Two of my favorite
bloggers who offer thought provoking, informative, intelligent, factual, and opinion commentary --
not only deadly serious on current topical matters, but often with satirically
good humor -- have revealed, or a family
member has, serious personal health issues
interfering with their lives.
Schmidley’s Scribblings, I just learned about tonight, Thurs., 2/16 P. M. in this
message her daughter posted on her mother’s blog:
“This is Diane’s daughter. Mom has had a
stroke and is in ICU at the hospital. If anyone reads this, please get the word
out and keep her in your prayers. Thank you.”
The other blogger will
be coping with medical treatments to overcome cancer that has intruded into her
life. Though she has revealed this on
her blog, I hesitate to identify her here since I have not contacted her to
obtain her permission to do so. She
continues to post some of her experiences as she realigns her focus more on
needed self-care. I look forward to her
completing all her treatments on the road to wellness.
On opposite
geographical sides of our nation, these bloggers each share so much more about their
daily lives, family, plus entertaining fare such as travels, local governing
issues where they live, good reads, interesting links and occasional nonsense.
Selfishly I’m more
than annoyed with anything interfering with their doing so as I appreciate and
enjoy visiting their blogs.
Much more importantly, I care about them and
want them to be well and happily engaged with their families.
Very sad! I'm glad Diane's daughter was given access to the blog so she could give her readers the information.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, Jean, that's been a consideration since I started blogging and others I've enjoyed reading stopped posting abruptly. A few we learned about, others not. My children have had access to my blog periodically, but often with occasional password updating I've probably been remiss in making certain they would have access to my blog. Would be nice if we all made some provision for someone to post on our blog if we weren't able.
DeleteMost of the blogs I read are written by people about my age (75), and like life in the world around me, they are beginning to suffer health issues. I try to remain in good health by keeping medical appointments for testing, hoping to head off or catch something early but sometimes it happens anyway. I have no family but Bob is one of ten. In the last ten years they've all left us. Now there is only him and one sister-in-law. We adjust and go on. Bob is 85, has a good outlook on life. He has no plans to join his siblings anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteGlad you and Bob are taking care with your health as I do my best to do also. Whatever our age we never know what unexpected medical events can occur when we consider how complex our bodies and brain functions are. People are often surprised to learn babies and teenagers have strokes as have provided therapy for the latter.
DeleteThank you for informing me of Dianne's stroke. I, too, have posted a postscript on my post today. I will keep her in my thoughts and hope that she has a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteLate last night when I found her daughter's note I tried to let a few bloggers I visit who I recalled commenting there often know as thought we'd want to send support to Dianne and family.
DeleteMe too Joared, me too.
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I was shocked to find out about Dianne's stroke on Mage's blog. I can't believe two bloggers I care about have had such serious health issues in the last two weeks (not to mention my cousin's son and my zumba friend's husband). It's such a worrisome time.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you're having so many you care about develop serious health issues in this short period of time. We can hope they'll overcome their medical challenges.
DeleteWe seem to get real close in feelings for people we have never met, don't we? My blog buddies know more about me than friends I have known all my life, because I just let it all hang out. Easy to do when I can't read facial expressions--rejection--condemnation.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think we do develop feelings of connection to other bloggers, even though sometimes we have decades of age difference between us. These two bloggers happen to be within a decade, more or less, of my generation. I concluded at some point after I started blogging that blogging, maybe all social media, can create a false sense of intimacy by virtue of the "distancing" we have from our correspondent(s), but we often share very personal thoughts -- like might be written in a diary. As you say, we don't experience the nonverbal communication cues which may be positive, but can also complicate matters sometimes, I think. Maybe people who choose to blog are just a unique breed -- have a more accepting attitude toward others, not only enjoying common interests but appreciate each others differences -- curious to listen and learn from one another.
DeleteThanks so much for the information about Diane. She has always been a faithful and informative commenter on my blog and I will post there immediately. I've been blogging for 11 years now and it is so hard when one of our blogger friends gets sick or dies. We are all truly friends ... including you, of course.
ReplyDeleteWe do all care about one another, don't we.
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