Just because...

[RhondaH]

I LOVE YOU ALL...I just wanted to give you ALL a GREAT BIG HUGGGG!!!!

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I get emotional at the weirdest times...like now I'm crying, don't know why, but I am.

Rhonda

[dhealey]

Ditto feelings that Rhonda has expressed! Sending lots of hugs to all my her2 breast cancer sisters around the world. May you all have a blessed Thanksgiving!

[Jean]

Your crying because your Thankful!
Big Hugs back to you with love,

Jean

[hutchibk]

I give all my Thanks and love this year to HER2Support and my doctors and nurses!

[nitewind]

Rhonda, that is so sweet. It speaks volumes. I know how you feel, sometimes I'll read something here that has nothing to do with me and I'll cry just knowing that people who we've never met can care so much. I'm so grateful for everyone here.
hugs

[suzan w]

We cry because...we CAN!!! I am so grateful to have all of you in my life today! Happy thanksgiving!

[lexigirl]

Hugs to you sweet Rhonda. I am very emotional too this holiday season. Crying at the drop of a hat. I am very thankful for all of you and wish I could meet each one. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Lexi

[Debra]

Thank you Rhonda. I needed that tonight!

[Patb]

This is a great time to give thanks to Joe and Christine and all the members of this board for all the support all year long. Happy Thanksgiving to all and thanks for the hug. Right back at you.
patb

[Mary Jo]

Hi Rhonda,

Thank you for the sweet message. I don't do as much on this site as I once did. It seems to have changed OR maybe I have. But you dear friend, remind me of what hasn't changed here and that would be SWEET SWEET people like yourself.

God Bless you Rhonda,

Mary Jo

[Chelee]

Rhonda, I would like to send my own "just because" right back at you. I think this is a time of year that many of us get more emotional then normal. I know I do. Sending lots of love and hugs your way..may you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Chelee

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

I am a person most of you know. I am all about feeling love and putting it out in this world every day. I give of myself because I truly care. I give the most precious gifts I have. The Lessons I've learned. The teachings I've found that changed my life remarkably, in the hopes my experience and readings will brighten others lives and at the very least plant a seed. And most respond so enthusiastically and gratefully. I am thankful in return, gratified beyond words. Then right here, with my Her2 family, I am suddenly badgered with the cruelest of hostility and labeling that is inaccurate and surely hurtful, as I can only think was intentioned.

It is not my words, my thoughts or exuberance that are pounced upon, but my --character. This board is not a place for such things. That is the sort of behavior found bar room brawls and street fights. This is so deeply disheartening to me, it is sickening. And I cannot allow such poison to fill my life.

So many dear sweet Souls can be found here and are on any given day and yet the spoiler's misguided assessments poison this site, our beloved home, and make me want to cry and stop sharing profundities worthy of all our consideration. As terrorists silence many creating an atmosphere of fear, they are injecting their venom.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. IF WE LIVE LONG ENOUGH... Progressive thinking frightens people, as much as change of any kind. They feel they are losing their comfort zone and don't know how to act. I love my Sisters and friends on this uniting site that blesses so many lives. It is hard to find compassion for the ones who don't want to have intellectual discourse and lack propriety and the stuff that has always made this group of people so outstandingly superb. I pray that those who sit silently will become brave and work together to keep the elevated level of discussion at the point most of us have long enjoyed and would like to continue to see... So I too have love and tears and am reaching out to the good folks in our midst to push for what is right.

I can't go one defending my honor line by line, nor can I allow my words being taken out of context and misconstruing my feelings. Disagreement is not the issue. It classlessness and coareness that is unwelcome and spoiling something quite beautiful. Don't it slip through our fingers. Be a part of the solution, rather contributing with your silence, to terror tactics... I can't, and won't, do it alone.

My goal, as always, is to lift us all up by making us think, by making us discover new trails. We should not go where the path may lead, we should instead go where there is no path and leave a trail... Maintaining the status quo doesn't serve to help us to progress and expand, evolve and grow. Incorporating many ideas for a common goal is where we must move to be a actual value, don't you think?
Andi

[eric]

Ditto, ditto, ditto! I'm very thankful for everyone that contributes to the magnificent support on this site as well as the amazing people who give of themselves unconditionally. For me, out of this terrible disease, comes an understanding of the true goodness of so many people. I hope I've become a better person as a result of learning from others.

Thanks and love to all,
Eric

[Believe51]

Same feelings here Ladies, big hugs and constant prayers go out to the most incredible people I have ever known!! My Thanksgiving day will be the same day as any other for the thanks I give is forever ongoing. So thank you friends for giving me one more thing to be thankful for, for enriching my life beyond belief. Ed & I shall be home alone for the holiday, we will sit together and focus on us. We will reflect about where we were in 2006 and the place that we are at now. Our vigil will include all the small miracles we have to be thankful for all along the way. The best part is the fact knowing that you all have taken this ride with us and the comfort in knowing that you will continue to ride with us makes me smile right from my toes!! We also must thank you all for helping us to grow into two tough, persistant determined-to-get-to-NED fighters!! Always in our hearts...Forever Grateful>>Believe51 & Company

[Jade]

to this spontaneous emotional moment! Rhonda, what wonderful words, straight from the heart. It doesn't get more honest than that.
And Andi, I'm sorry for any negative response you've ever received here because all I have read that you have written has been purely from your heart. Your story is remarkable and I so much admire the way you have pulled yourself from heartbreaking adversity to a place where you have managed to not only 'heal' yourself but more incredibly and unselfishly are now trying, with all you have, to help others. And I want you to know that your words have been very powerful for me and have helped me tremendously on this crappy journey that none of us wants to be on. I read them over and over and am very grateful for the time, effort and love you send all of us.
Cyber hogs & quiches,
Jade