Posted on 03/27/2007 4:25:29 PM PDT by fishhound
Hello Freepers;
I am desperately in need of help. Not what I had wanted for my one hundreth post thread.
Yesterday, I called my brother Bobby to say "hello".
It went like this...
Me:"Hey there, how are ya?"
Bobby:"Hey, not good."
Me :"Whadya mean?"
Bobby:"The cancer is worse then they thought. If you have people that you call to pray please call them now".
Me:"You got it..."
Last Monday he found out that it had returned. On Friday my sister and I together went to the Hospital to be tested to be bone marrow donors.
I waited twenty four hours to make sure I get this right. Here it is.
Our story is that my brother has been in remission from multi-cell mieloma for about a year and a half. It was sent into remission using chemotherapy,radiation and procedures with his own adult stem cells.
I am in pain beyond words.
Our mother also has a terminal illness (fibrosis of the lungs) and I fear how the full knowledge of this will affect her. As it is, I got the job of breaking the news to her last week.
The Lord bought my family back together late in life.The Lord brought wholeness for us. I have been telling people how filfulled I am; that I have lived to see such renewed love among a family that has had it's difficulties. My parents are divorced from back in the day when it was a stigma for people and kids. We were all estranged from one another. But in the last year the Lord moved mightily among us. I more than the others see it. I said some men might die bitter waiting for such as what I have seen and experienced. I know I was bitter. The stories of Wonder the last year seem countless. I thank God for His Presence in my life. This has been my witness of late. "Hey I am truely living in the happily ever after. I do not care what comes after this as I have seen true beauty from the Hand of God." When phone calls end in "I love you" or "love you" when for thirty years before it was unknown...you know. You just know.
So I was bowled over when the cancer came back. The first struggle was like a half a year in hell. Back then, one night, I left early from an uncle's wake to go to the emergency room. Bobby was there but he did not know what it was that made him feel so ill. We found out a week or so later.
A local newspaper article about a year ago described his struggle to remission. My brother told about how I had encouraged him to pick up his artwork and scultpure again after twenty years. I would go out and spend my last dime on supplies for him to give him something extra to fight for as he lay there..
Now his art work is back to what it once was and he only does Bible inspired sculptures. From just about dead, he is teaching others how to do thier own work.
He has a wonderful wife and young son.
Today though he is a Protestant and no longer a Catholic he came with me to be prayed over by a Priest. While we waited outside the church another Priest visitng form South Africa walked though the parking lot. I called him over and asked him to bless my brother. He did.Then the other Priest came and we went in and he blessed and annointed my brother in the chapel. I kind of felt like I had kicked in a door and and said "I am here to collect.":) I probably would have got one to get out of his car at a street stoplight, to bless my brother, if I saw one. I would do anything for my brother. He is my older brother and I only have one.
When my brother was first diagnosed I went to as many healing Masses as I could and stood in proxy for him. I did not do it for me I asked for nothing for me. Though in the end I think it changed me as well. Some, I drove 50-60 miles to reach. I put his name in for prayers everywhere I could.
I beg you for your prayers for my brother Bobby.
And may the Grace of God be in your lives. And may it show it's presence to you in no uncertain terms to your own heart, to your deepest self, as it has for me. Praise God!
Thank You, Sincerely Fishhound.
I’m so sorry. Prayers for your brother, mom, you and your family.
Fishhound, a prayer for Bobby, you and your family was on the Altar at noon Mass today. Holy Communion was prepared and partaken for the sake of these prayers. May the Peace and Love of the Lord be with you.
God’s Blessings on your brother and his family.
God’s Blessings on your brother and his family.
That is so very cool.
I’m fresh out of the Adoration Chapel, so I’m sure prayers still count for you and your brother.
God bless.
You and your brother will be remembered tonight in my prayers.
Prayers continue for Bobby and for you, fishhound.
Hello and please help. After surgery my brother made it home for a while. He is now back in the hospital and in the extreme state. I just got the call to bring our mother in and that is what I will do when I log off. But this is where I wanted to come first. My brothers wife has asked for prayers... please shake the heavens for us, for my brother.
I want you to know that I carried “for the people of FR, their families and their intentions” written on paper and prayed over at Masses by Fr. Tom De Lorenzo on a two occasions over the last weeks. I had him put his hand on the the stack of petitions that I carried. On Saturday a Church in Florida prayed for him thru my cell phone into his ear while I held it at the hospital here in MA.
I have carried the holy Love you have given in my heart and it has helped us all. I had more to write but haven’t been able to do so. There is more I wish to share and hope to do so. But for now I just beg your prayers. Please pray for my brother Bobby. Please ping your lists. Thank You, Thank You , Thank You. May Jesus’s Love be upon you in overflowing portion.
PLEASE Lord God, heal Bobby....comfort him, comfort his family...
Prayers also sent for your family.
Prayers lifted for Bobby and his family.
I join in urgent prayer for your brother, you, your mother, his wife and all the family!
I join in with prayers of healing, of comfort and peace. For all of you.
Your story is one of love among family. Blood runs deep and even though yours was at odds for awhile...it has all come together now and you all are there for your brother when he needs you the most. We are praying and praying that he will heal and that your family will enjoy many more years of new found family and love. God bless you all. God bless Bobby and all those who love him and all those who he loves.
fishhound((((Hugs)))Prayers for your brother Bobby.
Heavenly Father, I call on You right now in a special way. It is through Your power that I was created. Every breath I take, every morning I wake, and every moment of every hour, I live under Your power.
Father, I ask You now to touch me with that same power. If you created me from nothing, You can certainly recreate me. Fill me with the healing power of Your Spirit. Cast out anything that should not be in me. Mend what is broken. Root out any unproductive cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins, and rebuild any damages areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection.
Let the warmth of Your healing love pass through my body to make new any unhealthy areas, so that my body will function the way You created it to function.
Father, restore me to full health in mind and body, so that I may serve You the rest of my life.
I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
PRAYER of Father Larry J Hess
BTTT
Prayers lifted for Bobby.
We continue our prayers redoubled...
8mm
Praying that the Lord would glorify Himself in your family.
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