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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 16, 2005 21:02:17 GMT -5
did llana say she was going somewhere? i haven't seen her on.
kim
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Post by Blue Tigereye on Feb 16, 2005 21:04:13 GMT -5
I didn't see her post anything. Maybe it has thawed out down there and she is real busy cutting ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by stoner on Feb 16, 2005 21:28:51 GMT -5
Maybe she went with Shorty. ;D
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Post by docone31 on Feb 16, 2005 21:51:03 GMT -5
Lost another stoner to the Electricals! We did not get the chance to show her how to make a tinfoil hat. I hope she is ok, I just feel we did not do enough, and we failed. WE failed.
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 16, 2005 21:52:18 GMT -5
i seen BE on acouple times maybe she knows whats goin on with llana
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Post by bwalters on Feb 16, 2005 22:31:33 GMT -5
Hi All,
Llana is OK and is still here (in Medina). She suffered a loss in her family Saturday. Her only sister's husband passed away after a terrible illness that lasted a little over a year. He was buried yesterday during a beautiful, simple ceremony. W.C. was much loved and extremely well thought of in our community and in their church. He will be missed.
Llana is doing alright, but is sad, of course, and has been busy taking care of her family. I'm sure she will be back online soon.
Thanks for asking about her and missing her.
BE
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Post by Cher on Feb 16, 2005 22:39:44 GMT -5
BE I am so sorry to hear of their loss, if you talk to Llana, please give her my sympathies. Thanks for letting us know.
Cher
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Post by deepsouth on Feb 17, 2005 0:08:23 GMT -5
My sympathies too to Llana.
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Post by Rose on Feb 17, 2005 5:40:39 GMT -5
My condolences to you and your family Llana.
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Post by docone31 on Feb 17, 2005 7:50:44 GMT -5
Wow, life is fragile and precious. BE, if you get a chance, tell LLana we will be here when her time of grieving is over. Maybe the Tinfoil hat poll can make her smile. At least for a while. Grief is something that has to run its course. Grief makes everything, no matter how precious a burden. Please tell her we care.
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Post by stefan on Feb 17, 2005 8:21:02 GMT -5
My thoughts and prayers go out to Llana and all hit with this lose
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Post by creativeminded on Feb 17, 2005 8:37:18 GMT -5
Please let Llana know I will keep her and her family in my prayers. Tami
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Post by MichiganRocks on Feb 17, 2005 9:54:23 GMT -5
Hey Llana, so sorry to hear of your loss. I really miss hearing from you! I find that when life begins to weigh to heavily on my mind, that working on my rocks (and my canes) is a good way to settle my mind. When my father-in-law died last summer, I placed one of my nicer polished pieces of Quartz in his pocket for him to keep. Look forward to hearing from you again.
God bless, Ron
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Post by bwalters on Feb 19, 2005 23:18:05 GMT -5
Hi All, I went to see Llana tonight. She's OK. She wanted me to tell you all how much she appreciates your thoughts and prayers, and said that she will be back here soon.
BE
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 19, 2005 23:33:33 GMT -5
thats good to hear be------------- thanks
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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 20, 2005 1:18:51 GMT -5
thanks BE for updating us. i was worried about her. i'm sorry she and her family are suffering. i hope she'll be back soon. i miss her posts ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png) . kim
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Post by Cher on Feb 20, 2005 11:05:18 GMT -5
Thanks BE, want you to know how much we appreciate you for keeping us updated too.
Cher
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Post by llanago on Feb 20, 2005 11:48:18 GMT -5
BE came by last night and told me ya'll were beginning to worry since I hadn't shown my smilin' face in a while, so thought I should check in.
It has been a sad week. I have been so depressed I don't even want to talk to anybody. I have drug myself to work and back, but that's about it. I haven't even wanted to mess with my rocks! Have 8 barrels that needed to be looked after last Saturday, but that didn't get done because I was at my sister's taking care of the little ones while my sister and the kids were at the hospital with my brother in law. He passed away Saturday night about 8PM. I didn't have much hope for his recovery when my sis called and told me he was taken to the hospital Thursday night with pneumonia. He was so weak and frail and, I am sure, was ready to go meet his maker. He had ALS (Lou Gerig's disease) and there is no cure, so it was only a matter of time. He had been totally incapacitated for almost a year, his mind fully functional, but unable to even feed himself. It was terrible watching him go from being robust and healthy at Christmas of 2003 to being totally unable to do anything this past Christmas. He was a man that loved working at something whether driving a big Cat building a road or helping somebody do something. Being trapped in a body that wouldn't function for a year was the worst thing that could happen to him other than his wife or kids being hurt in some manner. It was torture for him to have a sound mind but not be able to do for himself and others. And it was awful for all of us - his family and friends - to watch him slowly fade away. So, in many ways, his passing was a blessing .
The day of his service was beautiful - blue sky, sunny and warm. We were so thankful for that. The family did the service themselves with the funeral home only transporting his body from the hospital to the funeral home and keeping him in cold storage until the service. He did not want to be embalmed. My nephews build his coffin and dug the grave. It turned out that they also had to put his body in the coffin! The funeral home was supposed to do that anc charged for doing it, but when they delivered the coffin to the funeral home, they also discovered they had to put the body in it! I am sure my sister has called the funeral home and ripped them a new one over that! Not so much because the boys had to do it, but because they charged her for them doing it. My sis and brother in law - in fact the whole family - believe the funeral home business if a huge scam and wanted no part of it. WC's cousin is married to a gal that used to work at a funeral home and she said their profit margin is about 300%. Also told a us a good number of horror stories about funeral homes. Lynn & WC decided long before he got sick that when one of them passed, the primary objective of their funeral would be to beat the funeral home out of as much money from their pockets as possible and she intented to stand by that. And a million dollars would not have produced a more beautiful service than we had. It was just perfect for WC and he would have been delighted with it. And, he was late for his own funeral!
We had alot of folks come to the house before the service that we didn't expect. The boys had already been to the funeral home and picked up the body and it was in the back of the pickup parked out front. There were cars parked everywhere around it. My sis skinnied up to me and said "I bet most of these people have no idea that WC is parked right out front!" She got a kick out of that. Probably most folks think that is irreverant but ya' just gotta know the Johnson family to appreciate it. My oldest nephew asked my youngest nephews wife if she wanted to sing Amazing Grace (she has a incredible voice) and she said she just wasn't sure she would be able to. He looked at her and said "Well, Kat, you know it's not over til the fat lady sings!" She is 7 mos pregnant and is HUGE! Needless to say, that cracked everybody up. It was a typical Johnson remark and WC would have been the first to break up laughing. Our wacky, irreverent sense of humor is one thing that has helped us all get through the service.
Since, it has been just horrid - not really cold, but just continuous rain, drizzle and grey skies. Downright gloomy, which has been as much a cause for my depression as his death. If the sun would just come out, it would probably cheer me up considerably! Days and days of gloomy weather has never done much for my frame of mind, but with his death on top of the gloomy weather, I am really having a hard time shaking off this depression. My rocks don't even help!
I have also been doing some research on real estate investing and other home based opportunities. I make decent $, have quite a bit of free time for my other interests, don't have to work for anybody that I don't like and don't have to put up with any BS in my job but it's not something I will be able to do forever or want to do forever. Heck, my knees are getting as bad as some of the ladies I work for!
My plan was to stay here as long as my sis and the family might need me while my brother in law was sick, then hitch up the RV and hit the road. Unfortunately, I can't really afford to do that now since I have spent so much money on my rock stuff! So, I am searching for something that will afford me the opportunity to have it all! Am doing some serious checking into three businesses that I can do either here or on the road. Just have to figure out which one and get started doing it.
My weatherbug says it is suppose to be partly sunny today and tomorrow - have seen no hint of the sun today - so maybe, if the sun actually comes out!, it will cheer me up some.
Thanks for all the concern and well wishes for the family. We'll all be fine, it will just take some time.
llana
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Post by Cher on Feb 20, 2005 11:56:48 GMT -5
Hi Llana, It's good to see you on here and I'm praying for lots of sunshine to come to you. I know what you mean about gloomy weather, it can be downright dragging. Sounds like your family had it all together with their plans and I think it's great! I agree with the "funeral home" thing, it's super that your sister and her family had the strength to beat them at their game. Hehehe my kids got mad at me when I told them ... "I have two gold molars, be sure you get them from the funeral home thiefs when I die." Take care, time will heal and I hope the plans you're looking into come through for you.
Cher
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Post by MichiganRocks on Feb 20, 2005 12:06:43 GMT -5
Hey Llana, it's really great to hear from you again! There's nothing irreverant about it. That's the way funerals were always handled until modern times here. The whole concept of the funeral home is just a way to take advantage of people when they are the most vulnerable. Unfortunately, most people don't think that they have a choice.
Give yourself a chance to heal. You have been through an emotional experience that will not let go easily. I grew up in a Polish neighborhood (probably why I married a Pollack) and I learned their tradition of partying hardy after the funeral. At first I thought it was terrible, but I learned that there is a certain tension that needs to be released. Traditional ways always have a reason for being what they are I guess.
Take care Llana and know that I'm thinking of you.
Ron
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