Joyce,jsmythe wrote:Thank you Doug for pointing this out, I honestly did not think of it like that when I entered the post. I too, am one who keep coming back and reading this thread over and over. And when I just read what you wrote,dsm wrote:Joyce,jsmythe wrote:Welcome here, Paulo, as you can see, we are not only about Support and Advise, but lots of love and caring as well. There are many many many wonderful people here on this forum, and all with big big hearts. And are here to help in many ways. Larissa has touched the hearts of thousands. As you can see, there have been almost 13,000 people who have read this thread. Isnt that amazing! But even more amazing, is what all this love has done for Larissa and her family and her closest friends.
Just to put the 13,000 people in perspective, it is really a lot less but those of us participating come back again and again and again.
The number of 13,000 is the number of viewings. My # is probably 120+ so the actual number of different people following the thread may well be around 1000 or so.
Cheers DougI just choked up, and the tears came again.....DSM wrote:Dream Laryssa, - dream of lovely places and wondrous people and the love you have shared across many borders and different faces.
Laryssa's situation means all the more to me because 3 weeks a go I had to fly to New Zealand to be with my own youngest daughter who was in intensive care after a stroke & cerebral hemorrhage. We came pretty close to losing her. We had to sign off before they would operate on her head - an operation they told us would only save her life, not give her one.
Laryssa reminds me a lot of my daughter at that same age. My girl is now out of her dreamland and back with us - not walking yet but despite being told she had lost speech and language (1/5 th of her left lobe), is again talking just this week. She has regained movement of all limbs & we believe will make a pretty close to full recovery. She is even able to talk about all the time she was unable to talk & move but was seeing us all there with her. She can even recall how she was feeling before the stroke enveloped her.
Being faced with a yes/no - let live/let die question that involves a loved child is a real wake up call. All our logical analysis of the situation went right out the window & all we wanted was to do what we could to save her & rehabilitate her. She has rewarded herself and her family magnificently with her progress. We had been told by the neurosurgeon it would be 18 months before he could give us any useful prognosis. Our daughter gave us hers in 2 weeks.
<- that is one big big smile.
So little Laryssa represents another 'little angel' who has a whole life ahead of her. I guess it is not too often a child gets adopted by an Internet forum.
DSM
