Posted on 04/29/2007 10:47:38 PM PDT by Global2010
Just got finished from shift with 28yrs of caring for King Vanity who is a medically fragile quadroplegic.
We came home from Medical Center and have been working full board to keep him going.
Doc suggested we take him back to the Med Center for hospice arrangements.
I have been his careprovider for all his life and he has asked me to stop making him get up and go like he used to do and let him rest.
His lungs and digestive sytem are shutting down due to lifelong brain stem damage.
Our Priest will be here tommarrow to give him his last rites...
He will then be allowed to chill (I will make him work when possible to get up and go) untill the good Lord calls...
We have done all possible and are respecting his right to have comfort at home.
Meaning Free Repub and CSpan Road to the White House. (each to their own)
He will be 28 on May 23 and is the longest survivor of his type.
I know the Lord will grant him many years to come just not as a go go guy.
Medically he can not tolerate the constant hands on care as his health requires more and more constant care.
King Vanity is an active Catholic and a member of Militia Imaculta Fr.Kolbe ministries which is his life long goal of lifting all others up in his suffering through Prayers.
Prayers up for him...
And thanks King Vanity for lifting up the rest of us in prayer...
I have been given to understand that such prayers are often far more *powerful* than our garden variety ones.
Catholic Ping.
He is not going home but is preparing for his time.
Last rites will be done tommarrow afternoon then he has years to relax from a very active life.
Prayers for King Vanity and family.
I lift you up to the Lord, both you and King Vanity. May you both feel the Arms of God about you and know - you are not alone.
To Him who has granted us the gift of this man, all thanks be given! For a life on earth well lived, for the heart to love through pain;
for the song in the night, we praise You, our Maker and Ruler, God!
My deepest prayers extended for you and King Vanity, that he is getting the care and comfort he needs and that you are getting some rest.
God Bless you both.
Prayers going up for King Vanity and family.
Prayers just offered up for King Vanity to help in their pain and difficulties in their last stages. And prayers for you as you have to deal with this loss and dramatic change as KV’s care giver.
Prayers on the way. I know he’s a fighter and you are devoted to him and he to you.
God bless.
Prayers for him and for you.
Special prayer request to the Earthquake Ping List for long time FReeper FRiend Global2010 and her dear son King Vanity.
Please address comments directly to Global2010 and her son King Vanity.
Hey my earthquake FRiend.
Alaska had a 6.2 today...
I am getting more sleep here than when I was on call bedside for KV at the Medical Center.
It was a great learning exp. and he got great care....spent many hours done in nuclear med sci. (sic)
I have known this day would come and for the last two years “thanks to FR and Salvation” have been preparing a life after when the time comes to stay right here in America and do neonatel care for babies who have no hospital/doctors available for intervention.
I hope to stay lower 48 but if sent will go to Alaska. Wherever the Church and the good Lord sends me.
Thanks Jim that means a whole lot coming from a FRiend in some what the same shoes.
Prayers.
May The God of all Comfort bless you each with abundant senses of His Spirit’s Presence.
May your hours and days be as meaningful and intimate with Jesus as possible.
May you have as full a communication as possible.
May you know as much wholeness, peace, provision and rest as possible.
May your spirits, your all rest in HIM WHO IS ETERNAL REST.
May The Lord Jesus hold you each to His chest.
In Jesus’ Name.
Thanks his 3 yellow labs appreciate it.
They love to mosh pit with him when he is up in his Wheelchair. LOL Sick twisted Dogs.
They will be a constant “hound” on his be hiney. : }
:)
Bless your heart for your steadfastness. You have truly sacrificed. I have been a caretaker and in no way does it compare to the length of time you have endured.
Doctors gave us the same suggestions, hospice, etc. Home was the best.
Your son has the gift of pure love.
It is.
We do.
ect ect.....
This is a phase but as faith and wisdom would have it we prepared long ago.
We have been two peas in a pod literally other than our Labradors so yes when on of the peas wether KV or me goes we will have a difficult seperation.
prayers for all concerned, for rest, peace, and strength.
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