Mag,

I'm so sorry for your loss.  We (Janet and I) will pray for you, and your
family.


On 9/19/07, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Today my sister and
> Gary, kat, ken, trisha, linda...... thank you...
>
> Today my sister and I and two of our cousins, after listening to what the
> doctor was saying, decided it would be an act out of love to put him out of
> his misery.  The doctor began removing the blood pressure med, the
> antibiotics, the liquid nutrition... less than 15 minutes later she came to
> get us saying she thought he was going to go very quickly. They kept him on
> oxygen, and gave him a lot of morphine which apparently not only helps pain,
> but calms the heart. We all went back to say our goodbyes, though it was
> clear zev was not really there he was just lingering on.  Whenever his
> heartrate went up, the nurses would come give him more morphine. we took
> turns standing with him, and then at 4 PM I was having blood sugar issues so
> I went downstairs and got dinner. I was just finishing and angella and I
> were toasting "to Daddy" when my cousin came running in, saying they think
> he's going to go now... Slowly we watched as his heartrate kept dropping,
> and
> then it hit 20, and my cousin who is a doctor turned the alarm off and
> aviva and I had our hands on daddy and each other... then it hit zero... and
> daddy stopped gasping and looked peaceful... the whole process was about two
> hours.  I wept for short periods of time, as things would just hit me.  I
> kept kissing his head, and after it was over and the o2 mask was off, I
> hugged him as best I could...
>
> I've lost my dad who was also my best friend...........  he was an
> absolutrely wonderful man, he was the best dad i could ever have. and no,
> gary, he never told me I could not succeed, he may have felt like over
> protecting me, but he never held me back.  i think there is something about
> the father-daughter relationship that makes the dad want to protect his
> daughters even if they don't have disability.
>
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> Tamar Mag Raine
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>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gary Peterson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:28:41 PM
> Subject: Mage's Dad
>
>
> Mage,
>
> I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad I was thinking as I read what
> Trisha wrote here, as sad as you are right now, I think the greatest
> thing you can do both for your Dad and your self, is to continue to be
> the person you are.  Just think back on all those years ago when you
> first started to make a life for your self and how independent you set
> out to be then, and how independent you are today!!
>
> I cant help but feel with everything I have inside me that your Dad
> even if he was one of those who might have told you over and over
> again  you could never make it onm  your own in the big wide world, he
> may have been one of your biggest soporteds!!  I know the more people
> told me how I would never be  able to make it on my own the stronger
> and more determined I got so I could prove them wrong!!
>
> So as your Dad moves on to the next life, give him and your self the
> plasure of seeing just how strong you continue to be.
>
> So all my best friend, and know we are all here for you now just as
> you've been for us over the years.
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Trisha Cummings wrote:
>
> > Oh Mag,
> >
> >  I am so sorry to hear this - take life one day at a time and things
> slowly will get better and a new normal will appear. They will never be the
> same but the people we love live on forever in our hearts and we only need
> think of them to have them with us.
> >                           Sending Hugs - Trisha
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Cerebral Palsy List on behalf of Tamar Raine
> > Sent: Wed 9/19/2007 10:18 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Washington post global warming sites
> >
> >
> >
> > dad is dying, we are going to remove the respirator, there's no point in
> hi=
> > m just existing........... life without my dad is unfathonable=0A
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> 0Awww.cafepress.com/tamarmag=0A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: ken
> ba=
> > rber <[log in to unmask]>=0ATo: [log in to unmask]:
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> > , September 18, 2007 8:24:44 AM=0ASubject: Re: Washington post global
> warmi=
> > ng sites=0A=0A=0Ahowever mr bush is a politician too. =0A=0A--- Deri
> James =
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:=0A=0A> On Monday 17 September 2007
> 18:=
> > 33, Trisha Cummings=0A> wrote:=0A> > Hi Ken,=0A> >=0A> >   Here's what
> was =
> > on the front page of the=0A> Washington Post website.=0A> >=0A>
> >          =
> >       Enjoy - Trisha=0A> >=0A> > =0A>=0A<
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-=
> > dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091600607.html?hpid=3Dtopnews>=0A>
> >=
> > =0A> > =0A>=0A<
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/05=
> > /03/LI2006050300853.html>=0A> =0A> Hi Trish,=0A> =0A> Ken is not arguing
> th=
> > at global warming isn't=0A> happening, he just feels that the =0A>
> reasons =
> > for the warming are not substantially due to=0A> human activity, rather
> =0A=
> >> that it is due to varying solar output.=0A> =0A> The problem with this
> vi=
> > ew is that it means there's=0A> nothing we can do about =0A> it, you
> can't =
> > turn down the thermostat on  the sun!!=0A> However, if global =0A>
> warming =
> > is due to human activity there are plenty of=0A> things individually we
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> >> can do.=0A> =0A> Ken is also correct that there is less consensus
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> > what the long term EFFECT =0A> of global warming will be (he confuses
> this =
> > with=0A> uncertainty about whether it =0A> is man-made or not - on which
> th=
> > ere is now=0A> overwhelming consensus that it is =0A> the major
> contributar=
> > y factor (including Mr Bush's=0A> chief scientist Professor =0A> John
> Marbu=
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