Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 03 Oct 12 - 07:45 AM

Very pleased to hear from you Wendy. Billy clearly is on the mend if he's asking for a "proper cup of tea"! The intimate relationship between us Brits & our Tea is a phenomenon not fully understood or appreciated beyond these shores (-;
      So here's to no more horrid weeks; cheers!
                                                                      With Love,
                                                                                     Nigel & Ann.
                                                                                     xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 03 Oct 12 - 02:40 PM

Great news, Wendy!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 03:31 AM

Going to see Billy's Consultant today, fingers crossed x
A nice sunset cruise this evening might be nice!
Sailing on
much love
Wendy xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 03:33 AM

I'm just checking in. In a word, is everyone doing OK?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 05:58 AM

I'm doing ok, thanks Bruce, despite the fact that Ann is in Charlotte NC for three weeks, visiting our other Daughter. I actually quite enjoy doing the household chores 'solo'. I take my time & bit by bit, the washing & the cleaning gets done, maybe not quite to Ann's exacting standards, but they get done...eventually!
      Still smarting a little following a less than complimentary review of our performance at our 'Big Gig'. However, a few dedicated 'Halliard' fans rose to our defence to redress the balance. The one thing that the reviewer can't despoil is our songs. With a little luck & a fair wind, they'll outlive his sarcasm, him & probably the rest of us too!
      Always good to hear from you...how are things with you?
                                              With Love,
                                                             Nigel & (absent) Ann.
                                                             xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 05:20 PM

"With a little luck & a fair wind, they'll outlive his sarcasm"

If I have them somewhere, I'll dig up two reviews from the same performance. One was a rave and the other was a bomb. That was the last time I read reviews--about 40 years ago. I'll send via email if I can find them.

Y'all had a good time and that's what matters most--well, that and your fans had a great time. Doesn't get better than that, regardless what a review says.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 02:16 AM

Bruce, the reviewer missed the point of the evening entirely. It was a celebration of Nic's award, his musical journey, his enduring legacy & the fact that he is out there, performing again for the first time since 1982! How do you best celebrate...you surround yourself with Family & Dearest Friends, many of whom just happen to be Musicians. 'The Halliard', with whom Nic began his career, was just one part of the genius that was & still is, Nic Jones. It wasn't a concert that lent itself to conventional review. It was a unique, intimate & very affectionate tribute to a singer/guitarist who has triumphed over almost insurmountable odds. Did we have a good time?....YES INDEED! A night to savour; a night to remember for a lifetime.
            With Love,
                           Nigel (Ann says Hi from NC)
                           xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:44 AM

A quick update about Jane. All is well, nothing has changed, her drugs' program continues, along with it's regular monitoring. She is living her life much as she did before her diagnosis, but she has had to scale down her activities, both domestic & social. She does get tired more quickly & she simply has to put the brakes on & rest.
                     Much Love to you All,
                                                    Nigel & Ann in Charlotte NC
                                                    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 11:41 AM

resting is always good.

love to you & family

sandra

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 07:15 AM

Good updates as well, Sandra.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 07:29 AM

definitely good updates

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 06:29 PM

been away for the week.glad to read encouraging health reports.
blessings   pete'

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 08 Oct 12 - 05:14 AM

all looking good here, lots of love to Jane Nigel xx
sailing on
Wendy xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 10 Oct 12 - 02:16 AM

Thank you, everyone. As always, very good to hear from you all. I've been spending more time over on Spaw's thread these last few days. Kat has posted some informative & encouraging updates, but I know nothing about his current situation. I'm putting my trust in his Doctors & making an uninformed assumption that he will make a complete recovery very soon. He has been a regular & most welcome contributor to this thread. His wit & humour uniquely intertwined with homely common sense throws light in some dark corners.
                Holding Spaw in our thoughts,
                                                             With Love,
                                                                            Nigel & Ann.
                                                                            xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 14 Oct 12 - 07:22 AM

Been away for a few days in darkest Devon, catching up with some of my Music buddies from the 60s. Soo much to talk about. I lost count of the number of times one of us said: "Do you remember when.......?"
       I've come straight over from Spaw's thread where the news appears to be good & very positive. The Mudcat Mojo at work yet again!
       I hope everything is well with you all. Jane is fine; I'm fine (Diabetes finally stabilised); Ann is fine in NC, although I think Bumper (The Family Hound) is walking her legs off! She'll come home much fitter than when she left, or she'll be totally shattered!
                                           With Love,
                                                          Nigel & Ann (Temporarily residing in Charlotte)
                                                          xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Oct 12 - 08:50 AM

I'm fine (Diabetes finally stabilised) - YAH!!

& a few other YAHs!! to Ann & Jane

sandra

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 12 - 02:47 PM

Great news.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 02:50 PM

Really great news Nigel for you and Ann and Jane, hoping Spaw is also improving.

Billy had Chemo number four today and the research sister( he is on a trial) said the blood tests last week showed no sign of the CLL!! They are thrilled but we know it is early days, two more treatments to go and a bone marrow test three months later but fingers crossed for the future.So tea party at the beach hut in the spring I hope!

Thanks to all the crew for the love and support

sailing on

Wendy and Billy xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 07:03 PM

Oh, Wendy! That is GREAT news!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 09:01 PM

Great news, billybob. I'm very happy for you.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 11:19 PM

That is great news, Wendy and Billybob.

Nigel, it all sounds like goooood medicine!:-)

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 01:02 AM

excellent news, Wendy

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 11:22 AM

That is indeed the best news, Wendy & Billy. Been waiting & hoping for something along those lines for some time now. Yes Kat, some gooood medicine working it's gentle magic.
       We also need some gooood medicine for Julia Jones, wife of Nic Jones. Their daughter, Helen, posted this on FB yesterday:

" Hi this is Helen, just to say that Mum (Julia) has fallen off a ladder and is in hospital and out of action for a while. She's broken her arm in two places and fractured her lumbar spine and pelvis. I think that's what they said."

That is one big OUCH!! Can we summon up the Mudcat Mojo for Julia, Please? I was with them last week for three days & Julia didn't go near a ladder....was it something I said?! (-;
                     Much Love to You All,
                                                      Nigel & Absent Annie (Home, middle of next week)
                                                      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 02:51 PM

"She's broken her arm in two places and fractured her lumbar spine and pelvis."

I have heard of "If yer gonna do something, go all the way." but that is just waaaay toooo much! Ouch? And just one? Not my word of choice. But I am of Irish decent (yeah, I know).

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 04:57 PM

Oh dear, what a horrid accident, much love and healing thoughts go out to Julia. Mudcat Mojo works wonders as we know so well!

Thanks for your good wishes all,
sailing on
with love
Wendy xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 10:29 AM

With the exception of that last big ouch where I send my best as well, the news over her on the Rainbow Thread seems pretty upbeat ......and everyone deserves a well done!!!!

I want to thank all from this group who have posted here and elsewhere about me. I'm home and really have no idea what is happening or did happen or why or where we go from here. When I'm a bit more in the typing mode I'll give you a rundown but for now I'm in a holding pattern and also still a bit tired from the whole damn mess.

Let's all just stay on the higher roads for awhile and think the best for each other!


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 11:26 AM

Welcome Home; Welcome Back; WELCOME SPAW! Be you Thrice Welcomed. We really have missed your wit, wisdom & company. Beyond pleased to know you're back home. Plenty of R&R...post when you're ready & not a day sooner, ok?
      So good to hear from You in person,
                                                             With Love,
                                                                            Nigel & Ann (Coming home Sunday; 3 days earlier than planned)
                                                                      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 05:45 PM

Got Ann's return date totally wrong. She has to stay longer & won't be back until Sunday 28th. Thought I only had a couple of days to get the house straight. Turns out, I've got more than a week...even I can manage that!
                                              With Love,
                                                             Nigel & Ann (eventually!)
                                                             xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 06:02 PM

Spaw... "the higher roads"... that's what I have been doing, even when I take the low road. Learned it from you.

SO nice to read yer post. Get strong and get back. Missed ya, bud.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Oct 12 - 04:56 AM

Jane had her latest scan this week. Nothing has changed, the cancer remains 'in stasis' & her Doctors report being very pleased with her progress.
       Julia Jones is out of bed & being encouraged to walk, although this is proving very difficult initially. She has had an op. to insert pins in her wrist. It was not her arm that was fractured.
    In Spaw's returning post above, he refers to: "The Rainbow Thread". I'm wondering whether we are due for a name change, bearing in mind how the thread has metamorphosed since it's inception in January. Please let me know your views,
                               With Love,
                                              Nigel & Ann.
                                              xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 19 Oct 12 - 05:44 AM

such good news Nigel,so pleased for Jane,and for you and Ann, I know how it feels to have worries about a child,20 years ago my daughter was diagnosed with Crohns and was terribly ill for some years, operations and many hospital stays, then six years ago she had "Bunny" followed closely by Prudence. We had been told that having babies could bring on a remission and since then she has been wonderfully well, no medication, no illness!!As a parent I am sure we all have the "why not me" moment,but the joy that we all feel watching our babies grow up into wonderful adults outweighs the worries.
Sending positive thoughts to Julia for a speedy recovery and so pleased that Spaw is back on board the Rainbow!
How about " The Rainbow Thread of Healing Thoughts" must be many mudcatters who need them but have not thought to visit here? Just a thought!

On a happy note , Billy and I are celebrating our Silver Wedding next week with a barn dance party, it is ages since I have sung with a band but I would like to sing a song for Billy , any ideas??

Sailing on

Wendy xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 19 Oct 12 - 01:25 PM

glad to hear of continuing encouraging news.
congrats to wendy and billy.pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Oct 12 - 04:38 PM

Wendy, has to be: 'Stand by your Man"
                                                         Nigel xxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 04:15 PM

Thamks Nigel :-)Love it!!
Wendy x

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 09:06 PM

Change the name? No. This thread is this thread. Yes, it is more than it started out to be. It grew because of all who read it, joined in, posted, monitored it for every single update and shared the down and the UP.

"Healing thoughts & prayers please"

You cannot change that.

We're all in this together... Red Green

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 01:20 PM

It's about time I caught up on this thread. Let's see, while I was away Jane's condition has remained stable, Nigel's diabetes has become stable, Billybob has come home, Spaw has been in but is now out of the hospital, and Julia Jones has broken several body parts but will hopefully heal. Anything else I skimmed over to quickly? Love to all of you!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 05:10 AM

Gnu, your impassioned plea has pushed my thinking into overdrive. And you know what? I think you're right, the Thread is the Thread. True, it has changed over the months for the very reasons you list. I've changed enormously over my 65 years, but I'm still called Nigel Paterson! So following the principle: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", 'Healing Thoughts & Prayers' it shall remain.
          Good to hear from ChanteyLass. I think your summary just about covers where we're all at presently.
          I'm off now to MFR Studios to continue work on an unfinished piece 'In the Greek style',
          Much Love to You All,
                                           Nigel & Ann (Still in NC)
                                           xxxxxxxxxx


PS:   MFR aka My Front Room!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 24 Oct 12 - 05:14 AM

I mentioned Julia Jones, wife of Nic Jones earlier & the horrible fall she sustained. The latest info. I have is that the poor lass will have to spend at least the next five weeks in hospital, immobile! She will not be able to move until the pelvic & lumbar fractures have healed. Wish she'd never gone near that perishing loft ladder!
         With Love to You All,
                                        Nigel & Ann (Home this coming Sunday)
                                        xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 24 Oct 12 - 05:40 AM

Healing thoughts to Julia,five weeks is a long time to be be immobile! Any address Nigel so we can send cards?
Wendy xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 04:23 AM

Wendy, if you, or anyone else for that matter, would like to send get well messages to Julia, she can be emailed at: [e-mail]   Julia's daughter will print off the messages & take them to her Mum. This email address was placed in the public domain by Julia's daughter specifically for the purpose.

       Special thoughts for Jane today, more scan results due.

       Much Love to You All,
                                        Nigel & Almost Home Ann.
                                        xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 11:00 AM

Jane's scan results were not what she was hoping for. Her Oncologist does not appear overly concerned, but 'activity' (Doctor's word) has been detected. Further scans & a review over the next couple of weeks. After so many months of 'stasis', this change comes as a very unwelcome visitor.
                            With Love,
                                           Nigel & Ann.
                                           xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 06:05 PM

Will hold Jane and you and Ann in our prayers Nigel,I hope that the scans over the next two weeks will bring you all peace of mind and that the Dr is just being very careful.I am mindful that having to wait is very stressful for you all.
with love from us both
Wendy and Billy
xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 06:22 PM

amen to that.God bless. pete

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 06:30 PM

Rough to hear of Julia and upsetting to hear of Jane. With Julia, we know it's managable albeit damn rough. With Jane, it brings back that "unknowing" BUT it got turned around before and it will get turned around again. I know this may sound silly, but... I just know it will be okay.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 07:51 PM

I hope Jane stabilizes again soon. I guess it is good to know that her condition is being carefully monitored, but it must be hard to find out that there is a new concern. Sending more prayers.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 08:52 PM

Nigel, my apologies. I have not been keeping up because 'no news is good news'. Read and re-read Gnu's post. My deepest love to you and your family. It'll work out, buddy. Believe that.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 01:26 AM

I will be carrying your Love & Optimism around with me every waking minute of every day. I nearly always write in the singular, but Ann is here by my side through thick & thin; even when she's in NC!
       Jane & all of us have learned much since January about living with cancer. The positive mental attitude that that has engendered is something we all need to keep in the forefront of our minds.
       As always, you're all there, just when we need you, you dear, dear Friends.
       With Love to You All,
                                     Nigel & Ann.
                                     xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 02:42 AM

adding my love & optimism!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 05:51 AM

Jane sent me a long email yesterday & I thought a brief quotation from it would add something to our understanding of her current situation:
    "........the doctor was calm and not hurried or overly concerned. They are discussing my case next tuesday and together the lung team will decide on the best course for me."
       She's come such a long way since January. Ann & I are very proud of her.

       With Love to You All,
                                       Nigel & Ann.
                                       xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 12:31 PM

i guess sometimes positives can emerge from adversity.blessings pete.