BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 02:17 AM

love & hugs to Mrs Rap & Rap

and everyone who needs them!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 10:03 PM

(((Rap)))

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Crowhugger
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 02:41 PM

Just saw this thread...great news about the lymph nodes being clear, what a relief. Hope all goes well with her bigger surgery.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: LilyFestre
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 02:31 PM

Thinking about P-Vine and hope she's healing well and having a good day. :)

Love ya Bobert!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 12:20 PM

Oh wow....I just saw this thread. bobert, your lovely bride is in my thoughts today...as well as yours, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 11:03 AM

One time I was in a group hug where all the adults circled little Amy, creating a tunnel in which she was in the middle. I looked down at her and said, Does this remind you of anythng?

She thought for a moment then said, Well, it's awfully warm in here.


This is a larger circle but there are also more people in the middle. May you all feel the warmth!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 09:57 AM

What can I add? All the best thoughts to all of you who have loved ones with health problems.
Your old mate, Charlie Stenger in Dunfermline.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: maeve
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 09:52 AM

Looks like Bobert, Raparee, and Olddude and their cherished wives have the makings for a good support group.

Warm regards to you all.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: topical tom
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 09:43 AM

All best wishes to the both of you!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 09:22 AM

Bobert knows this, but I haven't really told it much (except maybe on MOAB). On February 1 my wife had a "lumpectomy" for breast cancer (she'd already had thyroid cancer fifty years ago as a teenager). Yesterday we got her oncotype numbers and it looks like medication (NOT chemo!) and radiation for her.

But she's still around!

(My youngest brother is currently in hospital with a massive heart attack and bad pulmonary edema. He collapsed in the Emergency Room, so far a change he did something right. But I want this year as a "do-over".)

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 07:42 AM

Thanks, lizzie...

I am so sorry to learn of your loss...

But the coping skills that Dr. Dubbins passed on to you has been well received here on my end this morning and even though I know exactly what the good doctor was prescribing we all need reminders...

Luv back atcha...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 05:27 AM

& love to you, too Lizzie

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 03:24 AM

Bobz...I've put this on here before, but way back, so I'll put it on again, in the hope it may help a little.

When I lost the first of two little 'souls' it was devastating, not simply for the obvious reasons, but because it was linked to cancer as well. The worry and stress of 'Have I? Haven't I?' had to stay right on my shoulder for a year, as it took that length of time to see if the abnormal hormone situation, which had caused the problem in the first place, would go back down to normal or set in motion a cancer that would spread throughout my body.

Needless to say, I didn't know where to 'go' in my head....I was trying to cope with the loss of my baby, let alone anything else...

Enter the Good Guy, dressed in his white jacket...the Chief Radiologist, who held me in his arms as I sobbed it all out, then who dried my tears, held me firmly by the shoulders, looked me straight in the eyes and said:

"Right, you listen to me now. You *are* going to get through this! You now have to learn to take each day at a time, nothing more. You don't look back. You don't look forward. You simply get up, and you get through each day. Pretty soon you'll find yourself able to look back, and a short while later, you'll find yourself able to look forward.   It's so important that you do this."

Well, I did it, Bobz, not once, but twice, as the same approach had to be adopted when the second little soul didn't make it either, the same risk factors clicked in, months of waiting...even after my son (finally and joyfully) was born nearly 3 years later, there I was again, waiting, waiting, waiting, to see if all went back to normal.

I never forgot Dr. Dubbins words, nor his deep kindness, care and love that was shown towards me. It's bloody tough, but you soon learn to do it. You simply 'switch off' for a while, step off the Roundabout of Worry, Panic and What Ifs? Focus on the Day, on getting through it. Get your energy back, both of you, slow down as much as you can, breathe...breathe....and breathe again..

No more need for 'distractions'...just enjoy each day, go to bed knowing you've got through it, being proud of that. Soon you'll go to be looking forward to the future again, but for now, just close the Panic Shutters down......and relax...and if you have to move house in the middle of everything, just carry on getting through each day..tiring though it may be...just get through it, then....relax.

Much love to you both
Lizzie xx

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: mouldy
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 02:52 AM

Sending thoughts for peace and calm to you.
It sounds like you are getting your heads around things. Just try nd take one thing at a time, and as they come.

Andrea x

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 01:40 AM

both of you need to rest & gain strength, before & after the operation!

sending love to P-Vine (& Bobert!)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 11:25 PM

Janie will keep the lights on for you, Beaubear. So no rush.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Janie
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 09:34 PM

Ain't movin' us anywhere, Beaubear, but it is getting a mite crowded. 18% increase in population since the previous census. At least that is what I recall hearing today on my local public radio station.

Even so, ya'll come when yer ready. But only when yer ready!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 07:38 PM

That, Janie, is exactly what we just talked about... I mean, we were thinkin' the sooner-the-better on the NC move but, hey, I ain't heard that they plan to move NC or nuthin'...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Janie
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 06:47 PM

You got 'em!

Major surgery is never fun, but if she will not be having a radical mastectomy - and it doesn't sound like she will since no lymph nodes are involved - she should recover just fine and more quickly than you might think.

Ya'll sit back and relax now, and rest up. One good thing about the farm not yet being sold is you could put off the move (and the stress of preparing for the move if you have a deadline looming,) for a bit while P-vine recovers physically, and both she and you recover emotionally from the shock of all of this.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: maeve
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 06:27 PM

Certainly you're both tired. Peace and strength...ok.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 06:08 PM

Still thinking about you. Keep strong.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 05:19 PM

Thnaks, ya'll...

Unfortunately, getting the biopsy outta the way just opened up the reality that in 2 weeks the P-Vine is going to have a mastectomy... I guess as long as there was the biopsy to worry about that we didn't really focus in on that aspect... It's now very much in focus and it's stressful and depressing...

Im trying to come up with distractions but running our of ideas of things to do, see, etc... In the last month I've taken her to every real city within 150 miles of here... Wearing us both out...

Not to mention that we've been stashing stuff for todays' phot shoot for the MLS listing of the farm which will be out on Monday...

No wonder I'm tired... The poor P-Vine is wiped out...

So prayers for peace and strength is all we need now...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 10:56 AM

Hooray !!! Great news Bobert.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 10:08 AM

And that would be because, Art is not all thumbs.:-)

Good news and giving thanks for the best possible outcome for the surgery.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 12:05 AM

Two thumbs up!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: ClaireBear
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 08:42 PM

Hallelujah! Wonderful news.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 07:57 PM

Yeah, the reality that it has not spread is slowly sinking in... Of course, the mastectomy ain't gonna be a day at the beach but, hey, as Michelle knows all too well, it beats chemo and radiation...

Thanks gain for the prayers... Sometimes we gotta gang up on God... He's awfully busy these days so it is humbling when He comes thru for us...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 07:20 PM

:~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: olddude
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 05:41 PM

Thank you Lord ... so very good to hear this Bobster. I will still be working my rosary until it is done ...

love ya my brother

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 05:02 PM

So good to hear that, Bobert....sending a big hug to P-Vine, and to you.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 01:52 PM

Wonderful news!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 01:36 PM

Wow! Fantabulous news. Now directing energy to the sale of at least one Va property.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 10:33 AM

Thanks again, ya'll!!!

Yes, if we can get one of the two property deals done this week we'd be real happy campers...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 10:26 AM

The BEST news! I am so happy for the both of you.

Now I'll put the good thoughts out for the operation and the property deals.

Love to you both.

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 10:22 AM

Don't be greedy man.......You got the only one that really matters! (but good luck with the rest anyway)

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 08:10 AM

Only just now noticed this thread. Been down this road too, sad to say.

But I nearly flew out of my chair with relief when I read that the cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes. Fantastic news!

Sending all my best wishes and healing thoughts from the Wilds of Brooklyn.

Jay

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Monique
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 05:13 AM

This is good news!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: mouldy
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 03:20 AM

Marvellous! Congratulations!

Andrea xx

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Little Robyn
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 02:29 AM

Wonderful.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 12:57 AM

So glad to hear it.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:23 PM

Im not much of a drinker but I do have some peppermint schnapps in the house so I'll hoist a small one for you and the P-Vine.

I discovered the way for me to never run out of alcohol is to buy something I don't like much. Wine doesn't last long but schnapps lives forever. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:27 PM

Smiling!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:15 PM

*********************HAPPY DANCE**********************

Continued Prayers and Love!!!

Celebrate!!! Celebrate!!! Celebrate!!!

XOXOXOOXOXOXOXO,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:00 PM

Wonderful news, Beau. Keep it coming.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:59 PM

Yeah, TBTG!!!

I been having these deep feelings that this is "our week" for Him to bless us...

Actually, a trifecta would be nice...

The biggie is in the win column...

Now if we could get word on the house in NC that would make it 2 outta 3 and then if...

...we would get a contract offer on our farm that would be the trifecta...

I'm still holding out FAITH that we'll at the very least be in the 2 for 3 column by Friday...

That would be the bees knees... It would also be one of those, "Geeze, He indeed can pull things off" moments in our lives...

Well, we're giddy!!! No chemo!!! No extra surgery!!!

Life is good!!!

Thank each and every one of you... I love you for being there with the prayers, the thoughts, the whatevers... They worked!!!

And, yeah, WYSuzie, TBTG!!! Always...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:52 PM

yes!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Janie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:45 PM

Very good news!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: Maryrrf
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:30 PM

So glad to hear this Bobert! What wonderful news!

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:26 PM

PS-- TBTG!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Prayers & Healing Thoughts 4 the P-Vine
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:26 PM

When yer right, yer right, Bobbird!

~S~