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Just wanted to say it is a sad day for our family. My 31 year old sister inlaw
lost her 10 year battle with cancer early this morning. It makes me realize
my own problems are so trivial. She left behind my brother and an 11 year
old son. They are devastated. What do you say to them? These are times
when all the words in the world won't help their pain. Time is the only
healer of these types of hurts. It is good that he has lots of family and
friends to get him through. The next few days will be difficult. Life is not
fair.

Lorster,

Oh, how right, all the words in the world won't help their pain, or yours. But your being there, in all the ways that means, will help, and I hope your being here will in some way help you.

My heart goes out to you and your family. Yes, the next few days, and more, will be hard. We will be thinking of you.

And lorster, your problems aren't trivial. They've just been eclipsed. But we know just what you mean.

 

I'm so sorry to hear about that Lorster. That is so, so sad!

There's nothing you can say to help; except let him know how much you admired her and that you'll be there for him and his son whenever he needs you.

I'm sorry for your loss as well. It certainly does remind us all that life is not something we should take for granted....even when our lives are full of challanges we are still very blessed we should certainly spend more time counting our blessings.

Again; I'm sorry for your families loss. I'm sure she will be dearly missed.

I am truly sorry for you loss.  May peace find you and her family.

I'm sorry lorster. I never have the right words for the death of someone loved. I think because words just can't address it. We've lost this soul to this plane and uncertainities of ideals and faith are not always enough to console us. Someone is missing. Someone is missed. There's an empty hole no one else can feel.

My heart goes out to you and your family.

I am sorry. I hope she has perfect peace now. She really put up a long battle.

Lorster,

What sad, awful news.  I feel so bad for you all.

I will keep you and your brother and his son in my prayers.

Lorster, My deepest sympathy and prayers are with you and your family.  It is especially sad to lose one so young to such a cruel disease. I hope her memory will be kept alive for her son, and that the memories of her bring your brother and nephew comfort.

Your problems are certainly not trivial, Lorster. I just wish you the strength to get through the days and months to come.

God bless you all, and may you all find peace in this sad time.

Nini

Nini39092.7534490741I'm so very sorry for you and your family. You and your family and that precious little boy are in my thoughts and prayers.

I am so sorry for you and yours. It reminds me of all of our mortality.  Death after a long illness is so hard and especially with a young child.  My heart goes out to you. 

 

So sorry to hear of your loss.  You are right, when you loose a loved one, our big overwhelming problems are miniscul.  I will be praying for you and your family at this sad time.

Blessings to you dear,

I am so sorry to hear of your loss, my thoughts are with you and your family. Take care.Lorster-

I am deeply saddened by your news.
My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer last May and has gone through chemo and radiation and everything was looking great. She just had a CAT scan 1/5 and it has come back.

I hate to think that 2007 will be the year my mother dies. She lives about 500 miles away from so I cannot see her as much as I would like.

I write this with tears in my eyes. I don't know how many times I tried to stop her from smoking.

My heart goes out to you and your brother's family.
Thank you all for your kind words. Her funeral is tomorrow. She will be
missed. Below is a link to learn about who she was. Discovery channel did a
story on her three years ago. It also talks about some treatments out there
for people with chronic pain.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/palliative-care/heatherhenrichs.ht mlShe was beautiful :) So lucky that you had each other in your lives. I'm very sorry.

It is so sad to see someone lose the fight.

I'm so worried about the referral to the hematologist which is at a cancer center. Between the bone scan and bone marrow problems, it makes me nervous because cancer can be one of the side effects of the medications.

But I'm glad to read of a treatment like that out there. I had no idea that they could do that. What a mericful treatment.

No wonder your sense of loss is so great.

Deanna, they are doing a lot of really kewl things like that now. This
procedure kept Heather pain free for long periods of time, she had this
disease for 10 years. As time went on, the cancer seemed to get more and
more agressive and finally, I think she just had enough and said..this is it, I
can't do this anymore. And you know...she never complained...at least never
to me. Most hematologists are partnered with oncologists and many are a
combination, dual education. It is good that you are seeing a hematologist,
that covers such a broad spectrum of problems. I know that it is hard not to
worry about this so I'm not gonna say that, but know that medicine is so
advanced in so many of the heme distorders. With RA, I guess we are always
weighing risks vs benefit and the cancer side effect is so rare. Please keep
me posted about what you find out.That was a very kind answer, Lorster. Thank you for understanding about my worry.
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