Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 May 14 - 11:45 PM

Oops, I guess it was Tami I agreed with!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 May 14 - 11:44 PM

Oh, Janie, hugs from me, too. I agree with gnu. Our animal companions are family members, too.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 01 May 14 - 09:34 PM

It counts every bit. Family is family, regardless of number of legs.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 01 May 14 - 08:19 PM

Thanks, maeve, gnu and Tami. I know that compared to what so many of you are dealing with, the loss of a beloved 4 legged family member doesn't compare.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 01 May 14 - 07:33 PM

Aw, so sorry, Janie! (((Janie))) and the rest of your family, too.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 01 May 14 - 05:40 PM

Nigel, Janie, all... bless.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 01 May 14 - 03:19 PM

All the virtual hugs you need, Janie. (((((Janie and family))))

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 01 May 14 - 08:36 AM

Could use a hug. Our sweet old dog died during the night.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 06:32 PM

some very pleasant music, that I would not otherwise have looked up. thanks. blessings    pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 08:11 AM

I'm sitting here, reading your posts, sometimes smiling, oft times thoughtful, sometimes crying, but always deeply grateful that you're all here, traversing the Seven Seas of Life. I picture you as you tackle your daily chores. I empathise with you when Life's swell threatens to overwhelm. I imagine a gathering on shore where we meet, eat, drink, sing & talk together. I am thrilled when folk return after a long absence. I guess, in a rather disjointed way, I'm trying to say that I need Jane's Rainbow as much now as I did, back in January 2012. My needs have modified over time, but You, my Dear Friends, are just as precious as you've always been. Trim the sails. Scrub the decks. Check the compass, we voyage onwards, ever onwards.
                                                       With Love to You All,
                                                                                       Nigel

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 09:44 PM

I like the good news. Not so much the bad news. Hugs either way. Another long day here so I'll just say gnightgnu and bless.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 09:40 PM

Oops. Previous music link didn't take. Paul Thorn. That's Life

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 09:36 PM

Oh yeh, Chantylass.

I forgot to say how much I enjoyed that video, maeve. Also, your crested irises bloomed this year for the first time! Brought a smile to my face and lovely thoughts of you every time I stepped out the back door and gazed at them.

Our marvelous old dog, Amy, is dying. Renal failure. I went over to my ex's tonight to spend a little time with her. I hope to be able to go over when the hospice vet comes to euthanize her, but that may need to happen while I am out of town this weekend. We have never had a dog that we didn't experience as a great dog, and it is always so hard to say goodbye.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 08:49 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlthNE11yvk

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 08:45 PM

Great news, Tami!

Maeve, that clip was delightful. I've just shared it on FB.

Janie, keep doing your best to keep the lines of communication open between you and your son. Between the two of you, you are sure to work things out.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 08:26 PM

Mandolin Orange Hey Adam

A couple of kids who live in my neck of the woods.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 05:49 PM

great news of an overall upturn, ranger 1.
wishing you some ease of mind, Janie.
blessings    pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 05:25 PM

And before I forget: Thank you, all you lovely, lovely people, for all the prayers, good mojo, white light, warm thoughts, and support. I, and my family, appreciate it.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 05:20 PM

No music links, but I have good news. Mom's being discharged tomorrow and Gramma's heartbeat is back to normal and they may send her home tomorrow, as well. I am hopefully going home tomorrow to my own bed, my cat, J-Boy, and my job. We do have someone staying with the invalids for a bit, so not to worry.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 04:35 PM

Refreshhhhhh

Anyone have more music links for us?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 06:32 AM

For Janie and her son...and all on board.
Swimming

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 12:09 AM

Having some of my own struggles. Definitely different from what we have talked about here. I am the 62 year old parent of a 20 year old son and we are seesawing across apron strings out of sync with one another. He saws through a section and I snatch it back, shouting in my own need, "Not yet!" I loosen a knot and he grabs the end, shouting in his own need "Not yet!" Intellectually I trust us both and know that eventually it will work out, but it is hard in the meantime. Through no fault of his own, he is going to need to be much more independent much younger in many ways than is the case when one's children are only separated age-wise by one generation from the parents.

I feel silly even asking for your empathy, and also know that none of you will begrudge my asking. No big, threatening waves coming at me, just the normal and very predictable choppy waves of any life.

Some one give us a good song to keep time with the rowing or the managing of the sails!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 14 - 10:03 PM

Ahhh, Tami. You are wise. Wisdom doesn't make a road less rocky, eh?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Apr 14 - 07:14 PM

Oops! Poor grammar there. The car will be fixed tomorrow afternoon, waiting to hear about Mum.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 14 - 07:13 PM

I didn't think that last post had worked, so I went back to this thread to check. Not only did it take, it was #3,500! The rainbow sails on!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 14 - 07:10 PM

Oh my, Tami, I guess this is what it takes to be thankful that your car broke down! I hope you mother, grandmother, and car are all fixed up soon and that your life does indeed become dull--or at least normal!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Apr 14 - 04:11 PM

My life is welcome to return to boring any time now. Gran to hospital by ambulance this morning. Atrial fibrillation, she's there at least 24 hours. Trying an IV drug to help heart back to normal sinus rhythm, if that doesn't work, internal echo cardiogram to check for blood clots and then a minor shock to see if that does the trick. Good thing car broke down on Friday and stranded me here, otherwise no one would have been here with her. Waiting to hear if Mum will be discharged today, and my car will be fixed tomorrow afternoon.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 14 - 10:03 AM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 27 Apr 14 - 07:45 AM

good to read that there was a silver lining in that cloud. trust the car gets fixed fine. another prayer offered, and wishing the best for you and yours.   blessings       pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Apr 14 - 08:40 PM

Not to worry, Janie. They're trying a couple of different therapies for her.

I was feeling a lot less stressed, but then my usually very dependable car broke down on my way back to Maine last night. Luckily, it was in the next town over from my mom's brother's family and my youngest cousin came and rescued me, as well as recommending a good mechanic. I was able to drive the car to the garage, but no one's going to be there until Monday. Silver lining: I got to spend some time with my cousin, who has the house to himself while his parents are away on vacation, and we talked until the wee hours of the morning. Conversation continued today, as well as a lesson on how to use some of the mysterious buttons on my camera, and he delivered me and Bandit back to my grandmother's this afternoon. Gramma gets the pleasure of my company for a few more days, and I have plenty of leave time saved up, so I'm still getting paid.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 26 Apr 14 - 08:17 PM

I hope she is getting some sort of treatment, or at least good care and respite. Doesn't seem likely they would include some one in the study that getting no treatment at all could cause greater harm. In the meantime, take care of yourself!

Watching the geese and mallards on the Oconaluftee River from the balcony of our motel. Headed home tomorrow. Have hiked the high country and the low country in the mountains. Feel satiated. Sent out good thoughts and thoughts of gratitude to and for all of you from the highest point we reached, and imagined this good ship sailing in the clouds that wafted around us, all hands aboard and soaking in the magic of these ancient places.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Apr 14 - 02:17 PM

Thanks for all the warm thoughts, white light, and prayers. Mum's still in the hospital, it's ulcerative colitis that had gone untreated for at least four months, and she was sick and tired of being sick and tired, as well as burned out from being my gran's caregiver and not getting any (or enough) help and being really bad about asking for help from the rest of the family. She's part of a double-blind study where they're using a hyperbaric chamber to aid healing. The problem is that it is a double-blind study and she may or may not actually be receiving the oxygen and her doctor doesn't know if she's receiving the oxygen, either. Hopefully it helps.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 26 Apr 14 - 06:06 AM

Glad I shoveled the back steps yesterday... it's -2C at the moment. Woulda been an awful icy mess if I hadn't.

No... there really isn't much going on here. No news is good news, eh?

Take care, all.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 25 Apr 14 - 10:38 PM

Happy belated Birthday, Tommy!

Sis and I are very much enjoying ourselves on day hikes through the southern mountains, Mostly Smoky Mountain National Park. The spring wildflowers are incredible and the creeks are full and singing.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Apr 14 - 08:19 PM

"Row on, row on, another day
May shine with brighter light
Ply, ply the oars and pull away
There's dawn beyond the night."

In other words, refresh!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 24 Apr 14 - 05:29 PM

thanks.
blessings all    pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 24 Apr 14 - 08:11 AM

Sending love to Tami, I know how stressful looking after your mother is, so take care of you!!

Happy Birthday wishes to Tommy xxxxxxx

sailing on,

with love
Wendy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 24 Apr 14 - 07:57 AM

Happies atchya, Tommy!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Apr 14 - 05:28 AM

what ChanteytLass said

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 08:44 PM

Happy birthday to Tommy, Pete. I'm glad the doctor is taking extra precautions, but truthfully I can't imagine telling any 15-year-old boy to limit weight-bearing! At that age, they tend to ignore advice like that! And I'm glad he is returning to school.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: bassen
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 04:51 PM

Just got back from choir practice, we finished off 3 hours of nitpicking Haydn by singing two of the movements from Brahms' Requiem - haven't sung those since we performed it last fall. Even for us nonbelievers there is such comfort in that music, and it was also a comfort to find we still remembered it! All good thoughts and energy generated by the music to those in need. Ich will euch trösten!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 02:23 PM

prayer offered for you and your mum, ranger1.
tommy has reached age 15 today. when he came into our care about 11 yr ago we were preparing ourselves to lose him before his teenage years, being told that most myotonic dystrophy children don't survive.
we have certainly had some near misses but is still doing surprisingly well.
his cast came off yesterday for x ray and the doctor thought it was healing nicely. had tommy not been special needs, he would have just been told to be careful and not overdo weightbearing, but for safeties sake another cast was applied ,to be worn anther 4 weeks.
but he did go back to school today and seems to have been ok.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 05:57 AM

(((*)))

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 11:18 PM

Tami and Mom.   {{{{{{{{{Hugs}}}}}}}}}}

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 09:13 PM

Prayers on their way to you and your mother, Ranger1.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 04:19 PM

Sending all possible mojo for any and all Tams or Tammis aboard! : )
                            Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 03:11 PM

Sorry I've been AWOL. This is one of the few threads that keep me coming back to Mudcat. Just stopped in to bask in the warmth. Things are stressful with my mother lately,both her physical health and her mental health are not good, so any warm thoughts, white light, and/or prayers for her are very welcome.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 04:40 AM

I've just returned from the National Folk Festival where I saw lots of mobility scooters & wheelchairs which enable older/less mobile folkies to participate.

One of my younger friends (40ish) has Cerebral palsy & has used elbow crutches all her life. Recently she developed a spur from the crutches & needs to occasionally use a motorised wheelchair. So she was zipping around the large festival site, getting to everything she wanted to attend & was not tired! She normally takes days to recover from a festival or other heavy activity.

best wishes to all, onward & upward.

sandra

ps. a great time was had at the Festival.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 08:57 PM

VT, every time I see someone using a mobility device, I think that person is setting an example for me and everyone else. Those people don't give up or accept confinement, and I hope I won't either. I am glad that structures have been altered to accommodate these devices. I am sorry, though, that pain is making this necessary for you. I am glad to read that work is a distraction, and I enjoyed those photos. Good work!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 09:02 AM

cute, in a creepy sort of way! tam.   I remember you mentioning steampunk before and I had to look it up. interesting stuff.
also interesting post, Janie. hope you continue to have a refreshing, renewing trip.
blessings    pete.