Sorry about your situation Malx.

I'm not really good at helping people through stuff like this so I'll just wish you and your mother the best.

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@ Everyone - Thank you so much for your kind thoughts for my Mother, for me and my family in this. My mother rallied, but we know it won't be much longer.

The cancer has worked through her chest bones/ribs now, there are only major organs under there, so she hasn't much time left.

In case anyone wanted to know a bit about her:

My mother is full blooded Italian. She is and always has been the kindest and gentlest person I've ever known, sweet and beautiful both inside and out. She was always amazingly talented at so many things, here are a few:

Awesome cook - I grew up eating better lasagna/spaghetti/meatballs and sauce than any restaurant I've ever eaten in serves. She made homemade peach preserves every summer. She learned to cook British dishes for my Dad (Yorkshire pudding, black pudding - can't get them in any restaurant). Her Key Lime pie - everyone that ever tasted it had dreams and cravings for it for months afterward.

Synchronized swimming - My mother performed in synchronized swimming shows. The show rehearsal was every Friday. I used to pull every stunt imaginable to be sick from school every Friday to watch the rehearsals, (ran thermometers under hot water till she caught me, then exploded one sticking it into the heater coils).

Piano - The Kennedy Center wasn't beating down her door or anything, but she was good. My mother would seat me beside her on the piano bench/stool and play a few songs. Ragtime, Beethoven, Bach, etc. Last she'd let me choose one song, and she'd play it.


Beethoven's "Minuet in G" was my favorite:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f00pkoMnYPc


or Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band." :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvwnwaK9FNM



My mother always loved Shakespeare. We saw every production of his works on Broadway, and she had every leather-bound volume in her library (along with Lord Byron's poetry) - she even has a very large and heavy statue bust of Shakespeare.

When my mom loved something she went all out and immersed herself in it, and that is the way she was with all of us children - she loved us. There couldn't be a more Awesome mother than her.


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This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 19 2013, 10:52 PM

She sounds really awesome, mALX And as long as you remember her, she´s never really gone.

mALX, there are no words in which I can give you that will ease the pain. I can only give you my internet-shoulder and my PM box.

This post has been edited by Elisabeth Hollow: Mar 19 2013, 09:26 PM

Sounds like an amazing woman. Thanks for sharing a bit about her with us.

mALX, being good at any of those things would make your mother special in my eyes. ...I'm so sorry for what you're all going through...

As has been said by others, our pimm boxes are always open...

*Hugs*

Beautiful, mALX. I see now where your cooking skill comes from and your ability to immerse yourself in things you love. The musical talent? Well. . . seems like that may have been passed directly to your youngest son.

She sounds like an incredible woman, mALX

Someone who loves to share her passions - food, culture - and make everyone else as excited about them as herself. Must have been an exciting place to grow up, experiencing all of those things. And the key lime pie sounds delicious...

Stay strong, mate. She sounds like a wonderful person.

Anybody heard from Minque lately? I think it is the longest I've seen her missing from this forum since I joined in 05'.

Malx, you know what always makes me feel better? Picture someone you hate(celeb, politician, real life person) making the angriest face you can have them make. Now imagine them humping a watermelon with that look on their face.

You have an odd way of coping with things Liz.

Well, it's either that or drinking. I choose watermelon humping.

For other people.

I don't like fruit quite that much.

I think I have actually seen that on YouTube.

Really?!

I can't help but laugh every time I picture it. A loooooot of people hump watermelons in my head....

So that's how you stay in high spirits while cashiering.

Women truly are an enigma.

SPEW !!!!! And thank you for fixing your Avatar back. I would have hounded you unmercifully if you hadn't, many many more of those giant lettered PM's.

No, but I'm sure there is one on there like that.

You and KC BOTH screamed at me for changing it XD



It pisses people off when I'm grinning like an idiot while they're yelling at me. I also imagine what would happen if I just... suddenly punched them in the face...

-wide grin-