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Good morning, ladies,
I've been MIA for a while as things at work were "tres" busy. Still are, but I got in early this morning to catch up on my friends.
Apple, here's a little bit for you. My sister-in-law and I joined our church choir. My father sang tenor in it from the time our parish was created in 1965. When he died a year ago, my nephew joined to fulfill his community service for his confirmation. He had too many sports commitments this year as he started high school, so his mother and I decided we would join to continue the family tradition. Now we have two "D"s in the choir. Last night was the first practice, and we were warmly welcomed. I will think and pray for you, now, when I am singing at Mass. (Although you are much prettier than our organist/choir director. He has a beard.)
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I am thrilled to send prayers of thanks for Jan's good outcome from surgery, and devastated to read about Karen who I will certainly include in my prayers.
Ladies, while I was reading this thread this morning, the dogs started barking, so I went out to see what was up. It was one of their doggie friends walking by with her human mom. Diane is a BC survivor, and her husband has been fighting liver cancer. He used to walk the dog every morning, was a favorite of my boys, and always stopped to chat. He has only felt well enough to walk a few times since the spring. He passed away on Saturday. Could we please include Art Lentz in our prayers?
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thank you God for Jan's good news. Pat... may your grandson keep you young and vibrant. Bless you for caring for him.
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Welcome to our new sisters here! Oh how nice it is to have a common connection while dealing with everything cancer can bring to our personal tables!
JAN... GOD IS GOOD! I am very happy your nodes were clear.. THAT is very positive news for you !
Nancy... good to hear you are moving onto bigger and happier things in your life.. WAY TO GO! Good to see you...
I think I picked 3pm to pray because I used to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet almost everyday at 3pm with the ladies on EWTN. It was GREAT!
I thought I would post.. the "Karen" I am asking prayer for is KEW ( screename on BCO)... her MRI is October 11th.
I need to keep a book of all the names we pray for here...:)...... I have a great one....
You are so wonderful to keep/take your grandson... and I know it is hard to hit that 1 yr. It was the WORSE for me... or maybe 2 yrs was.. either way.. I FINALLY look at things a little differently now. It takes a few yrs sisters... but it does happen..
the more time you have between you... and any further dx..... the more you begin to TRUST your body again...
xxxooo
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Traci, Laura and all thanks for your responses and prayers>
Traci - appreciate all of your advice and am the type of personality that will keep searching for answers on hip pain and energy, however Onc's insist it is chemical menopause and will most likely give me a break from hormone therapy soon. I have had a bone scan earlier this year and a hip MRI last year all fine..just some bursitis and arthritis (mild)
I am enrolled in Dahn Yoga now and in addition to working out daily this is for pure meditation and breathing and stretching it should be great for me. If any of you ladies have any feedback on building back energy after all this treatment ....ideas and feedback are very welcome.
Thanks again and look forward to prayer group on Friday.
Do we each have assigned times?
Laura went to sleep praying for Karen and your friend with MM, offered their names up again at mass today.
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Hello everyone new & old,
Well I finally obtained my PET/CT and unfortunately it was not good. It appears I have 2 new focal areas (tumors?) in my rt. breast area as well as in my left pelvis, spine and neck. Even my right femor showed something. I'm not totally convinced this report is completely accurate but it does explain the deep pain in my left hip. I am using a cain. Also, a portion of my rt. lung is collapsed. I can't go on chemo until I get this resolved. I don't know if I can get into another trial and it's so difficult w/my ins. But last night on Joel Olesteen his message was for me " Unexplained adversities". Be not surprised. Give them to the Lord to handle." So Jesus ,it's all yours! I had a talk w/my 11 yr. son that mommy may not get better or live long. So hard. He doesn't deserve this. My DH just lost his mom in May. But I'm okay with whatever the Lord gives me..healing or everlasting life. I can't tell my DM. It's too hard. So sisters, keep me in prayer.
I'm so happy Jan your surgery was great.
Prayers for everyone, Karen & Diane's husband. Oh we also lost another TN sister last week who strarted chemo with me in 8/08. Please pray for Lisa (HUGS) Scznsny. Only 32 and left a 3 yr. old baby girl. Please Lord, let us find a cure for this beast.
Jeannine
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Jeannine
My heart just hurts for you and your family, I really have so much faith for you. You have been an inspiration to me from the get go! I am praying so hard for you my dear and it always ends with a very positive feeling! I am just so upset for your son, how did he take this information. Please know that you are being held in prayer and that I still feel this is not your time, I pray that you can get resolution to your lung issue and get into that trial expeditiously.
I can't stand the fact that more children keep losing their precious Mothers. I hope someone can come along and have words or prayers that help pull me out of this funk I am so unhappy that this is happening to so many, I am just crying as I write this.
I feel prayed out sometimes, I am still faithful but depressed. sorry it is just a bad few days.
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Hello Sistas Old and New!
It's been a busy morning workwise for me but I just wanted to let you all know that I've started praying the morning prayers for myself, my family and all of you on this board. I find it best to pray after my kids leave for school.
Mmm5, you need to get out of that funk, I was swirling in it for quite a few days myself so why don't we start some "daily" prayers like morning, 3 o'lclock and evening? My best time slot is 7:45am PST. You can be doing it at whatever time zone, it doesn't matter. In fact, if everybody here will start at their time zone it will equate to our hourly prayers - right?
I've been reading up on everyone's intentions and kept a mental note. I wish I can console each one of you. So I will just offer a ~~ Group Hug ~~
I'm halfway through on my antibiotics and can't really say that it has resolved my infection much. In fact the nipple, aerola and a little bit surrounding the edge of aerola is still very sensitive. I will continue to have faith that it will heal. I have my PET scan pre-authorized now and am scared to get it done. Guess I don't want to face the truth.
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I do need to do daily prayers in addition to the novena, I can take 7pm EST which is 10 for many of you.
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Thank you 3M. Your support and inspiration has been so helpful. My son cried but he is strong. My 21 DD was very upset too but we're holding on to the Lord.
I just pray I'll be able to attend his graduation in May. We'll see..
Count me in on the prayers and novenas. I'll try to pop in more frequently.
In Jesus name.
Jeannine
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Ladies in faith, I pray now for Karen and Jeannine in Jesus name may the Hevenly Father now touch their life and heal them, give them the strengh and peace of the Lord.
Please tell me what time you would like me to pray on Friday the evening hours would be best. I am up to about midnight. Am I praying for pray request on this sight and all BC sisters or am I praying a certain novena. Please let me know how this will work. Thanks
Betty
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Dear Lord, hear the prayers of your daughters on this board. Stay close to us and give special comfort to our families and especially to our children. Amen.
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Jeannine,
I am so sad your news was not good. I have been thinking about you, and just know we all hold you in our hearts and will amp up our prayer circle for you. Will you let us know how we can support you best? Do turn it over to Jesus. I will pray for a clinical trial for you, is your Onc on board yet to help you look?
Prayers for Lisa Scznsny, who has gone on to the Lord. God Bless her and her family, and keep them healthy. Please help then through their grief, that they may all reach their potential here on earth. Give them the knowledge and comfort that they will be reunited together once again. We ask that you help us honor Lisa's fight with breast cancer by helping researchers make progress in the treatments of triple negative and all breast cancers.
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Jeannine,
Be strong.
I wish you had not gotten this news. Now is the time to give this up for good, to our Father. god Bless you in the journey... your family also....
My prayer is God allows you to live, treating your illness...
In prayer,
Laura
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my prayers are offered for Jeannine.
I love this growing number of women here.
I also pray for my brother who had scans today. he may have to go on chemo. let it be light or not at all Dear Lord. He has children and much to do. I pray for the family (a daughter and wife) of my friend Mike who suddenly died on Sunday.. they still don't know why..
i selfishly thank God for our new car... our last was a deathtrap.
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btw Estepp, perhaps i can drive to Blue Springs now.
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Apple,
I just had one!
Lightness aside, you really are going through it. Will you please keep us updated on your brother? Maybe there is some comfort in him knowing he has you to support him and understand. Your dear friends are also grieving the sudden loss a husband and father, without any chance to prepare or understand. I pray for them dealing with shock and grief.
and no selfishness about having a safe car, just a blessing you deserve
It's nice to have a ray of light in the middle of some challenging times. Perhaps this car will be a saving grace for your brother, or your ability to connect with him, if he lives within driving distance.mmm...I trust you will keep digging until you find the source of your pain. I just really hope you feel better soon, both physically and mentally. Are you being triggered right now because of an anniversary of any part of this journey? I think it's important to be kind to ourselves when we are prayed out, as our soul's need sustinence before being able to give to others. I may not be very learned in the Bible, but I believe? Jesus cried out to his father, he felt despondant, and fearful. He went through his horrific trials for many reasons, but I tend to interpret this as his being able to understand and have compassion for human suffering. Be kind to yourself, as he would be. I really think forgiveness is incredibly important for ourselves, and showing yourself the compassion you would others. It's o.k. I do hope you feel better soon, and that your spirit will be lighter. That's the beauty of this, we can take turns when we are feeling strong, to hold others up. We'll hold you now.
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Laura,
Will add Karen to the prayer list. I am worried about missing people. I am wondering if we should have a list here, or keep a list at home. It seems Betty is a late nighter like myself, so perhaps we can think in time zones. I am certainly up until 12 or 1 myself on Fridays, but not sure what is the latest for the ladies in the East Coast (and the earliest on the West.)
I'll put out that from 7P until 1 AM I am good....so I will follow your all's lead.
So I think we have:
Laura
Apple
PS...Paula, when do you have another checkup to see how your antibiotics are doing?
Paula (Diamond)
mmm5
Jeannine?
Betty (kindone)
JanetinVirginia?
Nancy
lovemyfamily?
Traci
Sheila (on vacation)
Jan508?
anyone else I am very sorry, I will lost my post if I peak back!
Then the lists of names...
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I missed Pat (pagowens)..East Coast, offline by 8 PM?
and PatMom...has prayer request, Art Lentz
I'm sorry I missed you both!
I am thinking I am going to need help getting everyone's prayer requests....any ideas?
Good Night All, Sweet Dreams
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I suggest that independently... those who are praying... keep their own list at home. When you personally choose to post it here...on our thread.. then you do so.... from your list.
This is a great way for each of us.... praying...to hold our own selves accountable... and this, in itself.... is a way to grow in our Christian faith with God.
Apple... Why would you drive to Blue Springs? LOL.. do you think I live there?
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Traci ~ seems like my treatment is on a stand-still. Stopped the Tamoxifen, rads delayed but still fighting this infection. Just this afternoon my temp was 100.2, I was again fatigued and needed to lay down in bed. The lines that they drew during the simulation has faded and perhaps there's a mistake in calculation and required my rad onc to personally be there when they do that. I'd like to think that the delays is some kind of intervention.
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Estepp.. i did think you lived there. It would be a cosmopolitan place to meet. ha ha
Excelsior Springs? Independence?
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I'm not sure if we're still discussing Friday night group prayer or another process? For Fridays, I can be here pretty much anytime between 7pm and 9pm EST (or even 10pm). I usually try to walk right after dinner - but it's getting dark earlier & earlier each day now and will have to change exercise schedule anyway!
The answer is probably back within these 82 pages (look what you started Laura!!) - but how does this work. Do we type our own prayers at the "meeting time" or do we say a common prayer at that time?
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Laura,
That sounds good to me, I am thinking that a prayer notebook is best. I worry that someone will ask for specific prayers, so may I make a suggestion that Friday afternoon, anyone that wants to offer names for group prayer will post them?
Janet and all:
I liked starting with the St. Peregrine like we did last week. I feel like it honors the intention of this thread, and Laura's inspiration
I also enjoyed individual prayers offered as well...it helps me to develop "spiritual muscles."
what do you all think?
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Paula,
Wow, off the tamoxifen as well. and you still have the low grade fevers. I believe in divine intervention as well, things are as they should be. I do wish you felt better. I think you know I had a few false starts before I officially began my treatment, so it will happen in it's own time. I pray for a complete healing before you start your Rads, and for your temperature to return to normal. Get plenty of rest and fluids
Prayers for Sisters Carol and Jeannine, may they receive God's healing. We ask for you to hold them close and bring them into remission.
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I thought I would share a reading that jumped out at me today, as I walked by the book. It covers some of what I was trying to say yesterday regarding Jesus' capacity for forgiveness. (Therefore we must be forgiving of ourselves)
Reading form Praying Day by Day, a year of meditations
September 23
Forgiveness
Thinking through the world's critique of the church, that Christians are by nature conflict animals-that we are even defined by the conflict inherent in trying to make you one of us-we need to return to our founder.
What is never-failingly impressive in Jesus' ministry is his majoring in forgiveness and grace, rather than a frustrated demand for judgment and law. He is not there to straighten people out. He is there to forgive people whose lives have become un-straightened through outward circumstances or through their own deliberate fault. "God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him" (John 3:17). So strong is the overwhelming theme of forgiveness and absolution rooted in the ministry of Christ that he says he has nothing to say to righteous persons, everything to say to sinners (Matthew 9:13).
When I walk down Connecticut Avenue near my parish in Washington, DC, wearing my clerical collar, I receive a few warm smiles. But I also get a lot of dirty looks and quite a few accusing stares. This is new for me. Somehow the collar has come to represent, for many people, judgment. The collar signifies intolerance.
This was not Jesus. He loved and forgave. He ended the conflict-structure of accusation and separation with words of forgiveness and unity. He gathered. He did not cast out.
Jesus' unity of approach lies in this forgiveness of sin and of sinners. There is an antidote to all this bad blood.
Paul F. M. Zahl
(Foreward Movement is an official non-profit agency of The Episcopal Church)
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Squid! you are an official someone? Prayers and love to all my sisters. I love to think of our Jesus and his love and compassion.
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lovemyfamly,
there is nothing official about me
certifiable, maybe. I'm having a really rough day, so I peeked here to get some sustenance. Full Body Rebellion. ack!
Prayers and Love...
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Hello All,
Feeling better
I wanted to let you know that JanetinVirginia will be reading all of the posts tonight...she has gone over the limit for today, so is restricted from posting. She wanted you to know she is right here.Janet, I am off to swim...thinking of you all. I was wondering if you already took your walk?
Blessings,
traci
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Yes prayers going out for you and your boys and all that are going through, may God put HIS Loving Arms around you and the boys and all.msphil
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