Sorry it has been so long since I have been around. I'm sure a lot of you have given up on me. things have been really busy since Oct. when my mom had her last surgery. I don't have the strength to go into all the detail but to sum it up: Mom had surgery on Oct. 15 which was another tumor de-baulking surgery. 7 days later she had to have another surgery because in the one on the 15th the surgeon nicked the colon causing feces to spill into my mother's abdomen. Which in turn cause a horrendous infection. We are still very angry that it took them one whole week, with her in the hospital the whole time and running a high temp, to find the infection. There was a lot of negligence involved. Anyway, mom never did recover and passed away last Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 4:15am. Me, my sister and our dad were all with her. I am so thankful for that. Tab and I said our goodbyes and as she took her last breath I was reading her favorite scripture, Psalm 91, to her quietly in her ear. Pray for us over these next two weeks as we clean out her apartment, sort through her things and have her Celebration of Life service. She is being cremated and her cremains will be split three ways, one urn for me, one for my sister and we will take the third amount of remains and spread them at the Oregon coast, where mom loved to be. Thank you all for your prayers and support over the years and thank you for the ones I now you will say in the future. You are all a blessing to me. I wrote this in peach as it was mom's favorite color. Psalm 91 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. | 
