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Wednesday, 13 September 06 :: Parting ain't just.

i logged on tonight and just as i was going to christi's website these words came across my speakers:

no. it isn't just. no, it isn't. i'm sorry thomas team. i'm so sorry, from the bottom of my heart and back, i am so sorry. i am a stranger and i wish i could fix it, i wish i could. its not realistic to think i can.

i hope for christi a peaceful passing. i wish for the thomas team peace, but i know that won't come easy.

but tonight i sit in just a bit of anger at it all. those lines just seem to hit the nail on the head. parting ain't just. it just isn't. and the words 'cancer sucks' just doesn't seem powerful enough tonight. no, it doesn't.

i have just been so touched by the thomas story. thank you for those of you who've read this blog and read about christi thomas and her family. there are thousands more out there like her, there are other children dying of cancer tonight. i may be writing about this one young woman, but in the end its a bigger story that i'm writing about. i'm writing about all those who are fighting this beast. i'm writing about the story of so many who just don't deserve to suffer. no one deserves this. no, no one. not even your worst enemy.

tonight i will hold the thomas team closer than ever in my prayers. i pray for the strength that they will have as they face the pain of living without their dear daughter, sister and friend. i pray for the strength of all those who have loved this young woman and her family, and i pray that in 4 - 6 months when people start forgetting, that they don't, that the support for this dear family kicks up a notch, because thats when they'll need it the most, when people start to forget and they know that they have just begun their of not forgetting.

posted by brooke at September 13, 2006 10:23 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.