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Wow what a topic, I am so glad it was brought up! I was a VP of Business Development for 17 years when I was dxed, I had a very lucrative job but it came with a price, we had 3 small kids now (14,11,8) and I feel I missed out on a lot working so much. When I was dxed I was so afraid that my job is what made me ill and I wanted to change my life immediately! I went on disability and they actually paid me for 1 and half years as I was trying to get used to all of the medications. (hormonals) I started my own foundation and went into consulting part time. I am so struggling on this because 1/2 of me says I should go back to full time so we can be prepared for kids college etc and because I want to travel more etc etc, the other half says NO DONT DO IT, it is not the right road I will be lost in work and no time to enjoy the things the extra money provides. WHAT IS THE ANSWER LORD ...I think we all need to keep praying about this.
Theresa you are right we seem to really get on our praying when times are tough.. I am working on this and want God in the center of my life always.
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It is such a great topic, in fact that's the very same thing that I'm praying about daily. So I would like to share this prayer from "The Right Prayers for Every Need"...
Almighty God, I'm asking for wisdom, your wisdom. Help me make some good decisions at this juncture of my life. Whenever I follow my own desires, I make a mess of things. You keep challenging me to hold off and take a look at my priorities - and at your priorities - before I move forward. I know I should listen to you more. So now I'm listening. Please give me some of the wisdom I so desperately need.
Please bring me relief from the intensity of the continual stress.
Please be my shade from the heat of the daily grind. Grant me your strength and deliverance.
Amen.
As for my 2nd brain MRI last Friday, I'm still awaiting for the results. Have not spoken to my onc yet, definitely stressed and worried and not feeling tip top.
"Lord, if You only say the word, and I shall be healed". Amen.
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Paula
What a wonderful prayer I LOVE it! I would bet your MRI is ok if it was an emergency the radiologist/imaging Doc would alert your Doc-
Your avatar makes me sad for you and missing your Mom, I am here with you and thinking of you. I am going to add this prayer for us all and maybe we could start a prayer chain once a day for all that are struggling professionally at the same time and start listening and report what we are hearing.
M
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Thanks for the prayer Paula. I am going to say it for all of us as well. My kids aren't as young as yours. My youngest is 13. I was able to work part time before the last year and a half, but that changed when we were purchases. And we keep purchasing more companies, and adding them to our company. It keeps getting more and more stressful. I am also concerned about the way we eat. Now that I'm home on disability I am shopping and cooking more healthy food. When I was working, it was a steady diet of take out food, pizza and quick pasta or frozen foods. I am worried not only for myself on that, but the rest of the family as well. The things we give up just don't seem worth it.
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Paula -
Whenever I follow my own desires, I make a mess of things.
Amen, amen! I am trying my best to give it all up and stop taking it back. When I was a young mother, I bought into the "Me Generation". That's all wrong! When we focus on "Me", there's no room for God. I need to dig up that list that Tori posted awhile ago. It has some excellent points. I will try this week to do something Jesus would do, instead of what I would do. Something self-sacrificing. I hope I can do it! :-)
Kay - you're right "The things we give up just don't seem worth it." It's like we become slaves to the paycheck. Instead of taking that paycheck and doing good with it, we run ourselves down, eat poorly, and move further from God. That paycheck won't buy us a room in heaven.
I found this website today and didn't get a chance to look at it all, and I'm on business travel tomorrow, so I won't be able to look at it, but it seems like it has some good links and thoughtful areas of interest.
http://www.usccb.org/laity/women/index.shtml
God bless you all!
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Good evening ladies, (Michelle, Kay and Theresa), thanks for responding to my post. What you all said was exactly what was going through my head. I have now learned to give it all to Lord Jesus and have Him shape my character and give me direction and courage.
I just finished crying, and I have good news to share. My 2nd brain MRI came back as no aneurysm and the slides showed everything unremarkable. There is just one thing that the scan couldn't tell, it was the "circle of willis" and it was because the scan did not define them. I haven't spoken to my doc yet, I only had the onc's office fax me the report. My prayer has been answered! Praise Lord!!
p.s. Let's not forget to give Thanks to the Lord Jesus.
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Amen Diamondgirl wonderful news!!!!
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Squid you do post such relevant things
Just Friday 1 of my PT jobs asked me to go FT & after some # crunching I now have a FT & PT job plus 3 kids at home. I hate having to be gone but try to stay focused on the fact that they will be in school soon anyhow & we all have to eat etc so I guess as I say you gotta do what you gotta do even when you know it is not what you wanna do. Kinda stinks having to go back to the pressures I worry put me onto this board in the first place though.
Prays for all ♥
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DiamondGirl ~ Praise God! wonderful news! Who's Willis? and tell him to stop circling your brain!
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sagina (LOL)
Paula, fabulous news.
I appreciate everyone's heartfelt responses. Here I was scooped back into the chaos, and falling further and further away from God. I have managed to keep up my flower passion, and have pics on an instant camera only. Oh how I would love to share them with you all. My digital plopped. Anyway, the gardening never stopped, but I stopped the inner gardening.
And yes, others do not understand, and I need to stop thinking they do, or expecting them to be in a place they cannot be. Work became almost a liability the past few months, and it is up to me to change these dynamics. I really think I can too.
Friends are iffy right now, one having faced her alcohol addiction is immersed in her recovery, and I am so so happy for this change. (have several more I am worried about) My other friends seem to be wrapped in their issues/addictions, so again, up to me to bring in more like minded friends while loving those who are at a different place.
But surely so nice to see all of you here, keeping up the faith.
Have a beautiful day all, see you later
and yes, I am cheering each one of you one and reading your posts...gotta catch up!! Traci
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That is a beautiful prayer. I wasn't aware that St. Peregrine was our saint until I went to Mass on the Sunday after I was diagnosed. A good friend of mine gave me a prayer called the Miracle Prayer that I have prayed every day since and will continue until I beat this cancer. You can find the Miracle Prayer online at http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=2070
Like most people, when I was diagnosed my emotions were all over the place. When I went to Mass that first Sunday, I felt that God was talking directly to me. The gospel and the homily were both so relevant to what I was experiencing. When I find myself having a bad moment, I remember that Sunday and it gives me hope.
Michelle
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Michelle... welcome... and bless you lady! Keep praying... he is there!
Ladies.... I miss you all.. I have been working and throwing parties and trying to get around all this heat ...grrrrrr.... I hope you all are having a good summer!
Paula............ YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Traci~ that's for you. I took it at a friends in MO. How bout we just say it's God's light shinning through your garden?
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Dear all, I will be having my breast MRI today at 1:30pm PST.
Whew, 3 scans within 3 weeks is a lot...today also marks 1 year post surgery. Thank you all here to be my sisters in faith - without you ladies my journey would have been very scary and miserable. A great big thank you for all who shared, listened, given me valuable advice and prayed for me and with me. The prayers has given me so much solace and it is bringing my faith back and am feeling closer to Lord Jesus. This BC journey has humbled me so much, and it has taught me many lessons. "Be grateful for each day", "Be grateful with what you got (that includes a lot of things)", "if not grateful it can be taken away from you".
I will keep you all posted on the result of the breast MRI. I will continue daily healing prayers for all.
Love & Hugs
Namaste!!!
p.s. Welcome Michelleo13
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Hi all! I'm just getting back from business travel and catching up on email and such. I took Becky and the boys with me to Jersey and we enjoyed the beach and boardwalk in the evenings when I got off work. It was a nice mini vacation for them. Boy, I miss those 10 minute commutes to work!!
Gina - beautiful photo!! Very inspiring.
Michelleo - welcome - thank you for the link to the prayer!
Paula - how did your MRI go?
Traci - we're here for you and you're a great inspiration for us! On our travel back home today, Becky was talking about meeting up with a friend who is teaching her how to knit. This friend is a part of a knitting group that meets a couple of times a month. She remarked how she's so happy that she has "normal" friends now. She's still friendly to her old friends who are still living the teenage life of parties and such, but being a young mother and wife of a police officer has forced her hand into responsibility and she finds a lot of comfort in NOT having to party and go out and get drunk or high. She laughed and said her fun now is going to a knitting group! :-) So yes, your friends can intentionally or unintentionally pull you down or pull you back to an old lifestyle that isn't healthy. It doesn't mean we have to cut ties with old party friends, just say "No thanks, I don't want to do that, but I'm here if you want to talk."
Not that all parties are bad (Laura!) ;-) We're going to have a family reunion in August and that's going to be some party. With cousins I haven't seen in years. It seems we only see each other at weddings and funerals. Now *we* are the older generation. When did THAT happen!!?? I don't *feel* like the older generation! I keep thinking that Mom's going to walk in the room and tell me to get my laundry out of the dryer. Now we're the grandparents. Oi!!!
Pax et bonum!
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Yes, it is true.... I am a HUGE party girl!
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Hi All,
I am glad to report that I cried "happy tears" at the imaging center after I picked up my typed report. The scan is clean and unmarkable. Praise God!! Prayers were answered. The stress during the past 3 weeks was crippling. Thank you all for your prayers. Namaste!!
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hi,
I am too is a Catholic..I prayed to St. Peregrine all the way. Indeed he is the patron saint of cancer patients. Help us St. Peregrine, envelope us with your healing touch, comfort us in times of sadness and anxieties, and be our strength to total wellness and being.Amen
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Diamondgirl!... Amen so happy to hear that! congrast!
welcome dlcp!
Namaste sisters.
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Wonderful news Diamond Girl! I am getting an MRI on Thursday, hope mine goes well too.
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YEAH!!! PAULA I am so happy ...praise God!
Kay we will begin praying for yours as well!
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DLCP - warm welcome to you.
Hi all, thank you. It was a definitely a crippling 3 weeks with 3 separate scans. I am grateful for my onc to order these scans for me and the insurance to approve it the next day. Although they were scary tests I know I needed them. Praise God!!
Sandy, Michelle you gals and the rest of the gang are on my daily healing prayers.
Namaste and God Bless every one
Have a wonderful weekend. I have to pick up my daughter so I won't make it to the 7pm prayer tonight.
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Great news Paula!! What a relief! Yes, now we'll pray for Kay! :-) Welcome dlcp!
I have to go to a CCD volunteer function tomorrow morning, so I'm hitting the hay early tonight. Plus I'm tired from this week's travels. Soooo, I won't be able to attend 10:00 prayer. :-(
Today was the feast day of St. Martha -- another one of my favorites! Jesus enjoyed staying at her home and welcomed her hospitality. He probably got a kick out of her fussing around the house, ordering the servants, sitting for just a minute with the Lord; she was the go-to person in the household. She *was* a servant of the Lord. Martha, like Peter, recognized the Lord as the Christ : "Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world." As one author about her puts it: "Be aware of how this woman who exemplifies beautiful, underappreciated, and noble traditional women's work and service is no "doormat". She is one of the stronger women in Scripture.
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Thanks for the prayers! Mine is just a MRI pre-surgery. I'm not really concerned about it. I guess they want to see exactly what is there before surgery so the surgeon knows what she wants to do. Also getting an echo the same day (next Thursday). Hopefully that will be good too. Surgery is Aug. 17. Will be good to finally get this cancer taken out.
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you will be in my prayers Kay!!!! hugs and extra prayers going your way!
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Paula...... I am very pleased!!!!!!!!! A smile is on my face...
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Praying tonight for Jennifer Flores from San Antonio, Texas, 19 years old....has been in ICU for a week, exploratory brain surgery, then opened skull to relieve swelling, now the doctors are 99% sure she has brain cancer that is "eating her brain".
Dear Jesus please lead the doctors to an effective treatment for this young sweet girl. Keep her safe, tucked safely under Your wing. Carry the family members right now, as they crumble under the weight of such devastating trouble. Fill their hearts with peace and their souls with light as they stay strong for her. In Your name we pray. Amen.
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Amen praying sagina! how sad please let us know how she is doing.
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Sagina.... I prayed for her too....!
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I am praying too
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