Good luck Marty. I'll pray your home is still standing and waiting for you. Welcome back when it's all over. You've been through much more than this. You are the best warrior ever. Love you so very much ❤️❤️❤️❤️
My Motto: Faith and Pills With Love 🐠18's Dx 1/2004 CML Leukemia Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib 1/2015 Doctor Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > On Sep 9, 2017, at 9:12 PM, Sheila Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marty, I am glad to hear that. I was worrying over ya'll earlier today. My > brother is still in Hudson (up above Tampa about 30 or 40 miles. I worry > about him, but he is suppose to be going to a friend's home that is safer > than his doublewide. Glad ya'll left. > > SuzieQ > >> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 5:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [email protected] Google Groups >> Topic digest >> View all topics >> Words OF WISDOM. - 5 Updates >> Words OF WISDOM. >> [email protected]: Sep 08 09:39AM -0400 >> >> Hi all, Grace and I are getting out of dodge. We are heading for Indiana >> to stay with family. After this is over I hope we have a home in Fort Myers >> to live in. And my pure Corvette I hope it's still their. Stay safe. >> >> >> greenie >> >> In a message dated 9/7/2017 9:28:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> >> Hi Marcie, >> >> Glad that you found my story interesting. I live in Boynton Beach about 90 >> miles north of Miami. >> >> 18's, >> >> Marty >> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:21 PM, 'Marcie Goodman' via CMLHope >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Marty, >> >> Such a beautiful story which brought me to tears. Thanks, as always, for >> sharing. By the way, you aren't in Miami now are you? >> >> Marcie >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 9:11 PM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Joyce, Jeanie and everyone here, >> >> I learned something a very long time ago. If you or someone else looks out >> of a window then it is what they see that can make a big difference in their >> lives. I wrote this story a very long time ago and i always remembered it. >> It wasn't necessarily what this person would see but it was something that >> was explained to make "someone" happy for what they were able to "see" >> >> Now over the years that followed i have seen this plagiarized and it really >> hurt me, but i assure you that i am it's original author. There are many >> details in it that i personally went through. >> >> The Window >> There were two men in the cancer ward of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York >> City. They were in Ward KCC-6 North, which was at that time the cancer ward >> at that hospital. Both of these men were suffering from the end stages of >> Leukemia. They were there basically to die. One of these men had his bed >> right next to the only window in the room. The other one was across the room >> and had no access to the window. The man by the window would always tell the >> other man how beautiful it was looking out of that window, and let him know >> what was happening outside. He would talk about the beautiful skies, and how >> all of the little children were playing in Central Park. He would tell about >> the green grass and the people who were having a picnic, and the dogs that >> were running around, as well as the ice cream truck with the man selling ice >> cream pops to the little children, and the hot dog vendor also selling hot >> dogs with mustard and sour kraut. He would tell the other man that he would >> be able to see all of this for himself once he was healed. This went on for >> about two weeks, and one morning the nurse came into the room as she usually >> did, and presented these two men with their sponge baths. She first went >> over to the man who was by the window to find that he had passed away in his >> sleep. She then covered him up and left the room for a couple of minutes. >> When she returned, there was a doctor with her. This was a fairly new young >> doctor who would pronounce the man dead, and at that particular time, 8:40 >> a.m. even though he had obviously passed away some time during the night. >> The other man across the room with tears running down his cheeks became >> quite depressed at seeing his roommate wheeled out of the room, declared >> dead. He thought about how this man would always try to make him happy with >> him describing all of the nice things he was able to see outside. Later on >> that day the nurse returned and made up the bed in the room that was now >> unoccupied. The man in the other bed asked if by any chance he would be able >> to be put by the window. The nurse was a very kind and compassionate woman >> besides being a very competent nurse, and she wheeled him over. Although >> this man was unable to prop himself up to see the outside because he had >> recently had his Spleen surgically removed, he tried but finding it was just >> impossible. The next day came, and he again tried and although he was in a >> great deal of pain he managed to very slowly prop himself up and peer out of >> that most appealing window. He was absolutely shocked at what he was able to >> see, or to put it another way, what he was unable to see. There was nothing >> there but a brick wall! He wondered why that man would always tell him about >> what a beautiful world it was out there when in fact there was nothing but >> that brick wall. At about that time the nurse came in with his sponge bath. >> He immediately without any reservation asked her why the man would always >> tell him about what was happening outside when in fact he wasn't able to see >> anything. The nurse then told him that he was correct. The man who had been >> by that window was in fact not able to see anything because he was blind. >> >> The man then realized that the other man was trying to make him feel good, >> and try to become well once again. And, as it turned out that other man did >> in fact return to health but not until he was able to receive a Bone Marrow >> Transplant. There was a donor found, his sister, and although he had to live >> in a plastic bubble for many months without having a window in it he would >> also be able to see all of those wonderful things that this world has to >> offer. In effect the man who passed away prepared the other man so that he >> would be able to tolerate something that no one could ever imagine happening >> to anyone. I know all about this story because I was that other man, and >> without this blind mans’ help I would have never been able to really “see” >> what the other man saw, even though he was totally blind. I gladly wrote >> this story to be able to make others understand that there is hope even >> though you cannot see any hope. There is something to be learned by all of >> this, and that is to never give up hope. Most of us are blind to this fact, >> and we can only see what we want to see. Sometimes it takes someone that can >> really see what is out there even though he is blind. Or was he? >> >> Authors note: >> I wrote this story on May 21, 1990, which I consider my second birth date, >> because that was exactly one year after my Bone Marrow Transplant. My actual >> birth date was on May 21, 1944. It is my wish that whoever reads this will >> take comfort in the fact that there is a beautiful world out there, and they >> must have hope in order to really be able to ”see” it. >> >> Martin Gartenberg. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> This was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing with the cml warriors. >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "CMLHope" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> -- >> [CMLHope] >> A support group of http://cmlhope.com >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> >> -- >> [CMLHope] >> A support group of http://cmlhope.com >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> >> -- >> [CMLHope] >> A support group of http://cmlhope.com >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> >> -- >> [CMLHope] >> A support group of http://cmlhope.com >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]>: Sep 08 02:50PM -0400 >> >> Hi Greenie, >> >> Go West young man, go West... May i ask you what is a pure Corvette? >> And can you still get into it comfortably? Last time i tried to get into a >> vet I had a lot of difficulty. I am 6' + I guess that you must be some ware >> in Florida as i am also in Boynton Beach all hunkered down. >> >> 18's, >> >> Marty >> >> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:39 AM, myvety2k via CMLHope < >> Susan Zimmerman <[email protected]>: Sep 08 04:04PM -0400 >> >> Hey Greenie, >> So glad you are coming to visit! If you want to come over and visit our >> underground earth home, let us know!!! Would love to see you and Grace. We >> are in Granger. >> >> >> Susan and Roy Zimmerman >> >> On Friday, September 8, 2017 myvety2k via CMLHope <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi all, Grace and I are getting out of dodge. We are heading for Indiana >> to stay with family. After this is over I hope we have a home in Fort Myers >> to live in. And my pure Corvette I hope it's still their. Stay safe. >> >> >> greenie >> >> >> In a message dated 9/7/2017 9:28:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> >> Hi Marcie, >> >> >> Glad that you found my story interesting. I live in Boynton Beach about 90 >> miles north of Miami. >> >> >> 18's, >> >> >> Marty >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:21 PM, 'Marcie Goodman' via CMLHope >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Marty, >> >> >> Such a beautiful story which brought me to tears. Thanks, as always, for >> sharing. By the way, you aren't in Miami now are you? >> >> >> Marcie >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 9:11 PM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Joyce, Jeanie and everyone here, >> >> >> I learned something a very long time ago. If you or someone else looks out >> of a window then it is what they see that can make a big difference in their >> lives. I wrote this story a very long time ago and i always remembered it. >> It wasn't necessarily what this person would see but it was something that >> was explained to make "someone" happy for what they were able to "see" >> >> >> Now over the years that followed i have seen this plagiarized and it really >> hurt me, but i assure you that i am it's original author. There are many >> details in it that i personally went through. >> >> >> The Window >> >> There were two men in the cancer ward of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York >> City. They were in Ward KCC-6 North, which was at that time the cancer ward >> at that hospital. Both of these men were suffering from the end stages of >> Leukemia. They were there basically to die. One of these men had his bed >> right next to the only window in the room. The other one was across the room >> and had no access to the window. The man by the window would always tell the >> other man how beautiful it was looking out of that window, and let him know >> what was happening outside. He would talk about the beautiful skies, and how >> all of the little children were playing in Central Park. He would tell about >> the green grass and the people who were having a picnic, and the dogs that >> were running around, as well as the ice cream truck with the man selling ice >> cream pops to the little children, and the hot dog vendor also selling hot >> dogs with mustard and sour kraut. He would tell the other man that he would >> be able to see all of this for himself once he was healed. This went on for >> about two weeks, and one morning the nurse came into the room as she usually >> did, and presented these two men with their sponge baths. She first went >> over to the man who was by the window to find that he had passed away in his >> sleep. She then covered him up and left the room for a couple of minutes. >> When she returned, there was a doctor with her. This was a fairly new young >> doctor who would pronounce the man dead, and at that particular time, 8:40 >> a.m. even though he had obviously passed away some time during the night. >> The other man across the room with tears running down his cheeks became >> quite depressed at seeing his roommate wheeled out of the room, declared >> dead. He thought about how this man would always try to make him happy with >> him describing all of the nice things he was able to see outside. Later on >> that day the nurse returned and made up the bed in the room that was now >> unoccupied. The man in the other bed asked if by any chance he would be able >> to be put by the window. The nurse was a very kind and compassionate woman >> besides being a very competent nurse, and she wheeled him over. Although >> this man was unable to prop himself up to see the outside because he had >> recently had his Spleen surgically removed, he tried but finding it was just >> impossible. The next day came, and he again tried and although he was in a >> great deal of pain he managed to very slowly prop himself up and peer out of >> that most appealing window. He was absolutely shocked at what he was able to >> see, or to put it another way, what he was unable to see. There was nothing >> there but a brick wall! He wondered why that man would always tell him about >> what a beautiful world it was out there when in fact there was nothing but >> that brick wall. At about that time the nurse came in with his sponge bath. >> He immediately without any reservation asked her why the man would always >> tell him about what was happening outside when in fact he wasn't able to see >> anything. The nurse then told him that he was correct. The man who had been >> by that window was in fact not able to see anything because he was blind. >> >> >> >> The man then realized that the other man was trying to make him feel good, >> and try to become well once again. And, as it turned out that other man did >> in fact return to health but not until he was able to receive a Bone Marrow >> Transplant. There was a donor found, his sister, and although he had to live >> in a plastic bubble for many months without having a window in it he would >> also be able to see all of those wonderful things that this world has to >> offer. In effect the man who passed away prepared the other man so that he >> would be able to tolerate something that no one could ever imagine happening >> to anyone. I know all about this story because I was that other man, and >> without this blind mans’ help I would have never been able to really “see” >> what the other man saw, even though he was totally blind. I gladly wrote >> this story to be able to make others understand that there is hope even >> though you cannot see any hope. There is something to be learned by all of >> this, and that is to never give up hope. Most of us are blind to this fact, >> and we can only see what we want to see. Sometimes it takes someone that can >> really see what is out there even though he is blind. Or was he? >> >> >> >> Authors note: >> >> I wrote this story on May 21, 1990, which I consider my second birth date, >> because that was exactly one year after my Bone Marrow Transplant. My actual >> birth date was on May 21, 1944. It is my wish that whoever reads this will >> take comfort in the fact that there is a beautiful world out there, and they >> must have hope in order to really be able to ”see” it. >> >> >> >> Martin Gartenberg. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This was absolutely beautiful. 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I was >> surprised you are so close to him. He works for the Boy Scouts so he "is >> prepared". >> >> On Friday, September 8, 2017 at 1:50:41 PM UTC-5, wa2yyx wrote: >> Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]>: Sep 08 11:35PM -0400 >> >> Richard, >> >> Yes your son only lives less then an hour away from me, and i know the area >> very well because that is where i got my kidney transplant in The Cleveland >> Clinic. Praying for him and everyone else. >> >> 18's, >> >> Marty >> >> Back to top >> You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this >> group. 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