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Colleentinker
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Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:15 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jeannette, I'm praying--and for you too, Diana.

Colleen
Melissa
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Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 3:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I will pray too, Jeannette. I don't know what state you live in, and laws are different everywhere, but unless he's a risk for the child (well documented), I can't imagine she will have any luck. And in some states you can get grandparents visitation. Just a thought.

Diana, I will pray for your son too.
Jeannette
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Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 4:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I would like to request your prayers for a cousin who lives in Venezuela. She had emergency surgery Christmas day and they found out she had cancer. They thought she had an intestinal obstruction and when they opened her they found a very large tumor. They are going to start chemo next week, the doctors say she only has a 30% chance of surviving. She has two young daughter and is very worried about them. Thank you for praying for her. I am so glad I can come to this forum and ask you all for your prayers.
Helovesme2
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Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 4:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Praying Jeannette!
Colleentinker
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Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 10:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Praying also, Jeannette.

Colleen
Melissa
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 6:28 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'd like to request prayers for my daughter, Rachel. She is 15 and mentally retarded. She has just had a really hard school year adjusting to high school and her "new" teacher. I'm not quite sure how this teacher became qualified teaching special ed, but it obviously wasn't working with the MR community. It is very frustrating to know your child is spending the day with someone who doesn't like her...and Rachel responds accordingly. It is very frustrating to watch her behaviors deteriorate because she's unhappy with her teacher. This is the main special ed teacher, so Rachel will have to deal with her for 3 more years after this one...and we've got a long way to go with this school year. The whole situation just needs a miracle.
Chris
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 6:50 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Father, please help Melissa and her daughter Rachel. I can't begin to imagine all the challenges they face on a daily basis, but you can, Lord. You know every trial and disappoinment they face and you grieve when they grieve. May your Holy Spirit be with them to guide them and comfort them. May this school situation be resolved to Your glory. May your plan for Rachel's life be fully realized in all it's beauty. I pray for Melissa and Rachel in the name of our friend, savior, Lord and God, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Praisegod
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 7:59 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Melissa, does Rachel have an IEP? Perhaps there could be some discussion with other school leaders? I know how frustrating this is for you. God wants Rachel to be blessed, not living under this. Praying...

Praise God...
Dd
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:10 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Melissa,
I am praying fervently for Rachelís teacher that she may become aware of the impact she is making and a better way to handle the needs of Rachel. The Bible has recorded stories of Godís impression on people whether they are living in His will or not. God knows the situation and the special requirements that Rachel has. He knows the sorrows you as a mother experience because of the love you have for Rachel. Hang on to His love and He will give you the desires you hold dear for your daughter.
Dd
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:39 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A week from this coming Monday (January 31st), my husband has an appointment with a pain specialist in Portland, OR. For 5 years he has suffered. He has had numerous procedures, physical therapy, surgeriesÖto no avail. His job requires him to be on his feet 8-10 hours without much time to sit. The emotional drain has been tremendous. Remarkably, he continues to treat those around him with kindness and gentleness. He is a very extraordinary man.

We have traveled too long down this path to know without a doubt that any relief of pain he may have will not be from man. We wonder if God has led us this far to know this without reservation. We know that God knows my husbandís limitations and tolerance (or lack thereof) to continue living in pain and we cling to His promise that He will not allow my husband to endure anymore than he is able to handle.

At this point it seems he has reached all he can endure. I feel I am David in the Bible pleading and begging for God to deliver my dear husband from this terrible enemy. I am asking all my friends, who believe strongly in the power of prayer, to lift my husband up to our Great Physician.

Please remember the physician that will be spending time with him on the 31st. That he may be compassionate, understanding, insightful and capable of reaching out to my husband with love and encouragement. May this physician know the right medical solution to free my husband, our children and myself from the ugly grip that the pain holds us all in.

Thank you, to all my friends on this forum, who pray together as a family. Your friendships are very real and dear to me.
Melissa
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 11:11 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for the prayers....Yes, praiseGod, Rachel has an IEP. We've had 5 meetings so far this year, I believe. That's one of the greatest frustrations is that we invited the teacher to Rachel's IEP update last April (the end of her middle school years) so she would know how to prepare for her, but it's like she slept through the meeting. She called our first emergency IEP meeting 2 weeks after school started and they've been regular occurrences since then. Even the director of the district's special ed services comes. She has called the state and accused her foster parents of child abuse trying to get Rachel removed from the district, ultimately, she's called Rachel's case manager complaining, yesterday she called me and her dad ... and we just throw our hands in the air. I put Rachel in this program BECAUSE of her behavior problems, yet now she has worse behavior than she has had since she started the program. Ironically, when they document her behavior, it's typically her teacher who has been with her. Her best behavior is when the teacher is not around. So....how the district responds (or doesn't) is of great impact to Rachel.

Thanks again for your prayers....

Dd, always praying for you and all the details you are handling....
Colleentinker
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 3:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Melissa, I will be praying for Rachel's intervention and for your wisdom and peace. What a terrible situation to be enduring with no power of your own to change it. I will pray for truth to be known.

Dd, you and your husband are in my prayers, and I will be especially praying for God to grant relief and freedom in this situation.

Colleen
Susan_2
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Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 9:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Melissa, My prayers are always for you and Rachael to get through this. Would a SED placement be more fitting for Rachael? Now, I am asking for advice and prayers. In a slight way I can identify with Melssa. My son does not face the same challanges as Rachael so my siuttation is somewhat different than Melissas. Yet, I can greatly emphasise with Melissa as far as the challanges of a special needs child is concerned. My 19 year old paronoid schitzopherenic son got home from jail less than a week ago. He is not complying with taking his medicine correctly. He has not checked in with several of the services that he is court ordered to check in with (there are two). I ask him numerous times each day if I can take him to the agencies so he can get his program set up. So far it hasn't happened. I generally fall to sleep before he does and I wake up each morning to a mess that makes this house look like a cyclone hit it. Food on the floors, spilled everything everywhere, hot cocoa splashed on the walls, popcorn all over the floor, I hope you get the picture. I tell him to clean it up but he insists he didn't do it. He sees people who aren't there and listens to people who aren't here and they tell him me and his brother make the messes and we blame it on him. Now he has a big gash in his forehead because he got into a fistfight with a neighbor. We have the cops over here too much the way it is. Fortunately we haven't had any cops over yet tonight. I had to run outside stark naked (I heard the commotion while I was in the shower. I tried to put a towel around me real fast but if fell off.) when my son was out there with a knife threatening the neigbors. Fortunately my old ladys naked body scared the neighbors off and they ran home. I pushed my son back into the house and he was ranting and carrying on about everything and anything that makes no sense at all to anyone else. Fortunately he is sound asleep now. At least when he's in jail I know he is safe, we are safe and we honestly do not have neighbor problems and we don't have the cops over as weekly visitors. I just do not know what to do. It is so hard to provide 100% supervision to a 19 year old. Pray please and any advice would be apprciated.
Carol_2
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Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 4:58 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh Susan, I am so sorry. I cannot even imagine how you cope with this situation. You and your family will be in my prayers.
Colleentinker
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Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 9:54 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Susan, I'm also praying about this situation. Would it help you to go and see the agencies your son is supposed to report to? If you went and explained what's going on, might they be able to refer you to some sources of help/advice? You need someone to help you know what your responsibilites and options are. Your son is legally an adult, not a minor dependent.

There may be no solution that "feels good" to you or your son, but there may be some options that reduce your own risk.

With prayers for you,
Colleen
Praisegod
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Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 10:54 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Susan, I'm not in California so I'm not aware of the situation there but I have been aware of a VERY few situations where a person has been court ordered to take their medicine. This, however, was after years of being in and out of jail and hospitals. Also it would require your son being declared legally incompetent.

When the laws changed to give mentally ill people all their rights, the repercussion is caring family members and friends who often end up with their own lives destroyed while trying to help or remaining aloof because there's absolutely nothing they can do except pray.

Susan, can you get into a support group for yourself? One of the best things you can do for your son is to remain strong yourself.

Praise God...
Flyinglady
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Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 2:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Susan,
Do as Praisegod suggested. Go see the agencies and see what they can do to help your son.
I continue to pray for you and your loved ones. God loves each of you.
He is awesome.
Diana
Bob
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Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 5:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Susan, while I feel great compassion for your son, I am very worried about you! If your son is sometimes that much out of control, and even threatening to others, he might someday turn on you and do you physical harm, or even kill you.

I agree with the others who responded above. You need to do more than pray. You need to immediately contact the agencies who can help your son, and help you!
Bob
Susan_2
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Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:37 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You have all given me wonderful advice. And, yesterday we got him hooked up for an upcoming apointment. When he was still I minor I had some authority as I could continusely threaten him with having to go back to the grouphome. For you medical people out there this is the medicie he's on-Clonidine, Zyprexa, Welbrutin (which he snorts rather than taking orally because if snorted it gets a person totally stoned) and Serequal. He likes to take his meds with a beer. It's the alcohol that gets him so out of control, the rest of the time he's just plain loony, but mostly compliant. He pretty much grew up in grouphomes. I turned over custody of him to the county when he was 11 because he was too wild for me (and the entire community). Thanks for the prayers and the advice. Melissa, I sure do have your situtation in my heart and prayers. It can be very hard always having to go to meetings and having to stay on top of things. I hope you are taking care of your needs, rest, eating right and getting out with friends once in awhile to party (or whatever you do for fun and relaxation). If I lived near to you I'd offer to come clean your house or something so you could go have a good time. I hope you are o.k., Melissa. You know you do have the right to take your greviences all the way to the state board of education if the school isnt complying with the IEP like you want. Also, there are groups and individuals that will send a support person with you to the IEP meetings. It's really overwhelming in those meetings. Ten of them and one of you. Some of those support people have very excellant command of the laws. Please, Melissa take care of yourself.
Flyinglady
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Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 10:13 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dd and Melissa,
You are in my prayers. Melissa, I used to work in the public schools and have a good idea of what you are going through.
Dd, I would really like to communicate with you. I used to work with a pain program when I worked in Texas. There is help and I would like to tell you about it. Colleen can give you my e-mail address.
I used to wonder why I went through such problems and learned so much. Now I know. I can use all that to help others. God is awesome.
Diana

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