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Got a call from my twin sister this morning. Her husband was having a hard time breathing last night. They took him by ambulance to an in patient hospice. She is down town with him. She asked me to pick up her son (he's 17) and bring him down. I guess it isn't going to be much longer. Please keep her family in your prayers. My niece (she's 15) is out of town for the weekend with her girl friend. He's been on hospice for a couple of months, so while not sudden, I saw him two days ago and he was talking and watching sports on tv and while obviously sick, just not really expecting this so suddenly. It is going to be hard.
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Kay, I am so sorry to hear about your brother-in-law. Prayers that he will not suffer.
Sending up daily healing prayers for you all.
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Kay I am so sad for the family and all that this will be for them! I am so sorry, I will pray for all of them and you today.
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A prayer: (from The Right Prayers for Every Need)
You see all that is pressing in around me, my Lord. It seems as if life itself is ganging up on me from all sides. At home and at work, in relationships and in finances, through physical and spiritual challenges I feel surrounded and unable to find any rest for my heart and mind. Please bring me relief! I lay all of these things before you and wait for your intervention and wisdom. Amen.
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Kay so sorry about your BIL. I'll keep him in my prayers at Mass this afternoon. Paula's prayer so covers it all. So, wish none off you had to go through this. Namaste
Sagina----same about your friends daughter-------so young. Namaste
Paula-thank you for the prayer and beautiful B-day pic
NamasteSheila
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I re-posted this from the insomnia thread. Thought it might help someone else. With all the trouble going on right now, I hesitated re-posting this , but so many have been praying for me at times with the insomnia problem. And as I say below, I was around when the drugs were invented (I think). At least now there is an understanding why. It's better than dealing with the unknown:
Just when you think you know something. Everyone here knows I have been dealing with insomnia. At the docs today , we were reviewing the problem list. I mentioned that know I had to increase taking my pain med oxy, to several times a week. She then says that is a big component of the insomnia. When someone doesn't take oxy or hydrocodone on a daily basis, the s.e.of insomnia is more pronounced. I have known for close to < 2 years that when I took a pain med, there was a strong chance I wouldn't sleep. So, to take it meant I tripped over the point of not caring if I slept b/c I needed pain relief. WELL DUH. As a nurse I knew it had a s.e. of insomnia , but so many drugs do. I have been handing it out to patients since it was invented practically. Not once did I have a patient complain of insomnia like I've had it. So, it did not cross my radar as being that big of a problem. I just figured I was overly sensitive to the drug. My doc says that those people, that take it morning and night, will get passed the "Perc" part of it b/c they have a steady blood level. Well I'm not going to go there, but at least I know why now the insomnia's so bad. Of course the Aromasin and arimidex and Femara are big contributors, but again a different view of the pain meds helps. I thought I'd post this for anyone in the same boat. Hope it helps.
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Kay so sorry to hear about your bil will be praying for him and your entire family!!! much love and prayers
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Kay - please keep us posted about your brother in law. Prayers for him and your sister's family.
Sheila - very interesting. It always amazes me how drugs interact with our biology and chemistry and when you combine drugs with our individual biology and chemistry, how on earth do doctors keep up with it? We're a mass of human guinea pigs. For whatever reason, you are having to walk this walk, but be assured, the Lord is walking with you. You will gain graces from this and share your graces with the community around you. Pax.
Paula - a burden has been lifted from you. Praise the Lord!
Romans 8:26
The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words.0 -
Oh SHEILA>.............
Did you have a birthday........................ I am soooooooooo happy you did!
Birthdays are even more of a blessing now............
I want to add mine blessing............ HAPPY BLESSED BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!!!!!
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Happy Birthday Shiela! Thank you for the info on the pain meds/insomnia. It is so unfair to have to choose between relieving pain or sleeping. Will keep you in my prayers.
Thanks for posting that prayer, Paula. I am going to say it often.
Thanks for the prayers for my bil and his family everyone. He lost his battle with melanoma on Saturday. He fought the cancer as hard as he could (since Jan. 2010) until he had no treatment options left. I really admire how he never complained and fought so valiantly to beat this disease. I have spent most of the last two days with my sister. It is hard, but they are getting through it. Cancer sux.
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Kay, I am so sorry for you and your famalies loss. Cancer does sux and claimed another brave soul. You and your family will be in my parayers. May you all fid somepeace and comfort during this difficult time.. much love and prayers to you!!!
love Maria
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Kay,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, so sorry! God send healing to you all... please!
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Kay so sorry
Laura thank you
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Hello all
First the good news - my recent bout of food poisoning has cleared up so a prayer of thanksgiving would be in order. My GP has left out copies of my recent tests for collection and to be shown to my Onc as this is my treatment (Herceptin) week. So can I ask for another prayer that my treatment goes ahead.
Now the better news - as the food poisoning had cleared up I was able to go to the F/ball on Saturday - double header. Even better was that I won the two admission tickets in a competition in a local newspaper and they were PREMIUM LEVEL tickets. No siting with the great unwashed lol. So girls I have decided there is a God in heaven and He's a F/ball supporter lol.
Tomorrow 2nd August is the aniversary of my re-diagnosis. It was 2 00pm in the afternoon (yes I even remember the time of day) when my Onc confirmed that the cancer had come back and had metastised into my liver. Damage to my liver was described as extensive and the prognosis was 2 years. Well one year later I'm still going to my office, was away all day Saturday to Dublin to the F/ball and was out at an opera last night, in other words I'm still leading a normal life and thank God for it. My last couple of CT Scans showed that the lesions had not only stopped growing but had actually decreased slightly. So would you join me in a prayer tomorrow in thanksgiving for a sucessful year's treatment and especially that the sucess continues. Maybe we could also sometimes think of Dr Denis Slamon (and for that matter all Oncology researchers) in our prayers. He was very much instrumental in developing Herceptin which has proved truly wonderous in so many treatments.
Kay my sympathies to your sister on her loss.
take care all.
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Sagina,
My God what a glorious picture. I needed that more than I could possibly convey in words.
Thank you my friend.
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Frankh,
Your gratitude comes through loud and clear. Many blessings and prayers.
traci
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Kay
I am adding my condolences for your sisters family. I pray for peace and lightening all around you and their family!
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Kay, I am so sorry.....STUPID CANCER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Squidwitch~ I love to take pictures of flowers, PM your email if you like and I'll send you a flower a day! (or a plant, or sometimes an animal, hehe)
Now the update on Jennifer~ I went to the hospital last night. She has a very rare brain cancer - complicated by the fact that they thought it was an infection first, did brain surgery, where baffled for a week, then went back for biopsies. She has a blood clot in the brain they can't even address yet, four lesions on the brain, and one has grown from a pea size to a silver dollar in a week. Her prognosis is almost like the doctors throwing their hands up and saying, they really don't know. Looks like radiation this week, if the brain doesn't swell too much more.....She needs a miracle to survive.
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Frank..glad to hear your feeling better and you beat that 2 year prognosis with dozens of more to come
Sagina. thanks for the update how sad. Jennifer will remain in my prayers
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Kay - may your brother in law's soul rest now in peace and may your family be consoled.
Frank - happy news indeed! We need the happy to balance the sad.
Gina - prayers for Jennifer and her family.
Cancer affects so many people in one way or another. But it isn't until YOU have it, that life takes on a different meaning OR you seriously start thinking about that meaning. When you're actively going through treatment, your thoughts are on getting whole again or as whole as possible (we can never be the same), after treatment, you get used to the new normal and slip back into old habits. (I'm mainly speaking for myself!) At least for me, there's the ever present nagging in my mind that I'm ignoring the message behind the cancer. One of the readings at Mass this past weekend was about what can keep us away from the Lord... illness, distress, tragedy... but I was thinking that is what leads me TO the Lord... those things bring me humbly to my knees for mercy. It's health, money, obligations, responsibilities... that keep me from the Lord. When I'm feeling healthy and have money coming in from work, then my time with the Lord slips away b/c I'm making more room in life for other things, like work, commuting, exercising, eating, shopping, chatting, living the life of a wife, mother, grandmother, worker, church member.
I wonder if there's anyone out there who made a radical change in life (interior or exterior or both) after cancer and has successfully stuck with it. For so many of us, we are tied in one way or other to a spouse or children and our radical decision will affect many, and that holds us back. So, if we cannot make a radical exterior change in life (i.e., job, home), how do you make a radical interior change so that the love of the Holy Spirit radiates in everything we do and we don't slip back into the rut?
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Frank........... CONGRATS! So great to hear !
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Theresa.. I understand what your saying. I amnot sure if this is radical or not but I have made some changes that have ended up being very positive. My mom is quite the difficult person to get along with. The long short story is I have 2 older brothers and they dont speak with her. Our relationship before diagnosis was at best rocky Three years ago my dad passed away and before he did he made me promise not to abandon her. Well she can make that a lttle difficult. However, with my diagnosis I realized I do have a choice I can argue with her because I want her to know I am right about certain things or I can just listen and appreciate the fact that I have a mom. Now I do more listening and less talking and just show her the unconditional love that I would like her to show me and that has actually brought us to a better point in our relationship. I honeslty dont know if I would of gotten to that way of thinking without going through all this. My mom is tough strong italian new yorker lol, but when she cries on the phone because she hurts for me I see a side of her i never got to see before. A side I wish my brothers could see and embrace.
I loved what you posted as it really hit home!
thanks
Love Maria
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Maria - that's beautiful : with my diagnosis I realized I do have a choice I can argue with her because I want her to know I am right about certain things or I can just listen and appreciate the fact that I have a mom.
That is you saying "Yes" for the love of the Holy Spirit to work through you in your relationship with your Mom. Unconditional love is awesome. I'm sure that wasn't an easy choice to make, but you did it. And all we can do is work on ourselves and pray for others (your brothers). They may come around. :-)
Maybe it's as simple as me waking up in the morning and saying "I choose to go to work today for the love of God and family and I will be open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit to do His will in all things." And just let go of choices I made in the past and choices I will need to make in the future. Live for this day. Savor this day. When I was a teenager, I wrote a little "poem": "If I didn't do what I just did, then I would have done something just as important as what I just did." Where did that idealistic teenager go? ;-)
Thank you for sharing! XXXOOO
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Thanks Theresa Namaste
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I choose to go to work today for the love of God and family and I will be open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit to do His will in all things." And just let go of choices I made in the past and choices I will need to make in the future. Live for this day. Savor this day.
Thank you Theresa, good words to live by! xo
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LFMSM----------your prayer was transferred to the prayer archive---the librarian Namaste
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Theresa very good topic. Maria, thanks for sharing your story. Sagina, thanks for updating Jennifer's status, will keep praying for her. Frank, good news indeed.
As for my me although I was a cradle Catholic I was never prayerful. This cancer has brought me Faith in the Lord Jesus. That when one prays with sincerity, He listens, the prayers will be answered. That prayers should be said daily not just when you most need help. I have learned to be a little bit closer to God and I want to learn even more.
(from The Right Prayers for Every Need)
Thank you, Lord, for the wonderful people you have brought into my life. There have been many rich friendships with people who shared my joys and sorrows alike. You have also inspired leaders to teach me and guide me in faith. You have allowed me to have influence on others as well. Thank you, Lord, for this holy community of faith. I don't know what I'd do without them.
O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever.
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Today, dear Lord, as an act of faith, I declare my trust in you out loud! I say, "The Lord is my refuge, my fortress, the God in whom I place my trust!" I will say it as I get ready to greet the day, as I move from place to place, as I take my meals, and when I lie down to rest. Let each declaration seal the truth to my heart and mind. Thank you for being my shelter and safe place during this storm of my life. I'll say it again, "You are my God, in whom I trust." Amen!
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The thread today has been lovely.... just lovely.... JMJ Amen!
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Saw this and thought I'd share it:
Criticism or Creativity in Self,Others
Criticism can be very subtle in the way it creeps into our thoughts and simply become a bad habit. Here are some examples of criticism to help you become aware of its existence in your life or in the life of someone we know. The weather is awful today. The traffic is terrible. The service is really bad. Oh no, look at the line. He/she is always late. How many times do I have to repeat myself to them? My husband is a slob. My wife is a nag. My kids are bad. God hates me. It's so hot in here. I've been on hold for so long!. These are some of the thoughts in my own head and some of the statements from many people I meet throughout my day. We all have the ability to appreciate something in every single circumstance. There is always something to be grateful for.
Today- try to count the many negative thoughts you hear in your head . Try to count the negative things you hear out of the mouths of those around you.
Here are some ways to turn criticism into creative prayers: Lord, please use the rain to care for your creation. Lord, while I wait for this traffic, who can I pray for? Lord, the service is not good but please bless the person at the counter. Lord, thank you for my husband. Lord, thank you for my wife. Lord, bless my children and thank you for them. Thank you for the warm hot weather that keeps the flowers blooming. (The list goes on).
Remember, that complaining is so easy. But, creative prayers and thoughts can turn your day into a wonderful experience.
Science has proven that endorphins are released and serotonin levels rise when we do good deeds for others. Dopamine gets released as we calmly think good thoughts and bring cheer to others.
HAPPY FRIDAY and remember - No eye has seen and no ear has heard and no mind can conceive what God has for us ! Keep the faith ! GOD IS FOR YOU !
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