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Seeler I have enjoyed being part of this community with you. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
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Ah, seeler, it is good to be prepared for the pathway.
Working in the hospital, I have seen doctors giving numbers- but they are also only humans making guesses. I have seen people given weeks to months who lived years, and it seemed to me that that had something to do with a very loving, caring environment on top of a positive, strong personality, like you are.
 
So sorry to read this Seeler. I haven’t been by for a few weeks. I will certainly think of you, and pray for you too. Its great that you have supportive people around you, in family and doctors,
 
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I always thought you and Crazyheart were like two peas in a pod. It doesn't surprise me at all that you had a deep friendship with her. She is very much missed around here.
 
Ah Seeler - wrap that prayer shawl around you and lean into the love that is in abundance around you. Reaching 'end times' as you put it is a time of so many mixed feelings. Sounds like you are you being the usual you - considering others, planning & thinking ahead with compassion and still living day-to-day with dignity. I'm glad you are able to receive home care, and most of all that you accepted it! It is sometimes a challenge to accept help when one has spent so many decades being a provider of help.

This Christmas I have gifted a copy of your wonderful book to a family with 3 boys - the oldest is 14 now - I think that was the age of your Ship's Boy. I think they will all have an interesting, thoughtful read of his adventures. Thank you for all the research and writing you did on this extraordinary project.

And Seelerman - we loved meeting him a couple of years ago on our eastern trip. I can certainly see how he is your rock - and I imagine you have also been his all these many years.

Sending love to all of you - Christmas will be special in many ways this year. C.
 
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This Christmas I have gifted a copy of your wonderful book to a family with 3 boys - the oldest is 14 now - I think that was the age of your Ship's Boy. I think they will all have an interesting, thoughtful read of his adventures. Thank you for all the research and writing you did on this extraordinary project.
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Amen. And so timely, coming out just before Franklin's ships were found. Made the discovery all that much more interesting for those of us who had read the book (strangely, I read it on a modern cruise ship).

@Seeler People like you and the late CH are really the heart of this place. It is something that few other web boards I am on really have, a core group of strong, supportive members who act as the board's heart, soul, conscience. We are a unique place in so many ways and the people, like you, are a part of that. We are definitely not your usual Internet crowd, I'll tell you that.
 
I haven't been on @Seeler. I am saddened to read this news. I think of you, and of Seeler Man. (and of Seelerboy and Seelergirl) knowing how much that they all love you.

Wondercafe has been missing your wisdom. When I helped to stand up wondercafe2, it was so that you, Crazyheart would continue to be in our lives. It doesn't seem right that CrazyHeart hasn't been posting, and surely will be even more wrong when both of you aren't.

Yet, I know, that you live on in wondercafe, in our stories, in past posts, in the jessetree. in your welcome to people who visited your fair city, like me & my mom.

May the maintenance continue to be of value, and give you time. time to be with those who are close to you, and also with us.

i thankyou for all that you are iand that you have been in the world and within wondercafe
 
Wow Seeler

You have been through so much

These trying times

I'm glad you are still around and can make time to poke in every so often to let us know

"Seeler, checkin in" :3

My life is enriched for knowing you

And life is even better with a cat. I know this :3

This place probably is my favourite online community. It has been unique. And it has gone on forever in internet terms

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live" right indeed. Those Irish were schmart

With Love
 
That green cover assists the soul in rest ... RIP van Winkle! Thus the ups and downs as well as charmed and strange quarks!

Is it strange that some of these particles are here and there at the same instant of impact? Senses can be disrupted ... feelings, thoughts and intuitions thus adjust! 4th coming twist as the spin theory goes on w/o proof!

There is a related myth attached to whistlers ... and that Carlisle chap!
 
The end of March is approaching, Spring arrived today.

The year has passed since I was first diagnosed with leukemia.. It was a shock. Along with the adjustments I made over the years. In living with Parkinson's, and the adjustments of living under the restrictions of the worldwide plague, I have had to cope with the adjustments to lifestyle brought about by of leukemia and the treatments required.

Last spring was a period of adjustment – acceptance, planning, downsizing, and organizing. I started writing a document outlining my thoughts on my life, my joys and disappointments, my spiritual beliefs and hopes for the future, desires for cremation, funeral plans. But I intended to be about four pages and almost 20. Continued
 
I also began organizing my pictures - from the black and white snapshots of my childhood until the time we gave up getting prints but downloaded onto the computer. Both of these projects need to be upgraded – but I seem to have lost interest, or lost the physical ability, in recent months.

Summer was a time when my family visited - sisters from Ontario, son from Korea. My doctor seemed quite pleased with my progress. Maintenance was going well. I actually seem to be regaining some strength and could go as much as five weeks between transfusions. I wasn't as well, as I had been a year ago. I really appreciate the help. I got from Seelerman and Seelergirl, as well as the support workers my doctor arranged for. And I resented the restrictions of Covid 19 placed on visitation by friends in the church community.

My strength held up the Christmas. Seelerboy visited again from Korea. Short visit this time, but I could see the difference in my strength and ability. I could no longer shuffle and deal the cards limitless trend to play cards and he patiently did it for me. We couldn't go out for walks -even with the walker and his help, I couldn't walk more than a block.

And I notice that I was requiring blood transfusions, more and more frequently. Between chemotherapy, transfusions,
and recovery time, have little time for anything else.

Looking back, I realize that I have divided my life into three-month blocks, with the goal at the end. Last fall, while enjoying the autumn weather, my goal was Christmas and my long-term goal to live to see my great-granddaughter. She was born last week. I held her in my arms last Wednesday.
I would love to see her again – to be involved in her life – to be supportive.
But realistically that isn't going to happen.
 
Ah @Seeler it's so lovely you got to see that great granddaughter of yours.

My husband's grandmother got to see and hold our first baby. Speaking of photographs, that is one cherished picture in our album!

My mom got to see her great grandchild as well. She always hoped the baby would be a redhead but it didn't happen.

No one involved will ever forget these moments. And the babies will grow up hearing about them.
Blessings. P3
 
Ah Seeler - thank you for posting this update - it sounds like it required a lot of effort on your part, both emotionally and physically. I think of you often, keeping you & Seelerfamily in my prayers. You are an important part of our community here - and I think you always will be part of the 'heart' of this place as the faithful, wide presence you are. And now it is spring - another chunk of time begins.
 
Greetings everyone.
(This is being typed by my PSW and friend as I dictate).
This will probably be my last communication. Without actually saying so, my doctors have said more or less agreed with my prognosis of 3 to 4 weeks at best. Seelerboy will be home from Korea in 2 weeks. I hope to still be home than, but probably within a week or so, be admitted into palliative care or hospice house.
I think I am ready, expect for wanting to see Seelerboy, and to hold my great-granddaughter one more time. At three months, she is delightful, while I can't say she talks, she does run sounds together that sound like sentences. She is very active and determined. She can roll over, and gets frustrated that she can't sit up yet. She has been sleeping through the night for the past month, you can see how proud I am of her and wish that I could be more of an influence in her life, but I hope that she hears the stories and learns something of my values and wisdom passed down through her grandmother and her mother.
I will continue to read your posts, but not respond often. WonderCafe has been a boone to me over the years. To those who I have met in person, and to those who I have only known through your posts, you are very important to me. God bless Seeler (Elizabeth)
 
Seeler said:
To those who I have met in person, and to those who I have only known through your posts, you are very important to me. God bless Seeler (Elizabeth)
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Thanks for all the great posts and kind words over the years. And God bless you as well. We will miss you.
 
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