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Just in case anybody cares - I get it. I just can't believe that the great "ME" got took to the cleaners. LOL!
I burried my baby granddaughter yesterday. Today I burry PIPS. Yesterday was a lot harder.
Thank God that my friends are - friends. Some lost lots! One won't speak to me any more. I guess that's not so bad.
This has been quite an education. Expensive - but, I've learned a lot.
I have kept and printed out copies of posts from various forums, emails from various sources, screenshots of all my "numbers on a screen" and now your book Mr. Platt.
I am going to gather all this stuff together and one of these cool, fall, moonlit nights I'm going to build a fire outside and burn it all.
Into the smoke of this fire I will release all the pain and suffering I have caused and collected as a result of my involvement with this sickness. I will pray for all of us souls who forgot: "You shall have NO other gods before ME and you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
I thank Marek and the Mod Squad for their dilligence. This has been no easy job. Keep it up. We still need to see this through to conclusion.
I want to believe that much of the dream that was PIPS may still be possible. NO, not PIPS! The dream. The ideas. Some of them were good, you know.
Maybe, together, we could use this forum and some of our members obvious talent to sort through all the peices - and sift out enough real value to put together something that WOULD work.
Just in case anybody cares - I get it. I just can't believe that the great "ME" got took to the cleaners. LOL!
I burried my baby granddaughter yesterday. Today I burry PIPS. Yesterday was a lot harder.
Thank God that my friends are - friends. Some lost lots! One won't speak to me any more. I guess that's not so bad.
This has been quite an education. Expensive - but, I've learned a lot.
I have kept and printed out copies of posts from various forums, emails from various sources, screenshots of all my "numbers on a screen" and now your book Mr. Platt.
I am going to gather all this stuff together and one of these cool, fall, moonlit nights I'm going to build a fire outside and burn it all.
Into the smoke of this fire I will release all the pain and suffering I have caused and collected as a result of my involvement with this sickness. I will pray for all of us souls who forgot: "You shall have NO other gods before ME and you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
I thank Marek and the Mod Squad for their dilligence. This has been no easy job. Keep it up. We still need to see this through to conclusion.
I want to believe that much of the dream that was PIPS may still be possible. NO, not PIPS! The dream. The ideas. Some of them were good, you know.
Maybe, together, we could use this forum and some of our members obvious talent to sort through all the peices - and sift out enough real value to put together something that WOULD work.
It COULD happen.
Dear John,
May I offer my deepest sympathies on the loss of your Granddaughter. May you and your whole family know how sorry I am to hear of your tragic loss. My heart hurts whenever I hear of the loss of a child and how little everything else really means, so hang in there and I pray for your strength to get through this difficult time.
I suppose that this isn't the right place to say what I'm feeling about my granddaughter - what I learned from her. But, because PIPS, and it's diversified membership, has been a big part of our life during this time I feel it does relate.
Since the beginning of time The Creator has been sending, or enabling, special souls to help us "get ourselves back to the garden". Way down deep inside most of us are drawn to people and/or ideas that promise hope. I don't know if this a weakness or a strength in people, I just know most of us have it. This is why many are so vulnerable. This is also why those who prey on us are so plentiful. And disgusting!
When the priests and High muckety mucks get all full of themselves and forget about The One God, the regular people are the ones who suffer. God then sends us someone to remind "them" of their True Purpose and to help clean things up. The Hindu's got Zoroaster. The Brahmins got Buddha. Judaism got Christ. Looks like we ALL got Mohammed.
8-900 years after Jesus resurected things were pretty bleak. The Dark Ages. The Christians seem to have forgotten the Good News by then. Enter Mohammud. We've ALL come along way since then.
America gave promise to all. "One God. Many Names." What would happen if we made a place that guaranteed that everybody could believe as they wanted to beleive, in peace with liberty and justice for all. Guaranteed! What would we do with that. Welcome to now!
This soul that was my granddaughter came and gave her life to remind her family (and hundreds of others) the true meanning of Stewardship, Courage, Grace, Love, Suffering, Patience, and the "Peace that passeth understanding". Watching her "handle it" was humiliating! Praise God!
Erin was in four different hoapitials around the country during her ordeal. At her funeral there were people from all of those hospitals, people she met on the plane, at the store, from the school and church and even someone she met at Disneyworld. She was just a tiny 6 year old girl from North Carolina. Right?
She taught me that there is a lot of work left to do here. As long as there is suffering like this innocent child experienced - there is a lot of work to do. If you don't know about Neuroblastoma - copy, paste and google it. Sad thing is, there are several of these killers out there and few if any know about them. Why don't we know about these things?
If it doesn't affect me directly then it doesn't matter. I've got my own stuff to worry about. Right? Well folks, this "stuff" is getting closer and closer to your home every day. Just look at the cancer stats, for example. Worldwide. If it hasn't gotten somebody you know yet, it will soon. What's going on?
Erin made me look at ALL the "stuff" killing babies. I remembered what Jesus said: "Satan comes to rob, kill and destroy...". Seen any of that around where you live lately? Main thing I see is that there is NO EXCLUSIVE AGENT! Satan seems to be at work everywhere.
Fortunately for us, so is our One God.
For example, the same day I burried Erin I got Grace Anne. My first great-granddaughter. Amazing.
I excercise, eat right, pray and meditate, rest and work hard, spend time with my family. I intend to be strong and run interference for these young ones to my last breath!
Running interference. Stewardship. We have to "get ourselves back to the garden". We need to start looking for all the things we have in common! For all the things we NEED in common. Fresh air. Clean water. Unpolluted earth. Without those all is lost anyway. We all need the space to worship our God freely. We need each other to do that special thing that we humans do best of all. We NEED to Love each other.
There is no such thing as the wrong place to share your pain, compassion, love and sadness when it comes to our children. What you have shared with us all is a wonderful story of Erin's too short life, and if anyone would object to that, then they are the heartless ones. Erin is at peace now, and it is wonderful that she had a Grandfather as loving and caring as you. I have felt the pain of losing a child, so I know how difficult it is and where ever we can talk about it is a part of the healing process, so thank you for sharing your pain with us, and hopefully we can all learn from your story to be more tolerant of others who are hurting. Your story has left an everlasting imprint on me, and I thank you for sharing it, even if it may seem out of place, it wasn't.
Hello John,
Wanted to say that your precious grandaughter left us all a gift.
That so many people came to her funeral, is indicitive of a loving
and giving child. How lucky you had each other and so sad it
was such a short time.
I wish to give you and yours my condolences, put one hand in
your wife's and the other hand in Gods, he wil strengthen
and comfort you at this horendous time.
Love and light to you John.
I too lost my little granddaughter on the 8th of August. She was 6 1/2years old and had a very nasty illness called "Neiman Pic" type C it's very rare and very deadly. I will read up on the illness that your sweet little grand daughter had. I am so very sorry for your loss of your baby girl. My granddaughter's name was Tristin and I know that she is running and playing in heaven with Jesus and no doubt with Erin too.
But you and I have been Blessed to have had the honor to be a grandparent of these two little beings. My little Tristin has touched so many lives and like your little one everyone that she had contact with from the Many Hospitals, nursing homes and the many ambulances rides that she was on everyone remembers her as a fighter and a presious Gift from God that we had for a few years on this earth.
Let God give you the strength to get through these ruff times he has the answer for everything that we need.
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