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Please Pray for My Mother
self | Bigg Red

Posted on 05/18/2006 1:55:46 PM PDT by Bigg Red

My mother Marie will be 94 next month, and she has been a faithful Catholic all of her life. She fell and fractured her hip, and, as I post this, she is currently in the hospital awaiting the surgeon's decision on whether he will operate tonight or tomorrow.

Fortunately, her heart and lungs are in good shape, so she is a good candidate for surgery, but she has senile dementia. The source of concern for our family, based on what her primary care physician has said, is that she may not go through rehab well enough to go back home. As I am sure everyone knows, often elderly people go downhill fast after this sort of injury.

Please pray for this dear lady. She raised 9 children, and she has 28 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, and 2 great great grandchildren.


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My FRiend Bigg Red's mother needs our prayers...


101 posted on 05/18/2006 4:34:37 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers for your Mom.


102 posted on 05/18/2006 4:37:21 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Bigg Red; Mrs. Don-o
I know exactly what you are dealing with. We have my father in law - 92, with dementia and blind. He fell and just broke an arm about a year ago. Made a complete recovery

We are blessed to have kept him here at home. We pretty much know that if the time comes that he must go somewhere else, he would die soon. The disruption of his environment would be more than he could endure.

I would encourage you to get all the support you can on making this decision. The hospital should have a patient advocate. I have used that.

Hospice may be a resource. They are great for us.

Freepmail me if you need more of our experience. We have been down this road, twice.

103 posted on 05/18/2006 4:40:47 PM PDT by don-o
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To: trussell

Prayers requested here...


104 posted on 05/18/2006 4:44:27 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers for your Mom.


105 posted on 05/18/2006 4:44:43 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayer bump


106 posted on 05/18/2006 4:45:08 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Bigg Red

Prayer Bump!


107 posted on 05/18/2006 4:53:03 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers up for you and your mom. She sounds like quite a lady! Stay strong.


108 posted on 05/18/2006 4:57:51 PM PDT by rampage8
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers on the way, Bigg Red, for your mom, you and the rest of the family.


109 posted on 05/18/2006 5:08:48 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: Bigg Red; 4woodenboats; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; abletruth; Accountable One; Aeronaut; ...
Prayer ping.

Please post your replies to Bigg Red


Bigg Red, My prayers going up for your mother, Marie and your family. God's protection and healing for Marie ...God's comfort for your family.  

Blessings,
trussell


If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

110 posted on 05/18/2006 5:49:34 PM PDT by trussell (Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?)
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To: Bigg Red

God bless your beautiful mother. May He give the doctors the wisdom to know how best to take care of her.

I hope the Lord will spare her to you and to all her dear ones for a while yet. She may surprise everyone by making a good recovery.


111 posted on 05/18/2006 5:59:47 PM PDT by Palladin ("Governor Lynn Swann."...it has a nice ring to it!)
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To: Bigg Red

From the Orthodox Christian Prayer book:

"O Lord our God, Who by a word alone did heal all diseases, Who did cure the kinswoman of Peter, You Who chastise with pity and heal according to Your goodness; Who are able to put aside every sickness and infirmity, do You Yourself, the same Lord, grant aid to Your servant Marie and cure her of every sickness of which she is grieved; and send down upon her Your great mercy, and if it be Your will, give to her health and a complete recovery;

for You are the Physician of our souls and bodies, and to You do we send up Glory: to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Both now and forever, and to the ages of ages.
Amen.


112 posted on 05/18/2006 7:45:48 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: Bigg Red

just lost my dear mother a month ago......I hope you can hang on to yours ....life just isn't the same when your mom dies, even if she's up there in years.....


114 posted on 05/18/2006 8:52:47 PM PDT by cherry (.)
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To: nutmeg

Prayers for your Mother !!!


115 posted on 05/18/2006 11:27:59 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Bigg Red

Bless your sweet mother! I will add her to my prayers for a speedy recovery.


116 posted on 05/18/2006 11:33:02 PM PDT by derllak
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To: Bigg Red

Just sent a prayer for all concerned.


117 posted on 05/18/2006 11:36:49 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers up!


118 posted on 05/18/2006 11:42:10 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers that all goes well.


119 posted on 05/19/2006 12:10:43 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Bigg Red
May God hold your mother close to Him now and guide those who care for her. May He comfort her family and give them peace and strength. May He restore her to health in His service, in Jesus' name.

Carolyn

120 posted on 05/19/2006 1:28:06 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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