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EVEN IF IT IS JUST $1.00

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Please take the time to visit this tribute/fundraising page for my mom http://pff.donordrive.com/participant/loriorchow SHE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO GIVE SOMETHING TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE WHO SUFFER FROM THIS. SOMEONE DIES EVERY 13 MINUTES FROM THIS HORRIBLE DISEASE. THE SAME NUMBER OF PEOPLE DIE EACH YEAR FROM IPF AS DO BREAST CANCER. YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW COULD FACE THIS KILLER TOO. PLEASE HELP.

JOANN ORCHOW 12/13/32-02/20/2010

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After a long battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis my mother passed away. The suffering has ended for her, and she no longer has to live life with a tube in her nose and in bed. She went in peace and that is all any of us could hope for. I on the other hand struggle and suffer daily now. I want to pick up the phone and tellher of my pain. How ironic is that? I want to go over to her house, as I did everyday and watch bad daytime TV with her. I want to tell her the same thing over and over because she fogot what i had told her. I want to go to McDonalds and get her ice cream. I look at my oldest sister and I think how unfair it is that she had 15 more years with her then I did. I now that is silly but I do. I am the youngest, I got less time. I know my mom would want us to enjoy life and be kind to each other. I have this struggling anger inside . I want to smash things, break things...scream. My mother had NOTHING else wrong with her. She never smoked and yet she died from a horrib