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.
Prayers for your brother, and for your whole family, fishhound. God will richly bless you.
prayers going up. check your FReepmail!
prayers going up. check your FReepmail!
Logan's Prayer Warriors...fishhound's brother is requesting prayers. Pegita, thanks for the ping.
PRayers up for Bobby and PRayers up for you fishhound for being such a caring person.
God Bless.
7. Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?
8. If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; If I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.
9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10. Even there would Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand would hold me.
11. And if I say: 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me, and the light about me shall be night';
12. Even the darkness is not too dark for Thee, but the night shineth as the day; the darkness is even as the light.
Prayers being offered up now.
I'm very sorry to hear all this, and I will add him to our prayers tonight.
Prayer going up.
You got it.
I'll be praying for him.
Prayers up for you, and your whole family.
sleuth
Has anyone turned up to be a bone marrow donor match?
God bless you all as you head into this new wind, and give you the strength and grace of eagles to hit the wind face-on and rise above this storm. Grace for your brother to heal. And for your mother.
Prayers for your brother and family.
Prayers on the way!
Prayers lifted.
Your pain and love for your family is evident in your post. May God ease the burden of worry on your heart. May He make His face to shine down upon your family now, especially your brother, that you may be strengthened and encouraged. May the Lord place His Healing Hands on your brother and restore him to full health, that he may be able to continue to teach others through his art and grow in your family's love.
Prayers.
My prayers are with you, your family, and especially your brother and mother.
Prayers sent!!
I lift up your brother in prayer. May the Lord bless his medical caregivers and your family.
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