OT I have to ask again!

I will step up to you Edna Pearl and say I was the one who put my sister's info on this group, after going to her. She lives near Anne and is a nurse in the hospital near Anne. My sister offered her resources. I live in CA and extended myself for this and my sister backed me up. I don't consider it arrogant that I offered assistance and was shot down. I have legal and medical background and am very aware of Anne's condition.

Like Mary said, I'm going back to my sewing machine, and won't waste my time responding to further drivel like your spouting.

Ginger in CA

I was trying to stay quiet but I don't think I can. I believe Anne has problems that go way beyond anything most of us has ever dealt with. She's suffering. Probably part of that suffering is self-inflicted. That's almost always true. We hurt ourselves in such awful ways. Right now, I'm doing something that is NOT in my best interest by speaking up.

Ginger is my dear friend and sister in spirit and I just can't say enough about her heart and strength and courage. I don't know Anne. The only thing I know about her is that she has massive problems. And I just can't stand to see someone hurting and not jump in. I have no idea how to help her, or why she can't accept offered help. I think I have a pretty good idea, but it's only conjecture and I won't go into it. I'm the person who keeps a leash in my car all the time because I pick up so many lost dogs and cats. The local animal control knows me. I'm the one in the neighborhood who takes in orphan birds and picks up snakes that have wandered into the neighbor's laundry room. I've been bitten, but that doesn't stop me. And I guess that's why I'm still praying for Anne and hoping she finds this a place of comfort.

I guess my thought is that compassion is the only thing I can offer. I don't have knowledge or information or even good sense most of the time. But I can offer compassion and prayers. I don't expect anybody else to do anything. I'm just holding out hope that this group's collective heart is big enough to stick together and not fall apart along pro-Anne and anti-Anne lines. We're friends, sisters, brothers, old biddies (speaking of myself here) and some of us are total nutcases (again speaking of myself -- I'm complicated). We're really not much alike and we have a lot of differences. Put us together and we make a pretty decent scrap quilt -- there are great harmonies and loud clashes. But the overall effect is beautiful.

Hugs to every one of you, Sunny

Beautifully said, Sunny. Were you, by chance, a hostage negotiator in a previous life?

And are you feeling better? You seem to be posting a little more regularly.

Cindy

That's really beautiful, Sunny. You say you don't know help, Anne? A hug, a smile, a couple of words like "Feel better soon" -- that can help a lot IMHO.

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