gypsyjoy
05-12-2004, 07:47 PM
I am the oldest of 4 girls. My sister Joyce (yep, joy and joyce and no, we are not twins, it was Dad's fault).
She called this morning, she does most mornings. Joyce has many serious health problems....Graves Disease, Rheumatiod Arthritis, IBS and this is only to name a few. In other words she is no stranger to pain, she lives with it on an almost daily bases. She had called to see when my Dr. appointment was and just to see how I was feeling. Knowing the last year has been pretty hard on me. I have only had about 12-15 pain free days in the last year.
She has witnessed me going through one of those drop to your knees spasms that you know won't kill you but you wish it would for just a couple of minutes.
I was telling her that my pain meds and my antidepressants had been changed and I go back on Friday to let my PA know how I am doing. And that the surgeon would be setting my surgery date today for the Colectomy,partial with anastomosis, in other words he is going to removes a section of my intestine.
She said and I quote, "Joy, if there was ANY WAY I could take your pain on myself just for a couple of days so that you could sleep a full 8 hours without pain and spend a day doing anything you want without pain or worrying were the nearest bathroom was, I would do it without so much as a second thought".
And as I am writing this I am still crying. I have been crying 98% of today...everything has set me off.
How can you thank someone for that kind of love. I have always helped her anyway possible due to her disabilities. But for her to say that just touched me so deeply.
Then just before I went to see the Dr,. I ran into a very dear friend at Wal-Mart that I haven't seen in 8 years. He had spoke to Joyce and she had told him that I has been ill. Well to make this a little shorter. We had a great chat he hugged me a bunch of times and I even got a little kiss on the neck(blush) almost woke up something I had forgotten about. But he told me if I ever need anything AT ALL call him. He is not the type of person to say it if he does't mean it.
Then my cousin called and offered to drive 125 miles up the to take me to Stanford next month which is about 170 miles from here maybe a little longer. She is unbelievable too. I am truely blessed. In all the hell I can still feel loved. Sorry this is so long but I really wanted share this with someone.
JOY
She called this morning, she does most mornings. Joyce has many serious health problems....Graves Disease, Rheumatiod Arthritis, IBS and this is only to name a few. In other words she is no stranger to pain, she lives with it on an almost daily bases. She had called to see when my Dr. appointment was and just to see how I was feeling. Knowing the last year has been pretty hard on me. I have only had about 12-15 pain free days in the last year.
She has witnessed me going through one of those drop to your knees spasms that you know won't kill you but you wish it would for just a couple of minutes.
I was telling her that my pain meds and my antidepressants had been changed and I go back on Friday to let my PA know how I am doing. And that the surgeon would be setting my surgery date today for the Colectomy,partial with anastomosis, in other words he is going to removes a section of my intestine.
She said and I quote, "Joy, if there was ANY WAY I could take your pain on myself just for a couple of days so that you could sleep a full 8 hours without pain and spend a day doing anything you want without pain or worrying were the nearest bathroom was, I would do it without so much as a second thought".
And as I am writing this I am still crying. I have been crying 98% of today...everything has set me off.
How can you thank someone for that kind of love. I have always helped her anyway possible due to her disabilities. But for her to say that just touched me so deeply.
Then just before I went to see the Dr,. I ran into a very dear friend at Wal-Mart that I haven't seen in 8 years. He had spoke to Joyce and she had told him that I has been ill. Well to make this a little shorter. We had a great chat he hugged me a bunch of times and I even got a little kiss on the neck(blush) almost woke up something I had forgotten about. But he told me if I ever need anything AT ALL call him. He is not the type of person to say it if he does't mean it.
Then my cousin called and offered to drive 125 miles up the to take me to Stanford next month which is about 170 miles from here maybe a little longer. She is unbelievable too. I am truely blessed. In all the hell I can still feel loved. Sorry this is so long but I really wanted share this with someone.
JOY