Mom and me - My Gallery Reading

[Silly]

Well, it's long, but worth it I think.
It all started 8 months before we got the call to come to the studio. My sister was having a hard time with some issues with my Uncle's passing. I said I'll call the John Edward show and you can get your answers.( I thought this was a joke) Well, when I hung up I realized that it was the first Saturday of the month, between the time allowed. My daughter Jul had written the number down previously. So I tried it two times. It was busy, and I said, "I don't need this, I'm not going to waste my day trying." My daughter said, "No way!" and dialed. She got through, and I gave my name and phone number.

I would like to say for the record that I believe in contact with people that have passed, because I have had my own signs. This is why I didn't really watch the show. I felt that I didn't need it. My daughter did watch the show. I will say if I did watch, my favorite part is the end, when people ask questions, or John tells a funny story.

The day I got the phone call was easy to remember due to my sister who lives alone in Florida. She wasn't online, or home for about 1 1/2 weeks. No one knew where she was, and I started to feel desperate. So I went outside to do some weeding to calm down. I think when I do this, and thought about a lot of things. One thought was about my cousin, and how they got an offer from Tiger Woods to rent their house for the US Golf Open. Next thing I know John Edward popped into my head, and I have no reason why I would think of him. I wondered if maybe he was approached by Tiger Woods or something. (I don't know where he lives on the Island, but also didn't know why I thought about him) I got done with the garden and came inside and got out my Uncle's address. (he has passed and she was living in his house) I still had his address in the book, and also the number to the hospital that he went to. With phone in hand, ready to dial, it rings and I answer. The lady on the other end asked if Diann then proceeded to try to say my last name. I was about to hang up, because this is how phone solicitors do it. Instead I asked, "Who is this?" then she said she was bla bla from Crossing Over! I got so freaked out, I asked her if she could hold on while I went to the bathroom! :-) I also said,"WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!" I thought that my sister had come to some bad point! (turns out my sister went to Colorado without telling anyone, and broke down) Well, she gave me a date, and said that she was going to send some information and I could have 4 tickets. The gallery date was going to be the next Tuesday, which was one week from the call. I immediately called my Mother, who said who else is coming with us? :-) My husband was coming, and I wanted my daughter who called, but she was too young 16, so my 18 year old wanted to come. A day or two later, they called and said that date was canceled, and it would be for the next Tue. June 18th 2002.

I knew that we were going to go first. I told my family, and they all laughed at me. I kept saying to "them" PLEASE, I don't want to go first! I have never seen this done before, and even SECOND would be better! I told my sister-in-law that I knew her dad was going to come through that day, and my daughter Kristyl said that if Aunt Michelle wanted to go it was OK with her. I knew we were going to be embarrassed. I knew my grandmother was going to say what she said, and I knew the mystery would be said.(This came to me when I was not asleep, but not awake, while lying in bed) I told my sister-in-law that I had no idea what her dad was going to come through with, but that I knew he was going to come through. My daughter said for me to say "good-bye" to grandpa for her. I said I would.

We left to go, and on the way I laid out the rules! I told them all not to sign the papers till we got to where ever it was that we HAD to sign them. We went over everyone who went by different names and told ourselves to remember this. I told my Mom to hit me if I sat there with my mouth open. She had gone to see an excellent psychic years ago because I wanted her to, and she forgot that she was Alice, and so was her Mom! I told everyone to only say "YES" to his questions, not only for us, but for his sake too. I wrote some things down on a piece of paper so small, when we did get the reading I couldn't read what I wrote! :-) I said that the paperwork stated to NOT talk about anyone that had passed from the moment on line till we left.

We got to the studio and dropped off my Mom and sister-in-law. We had a conversion van and had to look for other parking. This took us a while, and I thought that it "wasn't meant to be." Then this kind elderly woman told us where we could park. We parked and ran to the studio. My Mom had a quadruple bypass, and was getting heated on the line. One of the people from the show kindly gave her a bottle of water. We then got to the door, and all signed our papers. I got group number 18. I said to my Sis-In-Law "what does this mean?" We decided that it was that Kristyl was 18. Not remembering that it was the 18th. They were very kind, and we all sat in an air conditioned room with a video telling you how to act and sit while you're in the gallery taping. (for OUR benefit)! To go to the bathroom, because you won't be able to leave the Gallery once taping begins. As we were sitting there Michelle and I decide that we'll separate my husband and my Mom so I won't get embarrassed. This was a major goal of mine! They line us up in groups and we walk down the hall to the Gallery.

As we were walking down the hall, it got very cold. I started to get nervous, and behind the curtain, I say, "I'm not doing this!!!". My mother says, "YES YOU ARE!" and in I go. We sit down, and my husband says, "It's so cold in here my nipples are hard!" Mom says to him, "As long as that's all!" I say "Stop it!" you're going to embarrass me! Then I tell Michelle look where we are sitting! Eye level right in the middle. I say look at the floor, he can get in our face if he wants! Then my Mom whispers to me, "How do my b*obs look? Are they too shiny, showing too much?" I say, "they're fine! STOP it!" The producers had some fine tuning to do and we find out that this is a new studio, and we're the first people to be in it! They play a couple of games, which my Mom got a shirt, and said to get the energy level up we should clap. So we're clapping, and I let out one of my whistles...and there is John Edward! Oh My Goodness! He said a few things...they did the sound check, and said he'd take some questions. My Mom hits my hand and I raised it. She then puts her elbow under my elbow and pushes it up, and UGH> I have to ask a question. (I secretly promised GOD that if I got to ask a question, I would bring God into it. So many people kept telling me that this kind of thing was against religion) John looks and says, "YOU," and I ask the question about prayers coming across as musical notes. I find this one thing so special, to think that prayers are like music! I could barely read my writing due to how small I wrote.

He then says, "OK, I'm ready to begin" and points to my MOM and if I didn't have someone's knees on the back of my chair I would have fallen backwards from the force of his finger! He says I have someone to your side here a husband, or brother. He's coming across with a nickname that sounds like "Nibbles" My Mom and I just sat there. He then keeps spitting out all this stuff, and I sneak a look at my mother to see if he's talking to her. YES, he then repeats everything again, and my Mom squeaked something out. Now, my husband has a nickname for me, "B*OBS" and I was shocked to find out that Jesse had one for my Mom! My Mom was thinking about my sister (his daughter) that maybe they both had a nickname "Nibbles." So he says he has an "S" name, and the "S" name is BIG. Maybe she's (Mom) the "S," and we laugh at that, because he says for her to check her license. (This, we think was my Aunt Sonja, living) Then after we acknowledge a few things, he goes back to the "NIBBLES." He says "Do you understand?" I shake my head YES, but he's not looking at me, and my Mom is saying "NO" at the same time. Then he says he's going to take it one step further, and says "Is this OK," and I shake my head NO(I even managed to whisper "NO"), but my Mom says YES. Then he says it might be embarrassing, and she says she didn't care because Jesse always does things like this! I couldn't believe that she said that after how many times I told her NOT TO EMBARRASS ME!

Well, he goes on about someone's nipples were showing, something, that he's seeing attack of the nipples, and I was mortified! My Mom finally got it, but the damage was done. The entire studio was rolling on the floor! After my Mom explained about Jesse and how he unhooked everyone's bra's. He continued, Jesse was going by his middle name, Bruce. That's what his family in NC called him. I seriously wish that we watched the show! I thought that we were going to hear from all the people in our lives that had passed, and everyone he talked about was living (with the exception of my grandmother) and with that we sat there not getting it! My two aunts had "S" names. My Uncle was a high ranking police officer, and his wife was the "V" name.(Virginia) My Uncle's were the twins.He said someone had the aneurysm, or stroke. (my uncle the twin had the aneurysm, and my father had a stroke) Everyone living. Lucky enough for us we were the first because he was very patient. He tried his best to get us to understand, but I believe that it all happened the way it was meant to happen. My Grandmother told him to "Go to Diann" and he said this out loud, and asked where Diann was. He then said where's the Virgo(Me, Mom, Michelle, my sister and my father to name a few). Then he said who's the 14th. That was me. Then he said that there is a Big Mystery in the family. There was uncertainty about when someone passed or there was an uncertainty how someone passed. That to forget about that, let it go and know that there is a connection to the family being together on the other side. When he was finished he added, "Oh, he didn't like the redhead!" and I wanted to drop! My sister is the redhead. This confirmed to my sister-in-law and my husband that what they witnessed was real. There was NO WAY he could have known about my sister with the red hair! (they are very skeptical) Then he left us.
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[Silly]

It was unbelievable. It was every good emotion word you can think of and the ones you can't put into words all in one! Then we sat there and watched him do this over and over again! Then he took more questions, and continued reading. Two hours later, I was starting to feel so bad that I actually told Michelle for two weeks that her Dad was going to come through. What gave me the right to do this? I felt terrible! How could I make this up to someone? Then he started reading people to the right of us after I thought this, and he said two names of people in their family that had passed (Angelina and Rosie). We sat there, but he wasn't in our section and he said that if he's in one section, it's not for you. He read someone to our left, and kept getting a "G" name that sounded like "J" and he continued reading them until he couldn't get the "G-J" name and had to leave them. He went right to our side and said a suicide, and then the "G-J" name came up again. Then he went right in front of my husband and sister-in-law and read the people in front of them. He got stuck on the "G-J"name again, and continued that it's not 'GARY." The way he said it was EXACTLY the way his dad used to say it! My husband's brothers name is Gary. Then he said he had a drowning and a Michael. He couldn't get it with the people in front of us, and then said he had a good humor ice-cream or Mr. Softee ice-cream truck. That he was selling ice-cream. He kept repeating this over and over, then said that "I'm RINGING THE BELL here!!", a little agitated because he kept repeating it over and over. I used to say it exactly that way to my husband when we sold the ice-cream because the kids in Oyster Bay used to go away to summer camp and no kids were coming. My husband would say, "You're not ringing the bell enough!" And I would say back to him, "I'm ringing the bell!" Now, I didn't say anything at first because we sold Circus Man Ice-cream! He said Good Humor, or Mr.Softee. I leaned over to my husband and told him we had some things that sounded familiar.


He asked my husband to explain, and he told him we had a friend that drowned. A friend Mike that had just passed a week before (suicide), and we sold ice-cream. He then let the poor people off the hook in front of us. My father-in-law (by the way his given name is Guiseppe,Italian for Joesph) came through then, and my sister-in-law got to hear exactly what she needed to hear. He said some things that didn't make sense to us there, but once we got home they did. He did say that he went the way he wanted,(my father in law) that he always talked about it and it was just what he ordered! He acknowledged Michelle's two son's. He told my husband that their last conversation was a "GIFT". He also talked about the pain in the butt, which was his brother. At his wake, his brother actually said that if his dad could get up he would smack him in the head for wearing what he wore. He talked about a major France connection we didn't know about.(turns out a sister-in-law went to France, a month after,and my daughter is going in July) Then he talked about a plant, but edited out that he stated that was him. It was the plant Michelle has in her house was on a shelf that her dad made, and that was what he did. He made wood work. He also acknowledged a Steve, which I didn't hear him say, but we have a friend Steve that had passed in a motorcycle accident years ago. It was unbelievable! His Dad also said he wanted to come through and make this "just for them." Which I thought was special, Because in my Mom and my reading, he said that the unique nickname wasn't "NANA" which is what all the grandchildren call my husbands Mom. So they must have known that they were not going to get the two confused from the start! I think that they were playing with us from the beginning!


Well, that was our reading. To go to the Gallery and actually get two readings was truly unbelievable. I felt bad too, because it looked like he came to us two times, but he really came to my Mom and me, 2 1/2 hours later went to my husband and his sister. It was seriously the best time I ever had in my life! I went there singing the song, "that's entertainment" not knowing that I was going to witness one of the most beautiful things in my life. My Grandmother's death was devastating to me. My first experience with death, and I was told to not cry. (by my then boyfriend,now husband) This always bothered me.


Jesse taught me so much about life and living, and death and dying too. Now to feel the love from their energy that day, was unexplainable. Jesse had metastatic lung cancer, when we found it it had already metastasized to his bone and liver. They stopped counting after 30 tumors in the liver and told him to put his things in order. My daughter Kristyl wanted to know how we know there is a God, and God was listening to her and we got a miracle! Jesse actually went into remission. He was cancer free for about a year and a half! Then the cancer went to the brain. He wanted to be home, and I was by his side when he passed. I was afraid of death, because of seeing my grandmother's cancer. But when he passed it was the most peaceful thing I have ever seen. There was nothing scary or frightening. It was peace. (Still I wanted him back, but that is the selfish part of being human I guess) I wasn't afraid any more of death. Then I felt a "HUG" from Jesse some months after his passing. I wanted to make a quilt for my sister (his 5 year old daughter) out of his clothes. That is when it happened. He gave me the strength to do this. I personally laughed at people that had said that they had felt things like this. Now to feel their energy so alive,and full of love, at the Gallery! The energy was so strong, It's hard to explain. I wish everyone could feel what I felt that day. It is so simple, but we make it so hard..to feel the love.


I had a moment of weakness, the Friday after the taping. I told my daughter while we were driving to work, I wasn't going to believe. My husband and his family,not to mention our friends are very skeptical! My daughter Julie said, "Don't say that because this made me feel good about death!" The next second she says"LOOK, It's John Edward" I say, "what?" and there was a sign with his face! She read - when you just need to know! I say,"OK, I believe!" It's a sign...really! We drive the same way every Friday, and never saw this billboard before. The next week I looked for it and it was gone. My daughter and I drove all around the station, nothing!


This was our experience. As you can see, we had MANY first's here. The first taping at the new Gallery. My mom was the first to get a water, we were later told by the associate. We were the first reading. There are many more coincidences. All I can say is everyone at the Gallery was considerate, caring and helpful. It was a great day, one I will cherish in my heart for eternity
Silly---being Serious and still in awe

[Tanner2]

Sooooooooo, that's what the "Nibbles" was all about. Don't think it was the bra, but at least he dropped it when she gave that explanation. God, I would have died. Guess you really have to watch what you're talking about when you're heading to the show. Your mom sounds like a lot of fun.

I'm so glad you got such a wonderful reading. I envy you (except for the nipples thing!).

T.

[Gail]

Silly, That is a fantastic!!!! description of your Gallery reading. It has already been on once and I saw it. The "nibbles" part was very funny. I'm so happy you went into detail for us.
Gail :jumper:

[kristenr]

Silly, thank you for the description and detail. How wonderful for you and your family...especially the sign at the end. I too remember your reading and thought it was wonderful and funny.

God Bless,
Kristen

[Gail]

I saw you and your family today on the show again. The whole first show today was very funny highlights from CO. Your reading will probably be shown over and over in re-runs so everyone on here should see it eventually.

Gail :)

[solana]

I will never forget that episode!

You did such a terrific job of sharing your experience.. thank you so much, silly..

[Silly]

Isn't it ironic, don't you think? (sorry, breaking into song again)
I have had that written for 2 weeks, and didn't want to post it. I figured that hey, it's been shown twice. No one will remember. Then I read that you had seen it. Well luckily I did post it! I get the show at 2pm. My daughter came home sick from school, and I had a chance to see most of the first show, before picking my son up from school at 2:30. I got to see one funny show! I really enjoyed that show yesterday! Thanks for posting!

Solona,
I will never forget it either! It makes me smile everyday! If Jesse came through with "He saw you on the cruise" it wouldn't have really felt like him. He was all about a good laugh! And believe me everyone got a good laugh that day..
sittin' here still smiling with a *Silly* grin

[maria V]

Silly,

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your story! I saw it on air both times and I could not stop laughing! It must have been amazing to have been blessed with a family filled day of readings! Thanks again - I loved reading your story.:lwink:

[Silly]

I'm glad that you enjoyed our day at the Gallery! It was an amazing experience. I am glad that I did post it here. Thanks for the kind words! Glad everyone got a good laugh from it! Still smilin'
*Silly*

[DPORTELLI]

Originally posted by Silly

The first taping at the new Gallery. My mom was the first to get a water, we were later told by the associate. We were the first reading. There are many more coincidences.

Great post Silly. I always love to read about other people's experiences. And I have seen and remembered your reading immediately.

I had a gallery reading a week after yours and it was HOT while we waited in line. The interns were passing out the bottled water and one of them told us that everyone that received a bottle of water during the June 18th taping wound up getting a reading from John! They were afraid that if word got out, that they would be attacked for the bottled water!
Donna

[Silly]

That's crazy but true, I'm sure! I never thought of that. :-) Yes, and another first was our show was the first show aired in the new season. Funny thing those coincidences!
*did you get a bottle of water?* LOL
Silly
wishing I could insert one of those cute things over on the left of my screen

[Jassie]

Hi Silly, I saw your show a couple of times also. It was wonderful.:) I remember watching the expression on your face when John was trying to get the 'nibbles' validation. I could just hear you saying 'I don't believe that this is happening'. I saw your reading shortly after the death of my baby and it was one of the first times I actually was able to laugh. Thank you for posting this. It sounds like your family is very blessed. Take care, Cary.

[Jassie]

Silly, I just added one to my name. If you go the FAQ up at the top, it will show you how to add the avitar and give you a choice of pictures. It will take you to changing your user log-in and you can then choose from there. Good luck! Cary.

[Silly]

Cary
I'm sorry about the loss of your baby. I am glad that you were able to laugh though. I think that laughter is the best healer. Even if you can get a smile out during the day, it seems to help. I will pray for you and your baby.
Thanks for the information on how to get a picture. I really think it's my computer that's stopping me. It's ancient.
Diann

[Jassie]

Hi Diann, I like your Tweety! Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers. My son teaches me that life goes on and we just have to make the best of the time we have. Hope your holidays were wonderful.

Cary

[Shanna349]

I saw that one!
My mother and I were dying with laughter!
(in a good-hearted way)
\Thanks for sharing your personal experience.
Shanna in Texas

[Silly]

:cuser:
Thank you Cary, my holidays were wonderful. The Jolly Old Man got us a new computer. Now to see if I can use these FINE looking smilies to the left. Happy New Year to all, hope it's a year filled with Peace and Love
Diann

[Jassie]

Hi Diane, just had to say that I saw you and your Mom on the update yesterday. It was great!! :jumper: The part about the twins gave me goosebumps. It seem like you were validated again. I'm really happy for you guys! Take care, Cary.

[needs-a-nap]

I just saw your episode recently, and really enjoyed it! What a great set of readings! :)

Mary Beth

[Silly]

Thank you! Yesterday my husband had a followup, I found it very touching.
Yes, with my Uncle....I was at my Sister-in-laws and we were watching the episode (due to it not being shown in NY at the same time as the rest of the country) and as I was explaining to my SIL that the twins were alive, we got a call that one had passed. Sept. 27,2002. .:angel2: I was shocked to say the least, but knew in my heart that my grandmother was giving us a heads up that she would be there to greet her son. That in itself was very comforting.
As for my husband, his brother's wife did take a trip to France! Those validations are proof, (to a skeptic) that no one could have possibly given him this information....if you know what I mean!
God Bless!
Silly

[Jassie]

Yep! Just reaffirms what we already know!! How comforting for you and your family.

Take care, Cary.