Prayer Request For My Wife's Family (The Matriarch Has Passed)

07/31/2009 | Viking2002

[Viking2002]

I have just returned to the lodge with a heavy heart. My wife's mother - in every sense the matriarch and glue that held together a very large, close family - passed away today, at 4:30 PM EST. She had been admitted to the hospital last night after side-effects from her first chemotherapy treatment earlier this week, as a precaution against the recurrence of a very aggressive form of cancer that was surgically removed two months prior. This morning, she suffered total cardiac and respiratory arrest, and as the result of anoxia, her higher brain function and internal organs began to shut down. The pain and heartbreak we all felt in the chapel as her family gave her doctors the go-ahead to terminate life-support was palpable. I ask all my Freeper friends to say a little prayer for strength for them on this day, and God bless.

[FrdmLvr]

Prayers for you, your wife and her family.

[tajgirvan]

I am so very sorry for the loss. May the LORD comfort you with His Peace and Compassion.

[Tainan]

Prayers offered and may remembrance of her words and actions always be with you and yours.

[Viking2002]

Yes - her name was Sadie Dyes.

[Dacula]

Prayers for the soul of Sadie Dyes and for the whole family.

May God rest her soul and give comfort to those who loved her.

[republicangel]

Prayers for your wife’s family and for you, too.
I ask God to hold your family together and give each other strength.

[Carley]

Many many prayers. So very sorry for the loss.

[stylecouncilor]

So sorry for your loss. Prayers up.

[B-Cause]

Viking2002, our sincerest sympathies to your family.

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A Prayer for Viking2002 and Family.



The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Amen!

[JRandomFreeper]

Prayers lifted.

/johnny

[NautiNurse]

May God bless you and your family. May He grant each of you strength and understanding during this painful time.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Dear Lord Jesus,
We lift up your child Sadie Dyes in prayer as you welcome her into your Heavenly kingdom.

May you hold her family close in their time of grief and loss, and may they find comfort in her sweet memory.

Amen.

[koraz]

My prayers go out to your wife and her family. May God watch over them during this difficult time.

[radiohead]

My condolences. I have a friend undergoing cancer treatment. I must admit that while I knew it could make you ill, it never occurred to me that one could die from the side effects.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Prayers up from DownUnder, for you and your family.

God Bless you all
*DieHard*

[azishot]

My thoughts and prayers are with your family.

[PGalt]

Condolences to you, your wife, your family and MIL’s extended family and friends.

love

[girlangler]

Prayers for your family Viking, and also for you cyborg.

I am at my Mother’s house right now, taking care of her. She has cancer and just finished all her treatments, and is having a rough time. Mom is 82.

[Viking2002]

God bless all 82 of your mother's years. My mother-in-law made it to 70. My mother is 68, and as a retired RN of 42 years, she puzzles as to why a single chemo treatment would have resulted in this. The current consensus is, something underlying was the cause; the single chemo session was just the catalyst that triggered it. The sick irony is, my mother-in-law was also a retired RN, and may have been aware of the physiological mechanics of what was happening to her in those final hours, but was too incapacitated to express it.

[cyborg]

Memorial Sloan Kettering is doing research into why some people have this response to chemo. My mother was told she lacked the liver enzymes to clear chemo from the body. It’s an enzyme she was born without. She also had a very rare cancer too. It was hell on earth for this brand new nurse.