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> From: DC Jones <jones(AT)tdl.com>
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Dave J.
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 8:28 PM
>
> Jeff Farney wrote:
> >
> > Dave;
> >
> > Your response is exactly what I'm talking about. I don't have any idea
what
> > you are talking about. Maybe you should go back and re-read my posting
and
> > re-read it again. There are no 12 gauge thoughts crossing my brain.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > Ryno
> > jfarney(AT)nckcn.com
>
>
> Jeff:
>
> My post to you was addressing my perception of your anger. My
> assumption was based on your post about someone from the thread that I
> took it was not interested in what you had to say? That being nothing
> negative just good news or sugar coated and rah-rah responses?
> I told you the story of my uncle because he to wanted it told as it is.
> I feel he was a worldly man and when he couldn't make his world the way
> he wanted. He turned his anger on himself. His wants out weighed the
> needs of his wife, children and grandchildren.
> I put your post and my uncle together when you said "all anyone wants
> is "glazed over"' positive, don't hurt anybody's fragile feelings
> responses...." My feelings on this mater are quite different. I feel
> many peoples feeling are fragile, fragile to the extreme under the
> pressure of the kind of illness you have to suffer day in and day out.
> If someone wants it told as it. They just need visit there doctor,
> they're experts at it. Gloom and doom is what I used to refer to the
> doctors as and still do.
> I am gladdened you do not have any destructive thoughts. I on the other
> hand had plenty. If not for my young daughter and my mother having bone
> cancer, I would have proceeded my uncle. I was afraid my death would
> harm my mothers health and my baby needed a daddy. I clung to these two
> thoughts {people} and attribute most of my being here typing now to that
> sense of duty, so to speak.
> I am sorry if I am off base here in my perceptions and posts. And if
> you are still confused please email me and I will give you my phone
> number and you can call me collect and we'll straighten it out. Sorry it
> has taken some days to get back to you but I have been blessed with
> being busy.
> Your fellow tm sufferer;
> Dave