Arlene this will go to all of our 600 online Field of Dreams
Communities..EBERYONE PLEASE WRITE AND PRAY!! God Bless Arlene

earnwings1@... wrote: Hi everyone:
The request below is from my son and it isn't a big request but one that would
bring some happiness to a deserving person. Just a simple little thing to bring
light to a deserving soul.
Thank you!
"The spur of delight comes in small ways. Robert L. Stevenson"
God Bless.
Arlene

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From: "Ed DiRocco" Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:05:46 +0000
Mark Hawkins is a friend of mine from CA, someone I worked with
years ago at Prime. I'd ask you to help him with his request as it's a small
token that will go a long way to making his Sister's day special.

Ed



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From: Mark Hawkins [mailto:newhawk@...]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:06 PM
To: newhawk@...
Subject: 50th Birthday



To my Angel Network:

Hello my friends, its good to see you again.

The last thing I said to my father before he lapsed into his last nap before
passing was that I would make sure that my sister Laurie would be well taken
care of. I don’t want to make this sound like a Jerry Lewis Telethon, or for
those old enough, “Queen for a Day” – but I am going to ask for your help but
first, for those of you receiving my appeal for the first time, here is a brief
background:

Laurie was diagnosed with a rare form of Epilepsy when she was 10 years old.
My parents, pretty much gave up their lives to care for her in our Littleton
home. Because she suffered Grand Mal seizures time after time, Laurie was never
able to get a drivers license or work. In fact, she spent most of her life in
our house on Washington St. My parents would take her on vacations when she was
well enough. She had numerous surgeries through the years including brain
surgery at Mayo Clinic; removal of a big portion of her stomach because the
dozens of meds she takes ate away at her stomach. She also has had several pins
inserted into bones that have broken due to falls through the years. While she
is not in a wheel chair, she is very unsteady when she walks.

In 2005, my mom passed away of Cancer, leaving my dad to care for Laurie and
himself. We all know that was the worst scenario but it happened. My father
learned to do a lot of things that he had never done before but there was no way
he could adequately care for Laurie or himself the way mom did. There were two
issues that sent my dad into a tailspin: One is that he had a broken heart.
Even though he was left with a mate (Laurie), he wasn’t the same man after the
love of his life passed away. Granted, he was 84 years old, but he had always
been a healthy man. His mind started to go and his body too. He could no
longer care for Laurie and we huddled as to what would happen next. Of course,
she would have to go into an assisted living facility and he agonized over
telling her. That was the second blow. We had lived in the same house since
1958. He had only owned one new car in his life (which my mom promptly backed
into a fire hydrant), and he had purchased one
house. That house they would live in for 48 years.

Laurie took the news of having to leave the only home she had ever known
relatively well, but it was still rough going. She cried for the first few days
she was there and this just destroyed dad. The guilt was tremendous. After
awhile, she settled down. Her new “home” was a house with a caregiver in
Centennial. Almost everybody else was in their 70’s and 80’s; Laurie in her
40’s by now.

Dad kept on trucking, but as I said, he wasn’t the same. Even though he could
still drive short distances and go see her; take her to get her hair done, and
to occasional lunches, it got to the point that he could no longer care for
himself at the family home on Washington. I was able to persuade him to move
into an assisted living facility himself (Libby Bortz in Littleton). While he
was there, I got rid of 48+ years of stuff (an I mean STUFF), sold the house,
and went back and forth between my home in Long Beach, CA and Denver a dozen
times to visit Dad and Laurie.

A few months after dad moved into “Libby Bortz”, his mind and body finally
gave out on him and he passed away in December of 2006. I braced myself for
Laurie’s reaction and the biggest surprise is she took it in stride.

And so here we are today. Laurie is doing quite well in her assisted living
facility in Littleton. I had her moved from the Centennial location to upgrade
her environment and I am very pleased that she is quite happy and “well”.

I love my sister very much but I don’t live in the Denver area. This is very
frustrating for me to not be able to make it out to see her as much as I would
like. Since my father’s passing, she receives no visitors and rarely receives
any mail (except from a very special Angel named Pat). She just LOVES to open
envelopes and read cards… in fact she collects them in shoeboxes she keeps under
the bed.

Laurie turns 50 years old on Wednesday, September 26th.

Here is where I am going to ask you (some of you again) for 2 favors:

1. PLEASE send Laurie a BIRTHDAY CARD to the following address:

Laurie Hawkins
6365 S. Sycamore St.
Littleton, CO 80120

2. PLEASE forward this email to 3 people who are special to YOU with the hope
that they can take the time to send a card as well. It doesn’t matter that
Laurie doesn’t know them. She has never met 99% of my Angel’s, but I want her
to receive many birthday greetings.

I will never be able to take the place of what my mom and dad did for Laurie.
But I got all the breaks and I will spend the rest of my life doing what I can
to make sure she lives a decent life in the memory of a mom and dad that pretty
much gave up their own lives for the care of a daughter.

Thank you so much for reading and PLEASE forward this email on NOW and, send
your card as soon as you get a chance. Even if you don’t HAVE a birthday card
in possession, any card will do. If you are anything like me, you will forget
the second you close this email. J


Love and Peace,

Mark




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