Do you believe???

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Registered: 07-18-2003
Do you believe???
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Fri, 08-08-2003 - 5:07pm
Well lately we have been wondering if we were pregnant. We want to wait a little bit longer before we go to the doctor and take a blood test because i've been a month late before. But someone at my work place brought up the subject that everytime someone enters the world someone else leaves the world. or however that saying goes. does anyone believe in this cause i'm really stuck on believing or not cause we just found out that my mother has breast cancer. someone please help.
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Registered: 05-18-2003
Fri, 08-08-2003 - 5:34pm
wow, it is so timely that you brought this up. I've been thinking the same thing. I do believe it, but not necessarily in the literal sense, like that new person is a reincarnation of the one that has passed away, but I do think we have things given and taken away in some reasonable fashion. It's interesting to me because we've been ttc for only a month or so, and we just found out yesterday that my husband's grandmother has metastatic (we think) renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer), and the prognosis will probably not be good. We're Jewish, and Jewish people generally name their children after people who have passed away, a modern way of doing this is taking the first initial from the first name of the person who has passed away, and using that for your child's name. We'll, luckily enough not very many people in our family have passed away recently, so everyone who has passed away has been named for, and then we find out his grandma is dying. So interesting how things work out.

By the way, I'll be thinking about your mom. My sister-in-law beat breast cancer a few years ago-- she's only 30 and was diagnosed a week after her wedding. Keep up hope and strength!