Life can be a Pain

[Zoe7]

Hi @Owlunar That is great news about your daughter - you really must be so relieved  Hopefully that will also take some of the worry off your shoulders too and help you to feel a little better. 

I know you care very much about your relatives in Hobart but you do need to look after yourself first. Maybe after your daughter has her operation and you are both feeling a lot better you can revisit going to see them again - if not I hope your prayers are answered and your aunt's health improves.

I didn't get to the ANZAC Service today - made the decision last night not to go - not up to it! Like you it is one day I believe in also - I think it is our 'special' day - one that truly represents what our nation should be about - compassion, courage and respect. 

I hope you have rested today and are continuing to feel the support you have here Dec 

[utopia]

Very good news about your daughter @Owlunar. Although you wouldn't want her to have this problem, at least it will be resolved soon and she will be free of pain, and able to live her life again.
Here's hoping that your pain will ease up soon so that you feel like your old self again.
Sending hugs.

[Owlunar]

Hi @utopia@Zoe7@outlander@Sophia1@Former-Member

Thanks everyone - I am glad my daughter is having that operation but it would be better if things hadn't been so bad for her over the last weeks - and after myself she is my first consideration

I feel really uncomfortable though - I have tried to contact my family but I haven't been able to get through - so I don't know what's happening there - I can pray and do - but it is very hard not knowing

If things were easier all around I would fly over there but not right now - besides when things are this private they must want that to be so - and feeling pretty alone with this I did email a friend of my from the past who was included in the list sent with the email I received on Sunday night - hard to believe we have got through to Wednesday already.  

Anzac Day is important to me Zoe - one of my grandfathers died with war-related TB a long time before I was born - so yes - I remember - and one year I went to the Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne - it was a fantastic service and is a fantastic memory

I feel very shaky and sad tonight - but I am caring for myself first. I will be going to Hobart as soon as I can but it won't be until after my daughter has recovered from her operation

Thanks everyone  for the messages and pictures - they are invaluable

Dec

[Shaz51]

 good news about your daughter @Owlunar xxxxxx

[Owlunar]

Thanks @Shaz51

[utopia]

@Owlunar - my great grandfather (who I never met) died back in Australia after returning from the war, due to being gassed.
My fathers autopsy showed the damage to his lungs from Agent Orange.
War is mean and nasty and cruel. It takes iur best men. Fingers crossed we don't fight a war in Syria.
Aorry you are struggling tonight. Sending hugs. Hioe tomorrow is better

[Owlunar]

My grandfather was gassed in WW1 too @utopia - he migrated to Australia with his young family to get away from the weather in London and was a policeman in Australia and lived until his 70s and I was the last person in the family to see him when I took my baby son to where he was in hospital just before he died and I have this fantastic memory of his delight trying to hold his wriggly great-grandson who was a wriggly baby - and there were three nurses helping - it is a wonderful time. The old man had emphysma caused by gassing in Europe

And your father was exposed to Agent Orange - that has to be - tough - war is a terrible thing

I am interested in War History - it is never a fun thing - and I hope and pray for world peace but wonder even as I pray if it is something we can ever have

Yeah - I am stuggling tonight - I feel very much alone tonight - I have an elderly uncle in Melbourne who tends to be reclusive and I respect that. I don't want to interupt him just to make myself feel better but tomorrow I might ring him - get on to one of my cousins on messenger - in fact - I should check my mail now in case anything as come through

Thanks Utopia

Dec

[utopia]

War. If the top men if countries want to go to war - then they should go. And fight it out themselves and leave iur sons and daughters out of it. @Owlunar.
Loneliness is so hard sometimes. I struggle with it from time to time too. I'm glad you have plans to contact your uncle tomorrow. Even being reclusive, he'll probably welcome your call.

[Former-Member]

@Owlunar 🌹🌹🌹

[Owlunar]

Yes @Former-Member

I feel a bit like that owl in the storm right now - like they say - it never rains but it pours

But prayers - I found a lot of really great prayers in the back of the big red Anglican Prayer Book - my uncle gave me that years ago - it's fantastic - I don't think I ever read the prayers at the back - I stuck more to the regular prayers - but these special prayers are so appropriate to the situation atm

Dec