SAD NEWS TO POST..........

I received an email this morning that was not one of those that you like getting............

Years ago when Mike and I were first married we lived in a duplex. Next door to us lived another young couple. She was pregnant and due with her first child any time. We had just had our child....a son born that November. I was very young and trying to learn how to care for him. Martha was younger than myself and dreading what was ahead of her.

We became friends because after all when you live in a duplex there is only a wall between you and that is about it!!

The day came for her to give birth in February and little Jimmie was born. She brought him home to our small duplex. Now we had two little baby boys for two young mothers to take care of!!!

One day she banged on the wall wanting me to get over there as fast as I could. I grabbed my baby and ran over. She was a mess, blood everywhere!! We called the ambulance and her husband. They took her to the hosptial. I guess they almost lost her but were able to save her then.

There I was left with 2 baby boys and only 19!! I remember looking at the sink filled with baby bottles all stuck with baby formula. Yuck!! Jimmie did not have a bottle!! Back then (in 1964) you did not just go get a bottle and pour in the formula. You had to wash all of the bottles, rinse them out (they were glass too). Then mix up the formula....fill the bottles put them in a sterilizer...cook them for an hour...then let them set to cool...then they were ready to use!! You had to be really ahead of the game then!! I knew that I was in trouble!!

That was some day!!

I tell you this to also tell you the sad news that this past Monday Martha took her own life!! She has been suffering from MS and according to Bob's email the doctors could not give her enough pain medication and she could not bare the pain anymore!!

She was a good friend, and old friend, with a lot of memories....this just being one of them. I can only imagine what her family, her daughter, Angie, her son, Jimmie, her husband, Bob and her grandchildren are going through right now. I know that I am so upset and feeling so useless. I wish that I had known that she was so miserable. Maybe I could have done something to help her. I would have tried if I had only known. Prayer for the family is all that is left for us!!

Only God has insight into this now. Only He knows !! I know that I will miss her.

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