Real CBS news story from 09/27/07 (today) Please see

• Real CBS news story from 09/27/07 (today) Please see - Very sad - but just in case anyone has seen her

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I have seen people appeal to the "court of public opinion" on the news broadcasts and if you can write to your newspaper columnists, send an email to anyone with persuasion on the news that you can get the attention of.   You have a right to your due benefits.  How about your government representative?  Leave no stone unturned.  Many stories have been turned around with the help of publicity

  start taking it to the public airwaves!!   We are all on your side!!!

I was just watching the news and there is a story about a lady who won a prize at some baseball game - her prize?.... a funeral and a casket.  The catch.  She has 30 years to claim her prize.  We are just rofl.

I can hear the annoucement over the loudspeaker at the game....."And congrats to our winner Mrs. ----.  You have just won....a buriel!  

who was supposed to give patient 800 mg of Dilantin for a seizure and gave her 8000 mg instead, causing cardiac arrest.

The drug came in vials and she had to round up every vial on the floor to give this dose, never questioning it.

Mistakes happen, but this is just too bizarre.

My best friend just returned from a trip back home by herself. There, she met up with her high school sweetheart - 20 years later. His mom and her mom are best friends and they were both there for a funeral.  She cried her eyes out at lunch today.
She learned while on her trip back home that the love of her life was divorced, has 3 kids - his wife left him for another man. My friend is married with 2 children.
To make a long story short, my friend is a true lady. She told him all about her life here and he just listened. They were near water (a gorgeous beach) on the docks and it was just the 2 of them and he began saying things to her that made her so sad. He went on and on about how he never stopped loving her and would look at her and say, "you are just as gorgeous as you were back in high school."  She said she would just laugh and tell him he was crazy.  She said she saw him on and off during the trip because she "had" to. They have families that are very close.  Every time he would see her he would give her a big hug and call her gorgeous.  She said the night before she left they were on his mother's porch swinging, eating ice cream and he cried like a baby. She cried. Nothing inappropriate happened between them.  She said it was a connection none like she had ever, ever experienced before.  She said that he made her promise that if anything were to ever happen between she and her husband that she would come back and be with him. He promised that he would wait for her, even if she were 80 years old.  My friend cried and cried.  He cried and cried.

I cried and cried.  I know this lady's husband.  The have a good relationship.  But she and I both know that we did not marry our soul mates.  I don't even know where mine is (we broke up many moons ago), but I know he was the one for me.  There was no infedelity to this story at all. I believe her.  They lost contact when she went away to college, moved on, and that was it.  She would talk about him periodically with me, but nothing real serious.

I don't know how many women (I sure haven't) met up with old flames or lost soul mates and have the experience she has.  She is a Christian and says that if she didn't love Jesus, something would have happened between them. She was able to use her love of God to witness to this man (who isn't a Christian).  She said that she wouldn't be able to live with herself if something happened between them and that his soul was more important to her than her selfish desires.

I commended her for that.  I don't know how many women in her position would have been as strong.  She cried so hard when she was telling me this story. Lunch lasted 4 hours!! I'm glad I was off today. Anyway, it just has me thinking about my ilfe, too, as a married mom and wife. My husband is the most unemotional, unaffectionate, doesn't-believe-in-soul mates-kind-of-guy. I can't talk with him about these kinds of things.  I just wish he were mine OR I was with mine.......

I can't imagine that you haven't ripped her superior little head off! What a nerve this woman has.  Stand up for you and your child.  She is NO better than you are just because you chose to raise your children differently than she did! I am more like you, in raising my children that is, they do not have a lot of structured activities...my 7 YO just wants to be a kid and play! I don't force him to play with anyone he doesn't want to...and you shouldn't feel like you have to force your child to play with anyone he doesn't want to.

Take a stand against this woman...tell her what you think and let it go...what's she gonna do, ground you?

My husband met his real Dad after 20 years of searching.  We live on the East coast.  His Dad lives on the West coast.  My MIL did not want him him meeting his Dad for the same reason. 

I can tell you this, his Dad was very receptive of him.  He answered some questions that neither my MIL nor anyone else could answer.  It was a nice reunion.

Please disregard your mother's opinion at this point because she is probably scorn and feels you should feel the same way.  It just doesn't work that way with the child that wants to know their Dad.  My husband didn't care what his Dad was like, but he wanted to see him and talk to him.

He now only talks to him occasionally, but I can say that my hubby sleeps much better at night and has learned acceptable, which has really helped emotionally with this struggle he has had all of these years wanting to know his Dad.

Even if you just write a letter explaining that you just wanted to know who he was and to make sure he is safe!  Holding grudges and putting a lot of emotional junk out there at first is sort of a turn-off in my opinion, but in time, you'll find your answers.

Good luck to you, and so glad you at least know he's safe and has a family that loves him, albeit he left out on you.  Hold those kinds of feelings in your heart instead of holding grief or demeaning feelings because the "good stuff" lasts longer and doesn't cause as much heartache! 

Take care and God Bless! 

And I never tried to push my upbringing/religion onto anybody ever in life and now I'm not into organized religion but very into G_D!  And I would never push my ways down anyone else's gullet.

I was born in 1982 and was raised by my mom and FINALLY found my dad after years of searching. He lives in Houston. I don't want to just show up out of the blue and say dad, here I am. I have his address and phone number. Mom says that I shouldn't contact him, he walked out on her after I was born, but I want to know what he's like.

I guess he went to a lot of trouble to start a new life somewhere else, got remarried, had other kids. In all these years he hasn't made an effort to contact me, but I still want to meet him. I hear his wife doesn't want me around, but she can't stop me from seeing my dad. Still, I don't want to make any waves. What should I do.

place a call into Homeland Security and sweetly, but in a slightly panicked voice, say anything that pops into your head, whilst at the same time nonchalantly slipping in about where he hails from.  No one will ever see him again.