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thought I would rejoin have not been a member for a while,life just got too busy.
mostly looking after my beautiful dad who died 6 weeks ago after a ferocious battle with mesothelioma
bloody ASBESTOS
Anyway no idea who is still here I imagine I will soon see
Tania NZ

Hi, Tania, welcome back.

First of all I am sorry to hear about the loss of your father to mesothelioma. I do so hope he didn't suffer too long.

My eldest sister died from it two years ago but it took the boffins about four years to find out what she had. She kept telling them she wasn't well!
Indeed she wasn't.
How did she become involved with asbestos?
Our other sister died from bowel and kidney cancer earlier.

If that isn't enough my wife died from pancreatic cancer eight weeks ago today - it was all over in months - and soon after that my daughter told me she has ovarian cancer (she's 44); she goes under the knife today (19th). Hopefully that will clear everything away for her so she is free from this curse.

To round off this bloody cancer epidemic. Is it the chemicals in our food AND the poisonous atmosphere of decades that is the cause of so much misery?

My late wife's sister died from lung cancer and her youngest sister is still battling breast cancer after 5 1/2 years, poor kid. So much chemo and radiation for her. I don't know how she hangs on; really, I don't.

I'm sorry - I've certainly strayed from your question; please forgive me.

There has been so much hiccups on this site with goodness knows how many 'improvements' that sometimes everything ceases to function normally. Perhaps you remember Hot Matches? Well, not so much working nowadays, it seems.

I have been saying for years I won't renew with GR, but each year I do. No longer! I finish on June 23rd - and unlike Terminator Arnie "I won't be back!"

There are still very many nice folks here for certain, but there is also a person who likes to report threads seemingly willy-nilly. Some folks say they know who it is but I haven't a clue and I don't care.

This was a terrific site up to about four years ago, Tania, but the number of users has shrunk tremendously.

The old saying "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is lost on those who wield the master keyboards on GR. It also seems that sister ship FR has been revamped and you cannot forward a link to someone to view if they can't sign in. How useful is that!

I'll be gone in a few days for certain this time!

Welcome back, anyway, and I hope you enjoy the mostly good folks who are on here. Take care.

Barry

welcome back sorry to hear of your fathers passing
my thoughts are with you xx :-(

Hi Barry
Dad fought in korea then worked in Australia as a boilermaker on power stations ship yards etc so it was a bit of a take your pick moment with him.
Im so sorry to hear of your families battles with cancer it is just so damn unforgiving.
I hope your daughter recovers fully and stays well.
Is that your wife in your profile pic she certainly was beautiful
I always take and leave what is on here with a grain of salt but you are right there is some really good folk
Take care Tania

Hi Joy
thankyou for your thoughts
I am glad to see you are still here would be strange without representatives from the "boro"

Thanks for your kind thoughts for my daughter, Tania. Fingers crossed indeed!

Yes, this picture is my lovely Margaret. A "marvellous mother and a wonderful wife" as I put in her obituary. She truly was beautiful on the inside and on the outside. I put many pictures of her on a link at 'dropbox'.

Enjoy your return to GR.

Barry

Hello Tan - you know how sorry I am about your father's passing <3

Barry - what a dreadful time you are having. I'm so sorry about your dear wife and other members of your family that you have lost. Best wishes to your daughter - I hope all goes well.

Sue

Sorry to hear your sad news about your Father. Nice to see you back around the place x

Hi sue and muffy nice to see you both still here. Hopefully there is fun still to be had need a bit of a laugh

Oh blimey, it's Tania, watcha :))

Hey Lynda good to see you are still here too. As I said I do expect entertaining

You want entertaining woman, then get over here now, can entertain you for the next couple of months no problem: :-)

delivered any babies this week, or are you slacking :-)

Hi Tania


Sorry to hear about your dad,

Welcome back to the broad. Dont know if we have spoken be for. But i will say hello anyway.

Hazelx

Thank you hazel

Hi Tania,

Welcome back we have not spoken, but I remember you.

Carol :-D

Thank you carol

Thank you carol

Hello, Tania.
My condolences again on your bereavement.


Barry, that is a lovely photo of Margaret.
Best wishes to your daughter.

Please excuse me again on your thread, Tania.

Thank you, Joy. I hope everything is well with you.
Yes, thank you, my Margaret still is so very 'hot' and so beautiful as far as I'm concerned - and she always will be, bless her.

I just heard from my son-in-law. It seems everything went very well and there's a great chance my daughter might not have need chemo or other treatment. That's a huge relief.
(Treatment is not always the help we mostly think it is, and we both wish Margaret had not had any.)
I hope to know more about my daughter's condition tomorrow.

Thanks again, Tania.

Warm regards to everyone.

Barry

Thanks Joy good to see you are still here too.