"My sister died having ovarian cancer. When she was diagnosed, Stage IV, they only gave her 6 weeks. My sister decided to fight and do what she could to live. I don't know if you know the details regarding ovarian cancer but it is one of the most painful deaths to go thru. My sister was in the hospice hospital numerous times and they would tell her daughter she would not make it thru the night but she did and would go home after a couple of days. She remember one time, she heard the Doctor tell Lisa that she would not make it thru the night and heard her daughter crying. She said I could not talk but I was screaming in my head, "Baby don't cry, it is not my time yet" and totally pissed at the Doctor for upsetting her daugher. She would laugh and tell me if she was given a dollar for every time they told her she had just six days, she would be rich. My sister lived for two years and died on her terms. You could not give any member of our family any amount of money to take away those two years. You could not give my sister any amount of money to give up those two years no matter how painful it was for her. My sister went thru SEVERE PAIN and yet look forward and appreciated every day she was alive. I learned from her what TRUE HONEST LOVE IS. Never not even once did my sister complain, nor bemoan her fate. I thank God for those two years. She taught me how to live and love life and she drew our family very close. My sister was 45 when she died. She had just became a grandmother a year before she was first diagnosed. In those two years, she got to know her Granddaughter and her Granddaughter got to know her."
"Words can not express the sadness that I feel for you right now.
Two-Bits, I read with much sorrow and understanding or your love for your sweet sister. May she rest in peace, and may the Lord hold you both tightly in His loving arms. I also lost my sissy a year and a half ago to brain cancer, after a hard, 3+ year battle involving multiple surgeries, gamma knifes, radiation, and chemo. She would have been 45 this Good Friday. She was a trooper through it ALL, maintaining an amazing positive attitude with a never-ending smile on her face. Her first tumor was the size of a small grapefruit, and one of the finest surgeons in the US, who removed it and others to follow, said that he had never seen anything like that first tumor. At one point when she was in bad shape, she lost the ability to swallow, due to neurological complications and a downward spiral. With THERAPY, she re-learned to SWALLOW. And mind you, she was very neurologically compromised, but was STILL teachable. I miss her very much. I understand your loss and sorrow, Two-Bits. I am so sorry and will keep you in my thoughts. One day at a time, right?
Michael "Husband" Schiavo ("When is that B*TCH gonna die?) pointedly DENIED helpless Terri the most basic, needed therapy, including therapy to TRY to re-learn to swallow. He FORBADE light in her room. He has a common law wife other than Terri and two children by the other woman. Terri's mother found out about Michael's other wife via the OBITUARY of Michael's mother (questionable death?,) which read that she was survived by Michael and his FIANCE. NO mention at ALL that Michael HAD a wife--Terri. And THIS is how Terri's parents found out about THE OTHER WOMAN.
Disgusting.
And Terri is being starved based on THIS scum's *word*?
Isn't it amazing how even in dying, our love ones still instill in us the value of life and to appreciate each day as they come. What kind of society are we when we can not have empathy toward those that are less fortunate. I think one poster said - A burden to Society.... I hope these minions of death feel this way when they find themselves in this predicament. As the lesbian polio survivor told Rush. I'm rooting for the Republicans, they respect my right to live. The hell with the ACLU, they want me dead.
You are my kindred sister in spirit, God Bless