Runningbear, I'm not trying to pull your chain or shame you in any way, but you also lost your nephew. How are YOU doing?
thanks, no you didn't yank my chain.. I guess I am the one in the family who is more strong willed and blunt then most. I guess I got that from me dad..... assertive, and headstrong.... So, I have always tended to come out of rough stuff in life matters when needed, but relish my circle of friends if I should let loose... Stuff happens. So, for me, yes my nephew... I haven't put the focus of my feelings, other than that for my sister, Anthony's mom. I saw what she went thru from her husband on agent orange. I saw his trying times in the last weeks at the Navel Hospital in Boston, and he knew as well as family, that family needed to be there for her, or she would crack. She found faith and became stronger in it, and kept with it. So maybe this may help her thru this.....
Some family members were meant or chosen to be the strong ones, and maybe I am this moment...;o)