Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 03 Mar 13 - 01:51 PM

Allison, I think the Song Circle is a wonderful idea. Sadly, Ann & I will be out until quite late on Sunday, but we will be with you in mind & spirit. My song choice would be James Taylor's 'You've got a Friend'.
                               Much Love to You All,
                                                               Nigel & Ann.
                                                               xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 13 - 12:15 PM

Up thread!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Mar 13 - 05:59 PM

Got it!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Mar 13 - 10:51 AM

OK, Here you go: Healing song circle 2013

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 02 Mar 13 - 07:51 AM

9pm Sunday, I'm in.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Mar 13 - 06:02 AM

Not sure whether I'll be here or not on Sunday afternoon but I'll be round to join in later if I'm not!   What a fine idea Allison. We used to do those a lot around here......Good idea!!!



Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 02 Mar 13 - 05:22 AM

good for me too!so Sunday at 9 pm here in the UK, I will be there

Wendy xxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 11:14 PM

4:00pm Mudcat time works for me. Anytime on Sunday after, say, 9:00am Mudcat time works for me.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 09:49 PM

Of course, what was I thinking? The circle can start whenever it starts, and last for as long as it lasts, but for those who would like to feel that we are singing together, how about 4:00 pm Mudcat time? That would be about 9:00 pm in the UK, for example, I think?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 09:24 PM

8PM Mudcat is a tad late in yer eastern readership... no?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 08:15 PM

The healing circle sounds good to me, too.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 07:40 PM

I'd like that, Allison.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 05:56 PM

with prayerful thoughts for kat as she faces such a serious procedure and for spaw in his worry for her.not forgetting jane in her affliction and uncertainty and nigel and ann in their anxiety.God bless   pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 02:55 PM

I've just returned from a long road trip, tired but happy with the trip and happy to be in my own sweet, dear home. I am seeing this news and the news of Kat for the first time and I only wish I had wings that would fly me to the sides of those who are hurting and in need of healing.

Nigel, all I can do at this moment is stretch imaginary arms around you and hold you and your wife and daughter and her family tight, with love flowing. You are such an inspiration and we have all grown through you.

Kat, you know I am with you in healing love.

I think it's time for a healing song circle. If folks here would like it, I'll start a thread and suggest a time (I'm thinking this Sunday, 3/3, at around 8 pm Mudcat time).
I'll wait and see what some of you think before I take the plunge and start the thread.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 02:02 PM

Nigel and Ann,
I include you and your family in my prayers.
Stay strong.
Mary

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: maeve
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 11:45 AM

gnu, Nigel, ChanteyLass & all- Thanks for your kind thoughts when so many are in dire need.
Manuel- I am glad to share the song; thanks.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 09:55 AM

Maeve,so very generous of you to share this with all here. And Gnu, all's well, I do understand.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 08:06 AM

The news about Kat is very worrying. I think Spaw's post is a clarion call to action. Everything positive that we can send her way in copious quantities. She has been most gracious & caring to Ann & myself over the last year, now it's our turn to send loving, healing thoughts to Kat. Maeve, Ann & I are holding you & your relative in our thoughts too.
                      Much Love to You All,
                                                       Nigel & Ann.
                                                       xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 05:02 AM

Oops! Sorry Manuel. I musta been dazed and confused by the news about kat.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Mar 13 - 03:45 AM

what ChantyLass said

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 11:41 PM

Spaw, thank you for the update on Kat. I haven't got to her thread yet, but I'm already increasing my Mojo. Maeve, I'm sorry about your relative being ill. And of course my prayers for Nigel's Jane continue.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: maeve
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 10:26 PM

Earlier, I quoted from this simple, lovely song:

Round Our Skiff

Round our skiff's be God's aboutness
Ere she try the deeps of sea

Sea-shell frail for all her stoutness
Unless Thou her helmsman be

Text: Trad. Hebrides    Music: © 1984 Kathy Wonson Eddy
"Kathy kindly sent me this song among many others a few years ago: she is a great source of liturgical choral music. I have sung it with our chorus and another smaller group, but Carol and I wanted to keep it in our repertoire, so here's a third way to sing it. Kathy lives in Randolph, Vermont." Gordon Bok

(Round Our Skiff is recorded on the album Herrings in the Bay)
http://www.timberheadmusic.com/disc/roundourskiff.htm

mp3 sample here

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 10:24 PM

Maeve, thanks for taking time out to clarify for me at a time of night when you must be weary. I do hope things go well for your ailing relative and I look forward to seeing the remainder of the song.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 09:34 PM

Deepest care and concern from the center of my heart for all. We need a good rowing song!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: maeve
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 08:49 PM

Guest, Manuel- Yes, my member name is "maeve", but I've been signing my important posts more correctly as Maeve for some time.I'll post the rest of that lovely little song when I have time.

Spaw- Thank you for the update on our kind kat. Count on me.

Nigel & Ann- Home again briefly,and dipping my little oar with all my might.

Rest and peaceful dreams for us all tonight,

Maeve

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 02:30 PM

sending out every Mojo thought I can muster

xxx Wendy

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 01:59 PM

SOB! That's absolutely terrible news!

Hard to comprehend that she has been "let be" by the docs and it has come to this. DISGUSTING! Heads should roll IN COURT and it should be investigated by the medical association and government.

Donuel.... maeve is indeed tending a sick relative. Probably her post. She needs to be kept in our thoughts and prayers as well.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 01:20 PM

SPECIAL REQUEST NEWS

Yo Folks!!!!

Just got a call from kat at the hospital. The infectionn in her fingers is staph and it is beyond the antibiotic stage. They are going to cut them open and clean/scrape them out.   I'm sure additional antibiotics will come into play in the process but taking this step is big.....and absolutely critical/necessary/lifesaving. I am not being dramatic here.   

How serious do hospitals and Docs take this? If I go into a crowded ER and say, "I'm running a fever and I have an artificial mitral valve," I move past bleeding old ladies to the head of the line.

As you all know kat has had heart problems and surgeries and staph infections anywhere in your body tend to go pretty quickly to the heart and destroy valves. One can very easily find themselves in a very narrow window here so let's all get real damn serious with whatever mojo you send out....Do it NOW!

Kat and I came here at about the same time over 14 years ago and we've been Buds ever since. She's got everything I can send. Join me.........Can't type anymore.....Do it..............


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 12:47 PM

A little confused. Is the "Maeve" who posted twice today (so beautifully the first time)the "maeve" who often posts on this site?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 10:58 AM

any encouragement from that consultation was certainly slim but as you sail on into yet more turbulent waters it may be that there may still be some settled sea beyond the current horizon,please God that it be so. pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,Maeve
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 09:37 AM

'Twas I in the previous post.
Maeve

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 09:32 AM

Dear Nigel and Ann,

I am away from my computer caring for an ill relative, but found a way to check on you. I wish you ease of heart, mind, and body as you sail into unfamiliar seas.
Continued love and the blessings of family and friends surround you.

"Round our skiff be God's aboutness..."

More when I'm home,

Maeve

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 07:25 AM

Oh.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 04:21 AM

Love from Billy and me xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 03:58 AM

love

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Maryrrf
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 01:12 AM

There are no words that can help, but I too am holding you and your family in my prayers.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 10:43 PM

I doubt anyone here can relieve the pain all of you are going through now and,sadly, that which is yet to come. The many words from you yourself and all of us can only provide scant solace but we have nothing else...........I wish we did. I give you my best in love and friendship for strength and for the best possible outcome whatever that may be for you and Ann......and for Jane.

Your post from the other day reminded of this song verse by Patrick Sky..........

For you the years will heal all the wounds that have been opened
Just like time will cleanse the fields of all the flowers that have ripened.
Of all these things you can be sure.......
Only love will endure

Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: KT
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 09:53 PM

Holding you all in heart and mind on this February evening...Love and caring from another far-away mud pal.
KT

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 09:40 PM

Email me.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 09:05 PM

I wish the news had been better. Sending love that will continue no matter what the future brings.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 04:42 PM

The news following Jane's latest consultation is not good I'm afraid. The cancer is an extremely aggressive type, the most aggressive in fact. She begins another course of chemotherapy next week. If this programme of chemo proves ineffective, Jane's oncologist said there was nothing more they could do for her. If the chemo is effective, we are looking at a prolongation of life, not a cure. Desperate, desperate times.
                      With Love to You All,
                                                      Nigel & Ann.
                                                      xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 12:50 PM

you wrote that nigel? i seem to remember ,or am i mistaken,that you had said you were not gifted in composing words.seems that you certainly are.
it is late afternoon now so presumably janes appointment has happened.i hope there was some encouragement.
blessings    pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 27 Feb 13 - 11:00 AM

Deeply moving words, Nigel.

More good thoughts coming South.

Pete

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 09:23 PM

Beautiful indeed. And remember, we'll be here no matter what and no matter how long you need us.

(Unless my Internet connection dies. I had trouble again tonight. But even if it does, I'll still be thinking of all of you.)

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 06:27 PM

Nigel, that cuts all the way to the core; it's at once so beautifully, and so frankly, expressive.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 06:24 PM

Just now reading your poem, Nigel.

I am crying, it resonates so much. Seeing rainbows through the tears when I look off over the waters to the west.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 04:49 PM

Just beautiful, Nigel.
Love flowing.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 04:10 PM

Ditto... ditto... ditto... I am speechless, Nigel.

No... wait... I don't know if this makes sense. This is the first time I read something like that which is so beautiful, I knew I was going to cry but I didn't. Damn close but then a calmness came over me.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 02:49 PM

Nigel,

So beautiful

Wendy xxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: maeve
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 02:14 PM

Beautiful indeed, Nigel.