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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.

I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.

At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett

"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)

5.15.2008

"Tuning In" to His Body

Mike is trying to learn to listen to his body a little more closely this week to keep his pain under better control. He has found he is holding off taking his pain medication until his pain is pretty uncomfortable. So he is trying to do better by taking his medication sooner. The pain he has felt is the typical lower back, knee, hip pain he's had, that is likely brought on because of walking incorrectly due to the pain he gets in his feet from the Neuropathy. Other than this, Mike is continuing to do well. He plans to enjoy this last week of feeling his best, before going another round of treatment next Thursday.

"We cannot hope to comprehend Your heart of love, Your well of mercy, Your continual awareness our our need. We cannot begin to understand how You hear the voices of millions.....each cry unique, a single sound recognized and identified by name. But we believe and cling to the assurance that we are Your own, that we are known and loved and cherished heart by heart, soul by soul, one by one." bj hoff

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