Hi C, I am so saddened to read your words, but supportive of your decision. I personally will miss knowing you are there, at the other end of my computer, and we all will be diminished without your wit and wisdom. To me you will always be Queen. I don't know how many on your lists are aware of your wonderful poems. I have, of course, some of them, but where and how can your cyberfamily access the rest? Yours 'til all pigs fly, and beyond, Carole, AKA GrinchWriter --- "M.Schild" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Quite a lot of you know Camilla Flintermann, the owner of > the Caregivers´ list > and a great lady. With her permission I relay her message > to her lists: > > > Dear friends one and all; > I have just thrown out 1570+ e-mails without being > able to screen > them They came while i was in the hospitals.. > The doctors rushed me into dialysis, which was totally > unexpected....I was not given a choice. After several > days of > treatment I was clear that I did NOT want to spend the > rest of my > life attached to those machines. > I have connected with a local hospice, and also have my 3 > great > private aides to help me,and will be here in my cottage. > I am in good spirits and am very clear that I have made > the right > choice. If I were 60 and not 85 I might feel > differently. Friends > and family have been very supportive. From now on I will > try to > follow various list discussions, as you are all very > close to my > heart, I look forward to hearing from you. > > -- > Camilla > > "Our life is a river > that opens into the sea of our > dying." > > from ":Sappho" by Erica Jong > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn