Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: okthen
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 07:24 PM

echo

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: IvanB
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 07:33 PM

Spaw, please know that I'm sending all the healing vibes I can muster Karen's way. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for her. Hang in there, buddy, and don't let it get you down.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:00 PM

Karen,
Since negative thought will interfere with your healing, I will not speak a word about our elections again until you are home safe and sound. This will do us both a world of good. Be well for yourself and your family.
Love,
Mary

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Bugsy
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:19 PM

Just logged on and saw this thread. Spaw,mate, I am really sorry to hear such news of your dear wife. Hope she is recovering well even as I type, and be assured you are both in our hearts and minds right now.

Please update the situation as and when you can.

Hang in there guys.

ALl the best

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Cobble
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:32 PM

Karen GET WELL SOON. Brian and Margaret.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Banjer
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:39 PM

Spaw, all the best from our house to yours. Keep hanging in there, much like Karen did for you during your illness...Between the two of you and the younguns you all have about tried one of everything it seeems. Hopefully all will return to normal real soon. Keep us posted and if anything is needed other than good thoughts, let us know. Banjer

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:42 PM

Karen,you have to hurry and get well.Imagine those poor kids at the mercy of Spaw's cooking.

God bless you both.

LEJ

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:44 PM

Get well, Ms 'Spaw. 'Spaw and the little 'uns need you.

All my best, warm thoughts are sent out to you and yours.

Jim Bartholomew

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 09:08 PM

Warm good thoughts and prayers to you both..Love Guy

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Melani
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 09:55 PM

I see freely-circulating blood full of oxygen, and everything inside as it should be. Get well soon.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: BlueJay
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:09 PM

Karen and Pat- More good thoughts coming to you from Colorado way. Our prayers are with you. Jay

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:11 PM

Hey guys, I wish you all the same as the above and put a nice big multiplier on it. Spaw, you've got your hands full with the kids and keeping Karen company but you can do it. Karen, you've got your hands full with healing but the love I see directed at you now should help you on your way to getting back on that bike (wearing a helmet, right?). So kick back, get waited on hand and foot, and heal!

This place is so special. I was perusing the threads as I am wont to do when "Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw" jumped out at me. Immediately my heart went into my throat and my eyes filled with tears for a lovely family whom I have never met! And as I read through this thread I felt so good that there were so many people out there who would rally round to offer support and healing energy for them.

BTW, Wyo, there was no need to clear a space in your heart for them. From what I've seen here there is room and to spare for them and any of the rest of us. Be assured there is space in my heart for you all.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:19 PM

Well, here's a get well pic for you,Karen, just to prove that you're in good hands.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: GUEST,Joerg
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:20 PM

May you be able to keep your husband as silly as he is, Karen.

Best wishes to both of you.

Joerg

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Escamillo
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:38 PM

Lots of hugs and best wishes for Karen and Spaw. Get well very soon !

Dos abrazos - Andrés

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: GUEST,harp
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:39 PM

...best wishes for a speedy recovery Karen! Imagine Pat managing everything at home and get home quick!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:42 PM

Great healing gusts of Gulf Island gales blowing your way ... filled with positive thoughts for a speedy recovery.

LL

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Night Owl
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:43 PM

Karen...sending warm, gentle hugs and healing to you. AFTER the clots dissipate......DON"T TELL THEM and ENJOY being waited on for a bit.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: bbc
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 11:04 PM

So sorry to hear this news!

Sending loving prayers for healing & peace from New York,

bbc

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: BK
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 11:26 PM

Heavy Healing thoughts & eccentric (but positive) Unitarian Prayers coming to you for speedy recovery from the CENTER of the country (mid Missouri).

GET WELL SOON!!!

Cheers, BK

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 11:30 PM

That's it, I have had enough of this friggin' political shite.............friends in rough straights and I don't find out until tonight. Awrightee then, Sweetie, (Not you Spaw, you eejit, yer Missus!!!) I need you to open up yer heart and get ready to recieve all the love that the ole Big Mick can beam your way.............and it is considerable. You are in the prayers, and in my thoughts. We are all pitching for you, and as you have seen before, this place is loaded with healing energy. Spaw, I expect you will keep us informed. I would like regular updates, if you don't mind, and if you do, give them to me anyway..............LOL. Love to you, Karen.

Mick

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 11:37 PM

We're all with you, Spaw, and praying for Karen's quick recovery, each in his/her own way. We love you both, you know.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 11:57 PM

Spaw, we're here for you and your family. Any moral support you need - you've got it. I hope for the best medical care and a full recovery for Karen.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: ddw
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 12:07 AM

Karen and Spaw — I can't pray, but I can muster a whole lot of hope for a speedy recovery. Wishing you all the best....

david

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 12:31 AM

UPDATE:

Pat and Karen called me from the hospital, tonight. She is doing well, is on heperin, which will take a day or two to get used to. She was telling me the upside is she gets 5 full days of complete rest; the downside is, tonight, she gets stuck with a needle every six hours for a blood draw!

With everything going well, she will go home in 5 days and be on coumadin for 6 months. Oh, and Bert, she says forget the traiing wheels. She is not going bike riding for a long time!**BG** Greyeyes, I forgot to ask if it was British! Sorry:-)

I told her about all of your messages and she and Pat both said to say thank you and how much you all mean to them. Pat was going home later tonight and said he'd be along pretty soon to tell you all hello, etc. Seeing as it is already so late there, I don't know if we can really expect that or not. I think it's been a long day and night for them both.

He will be going back up to the hospital tomorrow morning.

I'll let you know if I hear anything new. Thank you all so very much. My heart feels so full of gratitude for this wonderful, wonderful community. You all are really extraordinarily wonderful!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Helen
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 01:00 AM

I think Karen will be fine because of all that wonderful, healthy Vegemite she has been eating lately. All those stress-busting B-vitamins will do the trick nicely.

So, as well as massive doses of real Ozzie pan-Pacific flying Vegemite I'm also sending love & healing light to one of the families I have never met in the flesh, but who I know and love very much.

'Spaw, at least have the decency to leave the hospital room when the effects of the Vegemite start overpowering your nether regions. (Have you run out of your supply yet?)

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 01:07 AM

This is one helluva' place! I just got home and thought I'd check in for a few minutes to unwind and ....... Well, what can I say? I guess I start with THANK YOU! I can't begin to say all the words I want to say to all of you. Your thoughts and prayers from all across the spectrum and around the world mean more to Karen and I than I express. Karen will see a copy ASAP and I will pass on to her your love, care, and concern.

The boys are fine and are staying with Aunt Connie and I believe tonight they are camping under the dining room table. Connie tells me the "tent" is up.

Karen's breathing problems have become increasingly worse since the bike accident. I think I'll blame this on Gervase for sending those training wheels which taught Tristan how to ride!!! Karen was riding with the boys about 3+ weeks ago and told Tris to move over (car) and he did......right in front of her. She was pretty well beat up but we didn't figure the breathing problems were related but looking back, it should have been obvious. We had been to the doctor and tests were being done, but this morning was simply too much. I am thankful we went today although I should have pushed harder over the past week.

Here's the update.......Karen was admitted to Mt. Carmel (where she also works in the lab) this evening after a battery of tests showing severe clots in the right lung. She is on IV Heparin to break the clots slowly and safely and they will be monitoring very closely and drawing blood every 6 hours. They expect her to be in the hospital 4-5 days and then on Coumadin for 6 months. There's a good bit of pain and they are giving pain medication. She's resting pretty well and in a few days will begin to feel much better.....we hope. All of her coworkers came in to see her and it was really wonderful. After changing jobs last year (13 years at a different hospital lab), we have been convinced it was a good move, but tonight really solidified that feeling.

I'll be heading back out early tomorrow and I'll try to check back in again sometime soon.

Again.......Our many thanks for all the thoughts, wishes, and prayers, here and by PM and e-mail..........We are grateful and thankful to all of you and send you back our very best in return. Thank you friends, thank you.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Clifton53
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 01:09 AM

These bare-knuckled political discussions do not seem so important now do they? All my best to Karen and Spaw, strummin' soft chords for 'ya.

Clifton

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 01:15 AM

Ah, Pat,

You and Karen have been through way too much. All the best to you both. Enough of this blood crap. You two are responsible for the shortages all over. Damn good thing you're not Jehovah's Witnesses. Our good thoughts go out in your direction.

Art

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 03:39 AM

All the best from me ( and all at the NYCFTTS). [Karen has enough to put up with being married to Pat without needing further hassle!]
Seriously, hoping for a speedy return to full health.
RtS

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 04:18 AM

Been out most of yesterday, so I didn't see this until today, but its never too late to beam those positive thoughts to people you care for.
love Patrish xx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: sian, west wales
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 04:37 AM

I've been away too ... but best of best wishes to you both. Had a mega-bike-crash myself many years ago ... and wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Is it best to be in a hospital where you work? I mean, do you set yourself up for a lot of cutsie-stuff, like little pink bows on the syringes? Or do they save your X-rays to make into your next birthday card? My aunt had gall-stones removed at a hospital where she worked ... no, maybe I won't finish that anecdote.

Warm thoughts to the whole family.

sian, west wales

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 06:37 AM

Get well soon Karen; and Pat keep yer chin up mate. Thoughts and prayers for you both. Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: sledge
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 06:43 AM

My thoughts are with you

Stuart

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Gervase
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 07:03 AM

Aargh, the guilt! Seriously, this is the first time I've been able to access the 'Cat for a couple of days and I find this thread. My heart hit my boots, but one advantage of turning up late is that Pat's upbeat message was there too.
All the very best to all of you - Karen, Pat, Tris and all the extended tribe. If the combined benevolence of this place can't help then nothing can! I'll think of you and send all the goodwill I can across the pond.
Karen, keep taking the rat poison and the leech juice; Pat, keep taking the piss! Much love to you both.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Naemanson
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 07:24 AM

Oh damn, I signed in to get the update and now I can't read it for the tears. I am keeping you, Karen and Spaw, in my thoughts and heart as well as your little guys. All the best luck and healing.

BTW, how are the boys handling this disruption of their lives?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: dwditty
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 07:26 AM

Karen & 'Spaw,

Strong prayer going out for a quick and complete recovery. And 'Spaw, you got a pretty good lesson in nuturing from your amazing Karen a while back. I know you will use that knowledge to comfort and support her in this time of need. God Bless you both.

dw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Naemanson
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 07:26 AM

And blessings on Aunt Connie for being there to help you when we cannot.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Noreen
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 07:30 AM

Hope everything's still progressing well, Karen and Spaw. ...here's a virtual spray of freesias for you Karen, to encourage you to take deep breaths to inhale the fragrance..

Love

Noreen

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: paddymac
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 07:53 AM

Let me add my best to the growing heap of love here. Multi-cultural soul that I am, I'll also hoist a few pints in honor of the two of you, and I'll remember you to the fire.

A very important thing, poppa 'spaw, is to be sure Tris doesn't develop a guilt trip over this.

My love to you all.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: L R Mole
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 08:21 AM

Prayers from the New England rain, which keeps things going. LRM

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 08:37 AM

Good dry thoughts from a wet place,
Steve and family

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: GUEST,Bill Foster
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 09:01 AM

Pat and Karen:

Anne and I will hold you firmly and fondly in our prayers and thoughts. We'll walk along with you through this; count on it.

Bill

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: CamiSu
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 09:23 AM

Lots of prayers 'Spaw and Karen. god is right there with you and you cannot be separated from that Father-Mother! *BIG HUG*!

CamiSu

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 09:45 AM

Karen and Spaw, I have four candles on my altar which I light, along with incense, when I meditate. (No, Spaw, I light the candles, NOT the altar!**BG**)

Anyway, they represent Light, Life, Healing Energy, and Love. I light them and snuff them out in that order.

Each time I have done a meditation for you both, when I go to snuff them out, the Love one refuses to go out! I hold the snuffer all around the rim of the votive candle holder, no air can be in there, but when I lift it away, voila! It is still burning, which I take to be very symbolic not just of the Love beaming at you from all of us, but also symbolic of Karen and her lungs; she's always got some air in there to keep the flame burning and I know it is getting better by the minute.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 09:57 AM

Just got on and discovered this.... Spaw my best wishes to you and Karen and hope she is up and around again soon.

Minstrel

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Kim C
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 10:02 AM

A great big Nashville hug to Auntie Karen and Uncle Pat!!!

Luvyabye------ Kim

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Mooh
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 10:15 AM

Spaw,

Our hopes and prayers are with you and yours. I didn't immediately respond to this thread because my wife suffered through blood clots also, and I didn't want to revisit those feelings. But I did, and I can tell you that with love, support, prayer, and attentive health care, all will be made right. Good luck and best wishes to Karen.

Peace. Mooh.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: Wesley S
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 10:37 AM

I'm glad to hear that the news so far is good. Best of luck, you'll be in my thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts needed for KarenSpaw
From: momnopp
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 10:39 AM

My love and thoughts and bright sunshine to you both.

JudyO