Rest In Peace My Dear Friend Lynn
Yesterday one of my dearest friends lost her 6 year battle with cancer. I didn't get the chance to be there for her the way I wanted to. Her friends and family have lost an incredible woman.
Lynn was a fighter. While her disease never went into remission, she fought it hard for 6 years. So hard that despite knowing all she was going through, I never let myself believe she wouldn't beat it. Maybe I was naive, but she was *that* strong. I envied her ability to find a way not to get stuck in the sorrow or the pain. Having my own health issues over the past couple of years it always amazed me how very little you ever heard complaint or sorrow from her. I always had to be firm with her to let me be there for her, that it was ok to "let it out" from time to time.
Lynn was a warm hearted person. Her love for her husband was always shinning in her eyes when she talked about him. She cared for her friends and stuck by them. Personally, she helped me through a very rough time medically, playing nurse maid twice a week while I recuperated from a surgical procedure - all the while having an ailing mother she was caring for and going through chemo for her own illness. She was surrounded not only by people who loved her, but by animals as well. I am sure her dogs and cats are missing her just as much as we all are now.
Lynn was loyal. As caring and loving as she was, you did NOT want to get on her bad side. If anyone hurt those she cared about she was there to defend or protect as much as she possibly could.
Overall, she was an incredible woman, who has been taken from us at way too early an age and by a disease that with all our advancements we still can't seem to stomp out.
I am very fortunate to have had her in my life. She enriched it by leaps and bounds and I am going to miss her dearly. However, I know she will want me to remember her by the good times we had. And thank god, I do have many good times to remember. Lynn collected and liked angels. And I know she is an Angel of Light now and will be looking over her loved ones until we are reunited once again.
Lynn was a fighter. While her disease never went into remission, she fought it hard for 6 years. So hard that despite knowing all she was going through, I never let myself believe she wouldn't beat it. Maybe I was naive, but she was *that* strong. I envied her ability to find a way not to get stuck in the sorrow or the pain. Having my own health issues over the past couple of years it always amazed me how very little you ever heard complaint or sorrow from her. I always had to be firm with her to let me be there for her, that it was ok to "let it out" from time to time.
Lynn was a warm hearted person. Her love for her husband was always shinning in her eyes when she talked about him. She cared for her friends and stuck by them. Personally, she helped me through a very rough time medically, playing nurse maid twice a week while I recuperated from a surgical procedure - all the while having an ailing mother she was caring for and going through chemo for her own illness. She was surrounded not only by people who loved her, but by animals as well. I am sure her dogs and cats are missing her just as much as we all are now.
Lynn was loyal. As caring and loving as she was, you did NOT want to get on her bad side. If anyone hurt those she cared about she was there to defend or protect as much as she possibly could.
Overall, she was an incredible woman, who has been taken from us at way too early an age and by a disease that with all our advancements we still can't seem to stomp out.
I am very fortunate to have had her in my life. She enriched it by leaps and bounds and I am going to miss her dearly. However, I know she will want me to remember her by the good times we had. And thank god, I do have many good times to remember. Lynn collected and liked angels. And I know she is an Angel of Light now and will be looking over her loved ones until we are reunited once again.