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3:23:00 AM CST
Feeling Anxious
Hearing Just the quite of the night....it is 3am here
We are back, but before my update on the trip, I get to say I was Queen for a Day :)
I am trying to sit here a few minutes and write down my thoughts to share with you on a wonderful, undeserving, tribute this past Saturday. (My pain level is quite high at present, but I am going to try to write this)
We returned from Montana and Wyoming last Tuesday. I spent the rest of the week unpacking, gathering my notes from the trip and doing laundry! In between all that I tried to help a couple others from my lung group prepare for our PF Support Group Meeting on Saturday. They had offered to handle the meeting for me since I was going to be on vacation, wish I thought was very nice. In phone calls and email they pretty much let me know everything was done and I could just show up....that was most unusual as I have done the meetings for all of the last three years, so I didn't stress over it.
We got to the meeting on Saturday, and as we walked in everyone stood up and started clapping.....I thought they were just glad that we showed up, my husband and I ....then I noticed balloons, roses, everyone came up to hug me, there was a wonderful luncheon set out and name cards at place settings, cameras going off here and there. It took a little while but finally someone said to me that I was to sit under the ballons, which all said "Thank You!" and it became clear they were having this meeting for me and John. I found out afterwards though, my husband had known about it for two or three days ahead. I kept trying to hide behind him and he wouldn't let me! Once everyone had lunch each member and their family stood up and said in their own way, 'thank you' and mentioned a particular way they felt I had helped them in their walk with Pulmonary Fibrosis. There were 25 or thirty people there and I had to sit and listen to people saying such nice things, that was harder than one would think it would be. I had to fight tears much of the time because I never did anything that I did the last three years thinking anyone would ever feel like they had to thank me! I also thought of the members we have lost the last thirty six months and wondered why I am still there fighting, but I am glad I am, there must be others finding their way to us for solace and information. I was so humbled.
Afterwards my husband took me shopping a little and then had made dinner reservations at a wonderful steak place in downtown and we had a wonderful meal. After that we stopped in to a club we used to frequent regularly for dancing. He asked them to play "our song" and when they got around to it.....he held me on the dance floor and we tried to dance to it a while.
I really was Queen for a Day Saturday, it is held right up there close to my Wedding Day in significance and memory!
Just wanted to share that with you, as well as, say Hi, I am back again!
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Hi Jan,
Good to hear from you again. Hope you had a great trip. What an honour, to be Queen for the day, well deserved :-)
12/5/06 1:55 PM
be well,
Dawn
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