Prayers for my friend

Definately going to put Patti and her family into my prayers tonight.

Cancer is such a horrible disease.  Patti will be in my thoughts and prayers.

Deb W.

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Please say a prayer for strength for all of them and a peaceful passing for Patti.

Absolutely.  I keep thinking there's no good time to lose your mother, but that age is so full of transitions and changes that the stability and love of your mother is so important.  I hope he's surrounded in love and has avenues to talk through his feelings.  I've seen far too many men try not to "burden" anyone with their thoughts about someone they love passing that they clam up and feel even further isolated.  Vibes for strength for all those who love Patti, so they can support her family during this time and beyond.

((hugs, Cathy))

I lost several family members including my father to cancer.  It's such a terrible disease to deal with.  I feel for her little boy also....it has got to be so hard for him to deal with.

Special prayers for Patti and her family.

Cathy I am so sorry to hear that Patti is in the final stages of life on earth....

We will pray for her quiet and peaceful passing, strength for her son and husband and her very good  friend, Cathy.  

Cathy, I'm so sorry to hear that Patti isn't doing well.

I am praying for her & her family.

shadowsgin

Cathy I am so sorry to hear that Patti is in the final stages of life on earth....

We will pray for her quiet and peaceful passing, strength for her son and husband and her very good  friend, Cathy.  

Incredibly well put -- I will also add this to my printer stickies tomorrow. 

Cathy, I'll keep Patti and her family in my thoughts -- with extra strong vibes going to her son -- during this heartbreaking time.  I so rarely get on the forum anymore, but there have been several times when I've just been reading during a break at work, and I've seen your name in a post and I've wondered how your friend was doing. 

I remember when you posted about her illness some time ago, and you talked about the sadness you felt over her not wanting people to see her, and that you felt helpless to do anything for her.  I tried to imagine being in your shoes, watching a friend fight such a terrible disease, and my heart went out to you --- and still does.

I hope these final days are as peaceful and gentle as possible.  I'm sure you and her other friends and family members will do all you can to support her son, which will be the primary comfort to Patti.  I'm so very sorry  . . . . it's very tragic in any circumstance, but she's so young, and that makes it even more unbearable.

Take care -- she was blessed to have a caring friend as you.

My thoughts are with you, Cathy, as well as your friend Patti and her family.  ((hugs))

Cathy, praying for you friend and her family. 

Thanks to all of you for understanding and offering your words of comfort.

Everytime I think of what's happening, I just shake my head. I can't accept that she's this sick and going to die soon. I just can't.

I have this funny memory that keeps popping up. One of our friends had a really nice ski boat and we used to do a girl's day on the lake a few times each summer. We'd drink and eat what we called "trailer trash food" like pimento spread on crackers. It was a ton of fun. This one time, we disregarded the weather forecast of strong winds and went anyway. We were one of only a handful of boats on the lake and managed to have a great time. When we were bringing the boat in, we realized that trailering it was going to be nearly impossible. Just to get near the dock was crazy scary. We knew one of us was going to have to jump out of the boat as it got close to the dock and tie it up really quickly. You could see by our faces that no one wanted to do it. The dock was rocking and rolling and covered in water. The only one of us who wasn't in flip flops and had boat shoes on was Patti. She hardly batted an eye and the next time we got close, she jumped right out and used all her strength to tie the boat up so that Lynn could go get her truck and put the boat on the trailer. The boat had about $2,000 worth of damage but it could've been so much worse if Patti hadn't been so brave. She always had such a positive attitude and was so much fun.

The last time we went out to lunch, she paid and said "you can get it next time". We've never been out to lunch since then.

Cathy, she sounds like a friend I would have loved to to have.  You were lucky to have her and she knows you love her. 

Yeah, what Jackie said.  Don't be too hard on yourself Cathy. 

Cathy, You, Patti, her baby boy & hubby are all in my thoughts.  What I want to say has already been said more eloquently by others in the forum.  Just know that I'm lifting you all up as high as I can.