Livestrong Day - Oct. 2, 2010

 

 We are joining in with many other bloggers today for Livestrong Day sponsored by the Lance Armstrong Foundation to bring awareness of cancer and support to cancer patients and survivors across the globe. Thanks to Ann of Zoolatry, Jan of  The Cat's Meow, Chandra of Life from a Cat's Perspective, Linda from Ozark Mountain Cats and so many others who helped pull this together.

We wish to honor the memories of those who lost their struggle with cancer.  Mom's father died of pancreatic cancer, her mother had breast cancer and skin cancer, sister in law Ann had Hodgkin's and breast cancer and cousin Allison died so young from ovarian cancer.  We even lost cats Clarence and Nick to intestinal cancer and Bunny dog to stomach cancer.

And so many of our dear ones and fellow bloggers have the disease and are giving it their best shot to survive or have already passed that crucial five year marker with no recurrence.

To see more Livestrong posts or to find more information about the Lance Armstrong Foundation click on the sidebar graphic or blog titles. Add your blog to the Mr Linky below and share your post.  You can also grab the code and put Mr Linky on your blog too. Mr Linky is not making things easy but it is working - when their window is open, click Blogger on the first section and then click New Easy Linkie in the second and then click generate code - that should give you a code to copy for your blog.  Sorry about that.

Sad News....

Our Pop's mom, our Grandmom, passed away this past Sunday. She was almost 90 and had been in a nursing home for the past number of years. The photo above was from her 50th Wedding Anniversary in the late 1980's.


Since we were her only grand kids from our Mom and Pop we were called her grandkitties. This would make her smile! Our oldest kitties Chica and Yoko know Grandmom well...they used to sneak in her room when she visited us and pull all the tissues out of her tissue box and shred them. She couldn't figure out how that happened and never suspected us cats! Heehee

Lou Ellen was born in Texas and lived there her whole life, raising three boys. She was a tough spunky lady, honest, outspoken and with a hearty laugh! She always dressed beautifully, everything color coordinated. In later years, she and Grandpop got to travel a lot overseas and all over. Mom and Pop took them lots of places when they came to visit us.

Grandmom volunteered at the local hospital in Texas with Grandpop. Grandpop Sam passed first about ten years ago.

We will miss her and hope that she is with Grandpop at the Bridge, having fun with all the older folks - her family and friends who have already gone.

Bye Grandmom!