Calling all TNs

Inmate - no spread is such terrific news....what a relief!

Sarah, thanks for sharing your mother's story with us. The rabbit in the garden makes so much sense....there really is something to it. She was larger than life and will aways be a shining star to those who were blessed to have known her.

The best thing that happened to me today actually started yesterday (if that makes any sense...lol) when my daughter, her BFF and her BFF's mother (my friend) went to a concert.  We had so much fun and it was a really late night (...and an early morning today getting up for work). Best thing today was taking my DD and her BFF out for dinner. It's spring break this week so my teacher husband and daughter are having a lot of fun while I'm at work.

Sarah:  Thank you so much for taking the time to fill us in.  It meant a lot to me.  I lost my mother suddenly (not cancer related), almost 6 years ago.  I will email you hopefully soon, because what I want to share is longer than I have time for here.  I felt especially close to Laurajane, and I never understood it.  Going into my own surgery in 2010, she was heavy on my heart and I prayed for her.  Coming out of anesthesia, she was the very first thing on my mind.  Long story short, when I learned she had passed away March 10th, it partially made sense to me.  Sugar is right, the rabbit incident is not your imagination.  You will find more things happen... just look around.  It may surprise you and it may even scare you a little.  But don't be afraid because your mom is trying to let you know she is still there watching you.  With me, many things happened.. sorta like your rabbit.  It was so obvious that the things happening shouldn't be, and sometimes I saw literal billboards with messages on them that she had definitely had a hand in.  Anyway, the number 10 is a number that has meaning to me.  There've been a lot of things happen when "10" is involved.  Very quickly, and just a few for instances; Last trip my mom took, the only pictures she had taken she was standing beneath the number 510; She died May 10th, at 4:10, hit by a petroleum truck; June 10th, we had another family member hit by a coal truck; and July 10th we had yet another member pass away from something crazy;  often, the 10th results in me seeing, finding, or hearing from my mom;  the entire 2010 year was bad for me - sick all year, bc, and more.  I never had the pleasure of meeting your mom in person, but the connection was there.  I thought it was my imagination until I learned she passed on the 10th, but now I know it wasn't.  Have faith, dear friend... your mom is trying her best to help you through this.  My own mother, a writer, wrote a book prior to her untimely death.  In the book, she compared her body to a flowerpot.  She said that one day, the flowers would be transplanted and have no need for the broken pot.  Your mom, the beautiful flower that touched each of our lives and made everything more beautiful, had no more need of that broken pot.  The one she has now is SO MUCH BETTER!  My mother's name was Sarah.

Sarah, Thanks so much for sharing your mother with us, we are ever so grateful to her.  We seem we already know you as we could feel her love for her children through her posts.  If someone can have such a huge impact on many people just by her posts, I can just imagine what impact she must have had to her family and people she met in person.  The world has lost such a wonderful soul but I guess God needed her more. We all have to go one day, that is a fact of life and we just have to accept it.  I hope you will continue to get inspirations and be able to get past these most saddest days of your life onto happier days when her memories will give you strength.

cc4npg - I am also very sorry for the loss of your mother. You are very spiritually uplifted in order to be able to make connections.  I absolutely believe that death of the body is not the end.  Amazing story!  Thanks.

HeidiToo- HUGE Patriots Fan.  You too? 

Thank you all for being so welcoming and for the feedback.  I have 3 tests this afternoon and going to Boston tomorrow for the weekend to watch UMaine play in the Hockey East Championship.  Hopefully I can have a relaxing weekend without worrying.  My mother just told me a story about my onc.  My mother's bff died 2 years ago from colon cancer.  My onc was the same onc she had.  The bff's iron was very low and onc was going to administer iron via IV.  Bff questioned her and asked to investigate why iron was low.  Turns out, colon was bleeding through, and was the beginning of the end.  Needless to say, my mom is happy with my choice to seek a second opinion.   

Sarah: Tears were rolling down my cheeks as I read your post. I am so sorry for your loss. LJ often spoke of you and your son - I think he gave her her brightest moments as she faced this awful disease. 

Thank you for sharing LJ's last days with us. She was a beautiful woman, inside and out, and as sudden as it came, I'm glad she had a beautiful death, surrounded by people she loved, music, stories, laughter, daffodils.     

Sorry Titan, but Browns & Kansas City don't have this:

Tsk tsk Titan... you appear to be outnumbered...

Darn, I can't see the pics, have to wait until I get home and look at them on my laptop. 

Ladies!!!  I'm stressing,  I leave tomorrow morning for about 2 weeks on vacation and haven't even thought about packing yet.  I've got to get myself packed, the dogs packed for their camp and finish up my husbands packing (he always forget the essentials like his toothbrush).  Then when I'm all done, I need to straigthen the house up so it's not a complete disaster when we get home.  And I'm working a full day.  DH just called to ask if I wanted to go to the gym tonight.  He lives in such a fantasy world! 

I'm afraid I'm going to miss all of you!  I'm bringing my laptop and plan on posting pics on FB so I'll try to post some on here too. 

BTW, Eagles fan here... 

OK, here's what I have learned from Wonderlab (where LJ's gardens are). It appears we have several options:

1. Buy a bench made out of limestone and in keeping with what the museum already uses. Cost is $2500. I will be posting this same information on LJ's facebook page so, although costly, she had many friends and with a combined effort we may be able to "pull this off". Limestone is historical to the area.

2. Obtain a birdbath. Apparently, LJ also designed birdbaths. If, after reading this, one of her real-life friends (vs. online) knows where we could locate one, the museum would install it for us. Not sure of cost... one of LJ's friends would have to get that info for me.

3. Courtney, the gal I have been talking with at Wonderlab, is also aware of several varieties of plants that are supposed to symbolize BC. She mentioned an Echinacia called "Hope", a Hoya called "Remember Me" and a tulip who's name she couldn't remember but I could certainly find out.

So, there are three beginning options. I will Copy/Paste this to her FB page and PM the same infor to her daughter Sarah.

Let me know your thoughts. I told Courtney I'd get back to her sometime next week.

This is Sarah's response on FB to my post above:

I like the bench idea best! I can get the limestone from hoagley, mom knew those guys there, they would probably be happy to "donate" some... but someone else would need to help assemble, or make the bench...

Again... I'll keep you guys posted.

Ummmmm, I can't possibly be the only GIANTS fan around here?

See if you guys can follow this link in facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/laurajaneshively/posts/3206132763463?notif_t=feed_comment