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Dear Louie: Sari In Finland Writes...(By Sari Annike Gustaffssenn) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Rated "G" by the Author.
Sari finally buckles down and answers her American friend's latest email.
Tuesday, 12 April, 2005, Evening Time, Ivalo, Finland~
Dear Louie in America~
Hai! Miita kuuluu? Kiitos hyvaas!
I was so happy to have heard from you at last; it seems that you have been very busy as of late! I was so happy to learn that your two children from Sri Lanka are due to arrive (they are probably there by now as I write this), and I was especially happy to hear that you are recovering well from surgery! That is wonderful news; you have been in my thoughts and prayers!
But alas: I am not having a good day today. My MS is acting up; can't walk without my crutches today, and I am very shaky and weak. I nearly fell several times today, but Nikky is here, and I am glad he IS. What if I had fallen and nobody had been HERE?? I hate to think of my lying there on the floor for days on days, with nobody to help me up...*Shuddering* I have a pair of crutches like what your husband and some of your children use, and I am still not used to them. I hate them because when I go out in public, people stare at me, and I know they are saying things about me, and I am not used to the comments or the stares! I am also having problems with my fibromyalgia acting up, and it's just not been a good time for me lately. Be praying for me, okay?? Thanks!
I heard from my friend, Ilsa Rekkonen, who lives here in Ivalo, and she is not doing well either. She has breast cancer; she had a mammogram, and they found a "suspicious lump" in her right breast; so she went to the hospital; when they did a biopsy, they found out that she has breast cancer. So she is sick too, and I am having a very hard time dealing with this. The only good thing in my life now is Nikolas Constantinos and our upcoming wedding next month; ai, can you believe it will be NEXT month until you come to Greece for our wedding?? The time is sure coming up quickly, and I am getting nervous!! So little time left, yet we have tons of things to do before we are even CLOSE to ready, and I am turning into a clumbsy, nervous wreck!!
The lights are out in full force again; but this year, they are tinged with sadness, what with the deaths of my mother and father, and now the illness of Ilsa and myself, and I am having a hard time trying to take care of the reindeer and working at university. I may have to quit my job at university because it is too hard for me to work with my MS acting up. I may eventually have to draw disability; that is how bad things are going with my health. I look in the mirror, and I see an old lady: I have aged maybe ten, twenty years, and my hair, once blonde and beautiful, is now turning silvery grey, and my face looks old. I have wrinkles now, and bags underneath my eyes, and I just look so tired and worn out!
I am happy it is warming up there. Here it is warming up too, but the nights are still chilly, and we still have snow on the ground; when it snows now, it doesn't stay for long, but it still is cold enough for it here in the Arctic. I am also happy that your kids are well; please tell them all hello, and give them our love! I miss them all, and I can't wait to meet little Cajun and Rani! I will have to see a picture of them!! I bet they look like ANGELS!!
Well, Louie, I am going to go now; have to use the potty, and I need the help of Nikky. I can't get up too well today; am weaker than a newborn kitten...I HATE having this scourge known as MS!! Please be praying for me; I am not doing well AT all!
(((HUGS))) and much love, your (still sick) Finnish friend, Sari Annike. :( >tears<
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Tuesday, 12 April, 2005, Evening Time, Ivalo, Finland~
