Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 10:16 AM

Ain't been on a boat fer ages. Sounds fun.

Laughter is the best medicine soooo, yuks to all.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 06:05 AM

Sounds lovely, an evening cruise!!
There are Angels, quite beautiful too, I am going to start singing it!

Billy and I took his son Paul ( my stepson) to my son's theatre in Great Yarmouth on Saturday. Christopher is the general manager of St Georges Theatre, worth a look if you google it. We saw Stephen K Amos, we don't usually go to comedy nights but it was Paul's choice for his birthday. So glad we went, my face still hurts for laughing so much.

Mum was looked after by a very good friend and was very happy, so we are gradually getting a social life back with the generous help of others.

So there are angels all around us , you just need to look!

Much love to all the crew

Wendy
xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Oct 13 - 10:12 PM

How's the crew? I'm sailing along. Literally. I was on a two-hour cruise on a gaff-rigged tops'l schooner this evening. By far the largest ship of sail I've ever sailed on. I wish all you all could have been with me.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 11:13 PM

sorry, gnu, I need a new box, the tissue sitting on my computer desk has had quite a workout in the past few days.

sandra

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 02:56 PM

Oh yeah... 36 seconds in...sniffygnu had ta pause the YT vid. I said my piece on Charlie's thread. I hope that, if he wants to join this thread, he does so in his own time. I am sure this thread will endure until then and far beyond. How can it not, given such a compassionate, caring membership?

Sorry to anyone who might feel my last post flippant but a simple refresh of this page after it has fallen off the page is, perhaps, more so. I didn't post yesterday because I didn't have anything to contribute and not because it was down... it was up when I looked in.

Carry on. Smoke em if ya got em. Pass the tissues. I need more than one.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 02:15 PM

lovely song- new to me. already posted on charlies post for anns passing. blessings   pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 12:23 PM

Perfect, ChanteyLass, just perfect. Even this Godless individual couldn't fail to be moved by the beauty & intensity of the singing. Thank you.
                                                                         With Love,
                                                                                        Nigel
                                                                                        xxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 10:35 AM

I couldn't recall hearing that song, so I went to YouTube and found this version of There Are Angels Hovering 'Round. Lovely. I hope it brings comfort to all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQL5IpzgGg

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 08:09 AM

I managed to post on Charlie's thread yesterday & so wanted to post here too, but MC went awol. Anyone else have problems yesterday?

Janie, your words go straight to my heart. I'm imagining all of us hovering around Charlie & being with his belovéd Ann. I've said before that I'm not a 'God fearing man', but Janie you've struck a powerful chord, deep within me...powerful images that are impossible to ignore. Tears are coursing down my cheeks for Charlie, for Jane, for all my Dear Departed & for the whole Crew's Dear Departed too.
                                        Much Love to You All,
                                        Totally emotionally overwhelmed,
                                                                                           Nigel.
                                                                                           xxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 12 Oct 13 - 07:20 AM

Turkeygiving Weekend here. SiL has invited us for a bigbird scoff tomorrow, drat! Sunday is NFL football, darnitalltaheck!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 10:33 PM

Charlie's (fat B****rd's) obit thread for his wife Ann is here. thread.cfm?threadid=152456

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 09:08 PM

Tamara, I often think of you. I have some idea of what it is like to live with these still little understood auto-immune disorders from friends and clients. A cascade of issues, and what treats one symptom often makes another worse. Spaw, I'm glad you are doing well, or were at last post. Wendy, Tommy and all others, sending light and love.

In the gospel workshop at the Getaway, some one led us in a hymn I had not heard before, "There are Angels Hovering 'Round." Beautiful spontaneous harmonies arose on the chorus. When people come together in community to offer care, concern and support, we are as angels hovering 'round one another. When people row together, or join together in song, we realize our connectedness to one another and the great web of life. I am grateful for all this community, and especially to all of you who share so freely of your experience, strength, struggles, pain, hope and acceptance.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:51 PM

As did I Wendy. And from here as well I send the very best. Over time I think we want to see if Charlie might join us here. I hope so...........


Spaw

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 06:01 PM

Sending love to Charlie, see his post Obit his wife Ann,

I know the crew will be there for him, that is why we are all here,

Wendy xxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 05:17 PM

AHA! I was laptopgnu!

froggy.... JUMP!

But... that does sound tasty.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 12:46 PM

A horribly hurried check-in. Rushing between hospital appointments (routine, but far too frequent ) & looking after our two youngest grandchildren (who live 60 miles away). Barely time to stop for a cuppa!
                                     Much Love to You All,
                                                                      Nigel & Ann
                                                                      xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 10:55 AM

gnu, take your small potatoes, bake 'em, and stuff 'em...

with bacon and cheese...

A good morning to all the crew, from a cool but sunny spot in Michigan.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 13 - 06:38 AM

Guest??? But, it says gnu now? how did I lose my cookie and then get it back without logging in?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 09 Oct 13 - 05:37 PM

glad to hear God news is welcome, gnu[?], but I suspect you left an "o" out!.
I reckon you deserve a lift, wendy.
blessings all.   pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Oct 13 - 04:37 PM

God news is welcome!

Now. As for me, pay no attention. I was just in a bad mood and that is small potatoes.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 09 Oct 13 - 01:15 PM

Tam, Spaw, gnu , Maeve,Nigel,Pete lots of hugs to you all.

Thanks for all your concerns and love, but at least I have my health,and yesterday I closed the salon, took a day out and went to the beach hut. It was the most beautiful sunny day and I was the only person down there. Had a good friend join me for an hour and coffee and cakes! Then I sat in the hot sun and read a good book, watched the golfers in the distance and listened to the sound of the sea.

So got home feeling recharged and ready to get on,Billy is feeling so much better, my brother saw the heart consultant who is pleased with his progress, mum saw the Dementia nurse who says for someone with such advanced Alzheimers she is contented, happy and very well looked after, so I guess that is a compliment?

We hope to plan the holiday for January, subject to live in care for mother being arranged and the Cape Verde islands are certainly looking like first choice.

So on the whole my life is fine compared to most of the crew, sailing on, and sending all my love and positive thoughts to all,

much love

Wendy
xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 09 Oct 13 - 09:36 AM

Not happy for Maeve. Surely Medicaid should pick up where the ACA doesn't apply. But I read of similar situation with friend of daughters. She is 31, full time employed working with horses at very small stables in Virginia. Does not earn enough to get tax credit and is not eligible for medicaid. Is this a state by state problem where medicaid has not been extended?

Hello everyone. I am feeling tired but determined to go back to work tomorrow, though husband thinks I need another week off to recuperate from that flu. Yeah I am still coughing.

Hugs to you all. That's all I have to give today.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 09 Oct 13 - 08:21 AM

Bright, sunny and very frosty. I hope this new day is a good one for all.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 10:50 PM

I suspect the AHA will help quite a few- we simply don't fit the plan. I shouldn't have mentioned it and won't from now on.

Up Spaw, huzzah Wendy, wring away and take heart gnu.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 10:00 PM

Spaw, enjoy this week! I hope the next one is not as bad as you anticipate.

Tam, I hope the new medicine is a big help to you.

Maeve, I'm so sorry that the Affordable Health Act won't benefit you. What a disappointment.

Gnu, I hope the morning finds you feeling better.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 09:28 PM

m... I thought Obamacare was supposed to help everyone?

As for all the other posts, I have just spent three days in one day dealing with shite and, while having read the other posts and feeling I wish to commiserate with each and all, I just don't feel up to more than saying... I wish I could help all and sundry. I gotta go wring out my misery. Today sucks but it will be tomorrow soon if I can sleep this sum bitch off. gnightgnu.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 05:13 PM

Christ, Spaw...no need for that...making me blush and laugh at the same time....might burn my beard hairs red. hairy tattooed beast of a man indeed...lol!

Tam, I am so sorry to hear about the condition you're in....I hope it improves with the new meds.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 04:07 PM

heres hoping tam. blessings pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 12:46 PM

Sending sunshine that follows rain to all on board today. I'm happy for those getting medical care and seeing the possibility of a holiday.

I startled my husband by laughing out loud at the irony of it as I checked online for the level of health care tax credits we'll qualify for; we are too poor to get any help with the required health insurance. Nothing. Zip... so I reckon we can't have any more health care. That means we'll be healthy, right?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 12:10 PM

Yay Spaw. Wish my news was as good. But at least it is not the Big C.

Saw a new RA consultant nurse today. My inflammation markers are sky high. Everywhere she touched screamed with pain. She is sending the paperwork for funding for me to start Golimumab. Will take 6 to 7 weeks to come through at which time Healthcare at Home will contact me to deliver meds and arrange for nurse to visit and teach me how to self inject.

She said something that no other doctor or nurse has told me. That the heart pain and problems I am having may well improve with the new meds as immune system is not merely attacking joints. It attacks organs too. Which I knew from reading but as no one seemed to want to listen to my complaints about anything other than joints, I just let it go. Assumed it was not showing in bloods that I was as sick as I felt.

So looking forward to end of November to see if this new treatment will make me feel better.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 10:33 AM

Ol' Spaw sends out his absolute best along with happiness for all and with a special one today for Wendy. Our favorite double caregiver needs a boost I think.   Truthfully Wendy, I don't know how you do it! Take good care of yourself please. I feel for your Mom's situation. Alzheimer's is a cruel disease.

I'm freakin' great....at least for another week before I get to bitch, piss, and moan, about the side effects of Vidaza. Ten days of crap but worth it as my numbers and feeling better prove.

And finally, if you don't know Amergin you've been missing out. He's a wonderful, hairy, tattooed beast of a man with a heart of gold and the soul of a poet.

Looks like we need more coffee.....or at least I do. Never reallu got into tea.


Spaw

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 10:00 AM

Gnu's Early Girl, for us non-gardeners.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 07:26 AM

I've been away at a festival & am so pleased to read all the good news.

As I've just finished my evening meal, I'll regretfully decline the offer of the yummy bacon & tomato sandwich

sandra

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 08 Oct 13 - 06:42 AM

I woke to the sound of wind and rain. Shuffled to the hob and put on a pot of tea. Looked out back at the pines being shook back and forth by the wind and a thought gently edged it's way into my semi-conciousness. CRAP! I raced out into a torrent of a million drops of wind blown rain and ran... walked as quickly as possible... to my Early Girl, gently picked her up and deposited her in the garage, picked up the fruit from where she had lain for Dog knows how long and returned to the warmth of the kitchen. Brekky shall be a bacon and tomatoe sandwich. I wish you all could join me.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 07 Oct 13 - 02:47 PM

pleased to hear generally more encouraging news.
that clever stuff made me smile ,too, tam.
i'll have some icecream with the maple....
blessings   pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 13 - 05:25 AM

VTam... good to hear about your daughter and you.

The weather here is dark. Oh I could check it by opening the door or clicking on Environment Canada but I have to leave in an hour and I don't wanna tire myself out before I even wake up.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 09:07 PM

Wendy, I'm sorry about your mother's setback. I am glad Billy is starting to feel better.

Tam, your news is good and I'd like to see it get even better. Your scrolling messages are a delight. I have no idea how you create them and doubt that I would understand an explanation! Oh, and I'm bringing real maple syrup for those pancakes.

I'm glad some of you are enjoying sunshine. It's drab and misty here today. I was supposed to take a twilight evening cruise, not on Jane's Rainbow but on this https://schoonerargia.shutterfly.com/ , but because of the weather the cruise has been rescheduled.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 03:39 PM

Hilary... "says she is happier and feeling physically better than she has in over a year."

Tamara, that is wonderful news! Your current renewed good health is another welcome bit of news.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 03:12 PM

Wendy what you are going through with your Mum is heartbreaking indeed.   Makes me miss my Mamma so much. She is still cognitively all there at 86 years. But she is an ocean away.

My daughter Hilary has been through some major life changes. Turns out the fiance was not a very nice person at all and may have been contributing to her illness by way of causing her much stress. She has not moved far away into very sunny warm clime and in with friend from university. She has a job that is paying very well and says she is happier and feeling physically better than she has in over a year.

This news may be contributing to me feeling better. That stress stuff is a reall killer.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 07:10 AM

Beautiful day here in Staffordshire as well, Nigel. I'm also in the queue - lemon juice and LOTS of sugar for me please, VT. Gotta keep sweet somehow...

Still haulin'.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 07:03 AM

froggy said it well. Matter of fact, I can't add much of anything to what's just been said by others save my good thoughts for all.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 05:42 AM

Am standing in the pancake line as I type (not easy when you're as cakhanded as I am!). Some lemon juice, but no sugar please. VT, it's heartwarming to read such an upbeat, energised post. Please keep back some of your energy, just for yourself, something personal & totally self-indulgent!
       Wendy, have sent a PM re. meeting.
       Sending everyone sunshine & warmth from London. It's beautiful outside today.
                                  With Love,
                                                 Nigel & Ann
                                                 xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 04:21 AM

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Lifting the Crew of Good Ship Rainbow up on this sunshiny Sunday morning. I am feeling much better. Only the little niggling cough I had prior to the flu strike. Yesterday, I did much housework and today will resume while the energy lasts. Right foot only got a little swollen yesterday, probably because I was moving around most of the day. But feet hurt like crazy last night and kept me awake. Don't care. Feeling good about getting flat sorted out, clean and tidy before the winter blahs set in.

I made pancakes this morning. Anybody want some?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 04:04 AM

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Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Oct 13 - 09:39 PM

"Just having a silly moment" No you're not, Wendy; you're having a moment that would make any normal person very sad. I bet a bunch of us would wish to be able to give you something better than "virtual hugs". Hope the getaway trip works out for you, and good to hear that your main squeeze is doing better. Don't know anything about those islands, but I do have a weakness for going to islands.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 05 Oct 13 - 08:03 PM

its ten to one in the morning and I have a large brandy,

when mum went to bed tonight she could not remember where her bedroom was , and put her false teeth in her glasses case, heartbreaking!!

Wish I could sometimes just have my " old mum" back just so she knows how much I love her. Sometimes when her carer goes home she clings to her and asks " when will I see you again" as if the carer is the most important person in her life!

Just having a silly moment, will be better in the morning, I know that others have much more troubling times ( Spaw and Charlie etc etc )

Just thanking the gods and stars for the Rainbow crew, I know you share tears and smiles together.( Nigel, wonderful news , waiting to hear the new music, and so wanting to meet you and Ann at the beach hut even in the east coast autumn winds)

Better go to bed.

fondest love and loving thoughts

Wendy

xxxxxx

ps Billy is much better after 4 weeks of a rotten virus, if I can get a new passport we are hoping to plan a week away and have been recommended Cape Verde islands ????

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Oct 13 - 12:10 AM

Hugs to Amergin from me, too.

Good start, Nigel!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 04 Oct 13 - 05:36 PM

I am sure it will be another piece well worth listening to. nigel.
is it a commission or just personal artistic pursuit?
blessings all    pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 04 Oct 13 - 04:50 PM

I was in and read about the thunderstorm but it was too early to post. Well, make sense... at least as much as usual... you know what I mean. I'm here.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 04 Oct 13 - 05:34 AM

Years ago, sunny Sunday morning on a caravan site in the South of France. Went to the camp shop and bought some bacon. As it was sizzling away in the frying pan, caravan door and windows wide open, the aroma starts drifting around the site. Pretty soon there was a trail of people heading for the shop...

Yum, yum!

Up Spaw, up y'all.