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I've become addicted to "A"s (I've gone back to college), love eating and cooking everything but goat cheese, I always try to please everyone and laugh without wetting myself or snorting. I love reading and keeping up with current events, I value my friends. And most especially, I'm a proud mother of four and an excessively proud grandmother of five.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

...of someone who needs our prayers...



My friend, Linda "Hairdryer" has had one hell of a life...but that's another story. Her daughter, Kellie, pictured here with her younger brother Dylan, has confined to a wheelchair since being thrown from her brand-new-21st-birthday-present-from-her-grandpa Ford Bronco. She sustained massive injuries to her head and brain, and was in a coma for months. She was not expected to live. She beat the odds and survived, but suffered irreversible brain damage, and is paralyzed on the right side. She got married to a great guy a few years ago, and is living in a rural community in Wyoming. Against all odds, last year Kellie, at age 37, gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Steven. Very recently she began having unusual symptoms, including seizures, and the doctors do not know whether she suffered a stroke or brain aneurysm. She is not doing well. The nearest hospital equipped to do testing is far, far away in Salt Lake City. She is also far, far away from her mommy in Florida... Linda has a guardian angel who gave her an airline ticket to spend some time with Kellie and her precious grandson. Please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers. Linda already lost her older son, Kerry, in 1999 at age 31, to a hideous rare disease called primary amyloidosis. He had never been sick a day in his life. It was less than five months from diagnosis to death.

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