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| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2992 Registered: 12-2003  |
Jeremy, thank you for checking in and updating us. Still praying for you... Carol, I will pray for your husband. I understand how unnerving that surgery can be; my bro-in-law underwent a pretty serious sinus surgery earlier this year. He's MUCH better now, BTW! Mary, I'm continuing to pray. God is with you. Colleen | ||
| Windmotion Registered user Username: Windmotion Post Number: 236 Registered: 6-2001  |
I would like to request prayer for my Adventist in-laws. We walked into a very tangled situation when we went to visit them over Thanksgiving. Gossiping and backbiting are two of their favorite pasttimes. Unfortunately I let something slip my step-father-in-law had had a long discussion to the family about my sister-in-law's parenting skills and that made an uncomfortable situation a whole lot worse. My SIL now wont let her kids see their grandparents, and she is pulling them out of the SDA school (not really because of this, but it certainly doesn't help). The only possible positive thing about all this is my SIL is getting really sick of Adventism. As she said, she is the only child in the family who is still an Adventist and they treat her the worst. She did say she would be interested in receiving Proclamation, so I did sign her up. The situation is a lot more complicated then what I have said, but there are some deep seated issues. Prayerfully, Hannah | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 3003 Registered: 12-2003 |
Hannah, I will pray for your family. I'm so sorry for the whole sticky mess! I understand how trapped these situations can make you feel. Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2057 Registered: 3-2004  |
Hannah, All your family is on my prayer list. I will remember then when I pray every day. Diana | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 351 Registered: 8-2004  |
Hannah, Pheeki, Carol, Jeremy, and rest of the forum, I'm praying for you and your families, and thanking God for a safe conclusion to our journey to Kentucky! Thank you for your prayers. Blessings, Mary | ||
| Dd Registered user Username: Dd Post Number: 589 Registered: 7-2004 |
Dear FAF Family, My dearest girlfriend and cousin is nearing the end of her battle with pancreatic cancer. She is holding onto God throughout this fight and her faith is a wonderful testimony to those who still have veils over their eyes. Would you please pray that God will be in the midst of all the sadness and despair for her family? It is such a WONDERFUL gift to know without any doubt that none of us who hold dear the blessed name of Jesus will ever be seperated from Him. Those who are left to carry on with our own numbered days have the hardest time with seeing our loved ones leave us. She will soon enter a glory that she has only dreamed of. I have missed you all during my time away. I always remember you all in my prayers. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 3043 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Dd, I'll be praying for your family and friend. I am so sorry. I will pray that God will glorify Himself through this to all of her loved ones and that He will hold your hearts in Him. Colleen | ||
| Javagirl Registered user Username: Javagirl Post Number: 111 Registered: 6-2005 |
Dd, Your faith in and thru your grief is a blessing to me, as well as the faith of your cousin. Yes we do indeed have a glorious hope, and what a reunion that will be!. In the meantime, Ill be praying for you and all the other family and friends affected. Im praying for God to give her a clear preview NOW, of the glory to come, and to make the rest of you strongly aware of the presence of the great comforter! Miss you too... hope you are getting settled in! Hugs, JavaGirl | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2082 Registered: 3-2004 |
Dd, It is such a blessing to know God and what happens when one dies, especially for one who has accepted Jesus Christ. I will be praying for your cousin and her family and for you. Our God is so awesome. Diana | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1217 Registered: 7-2003  |
Both my father and grandmother are in the hospital. My grandmother had some sort of episode a couple of months ago, and seems to hallucinate at times...seeing kids or kittens on the floor where there are none or horses in the yard, etc. Anyway, she has an infection of some sort and was put back in the hospital. As this is the first holiday season without grandpa, the fear they'll lose grandma too soon is ever-present. My dad has had shingles for months, which has delayed his chemo treatments. Last week, they thought it safe to give him another round, then he passed out in church on Sunday. They admitted him, but couldn't find anything other than "normal" post-chemo low blood counts, so released him. He became disoriented last night and spiked a fever, so my step-mom took him back and they admitted him again. Because my dad can't be around kids, I am limited in my ability to go by. And my brother's schedule isn't much better, which means my step-mom is dealing with a lot of this alone. My son answered the phone when she called last night, and he knew something was wrong. To this point, I hadn't told him about the cancer because he worries. But he knows now. With the end of the year comes not only Christmas, but school concerts and other things which demand time and attention. I can't be everywhere for everyone. It's just nuts around here. I am particurlary burdened for my step-mom who lost her first husband to lymphoma as well. She frequently has flashbacks when my dad has these things because of what she has already lived through. They are doing some things that you do when you know time is limited, traveling, etc., but that has been so hard as he has had to be taken to "foreign" ERs in other states because of drug reactions, etc. But you hate to say he has to stay home at the same time given we don't know how much time he really has left. I just pray for some peace for them all. (Message edited by melissa on December 13, 2005) | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 3061 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Melissa, I am so sorry. What a lot of waiting and responsibility and emotional demands you are facing right now. I'm praying for God's peace and comfort and and presence for you and your family. Colleen | ||
| Sabra Registered user Username: Sabra Post Number: 383 Registered: 10-2001 |
Praying for you Melissa. Jesus will be your strength, if not for Him, I'd surely have lost my mind by now. I'm believing that it is going to slow down for you soon and I know you wont have more than you can deal with. Sabra | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2094 Registered: 3-2004 |
Melissa, I am praying that God holds you and your family as you pass through all this and that His presence will be with you at all times. Diana | ||
| Lynne Registered user Username: Lynne Post Number: 138 Registered: 10-2005 |
Melissa, I will pray for you and your loved ones. You are all in the hands and heart of God. Lynne | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1219 Registered: 7-2003 |
Thanks to all for your prayers. I just heard that my grandmother has congestive heart failure along with the other infections we knew she had. The doctor says she's slipping, though we don't know how long. She is 90, and by most reckoning, that's a good long life. My dad is doing a little better and seems more coherant than he was a couple of days ago. His numbers are coming back up and they hope to be able to release him today -- maybe. My grandmother has no fear of death. She knows who holds her in his hand, or did when she was herself. At the funeral home, she told my grandfather's body she'd be with him soon, and I guess she wasn't kidding. But she is the last of my grandparents living. She used to tell me every time I left that if she wasn't at home when I came back, she'd be over there in the funeral home. It was no big deal to her. I've learned a lot from her, both good and bad. It is an awkward peace, yet sadness too. (Message edited by melissa on December 14, 2005) | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 1092 Registered: 3-2005 |
Melissa, I'm thankful your grandmother knows the Lord, and knows that she may shortly be with Him. I will continue to pray for your dad as he goes through the very difficult process of chemotherapy, but with Lymphoma there is hope. Also praying that the Lord will sustain you through this difficult time. Stan | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1220 Registered: 7-2003 |
Thanks, Stan. This is my dad's second round with lymphoma. It is my understanding that from the drug protocol they put him on the first time, it almost always leads to this form of lymphoma later, and there is no really effective treatment for this kind as they do not typically repeat the same regiments. In this case, however, since it has been 9 years between recurrences, they are trying one of the meds they gave him back then. They consider it a long shot at best, and at best can only extend his life, but never really make him cancer-free again. A bone marrow transplant is out as he has no siblings, which would be required for this particular form of lymphoma to have the exact match he would need. I don't remember all the formal terms and specific kind of lymphoma, but they were very clear there was no known effective treatment. At that point, because he really wasn't feeling bad, they said it could be a couple of years or longer, just depending upon how fast it grew. I think they did the chemo just to placate him and that there really was nothing else to try. For this particular event, I think had the shingles not been so lingering and the mix of pain meds for that, his high blood pressure meds, the chemo therapy and him trying to work on the good days ... it was just too much. He could carry on a logical conversation last night, finish thoughts and follow the train of the conversation....all great improvements from Monday. Now if those shingles would just finally dry up completely and go away.... That is the main source of his pain right now. | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1231 Registered: 7-2003 |
After more than a week of praying for God to take her, my grandmother died this evening. I know she is in a peace she has never known. 4 of her 7 kids were there. I know little else except that if she was awake and understandable, she was praying to die. For her graduation day, I'm thankful she is finally free from the discomfort she had been in. She was the last of my living grandparents, however and that makes that generation of my family gone. My grandparents had known each other for 80+ years, married 67-68 years. It does not surprise me that she should pass within the same year as him. It does make me selfishly sad. It puts a whole new quandry about what to do with Sunday when it's Christmas and you need a funeral. (isn't it strange what the mind thinks of!) Maybe it's just the "lighter" side ... my grandmother never wanted us to be sad or "worry" about her when she died. She knew it was just a passing from what has generally been pretty good to her to something better than she could have imagined. For the first time in a long time, she'll be able to see unclouded by cateracts. I hope grandpa was close by waiting to receive her too. She really got the best Christmas gift this year. At this point, it seems the funeral will be next Wednesday. Logistically, there is no way everyone could get there and there's literally no room in the inn for all the family that has to come in. Thank you all for the prayers you made on my grandmother's behalf. I think we can say they are answered. And thank you too that I could share this with you. | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 819 Registered: 7-2004 |
I will hold you up in prayer that you may continue to experience peace with regard to your loss. You have stated the facts of your grandmother's passing in such sweet terms, but I know you will miss her even though you know logically that she is much better now than she has ever been. In the grand scheme of things, this separation between the two of you is going to brief, but it won't feel that way right now. May the Lord wrap you in his wonderful and comforting arms as you prepare to honor your grandmother's life with your family. | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 1123 Registered: 3-2005 |
Melissa, I will also be praying for you during this season. But I think of a text, I believe it is Psalm 116:15 or so "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints". I am sure that applies to your Grandmother. Blessings to you. Stan |
