[Gpdd] [Announcement]: Alge, contact info, and her piggies

[warmbreath at comcast.net]

Hi Everyone.
I have no new news today about Alge's condition. I have not posted her real 
name and address on the GPDD because the GPDD  is a public document and is 
searchable by outsiders. I am happy to give her name and address to any 
digest member known to me, however I think the best thing right now is send 
your wishes to her at the hospital I listed last night, (this morning). For 
this you will need her name and the hospital info I posted last night. I 
will send you her name as will any of the members who already have it, the 
problem is I cant tell you who they all are for their own privacy on the 
GPDD. This all worked well when she was sick last summer, and we got our 
messages through to her and she was unbelievably thrilled to get them. Some 
of you have private emailed in to me for that info and I will answer you all 
tonight.  The hospital also has a way to email a patient directly according 
to one of our members, so go to the hospital's home page with her name if 
you have it or when get it from one of us that has it,  if you dont know who 
they are or you have lost the info send your request to me.

Hopefully her daughter BethAnn will open an email for us to use and that she 
will join the gpdd and let us know that addy in the meantime let me repeat, 
her email she has been using for the gpdd is full, that's why BethAnn has to 
open a new one.

I called Ann Evans this morning and we had a lengthy cry. Some of you ask 
how to go one with all the losses we suffer on the GPDD. My belief is that 
you have all made me a stronger person by you caring answers and advice to 
me, and that as a group we reach out to one another, make friends, hold 
events like the Peter Gurney candle lighting that will happen March 9th as 
was posted today. We honor all of our other lost humans on that day too, and 
we honor our lost piggies by our announcements, memorials, and condolences 
we post on the GPDD to comfort one another.Other wise our regular friends 
and family would in some cases come to think of  us as nutcases to be so 
upset by the loss of a pocket pet, sometimes our vets even feel that way, 
but here on GPDD we have each other, and every one of us has experienced the 
excruciating pain of a lost piggy or piggy slave and sometimes a family 
member or other pet. With each other we get it.

Another way is that we have our virtual events like the Saga of the Black 
Pearl, and the other virtual events like the wedding, the Cavaret, the 
laying of the Last Poo coast to coast. My gift to Alge has been to take over 
the Black Pearl for her and I will keep sending her our adventures, she and 
I even conspired to write a virtual sea burial for her father who died 2 
months ago, the story  in conjunction with the New Years Eve event the 
Piggies had on the Black Pearl (as yet unpublished by yours truly who 
regularly sets records for procrastination).  Alge and I have regularly 
discussed the Rainbow Bridge as it relates to our piggies over the years and 
I have come to know that it has crept into my consciousness about my own 
mortality and my worries about Alge's longevity she has faced for years now. 
I have been helped to face my eventual mortality (I am not sick now) and I 
think it has helped her too, and I know I hope my previous piggies will all 
be waiting there for me some day as well as my lost son and parents and 
friends too!

So whee come here for advice to help our furbabies live better and longer 
lives, we console one another when one is lost, we educate each other and 
some vets, and we grieve for lost parent slaves as well. We are a slice of 
life as it is meant to be, a community of caring people who share 
experiences, in a way a kind of old fashioned concept in today's world, one 
I like. I cant honestly say I would still be here without you all.

I have not found the member, who possibly lives in Florida , who had already 
agreed with Alge to take one or both of her piggies if she goes to the 
bridge. So if there is a person already arranged let me know, otherwise we 
need to search among ourselves and our resources to find Capt. Jack and 
Barnacle a new hoe if need be, and to arrange a piggy train to get them to 
their new home, one case where the Black Pearl wont do. I have one piggy and 
can have another where I live, however I am clear across the country and 
have no vet in my town and no car to get to the Piggy expert in Portland. I 
feel Manny was lost to poor vet care so unless I can get a car I dont dare 
take another. Now i have a Black pearl story to write now about how it reach 
the New York location for the wedding. Good Evening friends, Sandy