Warning! Emotional content ahead
By Tom Foremski - March 22, 2006
I said goodbye today to one of the most important and wonderful people in my life -and I am heartbroken.
This is Lou Nyari my beautiful grandmother of my children Matthew (18) and Sarah (11); in the picture is Lou and my daughter Sarah.
Lou maybe has a few days left in her battle against cancer and I wish she were not leaving. She has been my mother-in-law but never became that stereotype. She has been a third parent in my children's lives and a rock solid support over the last seven years when I was seperating from her daughter Mervana.
Lou is one of the most incredible persons I have ever known....along with her husband Bob Nyari. And it fu*!ing sucks !!!! ... that she won't be here.
[My apologies for bringing this here, but this is where I live and this is my life.]
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Comments (6)
I'm sorry to hear about your loss Tom. I wish you and your family nothing but the best.
Posted: March 22, 2006 10:15 AM
Thanks Blake, and to everyone else too...
I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to write that post but I spend so much time in this place that this is my life and this is all I have to share. And I also heard from others about their recent losses ... and it all comes together in our shared experiences.
When technology can do such things that's when it has ceased to be "technlogy" and it has become an enabler of of our shared experience as mortal beings...
Posted: March 22, 2006 3:45 PM
I understand. My thoughts are with you. eve.
Posted: March 22, 2006 6:31 PM
There are words of comfort when one is bereft. This is one at such a time:
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Crossing the Bar
All are hopes and prayers are with you and your family at this time. Lynne and William Jolitz.
Posted: March 23, 2006 1:39 PM
So sorry to hear of your loss, Tom . . . I'm thinking of you and your family.
Posted: March 31, 2006 11:22 PM
With you Tom and apologies for not picking this up 'til now. Attention swings!
MND took my mum in 2004. Sucks doesn't come close. Cruel and unfair starts to do it justice. It's why I keep the John's Journey thing on my site.
Posted: April 5, 2006 7:08 AM