Life can be a Pain

Hi @utopia@Zoe7@outlander@Sophia1@Former-Member

Thanks everyone - I am glad my daughter is having that operation but it would be better if things hadn't been so bad for her over the last weeks - and after myself she is my first consideration

I feel really uncomfortable though - I have tried to contact my family but I haven't been able to get through - so I don't know what's happening there - I can pray and do - but it is very hard not knowing

If things were easier all around I would fly over there but not right now - besides when things are this private they must want that to be so - and feeling pretty alone with this I did email a friend of my from the past who was included in the list sent with the email I received on Sunday night - hard to believe we have got through to Wednesday already.

Anzac Day is important to me Zoe - one of my grandfathers died with war-related TB a long time before I was born - so yes - I remember - and one year I went to the Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne - it was a fantastic service and is a fantastic memory

I feel very shaky and sad tonight - but I am caring for myself first. I will be going to Hobart as soon as I can but it won't be until after my daughter has recovered from her operation

Thanks everyone for the messages and pictures - they are invaluable

Dec

good news about your daughter @Owlunar xxxxxx

Thanks @Shaz51

My grandfather was gassed in WW1 too @utopia - he migrated to Australia with his young family to get away from the weather in London and was a policeman in Australia and lived until his 70s and I was the last person in the family to see him when I took my baby son to where he was in hospital just before he died and I have this fantastic memory of his delight trying to hold his wriggly great-grandson who was a wriggly baby - and there were three nurses helping - it is a wonderful time. The old man had emphysma caused by gassing in Europe

And your father was exposed to Agent Orange - that has to be - tough - war is a terrible thing

I am interested in War History - it is never a fun thing - and I hope and pray for world peace but wonder even as I pray if it is something we can ever have

Yeah - I am stuggling tonight - I feel very much alone tonight - I have an elderly uncle in Melbourne who tends to be reclusive and I respect that. I don't want to interupt him just to make myself feel better but tomorrow I might ring him - get on to one of my cousins on messenger - in fact - I should check my mail now in case anything as come through

Thanks Utopia

Dec

@Owlunar 🌹🌹🌹

Yes @Former-Member

I feel a bit like that owl in the storm right now - like they say - it never rains but it pours

But prayers - I found a lot of really great prayers in the back of the big red Anglican Prayer Book - my uncle gave me that years ago - it's fantastic - I don't think I ever read the prayers at the back - I stuck more to the regular prayers - but these special prayers are so appropriate to the situation atm

Dec

Yes @utopia - we need the politicians to play a contact sport - and see who wins and let them sort it out and leave us alone -

They need to leave everything alone except what happens in rough sport -

Leave our homes and families - mostly our sons, fathers and everyone else alone.

We have had war in so many theatres in my life time - I get edgy every time there is a new one - I guess I have memories of WW2 - not anything obvious but rather the scarity of some things and the black out screens and the city being browned-out - I was very young and it's interesting how much children do remember even if we are supposed to be too young to have memories at that age -

But what do they know -

Tomorrow will be tomorrow - I hope if I go to bed earlier - I will wake up earlier and feel better - but whatever - tomorrow will be tomorrow and have it's own events - I haven't thought about tomorrow yet

Thanks Utopia

Dec