SOUTH CAROLINA ARRANGEMENTS

A separate memorial service will be held in South Carolina. Details are as follows:

Date: Saturday, January 17
Time: 2-4pm
Place: 3409 Oxfordshire Lane
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466

For this service, please RSVP to aclove17@aol.com

ARRANGEMENTS

Hello Everyone,

Sorry this took so long to nail down. Arrangements for Laura's memorial service are as follows:



Date: Saturday, January 3rd

Time: Ceremony 1:00-2:00pm

Memorial Reception: 2:00-4:00pm



Location: Morristown Unitarian Fellowship
21 Normandy Heights Road
Morristown, NJ 07960


Directions: http://www.muuf.org/directions.html

UPDATE!! In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in honor of Laura Lovell to one of the following charitable organization:

Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins
https://jhweb.dev.jhu.edu/eforms/form.do?formId=6897

OR

National Wildlife Federation (this was my mother's favorite wildlife organization, animal lover that she was!)
https://online.nwf.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6560&6560.donation=form1

Thank you all so much. We're planning a very special ceremony. Please remember that there will be an opportunity during which we welcome you to share memories and stories about Laura. Hope to see you there.

Mom and Music

Hey Everyone, Adam writing here.

Thanks for everyone's love and support through all of this. If there's one thing that Mom loved (and there were, of course, many many more than one!) it was for everyone to be around and come by and visit and talk and laugh and all that. It was her lifelong dream to just have all of her friends and family be around her everyday - laughing, talking, sharing, etc.


I just wanted to share with everyone...I was in the process of writing a "rock opera" of sorts. It was a futuristic sci-fi action story, and I had written and recorded about 6 songs. Mom was a very big inspiration for the story and even helped collaborate with me on the tale's direction.

I have posted a bunch of the stuff on a myspace.com page, and I invite you to check it out and take a listen. Sadly, there's nothing super-recent up here, but Mom was so excited to be involved in the process.

I am dedicating all of this material to Mom, and I plan to revamp one of these songs to play acoustically at her service this coming weekend, "Parade of Angels."

I hope you like it, my Mom loved it.
http://www.myspace.com/withoutmypills

Update: Sunday

Hi Everybody,
We're working on planning a memorial service for my Mom for next Saturday, 1/2/09 in Morristown, NJ. While we don't have the details ironed out yet, we know for sure that there will be important time included for family, friends and loved ones to share special, important and funny stories about Laura. This will be a very special service and it would mean very much to us all to hear your heartfelt memories. Details about time and location will follow.

Please, so many of you have asked what the family needs right now... I'd like to request that if you are inclined to contribute anything to the family at this time, in honor of my mother, please in lieu of flowers, feel free to make a donation to the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins. Mary and my Dad did a lot of investigating about ALS research being conducted and felt this is the best place to receive our donations. They made a donation in my Mom's name and gave it as our Christmas gift. Here is a website where you can make a donation in specific honor of someone, just be sure to select - from the drop-down menu (when it asks you where you'd like to direct your contribution) the "Robert Packard Center for ALS Research". You can enter Mom's name and we'll receive a tribute card notifying us of your gift. This kind of gift will go much further in helping others who are certainly suffering from this terrible disease. Mom would love that kind of help.

https://jhweb.dev.jhu.edu/eforms/form.do?formId=6897

Thank you. Talk to you all soon.

Good-Bye

Laura Nason Lovell passed away at 3:35pm. We'll write again soon with info about arrangements, probably next Saturday.

The Cocoon

My Mom always called it a little "cocoon"... the gathering of family and loved ones that forms around a baby who has just been born. When my daughter Molly was born, Mom came and stayed with us for a couple weeks before and after the delivery to help take care of Chloe, etc. She said she was so glad to have been included in our little cocoon. I said "are you kidding? I don't know how we would have done it without you!" When Molly was just a few days old and was awake at all hours to eat, Mom used to say "why don't you feed her and then just pass her off to me to burp her and hold her until she goes back to sleep... that way you can go back to sleep and be a good Mommy to her tomorrow." That's how Mom is... she just gives and gives of herself... however she could to help you and to love you. Anyway, this is certainly a much less happy time, but the cocoon is the same. We're all just sitting bedside and helping and supporting each other and her and doing everything we can. Your thoughts and prayers mean so much... you may not be here, but you're ALL part of the cocoon as well.... we've shared all of your messages and all of your cards and Mom knows that your'e here with her. And just like a real cocoon, she will soon break out and spread her wings and fly like a beatiful butterfly.

The time is very strange right now, the hours feel like minutes and we're just waiting for her last breath. It's quite apparent to us all that Mom has all but left her body. I guess it started feeling like that yesterday when we were so sure she was about to take her last breath. It seems this is how it's going to be until the end. I'm not going to write anymore until Mom has passed away. God Bless.

Longest Day Ever...

Mom is still resting comfortably. Her oxygen level has been down in the 40%'s most of the day, she was taking 4-6 breaths per minute and her color was quite blue. Her breathing was very erratic and short and it seemed that the end was very near. Now that we just finished visiting with the hospice nurse, it seems that Mom has "rallied" a little and has pinked up and is breathing more comfortably more like 16 breaths in a minute. She's still quite sedated with the morphine, but she is comfortable. We've all been sitting by her bedside all day, crying over her and encouraging her.... now it seems a little that we can breathe, at least for the moment, maybe get some rest ourselves and see how the night goes. Will keep writing as I can. Thank you all for the prayers and encouragement.