Chronology

I have gathered together Judy's posts (and a few others) from the SeniorNet Hearth folder and also from the SeniorNet ALS Support Group folder, which Judy established.  I will also include some e-mails received from Judy and from other friends to her and about her.

This gives a sort of outline of what has happened to her over the past year and the course of this dreadful illness.


Subject: Re; Prayers
Date: 10/18/99 6:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Please remember me in your prayers. I have Poly Neuropathy in my left leg, permanent and irreversable, and now can only drag my foot. Am waiting to get a "foot drop" brace made to help keep me from falling.

Also, my daughter, Joni, received results from a biopsy on her nose today, and was told she has MELANOMA!!

Thanks for your prayers,

~Judy................................EZee Two


Subject: Re: Re; Prayers
Date: 10/21/99 2:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dear Kai: Thank you for your posting. There is a big difference in having Melanoma on your arm, vs your face. To some that diaganosis is very frightening. You can cover your arm, but you can't go through life covering your face. She is still young enough that she is concerned.....and also this is her first brush with Cancer. Luckily I taught her well, to watch for any changes in your body, inside and out.

~Judy


Subject: Blessings
Date: 10/27/99 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Phyl, I'm happy to hear you are home!!

Guess what Gang? Went to Duke Hospital for am EMG, a Neurological test which consists of inserting needles into the muscles, running a current through them, then the results print on a graph.

Guess what? Coming in to the Hospital, down a few steps, and into the corrodor, yours truly stepped wrong on my "dead' foot, and broke my ankle!! Life is getting interestinger and interestinger.....LOL.....Now I'm in a cast for at least 6 weeks! No EMG test until the cast is off....... Oh well, it's all a learning process, isn't it?

~Judy


Subject: Re: Blessings
Date: 10/28/99 8:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

(((((((((friends)))))))))))))))

Thanks for your well wishes. I am not pain free yet, but "almost". If you have to break an ankle, believe me, a hospital is the best place to do it. All kinds of help comes streaming from every doorway! I go back in 2 weeks, Nov. 9, for another x-ray to make sure the cast is right. Poor Jim thinks he has been visited by the 7 horsemen of the Apocalypse, but he will be all right. He is on the verge of going to Calif to visit his 91 yr old Mom who is failing steadily. My daughter, who has moved to Virginia, will come get me and I will stay with her until Jim comes back. Will be there with her and my grandchildren for Thanksgiving. Jim must make this trip now, before it's too late to see her alive again. And I'm all right with that. I seem to be doing very well with this, and I think the prayers of my friends has helped. Thank you all very, very much.

~Judy


Subject: Re: Blessings y'all
Date: 11/3/99 7:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Thanks all my Seniornet friends for your well wishes. The stupid ankle still hurts a lot, but I go back to Duke next Tuesday for follow up x-rays to see if the cast is all right, etc. I have a suspicion that the long bone on the outside edge of the foot may be broken also. Only the ankle was x-rayed, and not the foot, and that seems to be where most of the pain comes from. Also developing tendonitis in the shoulder

where I had the rotator cuff surgery done. It must be from using the walker. Oh well, it could have been my hip, right? And wouldn't that have been terrible?

~Judy


Subject: Mother in law
Date: 12/5/99 9:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

My mother in law passed on Thursday. Currently I am at my daughter's in Virginia. She and I will fly to California in the morning, and return on Thursday. Please keep our family in your thoughts. Jim went out there to see his Mom for thanksgiving. She died the following week. I am grateful that Jim saw her before it was too late.

+ Judy


Subject: Re: ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease
Date: 3/19/00 7:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

My dearest online friends:

I am posting this tonight to inform you that I have been diagnosed with ALS. Friday March 17th I got the final word from the head Neuro-muscular specialist at Duke University Hospital in Durham. I have been searching for a diagnosis for several months, and have done all I can to accomplish this. I knew in my "gut" that what I had wasn't a simple Neuropathy. I think I am relieved to know that I have done everything to find the truth. Please pray for my husband, Jim, as he is really struggling with his emotions over this. I bad mouthed him enough on line, but he is the only constant in my life, always there for me when I need him.

I'll keep in touch.

Luvya all!!

~Judy


A Post from Glorious...

Subject: Re: ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease
Date: 3/19/00 11:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Glorious
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Judy,

I am so sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I guess all I can say is that we live with what we have to live with, do the best that we and others can do for us and take one day at a time.

Glo


Subject: Re: ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease
Date: 4/5/00 9:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dear Glo:

God Bless you for posting your message. I am on after a month's absence, and I appreciate your words of comfort. I am doing pretty well, losing a lit more every day, but still putting up a good fight. Spent a week in the hospital with a nasty digestive problem that coulda done me in, but no siree, 'tain't gonna git me yet!! I have lots of support, and Jim is doing the best he can, but is devastated. We are trimming down out "stuff" and plan to

enjoy what we have, especially each other's company. Little did I know what I had until now, he is a real trouper. I won't let him help me unless I absolutely can't do it for myself. He knows that's the only way I'm going to keep strong. My kids are very supportive and call frequently. Seems like I have friends I really didn't know I had until now. And I am very grateful for all that I have, materially and spiritually. We might even take a

trip to Greece later this year, won't that be awesome??!!!!!

Love you all,

~Judy


Subject: Re: ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease
Date: 4/5/00 9:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dear Connie:

I'm back on after a month's absence. Please do put me in touch with your friend. I'd like to hear from him.

Luvya,

~Judy


Subject: Re: Thanks to Everyone/Ezee
Date: 4/9/00 7:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ZINNY}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

Dearest Lady, you and I go back a long time, don't we? There is many a laugh we had together and You are to be cherished.

It's going to be great knowing that you and I are fighting the good fight, together! It helps to have someone to pray for besides myself. I'm ok. ALS is painless, but the muscle pain from trying to keep moving is discouraging. But they say, the more active I stay, the better. Using a walker around the house, and a wheelchair when I am out is a small price to pay to keep doing the things I want to do. I want to be with those who care about me,

and see beyond the ALS to the sparkle in my eyes, and the positive way Jim and I are dealing with this. No sad songs for us, right?

Love, caring and being cared for are what it is all about. I'm in your corner, Zinnie, Dearest.

Please don't ever think you are alone. I'm here holding your hand. Between us two, we'll make it.........

Bless you, my dear Friend.

~Judy


Subject: Re: Need Your Prayers for My Jim( Jimowsan)
Date: 4/9/00 7:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

LuvLady:

We met at the Virginia Bash, and it was a joy to finally meet you.

You both will be in my prayer, you can count on that.

~Judy


Subject: EzeeTwo
Date: 4/13/00 7:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: LadyZinnia
Message-id: <[email protected]>

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

This morning, I woke up crying for my dear friend, EzeeTwo. And I'm thinking it is time that we all took some action to save her and others like her.

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

There has never been a more courageous woman on this planet. There has never been a more caring and loving person. In the midst of all her suffering, and while heading down a really hard road, she takes the time to reach out and uplift others, to offer her love and support. She is a magnificent woman and a dear friend to so many. And I am trying to think of some way to give back.

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

It's time for all of us, as seniors and leaders, to stand up on our hind legs and tell our governments and other leaders to stop spending money on wars and on implements of destruction and on wasteful, empty projects and start spending those dollars on cures for ALS, Cancer, Alzheimer's, Leukemia, and all the other horrible diseases that are destroying our friends and families.

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

Please join me in writing to everyone you can and asking each of them to contact every government, business, religious, and sports leader they can to tell them what we want. We want answers and we want cures. We can even have the audacity to ask for cures for the rare diseases that no one wants to study because there wouldn't be enough profit in it.

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

Surely if someone can be paid millions to play a game of basketball or football or golf or whatever, they or their sponsors could be persuaded to open their pocketbooks and donate some of the extreme excess to save my friend, Judy. Is any sports game more important than a human life?

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

If you have a green ribbon, put one on and wear it. Wear it in honor of EzeeTwo and in the hope of finding cures and finding them NOW. Tell everyone you know, send email to everyone you know, write to anyone you think might have any influence at all... send them this letter or write your own... wear a green ribbon. I chose green because it's the color of money... and money is what it takes...money is what this is about... money to fund research and to find cures.

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

I am going to start writing today and then I am going to start a web page to promote this. Please help me spread the word. If I could do anything on earth to make ease Judy's suffering, to make her quality of life better, to save her life, including laying down my own, I would do it in a heartbeat. This is a person who is too valuable to lose.

If you would like to help in some way, if you have questions or concerns, if you have suggestions, write to [email protected].

Please help me. Copy and paste this letter into an email and send it to your friends... or write your own... write to anyone you think might be able to help. If you have a mailing list, send it to your mailing list. Let's try to get this message out all over the world...to all governments and all people everywhere.

SAVE EZEE TWO!!

I send you hugs,

Zinny


Subject: Re: Save EZee Two
Date: 4/24/00 7:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dearest Zinny:

Got your picture and you look GREAT!!

You said it didn't erase the wrinkles, but it did wonders for your double chin.

I am overwhelmed with your letter! And truly humbled. I have stepped on a few toes during my time in SeniorNet, but I hope I have apologized for that, and made amends. If you don't realize it, my Dearest Friends, time heals all wounds, and I love you, each and every one of you. All of you have been a special part of my life, from BroomHilda, to Kaipaka, to DKR, to Sharon, to BarbyLu, to Glorious, to JudyZ, and ELNR, and you all know who you are.

If I left anyone out, it was NOT deliberate.

Since I was diagnosed with ALS my life and my attitude has changed so dramatically that I don't even recognize myself! The daily weakening of my body only makes me aware of how much my friends mean to me, and the sharing and caring, disputes, arguments, and the making up is all part of life. One can only have hope if one learns that other's feelings come first, and a little humble pie is good for the soul...LOL......I thank you all for who and what

you are, what you believe, and how those beliefs affect your individual lives. We all have the same purpose in life, to leave a little of the good we each have for our friends to remember us by. Each day is an uphill battle, and your corns, sinus problems or heart conditions, cancer, kidney disease or whatever are just as important to me as they are to you

God Bless those who carry heavy burdens, my prayers go out to you. I love you all from the bottom of my heart.

~Judy


Subject: Hi, I'm back
Date: 6/26/00 6:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two

Message-id: <[email protected]>

My son put in an extention to the computer line, under the house and all that stuff, and Jim set up his laptop for me so I am BBBBAAAAAKKKKKK.

Still hanging in there, been unable to get this old electric wheelchair in the computer room, and I reallly felt isolated. Not able to walk at all. Have a brace on one leg to correct foot-drop, and the therapist says one is needed for the other one.

Jim's brother passed away yesterday, so Joni is driving down from Va. to take care of me. Wait till she finds out all that entails..........didn't want her to say no. Jim flies out tomorrow night for Hayward, Ca., to help his brother's family with the funeral, etc.

Second death in his family in 6 months, and with the "24-7" he has to put up with here, it's been very hard for him. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. I'm hanging in there, pretty confined now, need a wheel-chair accessable van. More later.

Luvya ALL

Judy


Subject: Re: Hi, I'm back
Date: 6/27/00 6:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

ZINNY.............Love you SWEETIE!!!

Thanks a bunch for keeping me in your prayer, they really help, don't they?

Been thinking about you constantly, and my hands were tied because I couldn't get to my puter and ley you know how much i worry about you.

Doing okay on this end, Joni is here, and Jim's flight was delayed at the local "Oh myGOD" airport. If you never flew into it or out of it, you don't know how that local commuter skims the pine tree tops all the way to Charlotte airport!! And the sucker doesn't even get above the air pockets...YIKIEs!!

More later, Luv, I'm thrilled to be back online!!

Judy


Subject: Re: YankyChief
Date: 9/14/00 11:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Oh, have been offline till my husband Jim set up a new puter desk for me. How sad I am to learn about Yanky's passing. It's hard to let go of our friends, but it helps to remember that life is just a journey. When I get to the place that the Good Lord has reserved for me, I will surely give Yanky all of your best wishes.

Judy+


Subject: Re: YankyChief
Date: 9/14/00 7:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Kai:

Thank you for asking how I am. Jim has me all set up with a puter desk that I can roll my electric chair (no pun intended) under the shelf, as it's adjustable.

My hands are weakening rapidly, so I must make hay while the sun shines.. Back is also weak, and I have to lean over when I transfer from the chair to the toilet, or the bed so I don't fall on my face. Losing my voice, and I don't sneeze or cough well, eithr. Dr's are surprised about the rapid rate I am going downhill. Lost my Home Health Care when we got a handicapped van..But that''s okay, we are taking things one day at a time. After looking

back, I am pretty sure have had this for 2 yrs before diagnosis. ALS has a 2 to 5 yr life expectancy.

Jim and I find great consolation in our lives because of our belief system. That makes it easier................but I don't know many people who are lucky enough to be able to plan their funeral while they are still alive. LOL

Love to you all........................

~Judy


JUDY STARTED THE ALS SUPPORT BOARD WITH THIS POST:

Subject: ALS support group
Date: 9/19/00 7:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Hi, I asked for this folder in the hopes that others who are suffering from this cruel disease, as I am, could help each other cope. I am rapidly losing the use of my hands, and am confined to a wheelchair. I have to be helped to and from the bathroom, which is quite a balancing act to say the least. I have to be bathed, dressed, etc. by my husband. I lost my Medicare Home Health folks because "I wasn't making any
progress."

So here I sit waiting for someone to decide I have 6 months left to live, so that Hospice can kick in. And ALS is so very unpredictable, nobody wants to jump to that conclusion.

Jim, my husband, and I are doing well. I accepted the diagnosis from the "git-go" as I knew something serious was happening. Thank Goodness I didn'go through the denial, and all that stuff.

I would just like to chat with others like myself, and perhaps we might form an online support group. I know it would help me alot to share with someone else.

~Judy+


MessageSubject: Re: ALS support group
Date: 9/25/00 10:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
-id: <[email protected]>

Thanks, Liz.

At the moment I am having the beginning stages of difficulty with swallowin, and periods of shortness of breath. Better call my doctor, and see if I am ready for hospice.

~Judy


Subject: Re: ALS support group
Date: 9/25/00 10:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

PS....get yourself the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" at Sam's club or any book store, it helps to understand how to cope with this disease, or any other for that matter.

~Judy


Subject: Re: ALS support group
Date: 9/25/00 6:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dear Kai:

Not really, but you can be there for me in your thoughts and meditations. I guess. I'm doing all right, just watching this disease progress is very awesome. At this time I am losing my hands rapidly, and it's very difficult turning over in the bed. But I'm in it for the duration. It serves no purpose for me to be unhappy, there are too many things I have left to do, and so little time. Had a pleasant surprisse today, heard from two old classmates of mine in Massachusetts. What a joy that was!!

Judy


Subject: Re: ALS support group
Date: 9/26/00 11:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dear Kai:

Thank you so much for the healing thoughts and the energy. That is the sum an substance of what I need.

Yes, detaching from the unwell body has been very easy, and it has surprised me.

I was first diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy in my left foot in April of 99. I knew it was more serious than that, and was strangely elated when I got the final diagnosis in March of this year.

I could "let go" at that time, and think seriously about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, which was very liberating. I am now in the process of signing papers that would allow me to pass on with no feeding tubes, or breathing machine. I consider them too intrusive. Jim doesn't want it, and neither do I. It is my wish that others can see God working in mylife, and my acceptance of the natural death which comes to us all.

~Judy


Subject: update
Date: 10/9/00 3:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Dear Dorothy:

You managed to quote my favorite passage from Isaiah. About His holding me in the palm of His Hand. Thank you very much.

Have now lost the ability to move my feet totally. I must sit with the Hoyer lift mesh all day, so that Jim can lift me and put me on the "potty chair". Also having difficulty swallowing such things as bread, chicken, and other dry foods. My doctor may call in Hospice. I cannot project my voice well any more, and I occasionally choke on my own saliva. I'm still laughing and cracking jokes, it keeps me going.

Love,

Judy


Subject: {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ZINNY}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Date: 10/9/00 3:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Deearest Zinny:

Yes, my LPN friend got out of the hospitall, but she is now been re-admitted. They scope her tomorrow. Her name is Paige. Please remember her in your prayers. It looks like I won't get my bath tomorrow.....

I'm doing ok, still watching this DD..{damned disease} on its merry progression. I can still cope. I do occasionaly boo hoo, but I can't do it for long, I get out of breath when I cry, so I can't afford that luxury.

Love to you and yours.

Judy


A post from LadyZinnia:

Subject: For Ezee Two - A Tribute - Please Help
Date: 10/11/00 9:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: LadyZinnia
Message-id: <[email protected]>

To Everyone, Including Ezee Two (Judy)

Judy is on my mind all the time and I keep trying to think of something I could do to lift her spirits and let her know how much I value and love her. And I know I'm not alone.

To watch such a dear person suffer from ALS is one of the hardest trials I have ever faced, but this is not about me... it's about Judy.

So I had this bizarre idea and I hope you are all as crazy as I am. I would like to put up a web page for Judy... a Memorial, as it were, only I want to do it NOW, while she can still enjoy it. You all know how we do when we have lost someone... we all come in and tell our remembrances and how much we cared about the person and where we met and some laughs we had and how we feel about the loss of yet another friend.

So what I am asking is that anyone who wants to will start sharing... whatever you would like to say. Send me remembrances, and pictures if you have them and names to accompany the people in them and your remembrances of the events.

Judy — I'm asking you to send this request to your friends and family and ask them if they will contribute. And if you're up to it, you send me anything YOU would like to have on your web site and any ideas you have about it. Maybe your husband would be willing to help me, also.

If anyone has photos that need to be scanned to be included, e-mail me and I'll send you my address. I will scan and return to you.

This is not really my original idea. A few months ago, I heard from one of our friends — and I wish I could remember who it was — about a group of friends who gathered for another lady friend who is in the last stages of cancer. And they had a wake for her.. so that she would have that to take with her and to help sustain her through the final trials.

I'm still praying for a miracle for Judy, but I hope everyone will join me in this effort for our friend.

I will put up this website in a place that offers free web space so that it will stay there as long as anyone keeps visiting. Here is a temporary beginning page - just a picture of Judy and her husband. Tribute to Ezee Two I will send out the actual bookmark as soon as I get the site set up on the net - this is a temporary page in my own FTP space and I want this to be in a web space that will remain even if I am no longer on AOL. That site will be up and running within a few days and I will post a link in Hearth.

Love and hugs,

Zinny


Subject: Re: For Ezee Two - A Tribute - Please Help
Date: 10/16/00 5:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
Message-id: <[email protected]>

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{FRIENDS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

I survived my first brush with death on Thursday, when I aspirated my own saliva. I choked and couldn't breathe. It was terrifying, but thanks to Jim's loving calm, i made it through. (some may wish I hadn''t..LOL)

It took 2 hours before I could calm down. Hospice comes tomorrow to assess my needs, andd provide whatever help is necessaary. No tubes, no breathing machines, no feeding tubes, just pain management and nasal oxygen as needed. I have to stop eating bread and other dry foods.

But alll the Staarbuck's Italian Roast Ice Cream I want!!!!! Oh, believe me, I'll share it with whoever wants some.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your response to Zinny''s thoughtful and caring web page. And please continue prayers for strength for me, or caring and loving thoughts.

I'm not licked yet, I just missed a step in my journey. I have picked myself up, brushed myself off, and I'm starting all over again..

~Judy


Subject: Zinny''s daughter
Date: 10/16/00 5:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ZINNNNNNNY}}}}}}}}}}}}}

My cherished friend...I'm so very happy for your daughter's great big strides toward heer due date. Miracles do happen, all we have to do is pray and ask.

Phillipians 4:13...........Proverbs 3:24-26........

Phillipians 4:11

Judy


An email to another dear friend, AmieGA

Subj: Re: Web page
Date: 10/22/00 10:55:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
To: AmieGa
BCC: LadyZinnia

Dear Amie:

It's so very nice to hear from you, and I sincerely thank you for taking time out of your day to write.

I'm losing strength rapidly, much to my doctor's dismay, but my mind and my spirits are great. Jim is so wonderful in caring for me. This DD (damned disease) has brought us so much closer, and we have had time to get down to the basics of what life is all about. No more ego trips for either of us, just time to share, remember the fun things we did, and the wonderful places we shared together as part of his military career.

I am doing well in spite of everything. The times that are difficult are shared, so that they are cut in half because he carries the other half of the load. We have done the necessary paperwork, including the "do not recussitate" order. He knows what I want, and doing this "homework" ahead of time has made it easier.

My wonderful daughter does her part by calling frequently. We are best friends, and we have a great relationship. Life can't be any better than it is right now. Loving friends, family, and Seniornet.

Take care, I'll talk to you again soon.

~Judy


An e-mail to a classmate

Subj: Hi again
Date: 10/22/00 11:26:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
To: [email protected]
BCC: LadyZinnia

Dear Barbara:

Thanks a million for the address book. I did get the big book, with the bios, etc., and I didn't put it down for 4 days. What a pleasure to discover how the rest of our classmates are doing now, and some sadness for those who have been separated from us and their spouses by death. I especially appreciate the fact that you are sharing my EMails with others. It helps me feel that I am still a part of our "Nifty Fifty" community.

The doctor has put me in the care of Hospice. They are truly wonderfully supportive people. The first thing they did was put me on pain management. I thought I was supposed to be brave and noble, and grit my teeth and bear it. Not so!! I fight death as hard as I can, but I don't have to fight in pain.

I am losing strength rapidly in my arms and hands, but EMailing family and friends helps keep my strength going.

My faith in God is stronger than ever. I feel as if I can show His mercy and loving kindness to me by being as brave and positive as I can. Perhaps others will see His love through me. And that is my purpose in life at the moment. That is not to say I don't have my weak moments, and I cry sometimes. But it's ok. I am more content with my life now than ever before. It has been a gift, not a punishment.

I truly regret that I won't be able to "come home again" as I do miss Clinton, and my friends. But EMail is such a blessing to me now. Please continue to pray for me. My only prayer is for courage. Courage to keep going, and to keep my family going.

Please write again soon. It has been such a joy to hear from you. Your card was just beautiful, and I thank you.

Luvya,

~Judy


Subject: Re: EzeeTwo Tribute - Another Update
Date: 10/22/00 11:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two

Dearest Kai:

How sweet of you! I close my eyes and see the whales breaching off of Kaneohe Air Station. Oh, and another thing!! Our gardenia bush has presented me with another gardenia, and it's the 22 of October!! Joy unspeakable.

When we first arrived in Hawaii, we used to go to McCulley Chop Suey restaurant every Saturday night with our boys, and then on to the car races. Jim always bought me a bouquet of a dozen gardenias wrapped in a Ti leaf. When he brings me a gardenia from our garden, I close my eyes and smell it. I am immediately transported back to those fun times we had there. I floated each gardenia, and put them in every room in my house, especially the

bedroom, so I could fall asleep and wake up to their heavenly fragrance. Ah, what wonderful memories. How blessed can I get with memories like that?

~Judy


Subject: Re: EzeeTwo Tribute - Another Update
Date: 10/22/00 11:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two

Dearest Zinny:

I love you from the bottom of my heart for what you mean to me, and for the awesome Tribute page.

My full name is Judith Wiese......rhymes with EZee. I live at 11 Dressler Dr., Jacksonville, NC, 28540. My phone # is 1-910-455-4581.

I am what I am, as Popeye used to say, and I have miles and miles of space in my heart to love and care about others, no matter who or what the circumstances. And my husband says that I am a "good kid". The biggest compliment he can give.

Love you all very much.~Judy


Subject: Re: EzeeTwo Tribute - Another Update
Date: 10/22/00 6:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two

Dear Kai:

Yes, I surely remember da kine Pidgin, and da kine plate lunch, the rainbows, smoke from the sugar plantations, coconut cream pie from the Crouching Lion restaurant,, on the drive between Kaneohe and the North Shore.The smell of plumeria leis, and ginger blossoms. The sound of the Cazimero brothers and the Hawaiian chants as only they can perform them. Concerts at the Shell, May Day, New Year's Eve. The smells of River St. at the canal, only a short distance from where I worked. I remember well the winds at the top of the Pali, the smells of the forests there. Picking my own papaya and eating as much as I wanted. Getting carded at my 28th birthday party at the Colonel's Plantation House on Kalakaua Ave. The salt smell from the ocean, the smells of people cooking out at Ala Moana Park. The sound of the neighbors celebrating their baby's first birthday.

Most of all, the thing I miss the most is the music. All I have is old 33rpms and no tapes. darnit.............but soo many happy, happy memories to last me forever. And you who understand my dream to go back.

Luvya,

~Judy~


Subject: Re: Tribute to EzeeTwo - Another Update
Date: 10/22/00 7:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two

Dear Kai:

LadyZinnia has been saving my postings and putting them on a website that she created for me. Such a wonderfully generous lady she is!

Went out for Chinese food tonight, and I proceeded to choke on everything, including the dessert pudding. Had to calm myself down, and leave a full plate uneaten. Jim gave me Starbuck's Italian Roast coffee ice cream when we got home. That went down very smoothly. It was difficult because I dread the choking sessions when I am in public. Oh well, I've taken my nightime meds, and I hope to have a restful night. And tomorrow is a new adventure

just waiting to happen. Oh, by the way, I heard the Great Horned Owl at sunset tonight. Thought the new house that was built here would scare her away. What pleasure to hear her spooky call again.......OH it's Halloween next week!

That'''s why she is back in the neighborhood!

Love to you all............~Judy


Subject: Re: Tribute to EzeeTwo - Another Update
Date: 10/22/00 12:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: EZee Two
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Hi y'all from the very warm and sunny South:

Awesome weather. I have a new gardenia on my bush, and what a wonderful sign for me that I am not alone with my ALS.

It's been awhile since I posted, and the DD..(damned disease) marches on. But I am still doing very well, emotionally and spiritually. My doctor ordered Hospice, due to the rapid progression. The nurse ok'd pain management for my increasing discomfort. It helps, but I feel like a junkie for the 1sst hour after taking meds. It seems that there is no place I can get comfortable. The rear end hurts from sitting on my "tochas" all day, and I need

help to turn over in bed. But I have two wonderful ladies to bathe me, and take that difficult chore away from Jim. But, I am taking my electric chair.(he he) outside for some sun and bird watching. It's a glorious day, and I'm soooo glad to be here.

Love you all.........

~Judy


Subject: Re: EzeeTwo Tribute - Another Update
Date: 10/22/00 12:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Kaipaka

Judy, gardenias!! in Oct?.......indeed a blessing.

Do you remember tuberose too? And white ginger blossoms?

McCulley's is THE local place for Pake kine grinds. haven't eaten there since I dropped the Hawaiian love of my life.

You saw the whales at Kaneohe? Great!!

Take all that beauty and love and peace and joy with you ,Judy and know you will remain as a part of each of us here who wish we cld somehow remove the bumps from the road on your journey.

And do you remember rainbows? sunsets? salt spray? peejun english?

with aloha

miki


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