Paula, you know my feelings already.

You introduced me to the phrase 'herding cats'. It was new to me.

You've been herding ideas, studies, people, loose ends, and us for years; connecting us together, and moving us on, pulling us out of trees, turfing us out of too comfortable places, demanding that we get on out there and do something, sometimes treading on our tails, reminding us of the urgency and never giving up.

The herd is growing and getting more clamourous, and I can't imagine it without you. Stay on the journey as long as you can, you will be there in our collective fur, paws, claws and whiskers, and you will have gone home.

Paula,,
You have had such good advice and good wishes, I can only echo them. Unfortunately, I have never met you, but you can tell a person's character from the way they write, and you are trully a warrier, but a compasionate one.
You never know what is round the corner, and the cavalry could come yet. So many cases of peoplr beating the Doc's diagnosis, that it almost seems like the norm rather than the exception.
Carry on beingg an inspiration Paula.
best wishes
Ron

Paula,

You are touching more lives than you know.

Brava to you for your honesty and for thinking of others in this moment of clarity and crisis.

much love to you paula
your gifts of grace, dignity and eloquence means you have more than just survived, you are living well despite or inspite of adversity.
please do let me know if i can be of help to you in any way

wanna see me fly?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-MwS...&feature=share

Paula,

I was so sorry to read your post. A quote from Steve Jobs came to mind because you always followed your heart:

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Peace to you and your loved ones, Jean

Well, I'm not coming to your funeral. I refuse to make a memory of you in a box when for the 12 years I have known you you have lived outside the box, a rebel of sorts, drawing life just outside the lines. Then this wry little smile would pop out on your face signifying that you had accomplished your goal of getting someone's attention. What? You don't think we are aware of that WRY little smile...hmmmm.

Well, what now, Mirapex Maiden" I'm not going to try to talk you out of dying. I might, however try to t alk you into living just a bit longer. Of course, you know that life's path is full of bumps, lumps, dumps, jumps and those Forest Gumps whose moms seemingly know what that next piece of chocolate holds in store for you. We, on the other hand, seldom know what might be waiting for us just around the next corner.

I know y ou said that you aren't going to fight it, but...(here it comes...are you ready) can't you just show us one of your upper cuts or a jab or two or a one-two punch followed by a left hook. Now really, is that too much to ask. Wouldn't you expect me to do the same on my way out? Now, I am required to leave you a link here, so don't bellyache...just go to it and read the material. Love you, Paula.

http://hedgeek.hubpages.com/hub/The_...edical_Miracle

[quote=jeanb;882274]Paula,

I was so sorry to read your post. A quote from Steve Jobs came to mind because you always followed your heart:

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Peace to you and your loved ones, Jean
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beautiful words but especially coming from you Jean.

thank you .

you'll never catch me inside the box. haha i would need a miracle not a gamma knife. i do beliee in them. love you too michael. [and i have no idea what you are talking about "getting peoples attention"?]

thanks tammy. i'm hoping we can fly when we cross over. it's a major wish. there's lots of universe.....u are quite brave. with love.

I am so saddened by this information that I hardley know what to say. At first I am selfish, thinking that I don't want any one I depend upon - and I as well as others do depend upon you in many ways - to leave this world. Then I think about you and how you must feel. I am sure your faith will help you though this.

I remember once a television documentary about a woman who was told her condition was terminal. She was questioned on how she could bear this information. She replied that every one must die, that even the adorable baby you see in your travels, once born must eventually face dying.

Yes, dying is part of living, but I just wish it wasn't so. I will be thinking of you.

Ann