Bamby
New member
A Brief history is probably in order..
A couple we hang around and spend a lot of quality time with in boating season has ran into a difficulty we simply can't do anything about. Towards the end of summer she started having some aches, pains and difficulties. She went to the local hospital to get checked out and they determined she had cancer, she's is about 50 I should also add.
They couldn't determine the source of the cancer so they started treatment with something referred to a shotgun approach. Well anyway she developed more issues about a week age and they ported her off to a real hospital in Columbus, Oh. It was there they diagnosed her thoroughly and determined she was stage four cancer and "their is no hope". We just received word of outcome yesterday ourselves and are a bit shell shocked ourselves, the last word we'd had she was doing well with the treatment.
The unfortunate thing is they live about a hundred miles away so we can't readily be there for them at a moments notice. Fact is this might be or probably will be the first Christmas we'll miss sharing with them for several years. Anyway I'm needing help myself dealing with this and something that would normally be so simple for me.
We're intending to send flowers to them in just a few hours in fact. I called the wife and she agreed it wold be a good idea. Well I just sat down to write the note for the card and ran into a brick wall. Just what in the hell is a person supposed to write, it's Christmas she's dying and how in the hell do you properly acknowledge "both" !!
A couple we hang around and spend a lot of quality time with in boating season has ran into a difficulty we simply can't do anything about. Towards the end of summer she started having some aches, pains and difficulties. She went to the local hospital to get checked out and they determined she had cancer, she's is about 50 I should also add.
They couldn't determine the source of the cancer so they started treatment with something referred to a shotgun approach. Well anyway she developed more issues about a week age and they ported her off to a real hospital in Columbus, Oh. It was there they diagnosed her thoroughly and determined she was stage four cancer and "their is no hope". We just received word of outcome yesterday ourselves and are a bit shell shocked ourselves, the last word we'd had she was doing well with the treatment.
The unfortunate thing is they live about a hundred miles away so we can't readily be there for them at a moments notice. Fact is this might be or probably will be the first Christmas we'll miss sharing with them for several years. Anyway I'm needing help myself dealing with this and something that would normally be so simple for me.
We're intending to send flowers to them in just a few hours in fact. I called the wife and she agreed it wold be a good idea. Well I just sat down to write the note for the card and ran into a brick wall. Just what in the hell is a person supposed to write, it's Christmas she's dying and how in the hell do you properly acknowledge "both" !!