I'm on a slow ass connection so this will be short. While moving to my new place I got a call that my mom had a stroke. She's in pretty bad shape. It's very upsetting. I was so excited about moving to the sticks. This pretty much sucks. My mother is a wonderful woman I love dearly. I've always been able to count on her for everything.

So I'll be on here and there. I need to get my emotions and thoughts together.

I'm waiting on some news and will know then what direction my life will go.

Anyhow, more later. I miss you all. Best email these days is vesta@together.net

Dianna

Well, crap :(

Sending good thoughts and wishes to you and your Mom, DV.

DV, hang tough, we are with you in our thoughts

Best wishes for your family Diana!!

Dianna, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your mom.

Best wishes and thoughts for you, your mom and your family Dianna.

Dear Dianna:

My heart is with you....mothers are so important, and I know how much you love yours.

So sorry ot hear about your mother Dianna.....best wishes and healing thoughts go out to her AND you.

Good luck, and please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

DV,

Best wishes to you and your Mum

DV,

I don't know you but I wish you and your mom the very best.

I certainly hope that she is better very soon, I've been there, it's a sucky feeling. Good luck to you.

Best wishes to you and your family.

Dv,

our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Hugs


Todd

DV, I hope everything comes out the best possible... :-)

Alex

Wow, that is rough Dianna, sorry to hear it. Hopefully she'll make a full recovery very quickly

Best wishes to you and your family.

Diana,

I'm very sorry to hear about your mother, I hope everything turns out well.

Really sorry to hear that, Diana ... good thoughts and prayers for your mom and you.

Thank you all.

My father died 20 years ago.

Too many times we take things for granted, especially the ones we love. Life gets so crazy and complex. I don't want to look back, as I do with my dad and wish I had treated her differently or spent more time. I feel guilty because the past 6 months I've been so wrapped up in my life and projects that I've rushed her of the phone and didn't visit her as much. She told me she hadn't been feeling well.

It seems that in my 40's I really have faced my own mortality and reflect on my past. Damn I've done a lot and if I wrote books they would need to be volumes. So many lives I've lived. I asked my mom what she would have changed in her life and she said nothing except that she wishes she wouldn't have made so many excuses for not doing fun things she wanted because she had 4 kids and had to work her ass off to survive. She feels guilty becuase she doesn't feel like she gave us a good life.

I'm happy to have set that record straight. She's a good mom. I don't think I could have asked for one better.

She's going to need long term care. I think I'm going to move her out of the 180K townhouse we all bought her, out here to a cabin on my land. I think she'd be happier out here anyhow. My friends think I'll go crazy taking care of her but she's my mom and I'd hate it if my son pushed me off on someone. I don't think she'd do that.

Anyhow, she's ok. Still very sick and weak. I'm not sure when I can take her home yet.

DV