Posted on 05/24/2006 5:51:44 PM PDT by Army MP Retired
FReepers.. I have only been a member of this community for a few days. In that short amount of time I have quickly come to know that the FReepers are compassionate and just plain good folks.
I am sending out to you a prayer request for my bride of nearly 18 years. This evening, we were counseled by her doctor that a lump we discovered in her breast a couple weeks ago is in fact cancer. The type is Infiltrating Ductal Carcenoma. We don't know what stage or any other information yet, really - we will meet with the DR tomorrow for details and to discuss treatment, etc. We are, frankly, very scared. If you could meet this amazing woman you would be very fond of her. For the past some 17+ years she has followed me all over the world as I served in the Army until retiring in December '05. She's spent countless months and years without me raising our two incredible boys on her own, while I did what was asked of me for our nation. She has always stood behind her Soldier and has performed, literally, thousands of hours of community service volunteer work for Army families. She received a certificate from President Bush last year for all she has done through the years. She's just an amazing woman.
Your prayers for my lady, Anita, would be so very much appreciated. We are faithful and believe in the power of prayer.
Thank you for your genuiness and for caring about our great nation the people that support it.
If anyone has experience dealing with breast cance, I would be most grateful to you for sharing your insight and thoughts through FReepmail.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this - God Bless.
Offering my prayers
Of course I will pray for your bride...I will pray for her and for you. I pray that God brings you comfort as you worry about her.
I also want to thank you and her for your service to this country...and welcome to Free Republic.
God Bless you and and heal your wife...
sleuth
Thanks for the ping, BG.
Army MP Retired .... you and Anita are in my prayers.
Thank you for your service and thank Anita for being a great military wife.
Father, hear our prayers. Please hold Anita in your healing embrace as you guide her doctors in finding the best treatment for her cancer. Please bless and comfort her and her family. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Prayers lifted....
Welcome to FR ... and thank you for your service to our nation. And pass on our gratitude to Anita for standing with you through all those years.
My family will pray for your good wife, Anita, and for you. Thank you both, for your contributions to our freedom, and may God bless you.
Prayers on the way that your dear wife be healed quickly and completely.
Lord Jesus we gather in Your Precious Name to ask for Your Healing Power over this Cancer.
OPS4
Please post your replies to Army MP Retired
Army MP Retired, My prayers going up for Anita and your family. God's protection and healing for Anita...God's peace and comfort for the family.
Blessings,
trussell
If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.
Prayers are on the way for Anita, and you too. Have faith, they have made such strides with breast cancer. You can fight this thing and win. One of my best friends is a survivor of many years.
Could you please ping the prayer warriors to this thread to help out this fine family?
God be with you and Anita.
Prayers for a good result and for serenity and calm as you face this together.
Father, I lift up your beloved daughter, Anita. You see her, You know her, and You loved her before the world began. We pray for her, Father, just as You asked us to pray to You. Hear us, Father; let Anita see Your Face in the whirlwind, and let her know You are God.
You are God. You are able. We pray for this -
And I lift up this good man, so torn by pain. In the night, You are holding his hand. Let him feel it, and let him give that love to his wife.
In this, he is fulfilling the duty you gave to him, from the moment he saw her face and fell in love. He is fulfilling his promise to Anita, and to You. Hear our prayer, O God our Father -
Heal her. Heal us. Fill us with Your Love. In Jesus name I pray it, Amen...
Prayers up.
You are the Great Physician. Look down upon your faithful daughter, Anita, and touch her with Your healing hand. Comfort and strengthen her husband as he supports her through this illness, and grant both of them the peace that comes through Your love.
In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Amen.
You got it, neighbor.
I nursed my first, late wife through Kaposi's hemmoragic sarcoma, and about the time it looked like she had it beaten, malignant melanoma raised its ugly head. But a stroke killed her- so you just never know what life will surprise you with.
Only a fool is not scared of something that may kill or maim them- fear is normal, and not a bad thing given the circumstances.
The two best things you can keep handy are a sense of humor ( I know it may not seem that way now, but you will see absurdities, contradictions, idiocy, and everything else a human being can experience ) and a sense of skepitcism.
Ask questions, and challenge answers you get. A good Doc will welcome them.
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