Hi folks in this thread,
For those that don't know me, I am the Ted that Tammy is referring to in this post, I really felt I needed to come in and make a comment here. Something has been completely misunderstand and secondly transmitted incorrectly. I want to make it clear that Jake did not start crying when we discussed Heath, this did not happen. I am a bit confused with how Steffi has come up with this, I know she is German and English is not her first language but I think this has been taken way out of context. As some of your are aware, myself and Lisa who came with me to this visit are going to be posting very shortly about the visit, infact a story about it, we have shared a lot of details but some stuff unfortunately has been kept private and I would think most people would understand the need for that.
I am not upset at all about what has happened but I don't want people out there saying something that hasn't happened, as what Tammy said hasn't happened - Jake did not start crying and this is not a detail that we are keeping private, it just didn't happen. Lisa and I had an agreement that we would not discuss any of the details of the visit to anyone before the post, in Oxford I gave general type responses to questions and also let people know what we talked about in general terms, and yes we talked about Heath, and more than once, anyone who is interested in what we wish to share is welcome to read the post, but I would like to ask that maybe people double check before saying things. I know things can be misconstrued and misunderstood and be taken out of context, so as I said I am not angry but please be careful with how you repeat what you hear.
I'm so so so so sorry Ted; please, believe me, I'm so very sorry. You know I didn't wanted to say a lie, I'm not that kind of person, and that, saying a lie, had been a stupid thing because I said all brokies here to read your report and if I had known that that information about Jake was a lie, then I had not said that, because everyone was gonna read your report and see that that information was not real...
I should had been in silence, but I was so so moved with Steffi words about Jake, that it was why I asked you permission to talk about it here, but I see now that you didn't know what I wanted to talk about...I really thought that that was true and my heart was broken...and I just needed to share that with all brokies here. It's my fault, I know it well.
Ted, Steffi told me that in a mail, but as you well said, English is not her first language; she can read it and write it just like me, but she can't speak English well....and I suppose that, like me, can't understand it well either when someone talk to her....Sorry so much for that. It's not her fault. We both were so moved....I know she was moved there....that we understand things in the wrong way. Steffi talked to me a lot about you, about how wonderful you are and about your visit to Jake; I think she was confused, you know she's marvelous, nothing bad she wanted to do on purpose. Nothing bad I wanted to do on purpose. We'd never never never tell a lie here; there are so many people suffering here to tell such a lie. We believed that that was true, and I was deeply shocked about Jake's news.
I'm so very sorry Ted, really ashamed, because I've made a lot of people cry here without a reason. I know this is like a sucker punch for you. Till now, till this very moment, I thought that what I said here was true, and you are right, I should double check before saying things. My fault again.
Thank you so much for your explanation, and for taking the time to write here. This will never happen again, I promise.
