[stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

Fri Apr 25 13:33:24 UTC 2014

Jackie, this is lovely and I needed it this morning.  I may not be on the 
net nearly as much as I would usually be, so please know I am thinking of 
you all and sending you my best wishes for your writing life, and every 
other aspect of your life.

Bob has now been in the hospital 8 days. How can 8 days take so long to 
pass, I wonder, at times.  Family and friends have been taking me for the 
drive to Pittsburgh every day - its an hour from my rural home in a small 
village.  I am so thankful for them.

Bob had a horror of a night 2 nights ago - in a delusion caused by A   he 
unscrewed the central line tubes - he was alone in hi room late at night. A 
nurse happened to do a check on him and found his room and his body covered 
with blood - it was gushing from the central line in his artery. Just in 
time - the rescue group took fast action - bob was unconscious on the 
floor - and they were able to stop the bleeding.  He woke up much later and 
was in his bed - he looked around trying to see the blood that had been 
there, and it was all gone. He only remembers trying to clean up the blood, 
for he was thinking that he would be in trouble for making a mess in his 
room!!!!  He did not even know it was coming from his own body - the more he 
tried to wipe it up, the more it came gushing down.
Today, begins the 2 week period when he is expected to be very sick - and 
when I called to say, "Good Morning," he replied, "No, it is not a good 
morning!"
Thank all of you for remembering Bob in whatever way you do - prayers, 
meditation, healing thoughts, and more. I know he is surrounded by love and 
prayers - and that is what will bring us all through - we will not stay in 
this place, but we will pass through it and this is what we keep saying to 
each other as the slow days move on right now.
Love you you all, Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jackie Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

> Lynda,
> While "Jackie" sits writing her poetry, refusing to check e-mail for 
> several
> days, "Lynda" is witnessing aspects of living and possible death in forms
> she, (you) have not yet experienced with your loved companion. Your 
> emphasis
> on the word "through," tells us so graphically where your thoughts are.
> You are doing so many things now to inform a community of this disease, 
> and
> cope, that for now, you may not find time to tend to the horror of it all,
> and write your way through it. I join with you in believing that it is the
> knowing of the combined thoughts and prayers from all those who truly 
> care,
> that will bring you  both through. Where it takes you will be uncharted
> ground for your unique lives.
> I truly hope that an inclusion of one of the poems I wrote several months
> before my brother's death, will not offend, but rather add to that sense
> that horrors and howls are almost a rite of passage to events that
> unexpectedly beset those who dance from happiness, and ride motorcycles, 
> and
> blow glass, and who prune high trees, and run nude in the desert, who
> transplant tarantulas, and all measure of unusual things and are loved
> desperately by someone.
>
> Howls from a Memory Care Cottage
> "Do not go gentle into that good night."
> "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
> Dylan Thomas
>
> Called Pick's disease,  it took away your brain.
> So, howl, my gentle brother-put away.
> That howl alerts the ones who care for you,
> of loneliness and grief, for emptiness,
> or need for help in all life's endless chores.
> Almost inaudible, you still can say
> two siblings' names,  perhaps a "Yes," or "No."
> In some stiff, stooped , and foreign shell, you move
> away from any love sustained for you.
> Or is it that you feel abandonment-
> that none of us will ever take you home?
> Your howl, my brother, is-at night-my own.
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda 
> Lambert
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 9:07 AM
> To: newmanrl at cox.net; Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob
>
> Thanks, robert. You all kind of know Bob from some of the things I have
> written - motorcycling, dancing in the kitchen on a winter day, opening 
> the
> door for the "snow bunnies" and more.
>
> Last night was a scene from a horror movie - I won't go into details but 
> he
> was disoriented and confused, and took off the tubes that are connected to
> the "line" in his chest - an artery. Fortunately, he was found in time - 
> but
>
> it was the worst possible scene the nurse could imagine seeing when she 
> took
>
> a look into his room around 1:15 am.
> My days and nights are filled with making plans for visiting and other
> things we have to do now - everything is centered around getting Bob well
> again and meeting the needs as they come up each day.  Thank you all for
> your prayers - for that is what will bring him through - and I do mean
> "bring him T H R O U G H - Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob
>
>
>>
>> Lynda&Bob
>>
>> We do super enjoy your presents on this list! And yes, my first sentence
>> referenced the two of you - Lynda&Bob --- note the two names are joined
>> via
>> the & sign. And so I declare that combination to be a relationship
>> designator similar to the placement of two names within a drawn figure of
>> a
>> heart; these two people are in love, they are together.
>>
>> Our thoughts and strength are with you.
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Leslie Newman
>> Personal Website-
>> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>> President, NFB Writers' Division
>> Division Website-
>> http://writers.nfb.org
>> Chair, NFB Communications Committee
>> Vice President, Nebraska Senior Division
>> First Vice President, Omaha Chapter
>> Commissioner, Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
>>
>>
>>
>>
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