Posted on 04/03/2013 10:56:24 PM PDT by roamer_1
Some of y'all were notified by FReepmail of Uri's condition some weeks ago - At the time, it was open heart surgery, which is bad enough... The letter below is from Uri's wife. He's been down a rough road and she would really like FR's Prayer Warriors to continue praying hard.
{Edited for privacy} are mine. Otherwise, the letter is as I rec'd it.
Hat-tip to Quix who was primary in getting in touch with Uri's household, and to Joya for her help too.
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{Uri'el 2012} was born with a genetically bad heart valve. He lived with it for years. Five years ago he started to have episodes of shortness of breath and dizzy spells. He saw a cardiologist who said, "We can crack your chest open, and give you a new valve and you will have the heart of a thirty-five year old." {Uri'el 2012} would say later, "I liked the part about the heart of a thirty-five year old, but that cracking the chest open part doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy."
In the last year things got progressively worse. He knew that he had no choice, if he wanted to live, then to agree to the open-heart surgery. Doctors were seen, and plans were made. He was to go into the hospital on February 1st for the surgery.
The day before the surgery I remember hearing a "mourning" dove that appeared to be on the roof right above the bed. She sung a very mournful song, and she was right above {Uri'el 2012}'s side of the bed. Since I was a child, God has used birds to get my attention. The minute I heard that dove's song I felt like things were not going to go well. That night, as we prepared to go to {Big City} the next day, I remember saying to {Uri'el 2012}, "Are you sure that this is what you really want to do." He said, "At this point what choice do I have?" I knew he was right. Regardless, I had a premonition that things would not go smoothly.
The next day {Uri'el 2012}, {my daughter}, and I spoke with the cardiologist doing the surgery. I remember the nurse weighed {Uri'el 2012} and he weigh 210 lbs. The doctor told us that, with the exception of the valve, {Uri'el 2012} was in good shape and he would go home with in 5 days, and within six weeks he would be better then new.
The operation the next day took six and ½ hours. The doctor spoke to me afterwards and told me that {Uri'el 2012}'s valve literally desenegrated in his hand when they opened him up. It's a miracle he made it alive to the operation.
For some reason things didn't go as planned. {Uri'el 2012} would not leave the hospital for two weeks. Later, that would prove to be very telling. At the time we didn't have a clue. When he finally left the hospital in {Big City} he was sent to a rehabilitation center in {another town}. The minute he walked in there he weigh 247 lbs. He was swollen like a balloon, and no one knew why. After two weeks there he was released to go home.
He came home and had to be waited on hand and foot. He was weak and in a lot of pain. He still could not lift his arms, and now it was over 3 weeks since the operation. He slept in the lazy boy recliner, as it was too uncomfortable for him to lie down in the bed.
By his fifth day home he was becoming lethargic, could not eat and would stare into space. I began to fear he had had a stroke. My daughter and I decided to call an ambulance to take him to the ER. When we got there he had a tempeture of 104 degrees, he was in massive pain in his chest area and was having difficulty breathing. The er doc called a cardiologist. The cardiologist determined he had an infection. He was airlifted back to {Big City}.
An infection specialist was called in. After two days of tests {Dr. Infection Guy} was very blunt when he told {Uri'el 2012}, you have a severe infection and it's in your bloodstream. The disease we would later find out is MSSA. MSSA infection is a disease that is dangerous and scary for a number of reasons. It is contracted while at hospitals when a person is in a weakened condition. It is resistant and sensitive to powerful antibiotics making it especially difficult to eradicate. MSSA and MRSA infection are virtually the same disease with minor differences. They are both staph infections that enter the body through the nasal cavity, the respiratory track as well as open wounds. They are both "flesh eating" diseases.
The swelling {Uri'el 2012} had was the MSSA infection. He was sent to {another town} Living Center with an infection, and no one there knew it or did anything about it, even when I complained that there was NO WAY an open heart surgery patient should have gained that much weight. I kept saying, "Something is wrong!" I was ignored.
{Dr. Infection Guy}, the infectious disease specialist told the cardiologist that they had to operate right away, as the MSSA would be eating away the sternum and there was no time to waste. As it turned out, it was already too late. The sternum was gone as well as rib bone and muscle tissue. The cardiologist would go in 3 times to debride the bones of his chest and remove infection. They were having little luck in getting it all. It was in the bloodstream. {Uri'el 2012} only has one kidney. He went into acute renal failure. During this time he was kept in a state of "semi-coma" with a ventilator breathing for him. His condition was worsening, and one of the docs told me over and over, "Your husband is a very sick man." I told my daughter, "She is preparing me for the worse."
Because I have Lupus, which means I have an impaired immune system, it was determined I should not be there with him. I was sent home, to worry. Each time the phone rang; I just knew it would be someone telling me he was gone.
I reached a point where the emotional roller coaster was too much. I decided that no one should have to go through what {Uri'el 2012} was enduring. I got down on my hands and knees and cried out to God. "Now, God, you know that {Uri'el 2012} is your child. He has given His life to you and if he dies he is going home to be with you. Knowing that God, I beg you to either take him home to be with you, or heal him completely. Your will be done and I will accept it God, whatever it is!"
His two sons came from {Mountain Town} to visit him and he didn't even know that they were there.
But, miracle of miracles, God began to answer my prayers. A plastic surgeon was called in to reconstruct a chest for him, to hold the heart in. Up until that operation the heart was exposed, as the chest was open with only a vac wound covering.
The operation was two weeks ago. The feeling was that, if they closed it up it would help the infection to heal. They did close it 3/4ths of the way. He was so swollen they left about a third of the chest open. That wound is being treated currently. The kidney started to function normally, and the doctors were amazed! Thank you JESUS!
He was moved to a rehab hospital in {Big City} last Saturday. Every other day the wound is cleaned and the surgeon visits. The infectious specialist was in today and said that he will be there, still on IV antibiotics, for another six to eight weeks He will be on oral antibiotics after that. If the wound doesn't close completely he will have to have a skin graft.
His life will never be the same. His immune system will be impaired forever, now. He cannot drive because of the airbag hitting his chest. He will have to sit in the backseat of any car he is in.
What has happened to {Uri'el 2012} is a nightmare. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. MRSA and MSSA are running rampant in hospitals and the medical profession is keeping it quiet, for fear patients won't want to be operated on. Since this happened to {Uri'el 2012} I have found out things about this infection that I never knew. I have read the book MRSA the superbug. I know what to look for now, but at the time I first saw him swollen I didn't have a clue that it was the infection that was causing it.
I would like to ask for your continued prayers for {Uri'el 2012}. No one thought he would have made it this far. I know that God has been with him. I know that God answered my prayer and I know that, "No weapon formed against us will prosper!"
Thank you for your call. I will let {Uri'el 2012} know that you care and that you are praying for him!
God Bless you!
{His wife}
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As a point of order, I am not Uri's wife - A fact that he is no doubt thankful for, as my form factor is not suitable for that job description : D
However, my FRiend Uri'el (and his wife) will certainly appreciate your prayers and kindness.
Thank you very much.
God is the same today as The One Who kept Moses for a hundred and twenty years old and his eyes were not dim, nor his natural force abated. HE NEVER CHANGES nor a respector of person. We know that for HE SAID IT so we know Uri'el will arise and walk AND drive. Case closed!
Amen! From your lips (tips) to God's ear.
AMEN and AMEN!
Prayers up.
We thank you Father, for the answered prayers for our brother Uri'el, and we ask you to continue to guard and hold our brother in your hand and let no thing work against his healing.
We ask you Father, to confound his doctors with your healing touch, far beyond their understanding, and make him an example of the power of your hand, and your love for those that love you. Make his healing so speedy and complete, that all may know and glorify only you.
Fill him Father, with assurance and peace, that your Will will be done, and that your Will is never set against those who find their peace in you. Surround his wife, children, friends and family with that same assurance, with that same peace, that they will praise your Name and know that you are with them, without any doubt.
We thank you for your Son, that we may approach the altar boldly to praise you, Father, and to ask you any thing. For by the stripes of Yeshua the Messiah we are healed, and by His Name we can approach you, and by His Name we ask all things.
Amen.
Thank You, Dear FRiend!
May the good Lord hold Uri’el close, give him comfort and healing. And may Uri’el’s family be warmed and calmed by His healing light.
Actually, it came from God's Word to my heart then proceeded out of my mouth and full circle back to God. God's Word doesn't return void. Thank You, JESUS!
Prayers lifted....
AMEN and AMEN!!
Please pass on the notification of my prayers to Uriel. I wish that no one of God’s children would have to experience suffering. John 3:16. Let him come to life everlasting after a long life here on Earth...
Blessing Eight. Healing
Translation:
Heal us, O L-RD, and we shall be healed; save us and we will be saved, for the one we praise is You. Bring complete healing for all our sicknesses [*at this point, you may interject a prayer for the one who is ill], for O G-D, for You are our faithful and compassionate Healer and King. Blessed are you, L-RD, the Healer of the sick of Israel.
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Prayers/Daily_Prayers/Shemoneh_Esrei/Refuah/refuah.html
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Prayers/Daily_Prayers/Shemoneh_Esrei/shemoneh_esrei.html
Side note: The name 'Uriel' is one of the four 'Watchers' (archangels) of the heavens (Daniel 4:13) and is linked to the star Antares.
This is one of the four key stars in the heavens, also called archangel stars. Michael (Aldebaran) watcher of the East. Gabriel (Fomalhaut) watcher of the South. Raphael (Regulus) Watcher of the North. Oriel (Antares) Watcher of the West. At one time they marked the two Equinoxes and two Solstices. Aldebaran marked the zero Aries point in 3044 BC, Antares marked zero Libra 3052 BC, Fomalhaut marked zero Capricorn, 2582 BC, Regulus marked zero Cancer 2345 BC. As one of the four Royal stars of Persia its name was Satevis; but, as their lunar asterism, it was Gel, the "Red" the Sogdians changing this to Maghan sadwis, the "Great One" saffron-colored. [The angel associations come from Eric Morse, The Living Stars, p.35. Allen's explanation of these four stars on page 256 of Star Names]
These four stars have been characterized as Horses, reflected both in the famed Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (Revelations 6) and Chariot Horses in the Book of Zechariah. [Dr Eric Morse, The Living Stars, p.56.]
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Antares.html
While Michael and Gabriel are both mentioned in scripture the names Uriel and Raphael are not as obvious. Their roots however are.
RaphaEL, G-D heals, Reish Pei Alef, can be found in Malachi 4:2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. 3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty. 4 “Remember the Torah of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”
Malachi 3: 20-24 Hebrew
And: UriEL, Light of G-D, Alef Vav Reish Yud, 'Shine'
Isaiah 60:1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. 3 Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
M
Anxiously awaiting an update on Uri’el’s condition. Have you heard anything? Praying hard.
Hiya Mesta! VERY nice to see you.
I am not expecting an update for a while - I just hung the thread last night, so it is pretty up to date. Our FRiend has a long road in front of him - So please do pray HARD (but pace yourself) : )
I will let y'all know as soon as I get an update, but neither do I wish to intrude - I am sure his wife has plenty to worry about right now.
I join in urgent, earnest prayer for him!
I had openheart surgery several years ago. Never told anyone except Hardraade who has stuck with me through thick and thin although he’s a million miles away. But any doctor who would tell someone that they would be good as new after just afew weeks is nuts. It took me a year to recover and I have had three attacks since then, mostly in the last two years.
I know what he is going through and it breaks my heart. G-d willing, he will pull through this. So yes, I am praying very hard for him and his family.
Prayers lifting, for his continued healing, and for God’s guidance of his medical team.
And prayers of strength, for all who know and love this good man.
Dear Lord, hear our prayers.
Tatt
On 4/5/2013 8:21 AM, {Mrs Uriel} wrote:
Dear Brother-in-Christ,
Last night I read every one of the replies on Uriel's thread to him over the phone. I cannot begin to tell you how touched he was! That thread is so anointed that even as I read it to him the presence of the Holy Spirit was palpable.
We were amazed to see how many FReepers have also experienced the effects of this infection, and overcame and are here to encourage us to do the same.
Please pass on my sincere thanks to all involved in praying for and encouraging Uriel 2012.
In Him,
Mrs Uriel
Wrt 'over the phone'= Remember that Uriel's wife has a compromised immune system, and with the seriousness of Uri's infection, she is prevented from being at his side. I think y'all can imagine how hard that is for them both... Please keep them in your prayers.
This is looking like a long haul (6 to 8 weeks at least). Expecting updates weekly/bi-weekly unless conditions change.
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