Flatus wrote: << Tim, thanks so much for your wonderfully successful efforts in

supporting all of us who either have, or are affected by breast
cancer. Your own personal accounts are more than moving.

Yes, most definately, but so was your tribute to Catharine, Flatus.  

Flatus wrote << Over the years, as I read her posts, it was her candor in
describing the things that were going on in her life that I found
especially moving. I often felt as if I was reading a diary
remarkably similar to Anne Frank's in its depth of revelation and
feeling.

Because of her constant, vibrant, presence, this loss is
particularly difficult.

Yes, so very true...and I think, no not think, but I am quite sure that she
knew and chose her own private way to handle this stage and prepare for this
exit or should I say transition...