Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Oct 19 - 11:02 AM

I have been checking in on Susan Oldberg Hinton's Facebook page (WYSIWYG) and find that since the last time I looked I am no longer a friend, so I can't post a remark asking how she is, and the friend Sabrina, who Greg said to look to for updates, hasn't posted anything for weeks.

There are still 16 mutual Mudcat friends who can see more of her account. Please start asking about how she's doing and reach out to her husband if necessary. If she's in rehab it would be nice to know, and to be able to send cards or call (if allowed) directly.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 04:57 PM

Gnu is reaching out to friends now with a computer he has with him. Sounding better every day.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 03:56 PM

A second- or third-hand report to the Mudcat
indicates that
a bad fall was the reason
that Gnu was admitted to hospital,
and that he will be there for some time.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 19 - 03:28 PM

Sustaining the link between this ship
and New Brunswick.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Oct 19 - 07:31 PM

Thank you, Maeve, for those wise words.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 19 - 09:23 AM

Of course. I just wanted GT&V headed his way.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 14 Oct 19 - 05:52 AM

I've heard back from friend gnu. I'd respectfully suggest that those who care about him allow him to post or not as he wishes. It's a matter of privacy. From what he has told me, he will be ok, and I'll let him know Mudcat friends are concerned.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 19 - 08:38 PM

Send good thoughts and vibes to gnu in Moncton, NB. Apparently he's in the hospital in pretty sad shape AND his mum died September 27. As you may know, she leaved next to him and he cared for her. I do not know if the two are related.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Oct 19 - 12:40 PM

thoughts and light to all

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 09:50 PM

Thanks, Pete & all. The lady and I met for lunch, and talked for two and a half hours. We won't be a couple, but I can't recall ever feeling so positive about something despite a trace of disappointment. We were both really glad that we met in person and talked. I'm back online, seeing what's to be found.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 08:38 PM

best wishes to all

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 06:11 PM

Wishing you every happiness frogprince ; hope the meeting went well .   Blessings all

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 01:26 AM

don't go away!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 19 - 09:21 PM

Well...my youngest nephew, a 1LT in Marine Reserves, has been ordered to up to a year's deployment in Tblisi. While an officer who deals with hearing, water supply, sewage, and other utilities he's still a combat engineer. The Georgia Deployment Program lost three Marine reservists in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Neither his father (who got the news today as his birthday present, I guess), his mother, and me are unworried.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 19 - 02:51 PM

We need this ship above the horizon now.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 09:25 PM

The thing went well, with about 50 people attending at any one time. I'm sorry for the family, but they are taking it step by step. The youngest, a 4 year old grandson, keeps asking where grandpa is.

I'm sorry to hear about wysiwyg and I hope she is on the way to recovery.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 10:01 AM

Oh no, another stroke. May she heal completely like she did before.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 09:51 AM

I hadn't heard from wysiwyg for a while, and when looking her up on Facebook learned that she is recovering in a hospital now, moving to rehab late next week. That post was from her husband, pointing people to updates from a friend on her Facebook page. Sounds like a stroke. If you're a friend of hers on Facebook look for updates posted by her friend Sabrina.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 09:14 PM

Tomorrow we are hosting a...wake? celebration of life? what?...at our house for a friend who died of head injuries while we were in Ireland. Here because he just "wasn't a churchy type."

He got a cup of coffee, told his wife he'd see her downstairs, she heard a heavy thud, he never regained consciousness....

Well, we're happy to do what we can. It's not something you refuse if asked; folks are coming from literally from thousands of miles away. Buck was a good one and will be sorely missed.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 07:52 AM

Oh my goodness it is October and the summer has sped by, I have just popped by to catch up,sending love to everyone here and good health and happiness.
Thank you kereboxu for asking about my daughter. She has had 7 chemotherapy treatments, now 8 weekly,and the latest MRI scan shows an improvement so the treatments will continue.I am amazed and so proud of her, so stoic,never complains, looks after her two gogeous daughters, runs her husbands business and is just starting year 2 of British Signing Language with her eldest daughter who is hearing impaired.I tried to learn the alphabet, so difficalt.
Billy had a setback while we were away last month,his type 2 diabetes went haywire,however,reluctantly,he has started insulin injections and his count is coming down.Meanwhile his leukemia is still in remission ,he sees his consultant again in a few weeks.
As for me I am fine,still working 4 mornings a week with my lovely clients, they keep me young!!Lots of afternoons reading at the beach hut, how lucky am I to live in such a beautiful place.
Sending love
Wendy xxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 11:07 PM

Just dropped in and caught that post. I won't ask for grief support just now, but cross some fingers for me. I ventured onto Silver Singles site recently. After a bit one woman and I found ourselves focusing in. We progressed to email where it's easier to flow a little more, and have been on the phone regularly for a while now. Sunday we drive a little to a halfway point for a first face to face. We've already covered a lot of ground; I know that she's a very intelligent, thoughtful person, the pictures are up to date, our thinking on a lot of basics is very compatible, and we communicate with warmth and humor. I should say cross some fingers for US: that at minimum we come out glad to have met, and that we both make right decisions beyond that.
                   Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 08:42 PM

Not forgetting frogprince
and all those Mudcatters
who are observing difficult "anniversaries."

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 02:07 PM

Keeping Jon Freeman in thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 01:11 PM

This is the beginning of a difficult season of the calendar year.
For some reason
many of us have sustained bereavements or crises
in autumn and going into the year-end holiday season.

So this is a sensitive time with difficult "anniversaries" triggering intense emotions and distracting memories.

The Rainbow is needed now more than at most times.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Sep 19 - 05:02 PM

Keep LilyFestre and her loved ones in the light.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 05:15 PM

Yes, without Max she would not have reappeared.

Thinking of Donuel, who has been silent of late,
and of gnu, likewise.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 23 Aug 19 - 06:56 AM

Thank you very much, Max. Despite the fact that I have withdrawn from regular posting, I am heartened to see the restoration of 'Jane's Rainbow'. I will never be able to 'let it go' completely,
                                 Love to All,
                                                 Nigel Paterson.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 22 Aug 19 - 05:11 PM

Wise words wysiwyg ; blessings to you

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Aug 19 - 07:37 PM

YAH!!!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Aug 19 - 03:09 PM

She's back!! She's back!!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 06:36 PM

A few thoughts FWIW.

I'm sure Bobert appreciates all the good thoughts and prayers over his wife's health situation and his long and painful history with cancer-- he lost his first wife to it.

I would like to point out though that he always speaks of her as THE P-Vine,and for those of us who pray, it matters to get the name right.

Also, Bobert (as Dharmabum has done) has chosen Facebook as his live platform from which to provide health updates and requests for support. News here will tend to be out of date, as a result. There have been some hopeful updates at FB, but it's undeniably a scary and dangerous time, regardless.

My own health is dodgy enough nowadays that I no longer run the Mudcat Prayer Chain which used to operate very actively in email. In those days, Mudcat had to work very hard to keep the peace around issues of spirituality. People heading those efforts were known and respected members with experience in such matters IRL.

In this work, it's so important to keep boundaries in mind, and check with folks going through troubles about what's OK to post-- for example I know the P-Vine's real first name, but I use Bobert's name for her here-- because he does.

We've lost so many dearly loved members here, and some quite recently, that I think it serves the community best when we can provide accurate information, since any info is likely to really worry a lot of folks. Or to allude to troubles just very generally, when it's not our own troubles we're posting about. These recent, hopeful FB comments from Bobert, due to the nature of the FB medium, were buried in Comments on Comments-- easy to miss. Yet it's still where the actual updates are.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 09:46 PM

hey!

keep the ship above the horizon ...

don't let the great white sharks get you down!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Jul 19 - 12:02 PM

To my post on 09 July I should add that I've been keeping many of you in the Light. I just don't get here as often as I used to, and when I'm here I don't post as often.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Jul 19 - 11:44 AM

sending good wishes their way.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jul 19 - 07:45 PM

I can keep P-Vine and Bobert in the Light.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 19 - 11:37 PM

On Facebook Bobert shared news of P-Vine's second bout of cancer, this one more ominous and taking it's toll. I hope they can both be comfortable (I'm an atheist, so the spiritual end of things will have to come from someone else.)

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 19 - 09:24 PM

Joyful July to all!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jul 19 - 08:08 PM

sending good wishes to Pete's family

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 03 Jul 19 - 06:16 PM

Been checking in from time to time without posting . We've been pretty busy . Fostering another child with complex needs who's been in hospital more than out of it , and Becky with him much of the time . Daniel is two , and had a bit of a risky op this week , but came through and recovering .            Blessings all , and happy fourth to the Americans

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jul 19 - 05:40 PM

Happy Fourth.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 19 - 05:23 PM

sail on, sail on, o rainbow ship.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 12:01 PM

Thanks, Kerb and all; The eye has been fine since the first couple of days of steroids after the initial abrupt symptoms. Monday I had a couple of docs each shine 4 or 5 k watts in my eyes while a herd of others stood by and discussed, and no one saw need for further treatment. Incidental goofy factoid: I had had a mention by phone of the need to have the STAPLES from my biopsy removed while there. I was sure I would feel staples, and that there was little or no chance that staples would be used for the incision I had, but figured it was a slip of the tongue and I needed sutures removed. I had soluble sutures, as I should have suspected all along, and I think they were gone completely by Tuesday.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 19 - 08:12 PM

No news is good news, I reckon, regarding Frogprince
since his last update is positive.

Here's hoping that Froggy never again has to go through that eye business.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 12:23 PM

Severn has had a rough time of it,
this calendar year.
Something about a pacemaker I think.
Thinking of you, Severn.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 19 - 05:40 PM

And LilyFestre reports
that her husband was discharged from hospital,
continues treatment as outpatient.
They hope it won't come back.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 04:44 AM

Dean, I'm delighted to read that it turned out not to be GCA. Your ophthalmologist certainly should be able to give you the extra reassurance you need.
                                                    Good Health,
                                                                         Nigel.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 04:13 PM

Whew: results back, no terrorist cells at all, inflammation went right down with treatment. Just have a seam on my temple to salve for a few days. Have rescheduled a routine appointment with my regular optho that I would have had while entangled in this, so will have that for assurance.
                      Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:00 PM

Froggy,
what you and Nigel Paterson describe
would frighten the life out of me.

Have courage.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:40 AM

Dean, I'm very pleased to read that you are receiving the appropriate treatment promptly. Early, aggressive intervention with steroids is key to getting control of GCA. Ask about ultrasound, arterial scanning, an approach developed by Prof. Dasgupta.
                Every good wish,
                                           Nigel.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Jun 19 - 04:14 PM

Nigel: Bingo; I just asked for a catch-up on the terminology jumble. I’m actually getting the steroid regimen for giant cell while they wait for biop results to ascertain. Appreciate your input!   Dean