Good Morning! Today’s blog is all about Tricia. I am overwhelmed with the emails I have received about doing something for Tricia. I thought about doing a HUGE blast of cards but with me getting ready to be away I was fearful that the timing was not going to be the best….so how about PLAN B!
(Caleb….if you have your Mom’s I-Pad – HIDE IT FROM HER….)
Let’s SHOWER TRICIA with a BLAST of well wishes for a speedy recovery. I do hope that you can take a moment from your day to wish this special young Mom well wishes from an extensive surgery!
20+ years ago Tricia was in an accident and recently she underwent a 10+ surgery on her jaw. We can all imagine the pain and frustration we would have. Naturally she is very limited to being able to see the computer so Calen is her buddy, again!
I want to share with you quickly how my relationship came about….I cannot tell you when it was but I received an email from Tricia that her son Caleb was having a super hard time with the passing of their families Jack Russell, Willie.
Caleb had a love for Eddie and Eddie help him through the passing of WIllie. As we all can imagine, Caleb was having a hard time without his buddy Willie and my blogs cheered him up and he was always excited to see what the animals were up to!
Tricia is a SUD and even though we have never met….WE HAVE MET – there is an instant connection between us. I keep a picture of Caleb at my work area and trust me, I smile everyday! He is very special and but does he love his Mom!
Because I knew how much Caleb loved Eddie, I reached out to Tricia the day we made the decision to let Eddie be at peace. I felt I needed to do this as this little boy has become so attached to Eddie through my blog. I didn’t want him to look at my blog and blind-sighted. This is another thing that I adore about Caleb…he reads my blog! 🙂
Please know that we never know who touches our lives and everyone has “stuff going on in their lives” – I feel so lucky and blessed to have this wonderful family in my cyber life……it would be the BEST to meet one day but for now….I can share my love and support to her with a speedy and painless recovery!
There is no doubt in my mind that Caleb and Dan are taking amazing care of their PRINCESS !!! Speedy recovery my friend! I loved this inspirational quote…it is soooooo true – this is a wonderful family! I THANK YOU for reaching out to me…and look what happened – we are stuck with each other! 🙂
p.s. – Caleb – you can show you MOM after people leave their love with comments!
You are a great boy…I am so proud of you!
Have a speedy recovery Trcia. You will be in my prayers for today and many tomorrows.
Tricia, prayers are being sent your way for a speedy recovery.
Dear Tricia, I will be praying for you to have a speedy recovery. What a great name you have! I don’t often meet a lot of others that share our name. Take care!
Tricia! I’m so glad I get to tell you how much I’ve been thinking about you. I hope and pray you are having a good recovery, better than the doctors expected! I hope and pray every day is a little bit better than the day before. I’m praying for your family too, hi Caleb & Dan. Look me up on Facebook, if you ever want to chat, or next week Susan can exchange our emails, if you want.
Have a great day!
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Tricia: Nothing but prayers and good vibes coming your way from SW Pennsylvania. Let’s hope you make a quick recovery and get back to being what is “normal” for you and your family. Sounds like you are in good hands!!!!
Lynn
Tricia, I hope that the prayers touch you and speed your recovery.
Hi Tricia,
I want you to know I am praying for your speedy recovery. God bless you with peace and healing!
Good morning Tricia,
I’m praying for God to send His healing, strength and comfort to you and that your family will surround you with love and peace that will bring you joy in the days to come. May you have time to study the new catalog and feel like making some cards soon. Get well soon and take care.
From Georgia, Gigi
Dear Tricia, Hoping that our prayers, well wishes, positive healing thoughts for a quick recovery bring strength to you today. Hope today is a good day for you and your family.
Hi Tricia. First, I want to say that I’m really happy that your surgery went well. Now it’s on to the healing and for that I wish you a speedy recovery. I will be praying for you and your family. Take it easy and don’t push things, just rest and know that soon you will be fully recovered. Blessings and Cyber Hugs~
Lots of warm wishes and thoughts going out to you for a great recovery ! Keep us posted on how you are doing .
Hey there Caleb ! Your mom is a lucky duck to have such a helpful son !
Hugs to you two !!
Tricia,
My dear wife has shared her fondness of you and your dear son Caleb. At this time ,please know that we are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers. The power of community no matter how distant is always by our side. We are all pulling for you! We do hope that you heal quickly.
You have an amazing son in Caleb. He is a special young man! Caleb “thank you” for your wonderful support with the loss of “Eddie”. Eddie grew up with our children and the loss does leave a void. Through our support to each other through the good times and bad times we all seem to do a little better knowing that others care. Caleb you are SUPER!!! I know that you and your Dad are taking good care of your Mom.
Take care Tricia,
Susan’s Hubby -John
Tricia, I wish you a safe and gentle recovery. Susan and her blog has made us a cyber family and we miss you. Take it easy and, Caleb, you are a special young man helping to take care of your mommy. Hugs from NJ!
Oh Tricia – my heart goes out to you! I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Praying for your comfort and fast healing! Caleb – what a wonderful son you are! Take good care of your momma! Wapakoneta, Ohio
Dear Tricia, May you recover in record time! May each day get a lot better! In the meantime have wonderful dreams of the Stampin’ Up cards you will create! Sending lots of prayers and cyber hugs your way. From not so sunny Annapoils MD
Tricia, please know you are in my thoughts and prayers for a smooth recovery. I’m sure that you will be back to your normal before long with the love and caring of your family and of all of us cyber friends sending warm hugs and lots of love your way. Take care. We’ll be interested in your progress through Susan’s wonderful blog.
HI Tricia ; I send you good thoughts , a cyber hug , and my best wishes from Canada for a speedy recovery . Sending a cyber hug to you as well Caleb for taking good care of your Mom .
Tricia, get well wishes for a speedy and complication free recovery! May you be pampered and spoiled by those closest to you and may you feel the cyber love of Susan coming through all the wishes of those reading her blog!
Susan, do you want to start a card drive? If we send cards to you, will you get them to Tricia? Just a thought…
If Susan is too busy . . . I’m volunteering to collect and mail a card drive to Tricia. Every little bit helps.
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Someday this will all be just an unpleasant memory. Just keep going, one step at a time, until your “graduation day” – that happy day when the doctor utters those sublime words, “Come back in 1 year.” Until then, be assured of my prayers for you and your family.
Faith, Hope &Love,
Sharon
New Jersey
Sending you healing prayers and lots of cyber (((((HUGS))))) for a speedy recovery. Lots of love from MaryJo – Medina Ohio
May all go well and wishing you a speedy recovery and good health
Many heartfelt wishes for a speedy recovery from surgery, Tricia. You must have a wonderful son in Caleb to take such good care of you! And a great friend in Susan whom we all love. Big hugs from Lou in Asheville, NC.
Dear Tricia, I am keeping you in my prayers. I hope and pray that God will hold you in the palm of his hands.Mau God be with you always. Caleb please keep your mommy smiling. I am so glad that you are your Mommy’s big boy. You will help Mommy feel better with your great smiles. Susan thank you for letting us share good wishes with Tricia. Hugs, Ellen Hinds
Dear Tricia: I hope you are feeling better each day. Sometimes it is the little things each day that give us the strength and peace we need to recover. Then there are the moments like today when Susan’s thoughtful gesture of providing this cyber community the opportunity to wish you God’s speed in your recovery to touch your heart and lift your spirits!!!! The best to Dan and Caleb!! Caleb, I am sorry for the loss of your Jack Russel, Willie. I lost my Jack Russel, Moe, in October. Eddie helped me too!!!!
A heartfelt flood of prayers for you Tricia. Wishing you a steady and complete recovery. God bless you.
Please know that you have a wide circle of “friends you have never met” who are praying for you and your family, Tricia. May each day bring you moments of joy, love, and beauty.
Wishing you a speedy recovery Tricia. With the love, support and prayers from your friends and family you are a winner.
Tricia, I’m sending you well wishes from Pennsylvania and prayers for a smooth and swift recovery. It warms my heart how your family is watching out for each other… Sounds like you guys have a wonderful thing there :).
More get well wishes coming from Oregon. I’m am with you in spirit having recently recovered from major surgery myself. The first week is the hardest with each week getting a bit easier. Thoughts of support to your family as well. It’s not easy being caregivers. Hopefully all the good wishes will brighten your day.
Tricia, prayers are going up for you from Indiana! I too am a SUD that enjoys Susan’s blog every day! Praying for a speedy recovery! Sounds like you have one special little boy!!
Sending prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery from Georgia.
Nothing but positive thoughts and good results coming your way from Illinois
Wishing Tricia a thorough and speedy recovery!
More prayers from Georgia! We have bright skies and sunshine — praying for the same for you!! Many blessings for you and your family
Hi Tricia, wishing you a speedy recovery from Ohio 🙂
Hi Tricia! Joining Susan and all your cyber friends in prayers for a speedy recovery. God has you in the palm of his hand.
First and foremost, I send my heartfelt prayers and blessings to you for a speedy and God-blessed recovery. Secondly, I just have to say that you are sooooooo blessed to be surrounded by such love and devotion! You are in my thoughts and prayers and I wish you nothing but the VERY best! HUGS!
Tricia,
Prayers for a speedy and uneventful recovery.
Sending good wishes for a speedy and uneventful recovery.
Thoughts and prayers are with you. I know it may be difficult but it will get better each and every day. You are surrounded by family and friends who love you and support you during this chapter of your life and soon you will begin a new chapter with some beautiful moments and memories.
Best wishes, Tricia, for a speedy and complete recovery from your surgery. Keeping you in thought and prayer.
Hi Tricia (Caleb and Dan)! I mailed you a card we made in the Close to My Heart card class I didn’t think you would mind the competition’s brand! Sending you warm wishes and cyber hugs for a speedy and full recovery. Teddy is sending Caleb some big doggy drooly kisses too for helping to take of his mom! Thanks Susan for letting us wish Tricia a good recovery from her surgery. Hugs my friends!!!
Tricia sending you good wishes and LOVE for a quick recovery..follow your Dr. orders and know that lots of “card makers ” are sending good thoughts your way.Alyece
Tricia, I hope you feel the love and caring that’s coming your way. I add my thoughts and prayers to all the others and wish you a speedy recovery.
Tricia, wishing you a speedy recovery! You will be in my thought and prayers!
Oh my gosh, you guys! I am SO surprised and blown away by all the love and support you’ve sent me!! Susan, I am in absolute shock that you devoted your entire daily post to me…this shows what a wonderful and beautiful person you truly are, and I am blessed to call you my friend.
First, I must tell you that Caleb and Dan both kept the secret about your post until Caleb came home from school this afternoon. Caleb said that he saw his name in bold this morning and he “stopped at the last second” from bringing me the iPad. Then, he actually HID the iPad from me. HaHa! My “guys” concocted a story that you hadn’t posted your card yet. (Caleb explained this was Dan’s idea–he was worried it was too close to telling a lie, since you really had posted something). 🙂
We’ve spent the last while reading through all the posts as a family, and the comments are all so heartfelt and sweet. I really cannot express how much it means to me. I’ve had tears streaming down my face as Dan reads them out loud. My mom is here, and she cannot believe the friendships we’ve formed through Susan’s “Simple” blog.
I’ve known for quite awhile this surgery needed to be (re)-done, but it was such a major surgery that I dreaded it and therefore, put it off until I just couldn’t physically wait any longer. I had a team of three wonderful surgeons who did the 10+-hour surgery and I can already tell they did a tremendous job reconstructing my jaw and mouth…truly a life-changing operation.
I will write more when I’m able. Right now, still only two weeks post-op, the swelling around my eyes makes it hard to focus on the computer screen too long. I will try to respond to everyone’s comments a little at a time over the next few days. Until then, Thank You, once again, for your encouragement, thoughts, and prayers! You made my day!!!
Your friend,
Tricia
P.S. Chris R., I received your card today! What a delightful surprise. Thank you so much!!
Wishing all the best for you Tricia!
Tricia wishing you a speedy recovery from New York!! You have wonderful and caring friend. I’ve met her through her blog and she took time out of her busy schedule to help me with the envelope punch board ( thank you Susan !!) Caleb you seem like a very awesome son !! Sending the family many prayers…
Just another concerned stamper sending you lots of healing thoughts & good wishes. Take it easy, my mantra is “One day at a time!” Soon you will be able to use the computer & get back in a “new” routine!
Continuing with well wishes and healing to you as each day passes.
Praying for a speedy recovery and sending get well wishes from Wisconsin.
For Tricia and her carers, Dan & Caleb
Best wishes for a speedy & trouble free recovery.
From Western Australia