Heard from Pati!!!!

Yaaaaay! Best possible outcome I think.

-- Jo in Scotland

Great news! Thanks very much for letting us know. Keeping in touch will perhaps help her, too. Good for you. . In message , Tia Mary writes

Wow! Thank you, Tia Mary! That is great news.

-Irene

Good.

I have followed this discussion without joining in because it touches a nerve. Well, several rather raw ones, really.

Just please be aware that 'a rough patch' can mean anything up to and including complete disintegration. Things can (and often do!) look perfectly normal on the outside, but can cover yawning chasms of terror and insecurity. Things become so insurmountable for a while that reaching through the dark to catch that friendly and helpful hand held out is just impossible. I've been close, and seen it happen to those I love dearly.

I too have a stalled project. Several events this year have collided with it's completion. It will be done, though. Be assured of that.

Give Pati my love when you see her. I'm thinking of you all, even when I'm slightly AWOL...

Thank you, Kate, for your very brave- and very true- message. I think many of us fight these same demons. And thank goodness we manage to snap (or crawl) out of it at some point.....

Leslie & The Furbabies > >

Well, the term "rough patch" is mine. Patti did tell me a bit about what has been happening with her but I didn't feel it was my place to share details so I told her I would post and let the group know she had been doing poorly but is much better now. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary /\__/\