Dear Lindel It is super to hear you. I am soooooo glad you are now at home with your family. Take care, God Bless. Lots of love and best wishes for your speedy recovery and good health. Muriel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindel" <lbuckle@ihug.co.nz> To: <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:04 PM Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] To DONEGALEIRE from Lindel > This is for everyone who has been so incredibly kind and thoughtful to > me during this last terrible month - I am overwhelmed by the messages > and cards and postcards etc I have received..............I don't know if > I can properly express my appreciation to you all in an email, but I'll > give it a go. > I have been a member of this list since about 1998 and have always held > that it is the BEST list, with the BEST people on it - generous and > friendly, fun and kind. Because of that, my enjoyment of Donegal > research really grew, leading me to build a website full of every scrap > of Donegal resources I could lay my hands on - from there I started the > lookups and I still really enjoy them - I enjoy the challenge of trying > to find info for people and get almost as excited as the descendants > when I find REALLY good info. The emails I receive back when I've been > able to at least put someone on the right track have been such a buzz > too :-D > Over the years I've also 'met' and befriended some wonderful people! > I'm realtively 'young' for a researcher - in my early 40s, I live in in > a small town on the South Island of New Zealand with my husband and two > sons (Conor, 2 years and Liam, 7 years) - this research has helped me > retain my 'sanity' while raising my boys too :-) > Unfortunately, being realtively young has not allowed me to avoid major > health issues and it all caught up with me on the 20th May - firstly a > heart operation developed a severe complication, then 3 days after > recovering from that, I developed a severe complication to the > complication.............I'm now home to recover from that secondary > complication so I can return to hospital for the surgery I initially > went in for in May - hopefully I will continue to improve enough so I > can have that in about a month - the doctors don't want me any earlier > than that, as they explained they did NOT want another severe > complication to the severe complication to the severe complication! I'm > with them - I've done the rounds of the cardiothorasic intensive care, > cardiac care unit and acute cardiac care wards in the last 4 weeks and > I'd just like to take it easy for a while :-) > Its been a really tough time but I can say, without a shadow of doubt, > that the messages and prayers of you all have really helped me get > through this! I've still not read through all the messages (I've only > been home 3 hours!), but while reading through those I have, in the back > of my mind I was thinking ' my God, this womans a saint!' - then > realised you were talking about ME! You've made me feel so humble and so > cared for - and lifted my spirits so much! > THANKYOU so much to everyone! > Thankyou to Carol, the list owner, too! > All the very best, > Lindel > > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > To browse through the archives of the list go to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Visit my homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.com/~donegaleire > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >