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I am going to give the floor to my wonderful Sissy, Pam tonight.   While Dan and the kids and I were bouncing the way to our new home, my sisters were very busy!   Check this out!

Hi! Everyone! I felt like blogging today! Well there are several things I needed to say and as I started to type well, I just kept on going, kinda like when I’m talking……… ( My family saying) “Oh boy”!

I wanted to share my version of this story of day 148, 149, and 150. I don’t think Teresa would mind, to tell you the truth, it is possible that she is a bit overwhelmed, tired and believe it or not, she might be a little speechless right now too. I am sure she will write her version once she has caught her breath. If I know her she is thinking about what she is going to say next. But she doesn’t know the story that went on behind close doors anyway. So I am telling you my version. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house here either on their big entrance when they arrived. But keep in mind that we are all emotionally drained by this time as it was. Funny thing was we expected them around 4 pm, and they didn’t get here till after 7. We did not finish getting the house looking good, the mess cleaned and had it looking like someone lived there until the very last ten minutes that they arrived, and there were over a dozen of us working on it. It was like the TV show Make Over.”

Here is the story: By luck and some begging friends, Anita got a local contractor business owner she knew to rent them this house with no money down, first month free, then rent for half of what they would get for it. This was more of a possibility to even be able to happen because of what is going on here in Florida right now. Construction work is dying out, and there are fewer jobs then ever, because construction is the working classes main industry here. The middle class and even business owners who once were making good money are really hurting bad! There are so many homes in foreclosure and
empty rentals everywhere! Never in the thirty years our family has lived here has it ever been this bad.

This was on Friday, day 148. From that moment on into the entire weekend, Anita and I were on the phone with each other if not together. We kept calling to ask each other did you find one of those yet? Getting them all beds was the biggest challenge for us. Now thinking back on it, I don’t know how Anita did all she did. She had to have been on the phone the entire time she was working everything. She was the main operator of the communication with everyone. Most family we have in Cape Coral are Anita and her husbands kids. The rest of us live in Ft. Myers and don’t know people in Cape Coral. So their friends in Cape Coral who are also reading Teresa blogs like soap opera, were starting to call Lisa who is our sister-in-law, and their friends were offering items to contribute as well. Things like, lazyboys, towels, blankets, desk, toys and school supplies for the kids. I have to express to all of you the entire ordeal was just incredible. And actually started to be fun for us women especially because we had all our husbands doing the heavy and hard work. They were picking up from the places we had bought stuff from, carrying it into the house and putting them together with tools! Imagine that!
When Anita and I started out on Friday to do this thing we were hoping that we could make it nice for them somewhat in the time we had by the time they came in on Sunday. At least have them beds to sleep in, so we had no idea it would end up the way it did.

Now, so you all know, Dan won’t be able to work full time for awhile. The drive to the hospital is three hours away, and although we really don’t know what the schedule is going to be yet, Teresa will never be left in the hospital there to go through her treatments alone without a family member with her. Also, if any of you are concerned about the children. I want to assure you that they will get good care from us while Dan and Teresa have a really big mountain to get over now. If the ones in Oregon weren’t big enough, I am thinking these just might be a bit bigger! Right now the family are happy to have made the journey and are on the top of the world! Because all of the things they have today that they didn’t have yesterday! This was like getting Christmas all at once instead of once a year in life! We have no doubt that we have over-whelmed this cute little family of ours! For Dan and Teresa it was the children’s excitement that gave them the most joy. Understand that they have had nice things and lived in nice homes before. They were perfectly content with the life they had before a monster decided to come and evade Teresa’s body. So it isn’t about that. It is about two people who worked hard together for 20yrs to make a beautiful family and live happily ever after. To have it all taken away from them after, just doesn’t seem right. I know it happens to a lot of families, but still it isn’t right. Well when it happens we just got to deal with it. Anyone who would have to go through it alone I feel very sorry for.

Now to get to work~! I have been selling on eBay for several years now, ever since I lost my drivers license when I had a seizure driving. So it is my home base business that I do. I have been collecting things to sell for sometime now. Anyhow, this month and hopefully next month as well, everything I am auctioning in eBay will go to help Teresa and Dan with their living expensive.

As a dedication to my little sisters triumph, and expressing to the world what she has experienced with cancer, I have made a music slide show about their journey using pictures from cancermonster and our trip we made to Portland last month. Go to this link to view that and you will also be able to see the items I am auctioning in eBay from there. Thank you all, who have helped Dan and Teresa and their family. We would not have been able to give Teresa this much will and lessened her stress without you.
It just might be what she needed to kick butt!

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BTW:  I LOVE YOU PAMMY! t

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