My hero

[Keroin]

I was so impressed with this, I wanted to share with everyone here.

(I hope this image comes through)

This is my friend T...

(Ah shoot, looks like it didn't work but picture a very pretty woman with a shaved head.)

She is newly married to my friend, G, who recently had his stomach and some of his intestines removed because of cancer. He found out recently that the cancer has metastasized in his pelvic bones, so it's stage four. He's undergoing chemo.

Why is T my hero? Because since G's ordeal started, which I'm sure must be devastating for her, I've not heard one word of sorrow or self pity from her - and she is always open with me. She has borne the weight of this with strength that awes me. Today, she sent me this photo of her newly shaved head. She did so in support of G, who has lost most of his abundant locks. They both shaved, this morning, taking time to laugh as they formed mohawks and other silly do's.

She's an amazing woman, I'm so proud to be her friend.

I'd love to here about anyone in your life that's a hero to you.

 

[Betticus]

That link goes to your very own yahoo email and redirects one to a login screen.

You can send the pic to someone who can host it somewhere for you also. Or go to photobucket and get a free account so you can upload and link to pics.

 

[HisSexyPet]

My hero is my niece Ashley.

When she was a freshman in college she was sitting on the railing of her second floor apartment and slipped off. She fell in soft sand but damaged her spinal cord. She has spent 3 years in a wheelchair. She is still optomistic about walking again and exercises. She has the best outlook on life. She completed her AA degree despite a number of set backs. The meds she takes for the nerve damage has killed her short term memory making test taking extremely hard where she had been an A student. She also developed a pressure sore from the way she sits in her chair due to scoliosis. After surgery and 6 weeks in bed she built her strength back up and was at it again. Then devastating news that the sore didn't completely heal. Back to surgery and another 6 weeks in bed.

She is now recovered from that and has her first job since the accident. She is also in the process of getting a truck outfitted with hand controls so that she can get back behind the driver's wheel.

All this and she is about to celebrate her 23rd birthday. Her bright outlook on life and her can do attitude is an inspiration to everyone she comes into contact with.

 

[Keroin]

That link goes to your very own yahoo email and redirects one to a login screen.

You can send the pic to someone who can host it somewhere for you also. Or go to photobucket and get a free account so you can upload and link to pics.

Thanks Bett. I'll take it off post haste!

 

[Homburg]

My friend J is sitting in a cardiac ICU right now waiting on a heart transplant. He's number one on the list (for his blood type, size, etc) for the entire northeast. That means he is very, very sick indeed. He is confined to bed six days out of seven with a line the size of a pencil in his neck pumping meds directly into his dying heart. On the seventh day, they remove the line for 24 hours to keep his neck from self-destructing, and he is allowed to take a shower, get out of bed for short trips, etc. He has lost (for him) an astonishing amount of weight, and only gets to see his wife/slave C two days a week.

Yet his email updates are so incredibly upbeat and optimistic that they bring me up. I feel like a turd that this guy stewing in a hospital bed watching his life tick away in a race between total heart failure and a transplant that might not come, and yet he is making my day with these incredible emails.

No, he doesn't proselytize or anything. It is just unrelenting positive outlook combined with an incredible will to persist. It puts my comparatively minor issues in perspective.

 

[wicked woman]

My Mom.

Mostly for the example she set for me. I didn't appreciate her sufficiently until I'd had my own children and realized how great an example she'd set for me...in the 60s she went out to work, when all the other Moms I knew stayed home...not because she had to, but because she wanted to (or perhaps she needed to for her sanity). She was kind, smart, loving, family-oriented and generous like her Mom (another hero of mine).

But mostly, I remember the day she was told she had a terminal illness. Not one tear. Not one 'why me?' She was thankful for her life. There wasn't anything she'd wished she'd done, that she hadn't. She wished she had a bit more time to see my sons marry and have children, but was thankful she'd lived long enough to see them become young men in university, something a lot of grandmothers don't get to see. She was sorry she was leaving us (for us, knowing how we'd miss her). But mostly she was happy that she'd get to see her Mom, sooner than she had thought.

She didn't cry, but I sure did...enough for both of us.

 

[Keroin]

Thanks for sharing the great stories guys! There are some incredibly strong people out there in the world. I often wonder how I would handle myself if diagnosed with a terminal illness or if I had to deal with loss of mobility, etc, I doubt as well as any of the above descriptions.

I love that there are people in this world who I can look to and see that it is possible to meet adversity with dignity. We can't always be stoic and stiff upper-lipped but laughter and optimism are things worth striving for, even in the bleakest moments.

 

[YourCaptor]

My first hero will probably be the girl that can put up with me long term.

 

[minx1]

My grandad (dad to me).

Lived with cancer. Didn't go into hospital until the weekend he died. What started as skin cancer ate into his face and brain over the years.
He chose not to have treatment. He chose not to acknowledge he had cancer *soft smile*. For years he had ''eczema'' lol
Infact he managed on regular painkillers, god knows how and never complained once at the pain except to remark now and again that he had a bit of a headache.

Love you.


My mum,
For raising me and for pretty much everything

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Didn't know him, but he - along with the millions of other vets who did what needed to be done, and still do it today - is a hero to me.

Friends mourn Milwaukie fighter pilot who served in three wars
by Rick Bella, The Oregonian
Saturday June 27, 2009, 10:00 AM

CLACKAMAS -- They came by ones and twos Friday, quietly slipping into the pews at New Hope Community Church. They smiled at the words honoring a man whose faith made him an inspiration and whose exploits in three wars made him a hero.

And when the last mournful drone of the bagpipes faded, they said goodbye to Col. Kenneth L. Reusser of Milwaukie, the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps aviator in history.​

Much, *much* more in the online article, linked in the headline above.

 

[Homburg]

Didn't know him, but he - along with the millions of other vets who did what needed to be done, and still do it today - is a hero to me.

Friends mourn Milwaukie fighter pilot who served in three wars
by Rick Bella, The Oregonian
Saturday June 27, 2009, 10:00 AM

CLACKAMAS -- They came by ones and twos Friday, quietly slipping into the pews at New Hope Community Church. They smiled at the words honoring a man whose faith made him an inspiration and whose exploits in three wars made him a hero.

And when the last mournful drone of the bagpipes faded, they said goodbye to Col. Kenneth L. Reusser of Milwaukie, the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps aviator in history.​

Much, *much* more in the online article, linked in the headline above.

TWO Navy Crosses? Goodness!!

Godspeed, Col Reusser.

 

[00Syd]

My first hero was Harry Houdini.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

TWO Navy Crosses? Goodness!!

Godspeed, Col Reusser.

And two Legions of Merit, and four Purple Hearts, among his 59 medals in just under 27 years of service. One of the sites I looked at for more info on him had this comment:

"When his guns froze, he flew his fighter into the observation plane, hacking off its tail with his propeller."

Where did they find a coffin big enough to fit those cojones in?

LMAO!

 

[graceanne]

Didn't know him, but he - along with the millions of other vets who did what needed to be done, and still do it today - is a hero to me.

Friends mourn Milwaukie fighter pilot who served in three wars
by Rick Bella, The Oregonian
Saturday June 27, 2009, 10:00 AM

CLACKAMAS -- They came by ones and twos Friday, quietly slipping into the pews at New Hope Community Church. They smiled at the words honoring a man whose faith made him an inspiration and whose exploits in three wars made him a hero.

And when the last mournful drone of the bagpipes faded, they said goodbye to Col. Kenneth L. Reusser of Milwaukie, the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps aviator in history.​

Much, *much* more in the online article, linked in the headline above.

I hadn't heard about this. One of the problems with not watching the news or reading news papers, I guess. lol