goobygirl
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Yes, there was a movie, but you made a common dyslexic error! I'm "GOOBYGIRL" not "GOODBYE GIRL." LOL. Gooby is a nickname I picked up when my mother bought me a football jersey from a yard sale when I was a kid. GOOBY was on the back. Don't know Gooby, but whomever he was, I've adapted myself to the name...lol.
Vera Walker is my grandmother. She had just turned 86 years old and was spending the day at my house with what we thought was the flu. We took her to the doctor because she was feeling nauseous and he diagnosed her with food poisoning. Within hours we were at the emergency room with a burst abdominal aneurysm. She passed that day.
I contacted grandma by imagining her kitchen where we spent a lot of time drinking coffee, eating cookies and chatting. I asked my grandpa to come visit us (he passed in 1993) and (re) introduced the two. I told grandma that I loved her very much and that she had passed quickly. I gave grandpa some iced tea since he always liked iced tea. Grandpa was very relaxed and jovial and grandma was as she had always been, chatty and busy.
I told her that grandpa was going to take her to see some family and friends and would she like to go see them? I thanked grandpa and he took her hand. She had no hesitation, and we walked out the front of her house. I imagined her walking down her road into a white light.
The other attempted retrieval was with a friend of mine, Chris Perry. I really didn't know Chris' passed family members well, Chris and I were more of casual buddies who hung out at a local watering hole and played trivia. He was the number one point scorer and had over 12 million lifetime points playing NTN! In January, he was found in his shower, unconscious. He was taken to ICU and put on all kinds of machines and remained unconscious. I visited Chris in the hospital the night before they were to unplug the machines and sat with him. I talked to him and laughed and told him he had really gotten himself into a mess "this time." (The year before he had torn his leg up playing softball and had to have major surgery to repair the leg).
In my retrieval imagination, I met him at the local bar. I told him it was nice to see him again. He sat at the bar with his beer, cigs, and favorite mug watching the screen and playing trivia. I told him that I really cared for him and that I wanted him to see some friends. He had grown up raising and showing prize goats, and I put a picture of goats in my mind, since I didn't know whom to exactly to picture! We played a few rounds of trivia, me looking at him sideways since we always sat side by side I was most often looking at his profile than his face, lol.
After a while I asked him if he was ready, and we walked out the door of the bar and into the street, again I let him walk into the light. I asked for helpers to take him, since I had no one else to imagine that would.
The last imagined retrieval was with Casey. Casey was my 16 year old brother who died suddenly in a car accident. I imagined meeting him at my mother's house in the kitchen. I asked my two grandfathers to come meet us and they met us, hugging my brother. They had both died when he was 13. I thanked them for coming, gave my brother a soda and my grandfathers coffee. I talked to my brother a little about how he always was a daredevil and reminded him of the time when he rollerbladed off my mother's roof (on video, no less) and we laughed. I told him there were friends and family for him to go see. I thought of our passed family members and gave him that picture in our mind. I thanked my grandfathers for coming and let them take him out the front door and into the street down through the light.
In my attempted retrievals, I did not see helpers and started retrieving after doing a short meditation period. I didn't really know if any of these people were actually "stuck," but knew they all had unexpected, very quick, emotional passings. So, I figure, no harm no foul, I'll try and at least they know I tried to help, even if they didn't need it.
Thanks for reading!
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