TERMINAL CANCER SUFFERER, 14, WHO WANTED TO ATTEND A PROM (shorten)

Daily Mail ^ | 3/27/13 | Lydia Warren

[Kartographer]

When 14-year-old Katelyn Norman learned that her bone cancer was going to take her life, she drew up a list of her final wishes - a slow dance, a last kiss, a date to prom. But as her friends gathered at a venue in LaFollette, Tennessee on Tuesday night to throw the prom in her honour, Katelyn was airlifted to hospital after struggling to breathe. So classmates and relatives brought the party to her bedside instead, bringing balloons, music and her smartly-dressed date to make sure she didn't miss out on completing her bucket list. Katelyn has been fighting osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer, for two years but doctors told her last week that it has spread to her heart, arteries, pelvis and spine and that there is nothing more they can do

[dearolddad]

Really that’s all you get from my posting? But no one else had a problem?

I had the same problem here.

[Kartographer]

I have a problem with you having a problem, but then I can’t think of one reason why I should care what you think or you about what I think as long as it doesn’t directly effect each other. One thing I have discoveried about FR is that NO MATTER WHAT YOU POST somebody will take umbrage.

[stuartcr]

That wasn’t really necessary, was it?

[stuartcr]

I think it’s because they sell more papers over there than we do here, and some newspapers are more available and read by the entire country.

[stuartcr]

I did, but your comment wasn’t worth the effort to say anything about it.

[jp3]

...ordinary people doing extraordinary things. I have Faith....

[dfwgator]

Especially hits home when you have a daughter the same age.

[svcw]

Then why do you keep posting to me?

[Sergio]

bkmk

[dearolddad]

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. My screen started getting very blurry and out of focus while I was reading the article.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Kartographer]

My apologies for my confusion. I ask your pardon for my response.

[Teotwawki]

It's a great story about a remarkable girl and the great friends she has, which also says a lot about her. Piercings and tats are irrelevant at this point, but for the record she does have pretty good size ear gauges. As the father of a 15 year old girl who wasn't even allowed ear piercing until she was 13, and no gauges ever, I did notice. But then, if it was my daughter dying, I would have let her make some of those adult choices she would never grow old enough to make.

[Kartographer]

My point which many seem to get and passed over the head of a few is that these were nice normal kids she was a girl not a boy wanting to be a girl and wear a dress to the prom. Her date was a boy not another girl or what ever! He was a nice good hearted boy with compassion and respect for women. They weren’t far out on the edge ‘Jersey Shore’ types and that’s why their story wasn’t printed in an American paper. They just weren’t what the leftist ‘Lamestream’ media want you to believe how many teens are today.

[Albion Wilde]

I “got” what you were saying — and with all due respect to those who believe tats and piercings are OK ways to respect the temple of the body, please respect the traditionalist point of view that they are matters of concern for underage children, which these are. Unless you no longer want this to be a “safe” Forum for conservatives.

[Albion Wilde]

he does have pretty good size ear gauges.

They just look like green plastic post earrings to me, not Ubangi specials.

Kudos for that gallant young man and all the rest of their friends. Hope is not dead!

[Blackirish]

I thought your post was strange also. You take a life affirming story to bring up tattoos and piercings. Would it make a difference if the boy in the photo had a tattoo?

[Kartographer]

READ post #33 again, if you still don’t get the point I was trying to make I can’t help you.