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Onward and upward! something that you say in order to encourage someone to forget an unpleasant experience or failure and to think about the future instead and move forward.

My e-mail: jjmiller6213@comcast.net

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

You Just Never Know

Today's high temperature was: 34 degrees
Snow--Sun--Snow--Sun--Snow--off and on all day
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When I got up at 8:00.
3"--not too bad.


The snow started again along about 9:00 and
...snowflakes and all this Red, Red Robin just kept on bobbin' along

 The snow stopped and the sun came out and then...
12:00 noon


Then the snow stopped and the sun came out and then...
2:15 


Sunny and bright at 3:00



Detroit set a record for the snowiest winter since 1880-1881, with a total this morning of, 94.8 inches of snow.  I believe we had more then that and by tonight, there will be a few more inches.  That is 7.9 FEET of snow, Dear Friends.  No wonder some of the snow piles were over 10 feet high.. 
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My heart today is with the people of Boston.  I watched the commemoration and cried.  I spent quite a bit of time in the city when Jennifer lived there, and have walked that very sidewalk where those insane brothers set off their bombs. My grand daughter Susanna and her husband, Derek will run Monday in the Patriot's Day marathon.  I have no fear for them being there.  Boston will be the safest place to be that day.
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Heart Broken!!!  Bethie called tonight to tell me their oldest son Todd, who lives in the Czech Republic, had died.  "Just dropped dead!" she said.

She wanted me to notify the rest of the "girls" to "pray for us.  Just pray for us."

She and her husband are trying to get a flight out.

Todd had been doing yard work last weekend and he had a lot of chest pain.  He thought it was sore muscles, but the pain did not go away and seemed worse, so he did go to hospital.

They did an EKG and other tests and told him his heart was just fine.

A day later, he just died.

Reminds me of Fred--they told him for six months that the pain in his chest from from his lungs.  Come to find out, he was having mini-heart attacks and by the time they found it, half his heart was destroyed.

Anyway--Todd probably had an aneurysm in back of his heart which wouldn't have been seen unless they had done a CAT scan or some more extensive testing.  He was only 52--in fact, he and my Karen had a date, way back in the day.

I am still in shock--reeling.  The hardest death one would ever go through--that of losing a child.

So--if you could, please say a prayer for Bethie?

4 comments:

  1. I'm so sorry for your friend, and have sent up prayers for her and the family.
    Such a sad thing to happen.

    xoxo

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  2. So sorry for your friend's loss. Parents shouldn't have to go through that kind of pain!

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  3. So sorry for your friends loss, I can't imagine losing a child!

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  4. Saying prayers for your friend. So sorry. Vickie Okc

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