, has such a horrible medical diagnosis.
You and she and her family will be in my thoughts.
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02-11-2008, 03:07 PM #3
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This is awful news and I'm so sorry. Of course you aren't going to "take this news well" bcs it's sad and painful and there really is no way to take it "well".
Again, I'm sorry.April
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02-12-2008, 01:33 AM #4
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Ohhh Christine!
Apologies in advance if this is "making it all about me", but my own sweet friend Chantal immediately springs to mind - as she did NOT live to see her 6th wedding anniversary. 
I do hope S's wife has a better outcome - but its horrible in any case.Sunday 16 April 2000 ~ MY DIARY ~
It was Palm Sunday. My dear friend Chantal died 4 months before - she had had leukaemia for 3yrs. Today is/was her wedding anniversary - they got married the same year as us - 1994.
2000 should have been her 6th wedding anniversary. Her goals (after diagnosis) had been to see her 5th wedding anniversary (which she did) and to see in the new Millennium - she died Dec 6th 1999. Ohhh, honey. Sigh. We never become accustomed to dealing with this stuff......we are not/will never be learned experts.........
Berni - mummy to Liam Michael Edwards b.10th May 2000 d.19th May 2000
Born at full term plus 12 days overdue, Liam was 7lb 9.5oz and 22" long.
Medical negligence at his birth.
Its not about finding answers.......its about learning to live with the questions.
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02-14-2008, 04:18 AM #5
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Aw hon...you weren't making this about you. I thought of you and Chantal almost immediately as well.
Originally Posted by Berni
Ohhh Christine! Apologies in advance if this is "making it all about me", but my own sweet friend Chantal immediately springs to mind - as she did NOT live to see her 6th wedding anniversary.
I do hope S's wife has a better outcome - but its horrible in any case. Ohhh, honey. Sigh. We never become accustomed to dealing with this stuff......we are not/will never be learned experts......... I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. ~Stephen Fry
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