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David and I contacted Heather at the Indianfields Township Cemetary and here's our results.
My Mother's grotto w/ Blessed Mother is going to be taken care of by the end of this month or by the first weekend in Aug.
We left message after message and only received one return phone call with the promise to call us back by Friday. Wellllllllllllllllllllll........... that phone call never came so I called again on Saturday with this message:
"This is Josette Everts, the daughter of Gloria Martin who's gravesite your workers damaged. I waited all day yesterday for your phone call which never came so this is to let you know if I do not hear from you by 1:00p.m. on Monday with a solution to repairing my Mother's gravesite I will be taking my story and photograph's to the Tuscola County Advertiser. This is my phone number...................... You may call me anytime of day."
Within an hour of this call, Heather returned my voice message and apologized. She said that everything would be fixed and reset at no cost to us.
I told her "Thank You Very Much", hung up the phone and had to smile because a year ago I would still have been a pile of mush so I know slowly but surely I'm getting my 'spunk' back.
Love and God Bless:
Jodi
May God and All His Angels, watchover, protect and guide you "One Day At A Time".
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
When I made the call Sat. David sat in his recliner holding his face in his hands and once I left the voice message he bursted into laughter! He told me that it has been so long since I've stood up for myself that when I left the message that I did he couldn't help himself from wanting to laugh!
Just one more hurdle I've accomplished to jump within a years time. It feels really good when I'm more focused when I work on a project or just read a book. A year ago I couldn't concentrate on a single task and now I'm beginning to feel better mentally and emotionally. I still have not reached my weight goal yet but I will and I know it may still take some time.
What's so important to me that I want to share is that this incident at my Mother's grave site knocked the wind out of me and for a few days (3 or 4) I fell backwards and getting so upset caused me a few days of physical pain and D but I didn't stay down this time Tex. I fought my way out of the depression and I fought back on my own.
I can do the Happy Dance and know I don't always have to stay down in that dark hole anymore. I'm making progress and I'm feeling so much better about myself!
Love and God Bless:
Jodi
May God and All His Angels, watchover, protect and guide you "One Day At A Time".
Good for you Jodi! Sometimes it takes a bit of time to stand up for yourself but I think you have finally cleared that hurdle. Make sure they do what they said they were going to do.
Love, Maggie
Maggie Scarpone
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If it wasn't for my family here things might be a lot different then they are now.
The diseases we fight daily if let go without dx for too long not only causes severe medical issues but emotional and mental issues. I know just how bad I was a year ago and mentally and emotionally I've come along way in my recovery. It took many months before I was even dx before I started being treated. It was like we'll remove the gall bladder this month, once I was recovered will do this test, wait another month or two and we'll do this finally and then the colonoscopy biopsy gave me a dx of CC.
I over looked so many medical symptoms before even contacting a doctor because I felt it was all stress related because David had been so ill. Once he started healing and getting better I just kept getting worse until medically, physically and emotionally my body was attacking me in a very BIG WAY. For this reason I'm truly thinking that's why it's taking me longer than some to wean off the Entocort. It's because I had gone for soooooo many months without treatment or a dx that it's just taking longer for me to spring back.
But I will get to a point where I'll be much better. I won't ever be cured but I am once again learning to live with an illness without letting the illness over take my life.
Love and God Bless:
Jodi
May God and All His Angels, watchover, protect and guide you "One Day At A Time".
YOU GO GIRL!!!!!
I had to laugh when you described David with his hands over his face...
Reminds me of Jack when I have had enough and let it rip! Now, he knows not to tell me to button it, because it isn't going to do any good!!!
I too, USE to keep alot of things suppressed, but not anymore.
Took me years to learn to be able to express my opinion or state my morals & beliefs.
Sometimes, we just have to take care of things & get things off of our chests!! :-)
Dee~~
"What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others."
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David and I contacted Heather at the Indianfields Township Cemetary and here's our results.
Hi Tex!
I can do the Happy Dance and know I don't always have to stay down in that dark hole anymore. I'm making progress and I'm feeling so much better about myself!
Love and God Bless:
Barbara
If it wasn't for my family here things might be a lot different then they are now. 
