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Thank you, Anna. :) |
Gilly- with such news as yours- it creates an excellent medium for honesty. You are navigating your way through these troubled waters well, I think. Connections are very important in the here and now. Prayers and support. |
Oh my gosh Gilmer....you never fail to amaze me Lovebug.. I’m sure your most gracious gift of offering up your suffering will impact that troubled soul immensely. Croutie |
And I think I brought some genuine moments of good cheer to him, too. You never know how spiritual things you say really impact someone you don’t know, but at least I think I helped foster some genuinely merry moments between him and his parents during a tense and difficult time. |
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I dunno even if you only get to go snorkelling once, that to me would be a priceless experience. Money be damned :lmao Hope you can work something out Kathy :) D |
I will. It gives me an excuse to see my eye doctor again and say goodbye. He has always been one of my greatest advocates. I like him a great deal. |
Good news! I found a site online that sells prescription snorkeling masks for $68! If I can fly to Florida, I can certainly afford $68! I’ll tell my younger daughter about it, too! |
YW Gil and Ann. You know the only thing worse than participating in a mutual admiration society? Not having one! :lmao I am glad you solved the prescription mask deal. You can also donate them back to the company to donate to another without the means. We have to keep treating each other like VIPs folks. If we don't, who will? |
Originally Posted by Gilmer
(Post 6951710)
Good news! I found a site online that sells prescription snorkeling masks for $68! If I can fly to Florida, I can certainly afford $68! I’ll tell my younger daughter about it, too! |
Hi Kathy, Sending continued support and love. I have a book I read many years ago, “Under the Ombré Tree” so much so, I can hardly remember it. But what stuck out for me was all through her life she’d been waiting for this precious present that was going to come, she’d been told about from a family member I think. Anyhow, when she was older, yes you’ve guessed, the precious present was the here and now. I’m truly honoured and pleased that we met (metaphorically) so I can share part of your precious present, my friend. Much love to you and your family :grouphug: |
Originally Posted by STDragon
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I'm always misplacing my glasses. I just pictured myself with nothing to see with but a prescription snorkeling mask.... |
Hi Kathy/Gilmer, Somehow I missed this page the past week. I am so sorry and sad about your diagnosis, but in true Gilmer fashion you've found glimmer she of hope, and managed to support and comfort those around you. You have been one of the positive posters I always look for on SR, and I always think of you as glimmer, that glimmer of hope on all posts. I am going to hold out for some hope that you may find an experimental treatment that works. In the meantime though, I am going to follow all of your excursions. Wildwood reminds me of summers in college, about 30 of us would go there and Seasode Heights, and cram into a cheap little hotel for a week. We spent the day at the beach, and the evenings making poor choices! However, I have fond memories of the friendships that still are there today. I hope you will post some of your pictures. I will continue to check in daily to see how you are doing. Sending so much love, and so many prayers your way. ❤️Delilah |
Thanks, Delilah! I will! |
Originally Posted by Itchy
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Here is one for us all I wrote: Think we’re only here to help you, when we send you daily prayer? Never realizing your courage, helps us all with what you’ve shared, For you all have taken chances, self- disclosed, that’s really rare, But for all the grace of our God, we could find ourselves right there. So you’ve given us a benchmark, of just what it really takes, To go out and meet the challenge, when the fates put on the brakes, To the life we took for granted, to the love we’d not forsake, And the sudden realization, that we all could share your fate. So I'll try to pass along, and acknowledge that I see, Things I hadn't thought through, things I now see differently, Those I cherish just may have to, earlier than hoped take leave, Or the roles might be reversed, they might have to care for me. Some will make it past the gates, that threaten simple lives, Rise again, recovered, once again their spirit thrive, Upon the love that always was the reason we survived, Without them would we only feel, that we had been deprived? For those who suffer, losses deep, I have one thing to say, Would you have them, have to do, what you went through today? Or would you rather spare them, all the pain you had to take, Be the one to be the rock, that helped them on their way? I’ve lost some too, who've loved me, as I loved each one of them, Rather than remorse, and mortal pain on requiem, I shall smile, and think on all, good times and not condemn, Them for leaving, me in grieving, With no rose, and just the stem. Celebrate the time you had, cherish moments spent with them. © Itchy 1997-2004 All Rights Reserved. Three rights is left. |
Glad you found prescription googles, Kathy. They really helped my swimmer daughter who was so sight I paired that she couldn’t see the black lane line on the bottom of the pool below her nor the wall in front of her :scared: she would mentally count her strokes which wasn’t totally foolproof. Sending you love and lifting prayers. |
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Kathy, thanks for this lesson in offering it up. You have much to teach us, and we have much to learn. When I scuba dive I use stick-on bifocals. Otherwise I can see most things except my wrist computer, which tells me when it's time to surface. Or my air gauge. Pretty important. :wink3: |
Kathy - I love it that you found the goggles - but more than anything, I love it that you wanted to find them. You are remarkable. |
That was wonderful itchy! Gilmer i'm glad you solved the problem of the swimming/snorkelling goggles. Thinking of you. |
Originally Posted by Gilmer
(Post 6951710)
Good news! I found a site online that sells prescription snorkeling masks for $68! If I can fly to Florida, I can certainly afford $68! I’ll tell my younger daughter about it, too! If it's anywhere near Tampa...their on me! Thinking about you, Kathy. Matt |
Thanks, Carlos! But I’ll be southeast of you in Boca Raton, on the Atlantic. |
Oh Gilmer. I'm not sure how ive managed yo miss this thread for the last few days. Such sad news to be reading Kathy. You are showing us how to rock acceptance, and the difference that living in gratitude makes, and letting grace and love flow in and out and living in it's flow . As ever an inspiration to us here, you really are so precious. Prayers, love, peace and blessing to you Kathy going out to you from here in the Isle of the Eels. Xxxx |
Dear Kathy, never forget that we’re all on this road with you. Sending more Love and continued support. xx:grouphug: |
just making a connection, Gilly. |
Good morning Kathy! |
good morning Gilmer! :Flower: |
Hi, you guys. Nice to see you, BB! :) |
I'm checking in Kathy, wondering how you're doing today? |
I’m doing fine, Anna, thank you. I am up in Central PA with my husband, kids, grandkids, and in-laws. Not a bucket list trip for me, but very sentimental to my husband and kids. My mother-in-law inherited her modest childhood home. It was built from wood by her great grandfather in 1889 and passed down to her great uncle, her parents, and then her. My husband has fond memories of stopping in to visit his grandparents on his way to and from college. While there he always sat in the recliner and watched The Incredible Hulk on TV. My in laws are now in their 80s. They would have liked to pass the house on to one of her kids, but all of them are settled in homes of their own—and, though my father in law has put a lot of work into modernizing the house and making it safe, it still is worth less than the cost it would take to maintain it. Sentimental though the kids are, none of them are willing to take it on. So my in laws are selling it. This week is the last hurrah for the kids to come say goodbye to the house (and for me, perhaps my final visit with my in laws). |
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