with my mother.....last place I thought I'd be tonight, she needs more surgery, we were waiting for the priest to come...and to pass the time we were
talking about Joan Jett...my mother loves to hear all about her, and apparently Joan is popular in the nursing home, according to my mother, "Joan is a
very well loved celebrity...every body knows who she is ..everybody loves her".and I said "oh, I know, she has millions of fans all around the
world...and they all love her..I'm the one that didn't know how popular she had become because I didn't have a computer to research her and all
that..so I was a little out of touch..but I understnad this now.".sounds strange I'm sure to be talking about Joan Jett there in this setting..but my
mother's trying to think of all the things she has to tell me, rattling her brain...who's suppose to get what..how much she loves me..do I know how
beautiful I am? ...the things I hate most to talk about...so kiddingly I said "if I'm so beautiful, how come Joan doesn't notice me? Maybe because
my big husband's standing behind me, huh" I had to do something to change the subject ..it was excruciating...in the meantime she's saying you
know I hope some day you get to meet her so you can tell her what a fan you are...and I said "no, she knows this, she has many many fans, she's heard
all this before..it's too much for her to stand around after concerts to hear all this, she's heard it a millions times I'm sure ..if anything
I'll just type it on her message board."."really? you're going to do that?."yes, I'll do this when I get home
tonight.".."oh...do you think there really is a heaven?" "Yes." "do you really think there is a purgatory?" "Not for
you." "do you really think I'll see Dad again?" "Yes." "In heaven?" "Yes.". "what is it about this Joan
Jett that you love so much, what do you love about her?" I said "well for one thing because her life is so very different from mine...all the things
she's done ...all that she's accomplished...I like reading about all these things...and her songs..she talks about a lot of things in her songs that I
understand...that help me...I love her music...I love watching her perform..."my daughter had her IPOD with her so I said to my mother "here let me
play you a song. want to see what she looks like? she's a very beautiful woman."so we played my mother Joan's "Don't Surrender"
Remix video...and my mother's trying to dance around in her bed..which was pretty funny....then we played her the recent "Change the World" video
so she could see what Joan looks like right now...and she loved that too...and then the priest came and that was that...now I realize that a post like this
doesn't really belong on a message board, but I wanted to share this because this is just one tiny example of how a musician helps people through the most
difficult times of life...this kept my mother occupied, took her mind off her problem, lightened things for my daughter and for me...I have no idea whether or
not Joan Jett will ever read this post ...but I do know that this is just one of so many fan experiences over the years where Joan's music has helped or
just thinking about Joan's music has helped people in all sorts of desperate situations....so I thought I'd share this for what it's worth.
this is a crazy thing to try to type..but it's a conversation I had in the ER
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Posts: 56 (07/02/09 08:43) |
Just goes to show that those songs of immorality, death metal or extreem Rap aren't very good to make and/or play, even thou they might have a short term
of entertainment, over the long or short term in time of life. Not to say I wouldn't want to listen to Ozzy or some other Rock. Bless your Mom and Your
family. My mom still is surviving with Bone Marrow cancer in remision, 7 years now! She rides my exercize bike for an hour everyday. At some point in time I
like to tell Joan about her. She was born in Newark, graduated high school in Wyoming, and they moved to a town in out in the no where Nevada ( actually close
to where Cherry 2000 was filmed ) in 1954, when they were teenagers. Today's poplulation in that town is 1000. My mom was the first one out and ran away
with my dad. Her sister and her brothers HATE that town.
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Posts: 58 (07/02/09 13:53) |
I think that's a wonderful post and completely belongs on this board. Thanks for sharing. Best to you and yours.
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well...turns out Joan's popular at the hospital too..... | ||
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four aides were helping my mother this morning and my mother was asking them about what music they listen to, so one says she likes Frank Sinatra, another one Inglebert Humperdink...and my mother says to them "gee, your aweful young to listen to Frank Sinatra...my daughter likes this singer...now let me see, what's her name? Joan. is it Joan? yes, like my daughter's name...and the last name....is it Jett??" "Joan Jett??" "Have you ever heard of Joan Jett?" they all do and one starts screaming..."I LOVE HER!! I LOVE JOAN JETT!" so my mother says "my daughter goes to a lot of concerts and she goes to her concerts....my daughter loves her." "She saw Joan Jett?? boy, I sure wish I could see her..." another one said, "Where? where did she see her?" "In California, I think." meanwhile one of them starts making a face like my mother's making this all up, so another says, "she's serious, she's not fooling." so this conversation goes on and on and it ends with my mother singing them a song from WWII, an old song that is one of her favorites. so today when I get to the hospital, my mother tells me this story...and she starts out with " Boy, this Joan Jett sure must be something...everybody loves her..." I said "she's something else alright..." then she says "I think I want to go to a Joan Jett concert.." "You want to go to a Joan Jett concert, huh..." "Yeah, when I get out of here, I'm going to do a lot of things...." so it was kind of a funny story...so I thought I'd share it. |
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Cute story JB, I took my Mom to see Joan Jett on Broadway. If you could believe it, she screamed louder than me, lol. She was thrilled that Joan played
"Star, Star", oddly, it is her favorite Joan Jett song. When I was a kid, I only listened to Album with headphones, out of fear that the
lyrics of "Coney Island Whitefish" and "Star, Star" would be deemed too explicit for my 13 year old ears. Great story, and if the
opportunity presents itself I think you should take your Mom to a Joan Jett show.
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now that would be something....she enjoys the videos.....for now that will have to do. |
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Posts: 285 (07/02/09 20:22) |
JB, I hope she pulls thru and has a chance to see many JJ shows with you.
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I'm not taking her to no JJ show.....I barely get there myself.....the JJ World is what I escape to...no, all kidding aside, if I could I would but I think
I'd take her to see Tom Jones if anything, he was her heart throb back in the 70's ...no one could talk while he was on the television...this is kind
of an old movie but do you remember "Throw Moma from the Train?" with Danny Devito and Billy Crystal......she can be like this.....but I'm happy
to say she's getting out of the hospital tomorrow, surgery is too risky, it would be opening "pandora's box" ...I love when doctors try to be
creative.....my husband is preparing with banana martinis...
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question was "she's getting out tomorrow? what does this mean for us??" the doctor feels she should stay with family for a few
days.....OMG..wait 'til he hears this......! I'll have to wait until after a few drinks......but at least she's going to make it to our family 4th
of July cookout....if I know her, it's why she's getting herself out of there.....I just hope she doesn't drive me crazy...crazier.
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we were visiting yesterday...and she was in a lot of pain....so I said....."are you still thinking about the Joan Jett concert?" ..."oh,
yeah...when is it?? put it on my calendar....oh, I would love to go....something to look forward to..that would be really something...!." by the end of
the night we had to call an ambulance and send her back to the ER. I spoke with her this morning, "Ellen" was on... now she wants to go to see a
taping of this show...I figure this JJ concert will be easier then something 3000 miles away..."we'll take the plane" she says, "and will
take your sister, the three of us will go to see "Ellen"..." "and exactly how are you going to fly in your condition?"
"we'll make reservations...I'll sleep on the plane..I'll go with your sister and you can meet us in California, we'll wait for
you...it'll be so much fun...."."fun? for who?" "for us! we'll have fun, all three of us....we'll have so much fun!"
"if I have one nerve left, maybe...but it takes hours to film that show. hours. hours of waiting around..." so I called the NH venue to see what the
handicap arrangements are...turns out there's tickets still for sale....so I called my sister and got her out of bed to see if she would want to go to the
concert with my mother....woke her out of a sound sleep, she was at the hospital with her until 4a.m., then she called me on her way home and woke me out of a
really nice dream...I figured she would be awake..so I started to explain about this concert..."she wants to go see who?" "Joan
Jett." "Who's that??" " She's a musician....we were showing Ma her videos when she was in the ER last time...." "Where is
this?" "NH...2 hours away....we can get EasCare to take her...do you want to go? I'll get two more tickets..." now I can hear her brain
refocusing...and all the sleep left her voice..."NH?? how is she going to ride for 2 1/2 hours, how's she going to sit
there...?" "well...I just thought you might like to consider this...my neighbor does this all the time for the Jimmy Buffet concerts and she's
not even handicapped...just sits in the section...it's the 7th row all the way to the left of the stage, so you'd be able to see real well..just at an
angle..." "well...you go to listen to the music....but...how are you going to do this?? I couldn't get her to McDonald's
the other night...let me get off the phone for now.." next my husband calls so I figure I better mention this latest idea..."Ma wants to go to the
Joan Jett concert in NH....with us." "WHAT? HOW DOES SHE EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT?" "I tell her what I do...we talk about
things...." "ARE YOU CRAZY?" " Joan, you're teetering on the edge...if you do this? you've lost all your %$*@##+
MARBLES...!!!" peels of laughter come out of the phone...our daugher had picked up ...now he's all embarassed because she heard all this....well
there's still tickets...so...we'll talk about this later then?"
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jettblue - you should get the tix for your mom - just incase!!!
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spoke to her this morning......she's coming along......just taking time.... | ||
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she's decided to consider a few alternative things so "she can fix her problem because she's going to be going places and doing things..." it's kind of funny because she's hell bent on seeing Joan in concert....but my sister and I decided that something local might be best for this summer....so my mother said she'd "settle" for something local.....now she's all interested in Joan's movie....I mentioned that Joan's right there helping the actress who's playing Joan, supporting her and all.....my mother loves to hear stories like this so today's conversation was all about The Runaways and women playing rock and roll, it was a good conversation for her, all about the obstacles that Joan had to overcome in her career....today, things sound very hopeful...so we'll see what happens. I think she will be fine. |
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JB, you killed me, I almost fell off the chair, your hubby's gonna have a stroke one of these days over the Joan Jett topic, I love your posts, they always
make me laugh. I am not laughing about your Mom's condition, just your hubby and sisters.
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o.k....well, here's a little more........she's still in the hospital...talking up JJ | ||
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to anyone who will listen....this morning my mother was telling the x-ray techinician she's going to a JJ concert and the tech got all excited,
apparently he's a big fan....so I'm trying to understand what's being done for her and she's tellling me how much this tech loves Joan and how
excited he got to hear about this concert and how much he loves her voice and most of her songs..adn she's going on and on about how well loved JJ is and
how excited people get when they hear her name....now my husband's trying to get ready to leave for work....when he hears all this, he said now we've
both "lost our marbles"....funny thing about him, last week he was in Columbus Ohio..staying right down the street from the Rock n Roll Hall of
Fame...he saw JJ's guitar there on display....so, who's really the fan? I said you were there?? at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame??? and you're
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if by "right down the street" you mean a 3hr drive .... then yes, he was close to the RnR HoF....as it is in Cleveland.....I've been there, but
not lately...I'd go again to see Joan's guitar though!!!
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he was staying right near by...walking distance...there is a JJ display with a guitar from the '80's ....that's all I know, he's not good at
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"fabulous" "Joan Jett" pig that lives on a Farm Sanctuary in NY.....this had her in stitches.....a pig so content she's practically
smiling.....made me chuckle too....I'd love to visit this place...and I'll never eat sausage again.
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the other day to get me my coffee mug and while he was there he tried to take picture of Joan's guitar but he was reprimanded, no photography
allowed.....it's a guitar Joan played with The Runaways...it's a red guitar....turns out he bought me the "expensive" mug...I'm
flattered.
here is the final installment about my mother. it's amazing to me, all this strenghth she's gotten listening to a few JJ songs, watching a couple of videos and listening to Joan's story, starting with The Runaways...and to the present day, making her movie, continuing to tour. all the days are mixing together now, but I believe it was yesterday...I was at the hospital with her trying to find out what's being done, and she says "tell me more about Joan Jett"...I think the day before was "Lita Ford" day...I can't remember...I had to say to her "no more Joan Jett. ma please. I can't talk about this woman any more...and in that second I realized how tortured my family has been listening to me carry on about Joan...so instead I promised her I'd show her the picture of JJ with the "fabulous Joan Jett pig" ....and tell her all about Cherrie Curry....the idea of a chain saw artist intrigued her..but today I found this incredible video of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at the 7/16 California show......if I can get my hands on a laptop...I'll show her this video. she will absolutely love this and that can be her "JJ concert experience"...today she's finally getting out of the hospital to go back to the nursing home to build up for her next surgery....I don't have the where with all or the time to type anything further...but I do believe that very much of my mother's attitude and recovery, this new found strength, and desire to set things to rights with her life, and forge ahead is definitely influenced by the music and the story, if for nothing else, it gave her mind and spirit a rest. it's always interesting to me to see how music can touch a life. |
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I use to go to a Children's of Elderly Parents support group run by a lady who works for the State @ a County Mental Health office & still would- JOAN IS A GODDESS OF OURS | ||
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And having life get you to have to go to nursing homes and help take care of parents is Always so dis-heartening , but so NOBEL in Heart and Soul to do. You
have to go more than once a week to every day for the customer service that happens at nursing homes.
The fact that we are in a Capatilist Sociaty, and that is one of the DVD's I'm going to get from teach12.com because I have to live amungst everybody and live in and by (Employer and such, had my heart set on those 2-3 gigs a week tours since I was a little kid). I got three books that I keep by, but don't use except for the name of the book's I guess ( I use to go to the used book sections of the library and obtain Union Labor Management books because people get rid of their College books out of the garage because life here in Las Vegas in that employees who get promoted tend get dumped on and everyone tends to gamble on the weekends and vote Republican because they will be damned if they vote Democrate in a employment law Right to Work - State, so companies when they want positions filled they can just hire someone from the 5000 people that move here every month). They are: Improving Therapeutic Communication, The Exploitation of Illness in Capitailst Sociaty & The Law of Hospital and Health Care Administration. I mentioned in the support group that I have those books, but everyone kind of backed off because If You Mention Law Suit in a Nursing Home they might not want your business at the same time your keeping other Nursing Homes in mind for better conditions. BUT THE SUPPORT GOUP ALWAYS HAS RESOURCES TO OBTAIN and able to talk to other people which seems to always seems that someone has it worse. I forgot my train of thought but if we was practicing a few songs somewhere this is what I would say; If another familly member doesn't want to take the time to help out AND/OR making it difficult for you to do in helping your Elderly Parent AND/OR manipulating your mothers WILL - SHUN them and I actually wouldn't want to have anything to do with them. It has and can take you out of a career. But don't get mad, and actually we do get mad, but never over board, but that is what a support group is good for, also is it helps out with that victomising feeling. KNOW THAT YOU ARE BEING BLESSED AND WILL BE BLESSED. No review just post. ryo149 except edited 5 times for grammer.
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and a group of them, her included, were in the rec room bowling with the Wii game......she's really doing very well....she's not at the same place my
dad was at, his nursing home was more like a hotel...but her's is very homey....they take excellent care of her there..she loves the food....she's very
happy.... there is a computer with internet access, so one of these days, I'll be able to show her the Joan and Cherie pictures from the latest
concert...and all Cherie's carvings, especially the mermaid of Sandy West......my mother will love this.....and of course, some Joan videos from the recent
shows on youtube....as far as me getting to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, the flights were oversold that day..I would have gotten stuck in NY....when I was
younger this would have constituted an "adventure"....now it's a huge pain in the ass.....and a big waste of my time...I hate sitting around
airports....but I am enjoying my Hall of Fame coffee mug.....it takes very little to make me happy....and thank you very much for the blessings...that's
very nice....I pray for Joan all the time....a very simple prayer: "God, please Bless Joan Jett as Much as Possible.....and her white guitar too"
I really do this....and from what I can see, she's very well blessed...and that's about the best thing I can think to do for her.....I have no more
time to write fan letters...I also send her my energy in the form of very pure love......not to sound like a complete nut....I do believe she receives the
blessings.
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Glad your mom isn't doin as bad as I thought.
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yesterday she was at a social mixer, outside on the patio under an umbrella drinking pina coladas and daiquiris (tiny, tiny things) laughing and talking,
singing with the accordian player ....last night when she called she told me all this and ..I told her all about Joan's North Carolina concert, how so many
showed up the police had to close the streets...she's back on her "I want to meet Joan Jett and some day I will...when is she coming? when? when? then
counting the days after her surgery to the concert day...and I'm laughing telling her "no! you can't go this time...next time...maybe
she'll be closer.." "well, you go anyway, how many tickets do you have? ....but I'm going to meet her, one of these days...I love her
voice.".....to today, I'm cleaning around here like a fiend...my daughter's coming home from drama camp today...and the phone rings..it's my
mother...she's on bed rest, needing a blood transfusion...."but don't worry, I'll be fine!" then she gave me her recipe for a scotch
broth that only she can make....I saw my father do all this...he died 6 months ago.
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