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The Friend Who Just Stands By
- Fifth Anniversary Issue -- What we have learned
- Childbearing Choices - a series of true stories shared by members
with definitions and index to this series of articles
and an excerpt from the VHLFA Policies
- Professional Perspective, by Debra Collins, genetic counselor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
- Mother Care
- Pre-Implantation Testing, by Luba Djurdjinovic, Genetic counselor, Ferre Institute, Utica, NY
- Using PGT, Opinions from the MEN/VHL Conference in the Netherlands, June 1997, reported by Joyce Graff
- Meet the Board Members - Kelly Heselton, Treasurer
- Advocacy and You, part 2, by Don M.
- Cancer Defense and Sleep
- London Concert honors Tim Mason, by Marshall Marcus and Jan Mason
- Remembering Tom Werner, by Evelyn Werner
- Seattle, Here We Come!
- When's the Next Meeting
- Teen conference call
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"I’d like to dedicate this poem to Jay for his continued love and support, my husband and friend,"
-- Tania D., Ontario, Canada.
- When trouble comes your soul to try,
- You love the friend who just "stands by."
- Perhaps there's nothing he can do --
- The thing is strictly up to you;
- For there are troubles all your own,
- And paths the soul must tread alone;
- Times when love cannot smooth the road
- Nor friendship lift the heavy load,
- But just to know you have a friend
- who will "stand by" until the end,
- whose sympathy through all endures,
- Whose warm handclasp is always yours--
- It helps, someway to pull you through,
- Although there's nothing he can do.
- and so with frevent heart you cry,
- "God bless the friend who just 'stands by'!"
Written by B.Y Williams, published in Poems That Touch The Heart by A.L. Alexander
As printed in the VHL Family Forum 6:3, September 1998. For permission to reprint, please contact VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org.
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