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From: "Carol
Mahnke" <carola@kalama.com>
Hi Gypsy, I have just finished
travelling through your pages...... what a great
site you are going to have. Don't you just love
using Publisher 97? I use it also, it's missing a
few things but I am learning how to insert
them..grin. Was good to see you back, hope you
checked out the Pastor's Pages on the 50+ home page.
Hugs, H@ppy
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From: rick
and/or irene rickirene@idyllwild.com
Subject: incredible
I just visited your page...no words...NONE...can
describe my feelings. You write with such
clarity...such power...could
FEEL...hear...smell....... My own daughter Kelly
died in April of 1977...so unfortunately, in some
ways, I can honestly say, "I know how you
feel"...I was struck by the photos... what a
lovely family you have! And the new baby... within
him, pumps the blood, the genes, the very BEING of
his ancestors...including his Uncle Erics! What a
joy that must be! I must thank your friend Lili, for
urging the sister of LOTH to visit...I am moved to
my core. My best to you, and your family. Of course
you may! <post this response on Erics' page>
Those were words I sent to you...they are yours to
do with as you wish!. ................irene
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From:
Deborah Kalbe dkalbe@mindspring.com
Subject: Your Web Site
Just wanted to write and say I've been to your web
site today, and it is beautiful site indeed. Your
writings are beautiful, you are truely gifted. You
seem like a very special lady and I just had to
write and tell you so. Bless you, Deborah Kalbe
Re:posting response on Erics' page....----->
Thank you for the lovely e-mail. Of course you may
use my e-mail message, choice #A is fine with me. I
will be checking back to your lovely page often.
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From:
JamClan slady@geocities.com
~ Subject: Your Website
Hi,............I visited your beautiful website and
wanted to tell you that you have done a wonderful
job. I really enjoyed my visit. I will return again.
~~~ I don't mind at all if you post my message. ~
God Bless
Anita {Southern Lady} ~ Ladies of the Heart
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From: Evelyn
Piazza medicsmom@wwc.net
Hi Nina..I have just been to your home page and felt
the need to write you a few words. My heart goes out
to you over the death of your son. I know that when
you lose a child part of you dies with them. I have
lost three sons. You never imagine your children
going to heaven before you. My
prayers are with you always..Hugs..Cyber Grandma
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From: gypsy@shentel.net
To: zoom@zoom.baton-rouge.la.us
Dear Bill; It's
been a while since I visited your page... It has
grown! And I see that congratulations are in order
too! *S* I shared with you, about a year ago, about
my son Eric (being killed just before he graduated
from college). You suggested that I put up a page
too. I have finally accomplished that long
sought-after goal! Would like to invite you (since
you were my inspiration to me to go after the
learning and development skills to do the project!)
Come and to see what you started! *smile* I see that
you are now playing Enya music! That was the musicI
played at Erics funeral. Evacuee is the one
dearest and most painful to my heart. We both loved
her music SOOoooo much. In fact - the last gift he
gave me for Christmas of 1995, was her newest album
- MEMORY OF THE TREES. I'm sending along Evacuee -
as it is newly produced in midi form. If you don't
know the words - they are on the Enya Lyrics link
which I provide on my "links"
page. Thank you for then and
now - keep up the good work. Heartfelt
kinship, From your gypsy, (Nina)
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From:
"Bill Chadwick" zoom@zoom.baton-rouge.la.us:
I definately remember you! It's good to hear from
you Nina. I am so looking forward to seeing your
page...... but you didn't put the address in your
email message. hehehe .......... Perhaps you could
add the URL to your email signature. Be sure to add
it as follows so that it will appear in the message
as an active link. That way folks can just click on
the email message and it will takethem to the link.
It's early and I can't listen to the midi yet. I
have to tell you something that gave me goosebumps.
The first time Brian heard Enya was on our way home
from his first visit with us....in the car. From
that moment on he has been absolutely enchanted by
her music. He now has three of her albums. Go
figure.....a 12 year old that likes Enya? I
mean.....I love the music.....but a 12 year old? Go
figure! And now.....the connection here with you and
Eric. What a smile! Thanks so much for the midi.
Hope to hear from you soon! Thanks for writing to
let me know. ~ Love & Peace, Bill...........
"In this life we cannot do great things......
We can only do small things with great love."
Mother Theresa. Bill Chadwick mailto:zoom@zoom.baton-rouge.la.us
~ My homepage is a memorial to Michael. There is
extensive info on grief there and great links to
other sites on grief. Please check it out! .......
Online Grief Support Group: A warm and compassionate
place... where we share the common bond of grief. A
miracle in my life! news:alt.support.grief
I LOVE the Midi and I LOVE the page! You did a great
job. I am going to put up a link soon.....so be
looking for it in my "Grief Resources"
area. Take special care of YOU and thanks for
writing. Let's stay in touch. ~~~ Love
& Peace, Bill
Nina, ~~~~~ Just a quick note to let you know I put
up the link to your page this morning. Good
luck.....you have a neat page. I am sure that Eric
is VERY proud.
Love & Peace, Bill
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From:
"Elizabeth Romedy" GaladrielT@msn.com
Subject: Your Website
Dear Nina; .....I have just visited your website and
am sitting here crying for you. I had to
stop and talk to me husband before writing to you.
There will never be the right words to help you get
through this extremely painful time in your life.
Losing a loved one is a terrible burden to carry.
Without going into my past, the one thing I do know
is that God will not allow us a heavier burden than
we can carry. My heart aches for you and your
family. God and your angels will be with you always
along with new friends on the internet. Keep that
faith in God. He will help you in every time of
need. Feel free to use my e-mail comments. They are
from the heart. Love, Light, and Blessings ~
Elizabeth...... http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/3615/index.html
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Eric
Of The Misty Blue Mountains
Name: Jerry Dreesen
Website: Ceramics: Poetry by Jerry Dreesen
From: Indiana ~ Comments: Nina has contructed here a
significant gift to all who understand the loss of a
loved one as well as those who wish to understand.
She has given a loving tribute to her son and to
life in general that she should be proud of. ~
Thanks, Gypsy
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Snicki-Lee ~
snick@seark.net
~ From: Warren, Arkansas
Oh, My Gypsy, my dear friend! ~ Every time I visit
your homepage, I see something new and wonderful and
so, so touching. As you would wish, Eric becomes
real on these pages to those of us who weren't
privileged to know him as you and his friends did.
Also, whether it is your wish or not, you, dear
Nina, reveal yourself here, too. There are so many
emotions packed into the site! You make me laugh,
you make me cry, you make me pause and reflect --
you make me feel deeply. Just as your friendship has
had such an impact on me, so your homepage stirs
things inside me that I hadn't even realized were
there. Love is to be found here, as is grief. Humor
is coming out of the shadows. But FAITH is shining
brightly. You are an inspiration to us all. Sharing
your experiences and emotions, your faith, with us
leaves each of us changed -- and changed for the
better. In His service, you do a grand service to
everyone who visits here, who takes the time to read
and to think, who "experiences" all you
have so graciously created and chosen to share.
Thank you for what you have put here. Thank you for
being my very dear friend. Thank you that this is a
place I can return to often and leave refreshed,
refined and renewed.
I Love You, Snicki-Lee
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From: "Linda
M. Rimel" <lmr@rica.net>
Nina, Last October, with much doubt, I went online
for the first time. Several days later, my daughter
introduced me to a 'chat' room, and I became hooked.
One of the first people that I met was Leona. What a
blessing! Every day I get a 'funny' from her, and
occasionally we actually correspond. Several times
she has mentioned you, and I find it hard to believe
that with her being a friend to both of us, that we
have not 'met' sooner. Evidently, we weren't meant
to meet sooner, but NOW! I sent Snick a funny day
before yesterday that she responded to, and in turn,
I responded back and shared a burden that I am
carrying. Not near the burden that you have been
carrying! I also shared with her that I like
exploring other people's homepages, and she sent me
yours. I live in the little town of Shenandoah, just
across the mountain from you. I have a great love of
the mountains, and when your mountain picture came
up, it literally took my breath away. It was 'my'
mountains! After reading all of your homepage, I can
understand why I lost breath! My heart hurts for
you, but no more than God must be hurting for you! I
deeply admire your faith and love for your God!
Through your homepage you have lightened my burden,
and I feel sure that I will return again and again!
Thank you for taking the time, and enduring the
pain, to put these things in writing to help others
like myself who need to know God's enduring love and
to know that it is He who carries us through the
valleys so that we can reach the mountaintop!
Linda Rimel aka gim-tutu
Reply to Linda ~ From: nbaker@shentel.net
Hello Linda; <snip>...how nice to receive your
healing letter of love and compassion. Thank you for
your feedback. I am finding that it is very healing
personally, for me to hear from others. I hadn't
really thought of that happening - I had two goals
in mind - One - to keep Eric' writings alive and
speaking... and - Two - to reach out to others who
have to travel that same grief-path that death sets
us upon.... The comfort and healing are surprise
gifts that are coming to me and they are so welcome!
I hope you will return to the page, for I will be
redoing it continually. The next step is going to be
to separate some of the lengthy or graphics-heavy
pages - using descriptions, titles or thumbnail
pictures which will be links to the full size if the
visitor cares to click and go there. This will
prevent such long load-ups (and give more
opportunity for sharing a greater variety of midis
on each page! *smile*) It DOES load much better
after the initial visit! I know that the LINKS page
is especially loaded down - and I'm not even
finished getting them up there! Tedious job! *s*
That will be the first of the separations. I'm
working on a Childrens' page now - and their links
will be reduced to just the one. Next will be Erics'
entertainment reviews and selected poems of his (a
very individualistic style that you will probably
enjoy as we writers' do enjoy the work of others
most when it is a unique style!) Right now though -
I still have trouble working with his writings - I
so LOVED his talent and skill and it is so very
painful knowing that he ~could-have" said and
done so much with his gifts!!!!! (I sometimes find
it so overwhelming that I turn away from it and take
a day or two off!) It will come though... I've been
working on it 8 months...(Had to learn to DO it
first! *S*) Hope to hear more from you. If you have
your own page - will you send me the link please so
I can visit? Eric was my baby... and closest
soulmate. I am now raising one of my 9
grandchildren, Brandi. She too, was very close to
her Uncle Eric. It is a special blessing that we
haveshared his life and death.... She is a sweet
comfort. Life is wonderful. God is great and awesome
and I know that I will reunite with Eric in His
presence... C-U-there, if not here! *Smile* Please
keep in touch.... If your burden is something that I
could share with you and possibly be of use to you
and our Lord in your life, please do me the
spiritual honor of letting me know. I know that I
remain here because He has other plans for me before
I'm called ~ home to be with Him forever.....I
always desire to serve Him and minister to His
children and the lost who don't know Him as their
Savior. I am yours because I am His..... ~
Sincerely, Nina)
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From: Deborah
Kalbe <dkalbe@mindspring.com>
Subject: Your Web Site
I just wanted to write and say I've been to your web
site today, and it is beautiful site indeed. Your
writings are beautiful, you are truely gifted. You
seem like a very special lady and I just had to
write and tell you so. I will be checking back to
your lovely page often. *******
Bless you, Deborah Kalbe
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From: JamClan
<slady@geocities.com>
Subject: Your Website
Hi, I visited your beautiful website and wanted to
tell you that you have done a wonderful job. I
really enjoyed my visit. I will return again. I
don't mind at all if you post my message. God Bless
~
Anita {Southern Lady} Ladies of the Heart
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From: Lori
Cox <lcox@tc-net.com>
Hi, A friend of
yours dropped us a line and asked us to visit your
page. It is wonderful. I read it with tears in my
eyes. You have made a wonderful memorial for Eric.
I'm so sorry for your loss. ~ Sending HUGS, Lori
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From:
"Lynne Newman" <raynbow@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Your pages, your beautiful tribute to Eric
Nina: Your pages are beautiful and touched my heart
to the core. I wish you peace....Eric has found his.
Thank you for the beautiful words, Enya and all the
touches that make this space sacred. Warm wishes,
Lynne
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From: Eva <egilbert@pronett.net>
Subject: Homepage
Nina Hi, my name is Eva I'm from Bluefield VA. I
just want to say how sorry I am of your lost. But as
hard as it is to lose a loved one we know that they
are in peace now. I remember reading about the
accident at Ferrum and it broke my heart then as it
did when I read your pages. I will keep you and your
family in my prayers and hope that one day you will
find peace. If you need a friend to talk to drop me
a line.
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From: roche13@juno.com
I TOURED YOUR WEB SITE. VERY IMPRESSIVE. HOW'D YOU
LEARN ALL THAT?. MY, GOTTA GO. ~ LATER. BOB
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From: "R
Baker" <rbaker@shentel.net>
Subject: Home Page
Honey, The Webpage is really
running smoothly tonight now that I have things
configured right and it is such a pleasure to share
these moments with you. You have done such a
fantastic job and the background graphics and sounds
couldn't have been chosen any better. I'm really
proud of you. Thank you.
I LOVE YOU, Roger
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KEEPER
<ciscokid@acadiacom.net>
GYPSY, I visited your new homepage. I just want you
to know that I think your page is the most honest,
sincere, homepage I have ever seen. Your page is
strictly from the heart and soul. You are in my
prayers, although I will only pray that God will
continue to give you the stregnth and faith that he
has blessed you with thus far. Your lost is the
greatest of all losts and your pain is the greatest
of all pains. Although I have not experienced the
loss of a child and I pray I never will, I have
experienced the loss of a sibling and lived through
the pain and sorrow that loss brings. God Bless you.
KEEPER ciscokid@acadiacom.net
USA
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From: Rocky
Lui <lui@glink.net.hk>
Hi Nina, You give me a peaceful mind, I like it !
Keep on this Good Work.. Best Regards, Rocky
from Hong Kong
To: Rocky Lui lui@glink.net.hk
Thank you ~Rocky~. I am
assuming that you are speaking of our homepage? If
so - thank you very much for taking time to respond,
it was kind and caring of you. Best to you and yours
from.. ~ Your GYPSY, (Nina)
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From: Denise
<denisem@vgernet.net>
I am so sorry for your loss :( ~ You have done a
wonderful job creating this journal. My heart goes
out to you. Having faith in the Lord is themost
important of all. I was surfing to bump into your
site and looking forward to more. Thank you! some
times we don't take the time to think of what we
have now and appreciate it.
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From: KJVGal1611@aol.com
~ Subject: WOW
Great Place!! God Bless You
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From: Joe
& Donna Hodson
<ladyowl@ici.net>
Subject: Trying to Heal
Dear Nina, ~ Thank you from the bottom of my heart
for your beautiful writings. On Feb. 4, 1997, my 25
year old daughter Kelda died less than 2 weeks after
being diagnosed with cancer. I thank God that she
did not have to suffer with it for a long time,
although no one knows how long she actually was sick
with it before it was diagnosed. I am struggling
with my grief and with trying to go through the
motions of day-to-day living. I read your words,
prayed your prayers, ( and some of my own, also ),
and listened to the beautiful music while I cried
and cried tonight-- tears that needed to be shed;
although one would think I had no more to cry. Thank
you, thank you, for sharing your grief so that I and
others like myself can find somecomfort. There is no
grief like that of a parent who outlives one's
child. I'm sure you must get lots of email but if
you, or anyone else who reads this letter, cares to
write back to me, I would certainly welcome the
support and the sharing. Sometimes I feel so lost
and alone. I search for some reason to keep on
living. I would welcome death, but I am not
suicidal. I believe in God and heaven and I will
welcome when it is my time to go there. In the
meantime, I do my best to be optimistic and find the
good in life where ever I
can. ~ God bless
you, ~ Donna
Good Morning
Donna; (I'm on my way to bed!) I am always so
touched and soothed in knowing that my grief and
pain has some value to God in ministering to others
who travel this particularly agonizing road of a
parent surviving their child... and not only to our
particular kind of grief - but to all kinds of
grief! Kelda, what a unique and beautiful name. I'm
sure that you, even as I - find comfort in knowing
that she did not have to suffer through that disease
that can sometimes kill in agonizingly slow torment
of pain and suffering............. ~Oh, Donna, I
ache for you! For I know how much I hurt still, and
your would is even fresher... I am so glad that you
found our site... and that you wrote to me.. every
message is a healing comfort to both myself and the
sender and to others who just quietly and alone...
read what we write... Tonight, I have been up very
late working with photos and getting Erics' Baptism
published on the page... It wasn't up yet when you
wrote to me. It was the day I had to finish the page
with Erics' Firebird and the message I needed to
bring in showing what and how it happened that he
was killed so senselessly... To counteract the pain
of what I went through to publish that - I did the
baptism to pull myself back up from the depths that
sometimes overwhelm me....I really need to get to
bed, but wanted to let you know that I certainly
care about your pain and loss, and very much about
you. Please write whenever you would like - I will
always respond... I am not a nameless face in the
world... I am His, and because I am His, I am yours
also...
Love in Christ and hugs {{{{{{{Donna}}}}}}}
From your GYPSY, (Nina)
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Some
people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our soul to dance.
They awaken us to new understanding
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze
upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
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Nancy White User653825@aol.com
Subject:
Please post on your guest book - Public is fine
What a wonderful spirit filled page! Praise the Lord
for your Living Witness to His Support through the
worst of times. I felt such outrushing of sorrow and
compassion when reading about Eric and then was
thrilled to read his poems. You have truly proven
that God is our Comfort and will see us through the
worst of tragedies. These past two years, I lost one
niece to death through an automobile accident, a
father to terminal cancer (after caring for him for
some time), my mother had to be placed in a nursing
home and my daughter became pregnant out of wedlock,
got on drugs and now has moved over 1000 miles away
and abandoned young son and husband. But God has
been my strength and defender. He is the Lord of all
comfort. Yes, I cry and grieve but I know he is
there. He is there in the middle of the night and I
wake in tears. He is there when I just don't think I
can take another thing. For those that mourn and
hurt, I recomment Hannah Whitall Smith's book, The
God of All Comfort. I'll be adding information about
it to my home page. I hope to add a section to my
daughter later, but the poem I wrote her when she
was 15 is on my page under personal writings. I have
also talked some about my Dad under the Heroes
section. Please do visit my page. It's "Welcome
to the White House"
http://members.aol.com/User653825/index.html
Love and God give you the "peace that passeth
all earthly understanding" ~
Your Sister in Christ, Nancy White
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KJVGal1611@aol.com
~ Subject: WOW
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from root@localhost
~ Subject: wonderful page my soul is thrilled Please
visit my page and if it is worthy, please add a
link. God bless. Nancy White home page: Welcome to
the White House
http://members.aol.com/User653825/index.html
Okay Nancy -
you are here! *S*
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The
following is a giggling beginning to a new
friendship! I have been very blessed in the
following series of communications which came of
such a strange ~beginning~ as we had! *smiles*
From: D-12-38@webtv.net
(DONALD Smith) ~ Subject: Very good site. I enjoyed
your site . It is very funny . Good work.
Keep it up.
Subject: Re: Very good
site ~ To: DONALD Smith D-12-38@webtv.net
Re: --->
You said, "I enjoyed your site . It is very
funny. Good work. Keep it up." I wondered,
which part ---> "Funny?" Did you review
the whole site?
Your GYPSY, (Nina)
To: nbaker@shentel.net
~ Subject: Re: Very good site ~
I am sorry if I have offended you . The part with
the frogs is what I thought was funny. No I did not
go to all parts of the site. I was interrupted by a
phone call and did not go through all of it. I
should have specified what part that I thought was
funny. Again my apologies.
Subject: Re: Very good
site
Dear Donald.... No offense - I was pretty sure that
was what you meant! It's just that there are some
people in the world that are better blocked out of
your incoming mail. Just wanted to be sure that YOU
were not one of those though I was pretty sure you
weren't. Very sweet of you to get right back to me.
I appreciate it and your thoughtfulness in
contacting me at all! a better place for everybody!
*G* ~ Your GYPSY, (Nina)
Subject: Re: Very good
site
Hi, This is Donald again. Dear dear
Lady you have been able to do something that I have
been trying to do for the past five years. I have
been trying to compose this message for quite a few
hours since I received your reply. I am a 58 year
old grandparent who lost the elder of my two
granddaughters on her ninth birthday to meningitis
that struck almost over night. I know that we are
put upon this earth for an allotted time that is
preordained. It is not for us to question the works
of the Lord as we are sheep and He is the Shepherd .
The one thing that continues to disturb me is that a
group of people came around to my sons' home and
pointed out in their bible that my granddaughter was
not in Heaven as we had told my remaining
granddaughter, but only a pile of ashes. Now she
wakes at night crying because she is afraid that
when she reaches the same age that she will die and
become just a pile of ashes. I don't think a person
that believes that has a right to do such a thing to
a three year old child. It has been years since I
became so choked up inside as when I went through
your beautiful tribute to Eric. I have put it in my
favorites file so I can go back to it as often as I
like. I hope that some day I can also create a site
to Rachel as you have to Eric. May the Lord Bless
you and Keep. A friend, Donald
Subject: Re: Very good
site
Hello again Donald.... How very sad and terrible an
experience for you all! I know a bit of how that
must have felt .... for Eric had tick-fever when he
was about 8 - and they thought it was meningitis at
the time. I remember very well - the agony of the
spinal tap too! For he was crying and I was crying
even harder! We were in Quarantine in the hospital
and it was really touch-and-go for a while and
during that week - we didn't even know exactly what
we were dealing with - for the tests take time to
come back.... He was so very sick! To watch a child
get sick and die in todays' modern technology must
surely be a torture difficult to fully describe! I
am sorry to hear of your pain even five years later!
<excerpted here> In any case, I pray for
healing for all concerned and I ache with you for
your little one who has gone on ahead and awaits
your reunion... It is so hard to be left behind
here..... I know.....
Love and hugs from ~ Your GYPSY, (Nina)
Subject:
Re:Rachel ~ Hi Nina, It still hurts deeply
to talk about Rachel but our Reverand says that it
is all a part of the Healing process so I attempt to
do it ... <ex....> Rachel was struck down by
Mengeococcle Menengitis. This is carried by germ
that gets into the air by a carrier. The carrier
doesn't necessarily have the disease but is only a
carrier. Someone who has been around a person that
does have it. It is highly contagous but only a few
actually catch it. She happened to be one of the
unlucky ones. A young girl that was in her class at
school had a younger sister that did have it was the
carrier in this instance. I was called to the school
on Thursday to pick her up because she had a fever.
I brought her home and kept checking her temperature
all that evening but it was only 99 degrees and went
down to normal that day. She went to school the next
day and was as playful as ever. That night her
temperature jumped to 102 and we rushed her to the
ER. The doctor said it was only a virus that was
going around and for us to take her home. During the
night she began throwing up and her bodily functions
gave away. My Son called the rescue squad but by the
time they arrived she was gone, This is difficult
but I will do the best I can at relating it.
Stephanie (her sister ) was immediately hospitalized
although they didn't know what had killed Rachel.
Tests were run for everything imaginable and she was
declared ok but still under constant observation for
a week. They didn't find what it was until the
autopsy. All close family members and her classmates
were given antibiotics just in case. Nina ,This is
as far as I can go into this today but I will
continue as I am able. Your Friend , Donald
Subject: Re: Re:Rachel ~ Hugs for you, dear
friend.... {{{{{{{Donald}}}}}}}....
I think it is good that you can talk about it at
last. Would you like me to share your story as you
tell it - with others? I will set up a page for your
Rachels' story if you like. Sometimes it is just
such a sharing which gets imformation out to others
who may be helped in a future such case....? At any
rate - I am your servent if you wish me to do that.
I have read it to my Brandi (the 7 year-old
grandchild I am raising). Her best friend, now moved
away, was named Rachel.
It is a beautiful name, and her Rachel is a very
sweet young lady too... Just write as you feel like
it. <exc......>..... Take care and remember
who Rachel is with now, and where she is - and think
about whether you would actually want her returned
to this life? I would not call Eric back from there!
How I long for my own ~homecoming~ day! It is for
that which we are learning here....to cherish so
dearly! Tenderly caring for you.... your GYPSY,
(Nina)
Hi Nina,
Believe it or not this is my third attempt
of the day at writing. The previous ones I read,
Reread and erased. Yes I would like very much to
have these posted in the hope that it might help
someone else. The only thing that I would ask is
that you change the name in case either of my sons
were to see it I don't know how they would react to
it. Neither can even talk about her .
<excerpts...> On this type of menningitis, one
who is infected with it breaks out in a rash and
causes bruising around the neck, under the arms and
their privates. Due to the total ignorance of the
EMS and authorities it was believed that she had
been molested. The truth only came out at the
autopsy. In all cases of menningitis the DHEC is to
be alerted and all doctors and hospitals are to be
put on alert. The classmates' sisters' doctor said
that dhec had been alerted but a secretary had
misplaced the files. They said that the secretary
had been "Reprimanded". If it had been
caught in time all classmates, including Rachel
would have been given the vaccine and I would still
have two Granddaughters. According to DHEC we were
among the "ACCEPTABLE " casualties..... If
I live to be 100 I will never understand that .....
I have always thought even one would not be
Acceptable...... <excerpts......> Take Care,
........Donald
Good evening
Don... I'm just here for a few minutes -
Brandi and I both have a ~back-to-school~ bug or the
flu - don't know which - but she's been pretty sick
since late yesterday afternoon. We thought at first
it was just asthma - but it turned out to be a
bronchial-thing which even I have begun to exhibit!
Been a long day - but think the worst is over. I'm
heading off for bed now - but just checked in on my
mail and found your message here so I wanted to
~~~wave~~~ at you and send along hugs
{{{{{{{Donald}}}}}}} until tomorrow. Will be
thinking of how to do the page for Rachel. Will not
use her name, as you requested.... But will have
something in a few days. I still have a LOT to do in
the sections already begun and the ones planned to
put up! I thought I would put a bit of your e-mail
on the guestbook section and then link from there to
her story ? Just feel a bit confused about how to do
it without using her name... and was wondering if
you might want to reconsider and let it be in her
honor and perhaps it might even reach your family
members in a surprisingly good way.... might help
them to deal with the reality and relate to a
positive aspect of it all... which aspect is in all
things.... The Bible exhorts us to turn and comfort
others with the comfort ~wherewith~ we have been
comforted ourselves.... I am thinking that I will
have to use some symbol - like a small angel when
referring to her - as I can't seem to feel right
about using fictitious name... Would that be
acceptable with you? Now, I was thinking how
wonderful it would be for the others to see that you
are able to speak of her.... To avoid doing so seems
to be a more tragic ~death~ than that which
separated her spirit from its' earthly habitation!
Rachel lives on with each of you as much as you will
all allow her to.
Goodnight from, Your GYPSY, (Nina)
Subject: Rachel
~ Hi Nina, I think that you should forget
about what I said about leaving Rachels' name out of
it. I also think that you are right about it helping
both of the boys by seeing it.Rachel will always be
in our minds and hearts as long as we live. Nothing
could Change that. You asked that if I could ,Would
I bring her back. As hard as it is to say, NO. I
think that THE LORD wanted her and it would not be
my place to defy HIM. This is a cruel and evil world
in which we live and I think that she is better off
than most of us .Your Friend, Donald
My dear Friend:
Donald I want to say here - that I feel so
very wonderful about your decision to allow Rachels'
story to be told right here! Who knows what may be
accomplished through that testimony and sharing of
the circumstances? I see that a miracle has already
taken place, Donald.... in you yourself - in your
being able to come out at last and bring her back
into your own life and also into the hearts and
loves of many of us who would never have known her
except for this time and place right here where you
have brought her to us. So I thank our Father for
the miracle in you and for all the miracles that
come through all of us sharing and uniting our
feelings and thoughts as is possible in this way! ~
Thank you, {{{{{{{Donald}}}}}}}! Brandi and I are
doing well here now. Had lots of prayers on our
behalf, we are SO blessed! Just wanted to drop you a
note and ask that you review the Guestbook and see
if you approve of how I edited and posted our
e-mails... I think it became a truly beautiful
unfolding and developing as it happened.... But if
you are uncomfortable with it - or any part of it -
I will remove it at once. I kept our more personal,
friendship portions private... Please let me know...
Okay? Love and hugs
from Your GYPSY-friend, (Nina)
Re: Hello Dear Friend!
Hi Nina, I am glad that you and Brandi are feeling
better. I have been trying to respond all day but
this "poor mans computer" webtv hasn't
been cooperating very much. Yes Ma'am I do approve
of the way you have done the editing on my country
boy vocabulary and made it come out perfect. You
truly have the guidance from above to be able to
create the page as you have done, I could not have
come close if I had tried a hundred years. You have
created a testimonial that comes alive as you read
it. Nina you are a brilliant Lady with a talent as I
have seldom seen before. You truly have the guidance
of THE LORD in your magical fingers. From the
letters that I have read, I am not the only one who
thinks so. All That I can say is Thank You Thank You
Thank You.... Your Friend ~ Donald
Dear Donald; Thank YOU,
dear friend.... for you have blessed me in many ways
- now even this GLOWING praise has me ~purring~ (who
ever gets TOO much appreciation!?!) *grins* And to
think... how oddly we began and beautifully we have
turned out! *RVBG!* ~ Love and hugs
{{{{{{{Donald}}}}}}}
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