Posted on 02/09/2018 10:07:51 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
Please pray for Elizabeth, 96 yrs old. She had a fall and a stroke tonight. Nothing broken but she was terrified, did not recognize family, couldn't speak for a while,was afraid of the EMTs. Perked up a little to let them know she will NOT go to the hospital! We called our priest. She knew him (!) and was happy to receive the Sacraments! Some language and mobility returned but she is very frail. She's always been strong in her faith and good-humored. And I was proud when an EMT asked her who the president is, she gave an enthusiastic answer, "Trump!" May God watch over her tonight.
May The Lord bless and keep her close to His heart and take her comfortably to His side when it is her fitting time. May she have a robust quality of life and relationships until that time. The Lord’s healing, health and wholeness to her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Prayers up!
Prayers sent for your beloved Elizabeth.
May the Great Physician provide healing to the body, comfort and peace for the soul.
Prayers. Get her back home among familiar objects as soon as you can.
Prayers up for Elizabeth. Thank you Lord for watching over her!
GOD bless her!...confirm her beliefs and let her go...
God bless.
Prayers for her. I have an elderly mom - sometimes the hospital is not always the right answer.
Praying for her. Sounds like she’s in good spirits!
Prayers.
Prayers.
It sounds like Elizabeth is already very richly blessed. I will add my prayers for her comfort and continued strength in the Lord.
Indeed. Prayers up!
Bless her heart. Prayers up.
Great seeing your name hereon, old friend.
I will pray for her.
My mother is 97 and bedridden since 2015. She had a TIA class mini-stroke in July 2016. She didn’t lose anything physically but lost a lot of “connections” (my layman’s term) between various facts and memories. Examples: for awhile she could say the words “mother”, “father”, “brother”, “sister”, “son”, “daughter” but had no real idea how they interrelated or what they meant. For awhile she thought she was her daughter’s sister. With time she has regained some of those connections and remembers people better...to a degree. She knows me on sight now as someone important but still has to be told my name when I first arrive for a visit.
She has lived with my sister for a long time. Their relationship is “complex.” She (my sister) has been very diligent in caring for her and is a bit of a taskmaster in enforcing the various memory drills and physical tasks needed to help her recover and not relapse.
Agreed. Qx’s stepdad was not about to go to the hospital. He died in his usual recliner—refusing any morphine—with truaumatic breathing gasps but that was his will and we didn’t violate it. IIRC, he was about 92 or so, too.
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