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Hi, I have been popping in/ praying along but not posting. Been very busy working.
I was thinking of the summer off of my PT job. I am just so tired & my kids need me more. I Cannot really afford to but then again should.
SO...then I snuck a peek at my labs & several counts are up,
kinda worried, they have always gone down or stable with all the meds. regular onc appointment Monday. So keep me in your prayers & I think for sure I am taking the summer weekends off now.peace & ♥ to all
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Hi there,
My name is Laura, too. I'm a practicing Catholic and I just found this site. I'm looking for prayers with my housing situation. I have extensive bone mets and I live in an apartment with very steep stairs. I'm afraid of what will happen if I break a bone. I have applied for subsidized housing and they think they may have found a place for me in a dangerous neighbourhood. I was hoping I could get into this place beside my Church. Any prayers would be really appreciated. Thanks.
Laura
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Laura and MNMom, prayers to both of you for your situations......glad we have a Novena going on.
Nancy - yes, St Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgium. Feast day is on St Patricks Day so she gets overlooked. She is also patron saint of gardening and herbalists. I do genealogy as a hobby and have traced one of my lines that connects to a very well known line that traces back to her sister St Begge. That's how I found out about her initially.
Cheri
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Hi everyone, been away from the computers for a bit. DH was in hospital, but doing good now, just tired.
Frank, yes Notre Dame vrs Navy should be a good game. A couple of years ago they played a home game in San Antonio, last year it was New York. Great marketing I think.
Tinker, praying for your daughter.
I have been in tune with Mary and the rosary, and everything seems to be popping up maybe because mother's day is around the corner. But I heard a song on "the story" cd, that just gave me wonderful chills. If you can youtube, "Be Born in Me", one version has 2 minutes of music before lyrics, the other version the singing starts quickly.
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Welcome Lauren ! we will be praying for you too! and you too mnmom! prayers and love to you both!
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Day Three Rosary Novena for Ali (and other intentions)
I saw the Son of Man, and he said to me, ‘Have no fear! I am the First and the Last. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld.' (Apocalypse 1:17-18)
Welcome Laura. Good to see you mnmom. God will take care of you both.
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Thank you everyone.
Onc say I'm ok
.I was naughty to peek at my test early though...ha
Prayers for everyone here.
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Day Four Rosary Novena for Ali (and other intentions)
Responsory
Dwell in me, as I in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself, but only if it remains united with the vine: no more can you bear fruit, unless you remain united with me, alleluia.
I appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. No branch can bear fruit by itself, but only if it remains united with the vine: no more can you bear fruit, unless you remain united with me, alleluia.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let us pray.
Lord our God,
in the resurrection of Christ
you create us anew for eternal life.
Grant your people firmness in faith and constancy in hope:
let us never doubt that you will fulfil
what we know you have promised.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let us bless the Lord.
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Amen. Can you please pm this to me, thank you kindly
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"We praise you O Lord, for all your works are wonderful. We praise You O Lord, forever is Your name."
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Hi everyone!
I became a Catholic on Easter 2011 and am so excited that I found this Catholic group on this site. I am so excited to be here.
This morning I went for an Annointing of the Sick and I feel so much better having done that. Thank you all for being here.
Take care.
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Hi teeballmom, and welcome to the thread and welcome to the church too! I think my music ministry tends to land here too, I think I suggest songs too much! So many others here lead us in novenas and rosaries and of course prayer. There is also a Catholic intentions thread on the board. Where are in treatment?
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I'm scheduled for a BMX on 5/29. My ONC is waiting for the pathology report from the surgery so she can determine my chemo "cocktail" (she had a really good medical term for it but I always think of it as a "cocktail" - don't know why I do that). My BS said I will get radiation but my ONC focuses on the now and right now she's not thinking that far ahead. I like that she wants her patients to concentrate on one thing at a time; however, she did mention that she will want to put me into menopause (whether surgically or chemically) but I'm not supposed to think about that right now - just the BMX.
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Day Five Rosary Novena for Ali (and other intentions)
Saint George Preca (1880 - 1962) Feast Day
He was born in Valletta, Malta, the seventh of nine children. He was ordained a priest in 1906. Horrified at the level of religious ignorance among the people, he set up the Society for Christian Doctrine in 1907. This was a society of laymen who would teach the catechism to the people while receiving instruction themselves. This was unheard-of at the time, and it took twenty-five years and much tension with the Church authorities (including at one point the closure of the Society's houses) before the Society's existence was officially approved. Today the Society has over a thousand members and is responsible for the teaching of some 20,000 young people in the Maltese islands, the UK, Australia, Peru, Albania, Kenya and the Sudan.
He lived a life of perfect unworldliness and evangelical poverty. He composed the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary in 1957. He was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on 3 June 2007, being described as "Malta's second father in faith" after St Paul.
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Welcome teeballmom and wilson33.
My SIL came into the church this past Easter. What a wonderful time! Just take care of yourself physically, mentally and spiritually and we are here for you!
Did bc.org change their format or is my computer having issues?
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wELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS, YOU MAY SAY WE ARE AN ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYERS----WELL YOU ARE AN ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS. WE CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY PRAYING.
I KNOW WE ARE MORE THAN HALF WAY THROUGH OUR EOSARY NOVENA, BUT IF ANY HAVE THE PATIENCE TO COUNTINUE FOR ANOTHER 4 DAYS WITH THE INTENTIONS FOR JEFF A YOUNG ADULT THAT WAS DX'D WITH STAGE 3 RENAL CANCER AT FIRST EVALUATION OF DATA. KIDNEY COMES OUT NEXT TUES. ALSO, BRIAN-- GRANNY DUKES-- SON WHO IS BEING EVALUATED FOR BRAIN TUMOR.
LAURAINCLUDING YOUR INTENTION.
EYES HURT FROM SQUINTING---NAMASTE SHEILA
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Wow, I'm away one day and the website changes it look completely....thought I was going crazy which has been happening for the last 11 months, so anything's possible, lol.
I can't tell you how glad I am we are doing a Novena now. If I may ask to be included as well.....I had my first breast surgeon 3 month followup appt from my lumpectomy which was Jan 20. Everything is looking fine, scars healing....I have tons of scar tissue and she told me to start massaging that area. Then she did a breast exam on the rest of the area.....and found a lump that made me jump in pain when she pressed on it. It's right under the nipple and right next to where she removed the cancer. She did a quickie sonogram of it and said "You need an ultrasound right away and possibly another biopsy."
What the....here I'm thinking in and out quick appt, I've been on tamoxifen 2 months no side effects, oncotype came back no chemo....and now I'm headed back to the breast surgery center to get an ultrasound and possibly biopsy. It's only been 3 1/2 months since the surgery....I'm a little numb again. I'm praying it's a knot of scar tissue, but she said it looked suspicious. I can't have the 3D mammo done b/c it hasn't been long enough since radiation finished.
I have to work then drive to that then come back to work.....I always gate those days b/c coming back from bad news to work is always hard and something I know you all relate to. I just can't believe this news....had a really bad appointment with my psychologist the day before (just a lot I found out and realized and can't process, nothing related to cancer) and cried the whole damn day and night and then I get this zinger today.....I'm just really glad I have you all to pray with me in here. Thank you so much for listening.
Cheri
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Teeballmom~ It is so overwheming, all the information coming at you right now. Try to have someone go with you to appt and let them take notes. I'm still learning stuff now....I had chemo to shrink the tumor first - since I was leaning toward lumpectomy, then surgery, then radiation. It's almost a year since I finished treatment - it went by faster than I thought it would.
I had AC/Taxol 6 rounds. Praying for you!
and now for the music ministry - lol, "The More I Seek You" by kari jobe. I can listen to that over and over.
"The more I seek You, the more I find You. The more i find You, the more I love You. I wanna sit at Your feet, drink from the cup in Your hand, Lay back against You and breath, hear Your heart beat. This love is so deep, it's more than I can stand. I melt in Your peace, it's overwhelming."
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Day Six Rosary Novena for Ali (and other intentions)
Titus 3:5,7 God saved us by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and by renewing us with the Holy Spirit which he has so generously poured over us through Jesus Christ our saviour. He did this so that we should be justified by his grace, to become heirs looking forward to inheriting eternal life.
Cheri - you too are definitely in our prayers. I don't know why bad things seem to come in clumps. My sister had suspicious lumps before too and they turned out to be nothing. I'm glad your doctor is proactive though. I always feel better when I have a doctor who is on top of things.
PRAISE be to God! Every day my husband and I pray that "All of our children will be brought back to You through the Holy Catholic Church." Well my daughter returned a year or so ago and brought her non-baptised husband into the faith just this Easter. Now my son told me that he's going to confession this week and Mass with us on Sunday!! He's expecting his first child in June and wants to bring him up in the Church! Now we have both of my husband's sons to work on and my non-baptised daughter in law! I know the joy St. Monica felt when St. Augustine came back!
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Amen Theresa!!!
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Praying for you too Cheri!
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Hi. Just joined, and I am praying with you. Cheri, you are definitely in my prayers.
Charlene
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Cheri--Theresa said everything I could say---
Theresa any problem extending the Rosary novena, I know this is unusual , but we have multiple people in changing circumstances in such a short period of time. or should we restart , I'm clueless on approach, I just know I feel the need is so great right now. Also if you want me to transfer the Rosary novena prayers to the archives, let me know and I will do it. BTW I'm in glasses again----Thank you God.
Teeballmom ---Sagina said it so well.
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Tinker, Charlene, Theresa, Sas, and everyone......thank you, so so much.
It is iffy. They are not sure what the heck this is. So it's good and bad.
The bad is that it does not look like regular scar tissue. The good is that it doesn't look like a regular tumor. The ultrasound doc I saw is the only one my breast surgeon would allow to read my ultrasound films. The tech ran scans all over me with the wand, all the way past my armpit to the other side, across the nipple where the new thing is, over the scar tissue that we know about where the lumpectomy was, to the other side of the breast....over 30 min. Then she called the doc in....who then ran over multiple areas herself for another 15-20 min. She was like, what is that??? And she's the one they send the problem cases to!
I had my breast MRI done at that breast center before my lumpectomy, so she had viewed that prior. This entire big nodule was not there at all.That's why surgeon was shocked to - both are saying, how could this be there after 3 months?
I started talking about how difficult the placement and the removal of my SAVI brachytherapy was (the procedure itself was a breeze, the in and out not so much!). In most women it doesn't hurt that much. I was in excruciating pain when it was removed and the surgeon who put it in had to literally shove it in me. When the device came out, the rad onc said, your skin has literally invaginated itself over the device. In other words, I'm part Borg, lol (nod to any fellow Trekkies out there). He had a heck of a time getting it deflated and getting it removed. So much skin came with it from the inner part of the breast. I showed her where it went in and about how long the inflated part was.....which would have gone right about to where the nipple is. So her theory is that the way my body forms scar tissue, I may have had some kind of almost tissue rejection where the device was placed.....like my body was rebelling against it inside but the outer skin sucked it in.
She also noted where my lumpectomy was 3 months ago "you should have a big pocket of fluid left - yours is entirely GONE which is hghly unusual." She pointed out several areas where there should be more fluid or more tissue or whatever, and mine was all gone already. She said some peoples' scans don't look like this in a year let alone 3 months.
So I have to sit and wait 3 mos for the 3D mammo which I get in Aug. A biopsy now would do more harm than good based on how I form scar tissue (when I had the core biopsy done in Dec, I could not lift my arm more than a couple inches all the way to surgery day on Jan 20 b/c a huge mass had formed at the biopsy site - she removed it with the tumor). If the mass gets bigger, I'm to have it surgically removed before then and then they will biopsy that. Otherwise it's a 3 month wait and see.
Thank you all for letting me share this, b/c as with everything else we all go through, someone else might be going through the same thing and see they are not alone in that particular area.
And THANK YOU for the prayers....and I continue to pray with you and for all of you.
Cheri
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Theresa, PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY one day late!!!! OK, 2 days by the time you probably see this.
You share May 9 with a very good friend of mine and my own birthday is a week from yours. Yay Taurus!
Cheri
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Theresa -----I missed a b-day announcement-------bummer---Happy belated Birthday-------ahhhhh another birthday--what Joy
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Cheri- what I see in your story is that your doc is diligent. That is important. A diligent doc will without us knowing will do research and /or make calls to advanced centers for advice etc. So, if you get a call before the 3 months, don't let it throw you. It just means your diligent doc has been working behind the scenes to make sure the right things are being done. Namaste sheila
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I missed the Bday announcement too! LOL My birthday is in February. :-)
Cheri, I had SAVI also and still have scar tissue from it. They did an ultrasound after a year when it didn't go away. It's just my body. It sounds like that's the way your body dealt with SAVI too... just a little more extreme than mine. For me, when they took it out, they told me it would hurt and my Rad Onc held my hand, but it wasn't anything. I was lucky.
Sheila - novenas are usually nine days. I'm sure God isn't up there counting the days we're praying. ;-) There will always be need of prayers. Personally, I think if we started to pray for other intentions during the novena, that is good, but if you feel the need to go on, it could end up rolling and rolling and rolling with each new need. You could start another novena if you'd like. You Catholic Intentions page is a great place for people to post prayer needs and there is always someone to keep those prayers going. And everyone prays differently. Some like conversational prayer, some like repetitions like rosaries or chaplets, some like to read Scripture and meditate on it... all wonderful forms of showing our love of God and others and offering our petitions and thanks.
I better post today's novena!
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Day Seven Rosary Novena for Ali (and other intentions)
Galatians 3:27-28 All baptised in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ, and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
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Thank for your continues prayers for Ali. She had her small bowel series done Tues and it is not Chrohns thats the good news. They still dont know whats going on and we need to go back to the GI doc to see whats next. Also heard from the pediatrian yesterday and he said her thyroid levels are still out of whack so we have to go to an endocronologists now as awell. I couldnt get in until August couldnt believe it!. So end of this month is GI doc, next month is rheumotologists and August is endocronologist. They did put us on a cancel wait list in case someone cancels.
I had my BS appt today. She did a fine needle biopsy on a hard spot we found but she is pretty confident it is a fat necrosis. Not too worried about that honeslty.
Thank you all again for your continued prayers for Ali!
Maria
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