Giac (NOT) Hospitalized - Convalescing Update 2004

Subject: Giac Hospitalized
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 08:50 AM

Some of you are already aware of recent challenges Mudcatter Giac (Mary) has been facing. This morning I received the following PM:

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Message:
from friends of Giac:

Mary has been hospitalized for tests; she was in tremendous pain on Saturday. The doctors are discussing chemotherapy and radiation because the tumor has recurred and is inoperable. She is in need of all the spiritual support we can offer. Thank you, thank you.

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Giac (pronounced like "Jack") contributed a song to the Mudcat CD Sampler project; it's typical of her that on one of the worst days she'd had of late, she wrote me that she was going to sign off and go spend some time with her guitar, which always "makes things all right." She also said, recently, that despite the pain and fear, she was experiencing stretches of deep peace, knowing people were thinking of her and/or praying.

I am having terrible trouble with my computer, but if I can I'm going to send Pene a photo she sent me during the last year, of Giac with her beloved dog. Any help getting clickies inserted would be appreciated. What I can do with this damn puder at the moment is pretty limited.

I'll let Giac's friends know that this thread will be running, to print and take to her.

You are much loved, Mary.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:08 AM

Please pass on my love and best wishes, Susan.

Steve

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:23 AM

Thank you, Susan, for letting us know.

Mary, please know, you have been, and will continue to be, in my thoughts and daily meditations/thanksgivings. I am sorry there has been pain and I trust there has been some ease from it in the past day or two.

In peace and healing,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:30 AM

Wow, so sorry to hear about this. Heather and I will keep you in our thoughts.

Rick

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:40 AM

Thoughts and prayers

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:45 AM

Damn!
Thinking positive thoughts, hang in there.

RtS

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:51 AM

Love ya, Mary.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 11:06 AM

I have not been able to recover any of the wonderful pictures Mary sent me in the last year. Her dog has been her delight and constant companion, a faithful solace in pain and a devilish partner in play... does anyone have one of these pictures to send Pene, to add to the Giac-with-Guitar picture already in Member Info?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 11:12 AM

Jokes, I have lots of jokes, hysterically funny jokes she's sent me, but no piccies. Sorry, Susan.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Micca
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 11:19 AM

She is in my thoughts too, I too have many jokes, from a real ray of sunshine, part of a correspondance started from stuff about Frank Crumit!! get well soon Mary!!

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: mg
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 12:07 PM

Best wishes from here at the ocean. mg

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Giac
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 12:09 PM

This is Giac's friend Callie. I read the messages to Mary on the phone, and she says thanks for all the good thoughts. She has decided to go ahead with the radiation; it begins in a few days. She said to tell you she loves you guys.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 12:12 PM

Giac,
I too, am sending lots of thoughts and prayers out there for ya!! You'll have lots of love comin' atcha from all across the globe, very soon.   You can count on that! KT (temporarily cookieless)

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 12:31 PM

My prayers and thoughts are with you; I hope our loving energies combine with the radiation to give you just exactly what you need.

As I said before, I love your Jesus in the Clouds and I've got it singing right now. Your insight and gentle humor are a treat.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 12:38 PM

And my best thoughts as well.......Like kat, we have always looked forward to her hilarious e-mail jokes.

We have you in our thoughts Mary.

Pat and Karen

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Kim C
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 12:41 PM

Giac, goshdarnit, you quit that, you hear! Mister and I send our very best wishes. :-) Love, your Secret Santa.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Genie
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 01:04 PM

Mary, you've been in my thoughts for some time now, and I'm dismayed to hear things have taken this turn for you. I, too, love listening to "Jesus In The Clouds." My prayers and best wishes are with you.

Love,

Genie

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 01:09 PM

Blessings to you Giac. Here's hoping for the best possible outcome for you in all of the challenges you are facing.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: open mike
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 01:25 PM

I am listening to Jesus in the clouds, and Elvis on the train,
the story of a true visionary! It is cut #17 0n the PLUM cd
in the Mudcat Blue Plate Special series.
I will walk the path of the labyrinth
concentrating on visions of healing for you, Mary.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 01:31 PM

please send her our best too. . . NEVER give up! (said Winston Churchill)

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: p.j.
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 01:33 PM

Warm thoughts and lots of hugs from Dave & Pam.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 01:36 PM

(((((((((((GIAC))))))))))Lotsa hugs from Wyoming!

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 02:08 PM

Ebbie, I've been learning Jesus in the Clouds, too and LOVE singing that song. Mary sent me an email explaining some of the stories behind that song. If she hasn't posted it to the liner notes, we'll have to ask her permission when she joins us again. What a beautiful song and lovely tune...very catching.

Callie, thanks so much for keeping us informed and for being there for Mary.

Love & Light,

kat

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Hollowfox
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 02:10 PM

Good thoughts now, a @#$%-reduction candle tonight after work. (I loved your song on the cd.) Take care, MomFox

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Tinker
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 02:30 PM

Boosting the Blessings and focusing the light your in my thoughts jusst keep singing...

Tinker

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 02:36 PM

Good thoughts from over here too.

Cat

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: smallpiper
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 02:40 PM

I don't know you Giac - but that dosn't matter a damm = I'll still be praying for you and think of you
John
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Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 03:35 PM

Oh, please, post the jokes she sent you if you saved them! Post them right here!

Callie PMed me she'd be sending Pene a picture to post....

~Susan

Subject: ADD: In Jesus' Lap
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 03:47 PM

Here's a piece I wrote awhile back; I'm going to think of it as Giac's song. Some people say the tune reminds them of "Sweet Hour of Prayer," although it's really 4/4.

Anyone else have a song to post for Giac?

~Susan

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IN JESUS' LAP
by Susan Hinton

CHORUS:
In Jesus' lap I love to lie
And lie there when I can.
In Jesus' lap where I was born
When to His lap I ran.

1. In Jesus' lap is always Truth
And truth in love is told.
In Jesus' lap is peace and life,
No story is too old.

2. To Jesus' lap will I return
When buffeted by storm.
To Jesus' lap my soul does fly
When cold heart I would warm.

3. From Jesus' lap I'll pray for you,
And bless you in your way.
From Jesus' lap, love, I can see you
Clearer every day.

4. In Jesus' lap, His loving arms
Encircle what He's won.
In Jesus' lap, oh! lay me down
When I my race have run.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 04:04 PM

Mary....I sincerley hope you get feel better soon...and I will be burning the candles for you....

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: InOBU
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 04:26 PM

Holding you in the light, Kiddo. Larry

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 04:42 PM

You know I am and have been thinking of you Mary, please know I'm sending all I can spare your way.Get well, hon.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 04:54 PM

Susan, a few of her jokes that she sent are probably a good idea!!! Here are a couple she got from somewhere that I like:

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Miss Bea, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been
married. She was much admired for her sweetness and kindness to all.
The pastor came to call on her one afternoon early in the spring, and she
welcomed him into her Victorian parlor.

She invited him to have a seat while she prepared a little tea. As he sat
facing her old pump organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl
sitting on top of it filled with water. In the water floated, of all things,
a condom. Imagine the shock and surprise. Imagine his curiosity!

Surely Miss Bea had flipped or something . . . !

When she returned with tea and cookies, they began to chat. The pastor tried
to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but
soon it got the better of him, and he could resist no longer.

"Miss Bea," he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?"
(pointing to the bowl).

"Oh, yes," she replied, "isn't it wonderful? I was walking downtown last
fall, and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to
put it on the organ, keep it wet, and it would prevent disease. And you
know. . . I haven't had a cold all winter."
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A CNN reporter went to Israel to cover the fighting. She was looking for
something emotional and positive and of human interest. Something like
the man in Sarajevo who risked his life to play the cello everyday in the
town square.

In Jerusalem, she heard about an old Jew who's been going to the Wailing
Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long, long time. So she went to
check it out.

She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was! She watched him pray, and
after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, she approached him for an
interview.

"Rebecca Smith, CNN News. Sir, how long have you been coming to the
Wailing Wall and praying?"

"For about 50 years."

"What do you pray for?"

"For peace between the Jews and the Arabs. For all the hatred to stop.
For our children to grow up in safety and friendship."

"How do you feel after doing this for 50 years?"

"Like I'm talking to a f***ing wall."
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Spaw

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 05:02 PM

Yeah! Just the ones I was thinking of!

Look at all the posts. Giac has loved, and been loved by, quite a diverse lot. The differences that might have been so visible once upon a time feel quite small and insignificant to me now as we each, from whatever view of her she's given us, see much the same thing. A kick-ass, brilliant, huge-spirited sweetie pie.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Tig
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 05:10 PM

{{{{{{{{Healing Hugs}}}}}}}}}

Thinking about you.

Love'n'hugs,
Tig

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: VoxFox
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 05:14 PM

Sending healing thoughts from New Brunswick, Canada and some big hugs too. :o) {{{{{{{{{{{{{GIAC}}}}}}}}}}}}}} VF

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Gareth
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 07:21 PM

Thinking of you.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Helen
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 09:38 PM

I've had Giac in my thoughts as I finished putting together the Mudcat Calendar this week. Here photos were the first that I put in place and I love looking at them.

Lots of light, love & hugs from Oz, dear Giac.

Helen

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 09:55 PM

I have been away for a few days and just found this. You are in my prayers Mary. Try to let go of the pain (if that makes any sense). Fighting it makes it worse. And draw strength from those who care about you.
M.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: GUEST,Jim Ford (Jeep Man0
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 10:51 PM

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Miken
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 11:27 PM

Thinking daily healing thoughts, too, Mary, along with the many others in the family of 'cat.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: GMT
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 06:07 AM

Giac, just finished listening to your contribution to the 'catters CD; pretty, very pretty.

Keep your spirits up, you'll be in my thoughts.

Gary

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 06:41 AM

Mine too. Let's have you back here soon.

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 07:04 AM

Today I finally received my Chrissy presents from my secret santa, Giac.

It was the most amazing box of goodies, BEARS!! including one she had been given years ago, one of the series "I (red heart)(place)" - in this case a bear from her home state, Arkansas as she wanted me to have something from there. The bears came with a wonderful letter & lots more pics of bears - some she had photographed, others she had found on the net, lots of her photographs of her surroundings - her favoutite fishing spot (surrounded by autumn trees- that's fall to some of you!!), scenery here & there, carved bears & a dime store Indian - too much to tell. And her dogs - one wearing a a coat with ears, it looked like a bear suit, the same dog standing in the snow (& not very happy). Its the best present I've ever had.

My colleagues admired everything couldn't believe that a stranger had gone to this trouble to collect everything for me.

So hurry up & get back on line, Mary, so far you have one short message waiting & I certainly do want to have lots more contact.

big hugs

sandra

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: harpgirl
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 09:25 AM

Mary, I am so sorry to hear this news. I will pray for you. Imagine us floating the Buffalo River playing music together,or under the waterfall at Pettijean Park. Hang in there, sweety. You have lots of friends here pulling for you. harpgirl

Subject: Lyr Add: BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (Paul Simon)
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 03:41 PM

Healing thoughts coming your way Mary. Don't forget your own healing powers inside of you.


BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (Paul Simon)
As recorded by Simon and Garfunkel on "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1970)

When you're weary, feelin' small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all.
I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough,
And friends just can't be found.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.

When you're down and out, when you're on the street,
When evening falls so hard, I will comfort you.
I'll take your part,
Oh, when darkness comes, and pain is all around.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.

Sail on, silver girl; sail on by.
Your time has come to shine; all your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine!
Oh, if you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.

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The bravest people are those who don't feel brave but do what they need to anyway.

Love, Rustic

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: Firecat
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 03:52 PM

Get well soon!

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: jimlad
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 04:00 PM

Mary,

I don't know you personally,but from all the great things I read about you here at Mudcat,you must be one hell of a girl.I am sure that with so many,many people rootin' for you,you can beat this horrible thing.So go to it lady.

With every good wish.

Jim

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 04:48 PM

Blessings, light, and healing prayers coming your way, Giac!

Subject: RE: Giac Hospitalized
From: RolyH
Date: 04 Feb 03 - 05:41 PM

Get better soon.

Roly