I am always very happy to be included in the prayer lists at various Our Places. I believe that those prayers really make a difference.*
* The average survival time for a woman with my rare-but-aggressive variety of breast cancer is 3 1/2 years. I was first diagnosed in November 2010, so we're closing in on ten years. Some of it's the orneries, some of it's the docs and their medications, but I strongly believe that much of it is the prayers, and I am grateful for them.
I just got word of permission to continue my drug!
We'll go into town to get it in time for my first dose tomorow night
Indebted to all for thoughts, prayers, candles, etc
Off to light a candle to Our Lady of the Baseball Bat...
I've been having increasing problems eating. (And yet I'm not losing weight. The medics are pleased with this, but I'm not. Why bother having cancer if you can't slim at the same time?) Anyway, I heard today that I've got an appointment on Friday morning to possibly have a stent put in my throat to ease the problem. A month or more ago I went through the same thing, but my oesophagus wasn't constricted enough then to hold a stent in place. Goodness knows what will happen this time. I'm feeling fed up.
@Robert Armin So sorry to hear of your eating problem which appears to be that you are not truly as you feel, being fed up but just the opposite. Prayers for a easy, swift, and comfortable answer to the problem.
Back at home with stent fitted. Have to take extra care with food for a few days, while it settles down, but then it should make things easier. Here's hoping.
I’m so sorry, @Robert Armin! Praying for you—for physical, mental and emotional relief, rest and comfort, and that those treating you will be able to identify what’s going on and take care of it.
I've been in here for more than 24 hours now, and the doctors still can't decide if I've had a heart attack, or a reaction to the stent that was put in my oesophagus on Friday morning. And until they work out what it is, they can't treat me. So I'm not going anywhere, although I really want to be at home now. Prayers for clarity for the medics would be welcome. (If any of them were more than 12 it might help!)
In addition, I've realised that neither possibility involves cancer, so I shouldn't be posting here. Forgive me, but this has become my medical thread.
In addition, I've realised that neither possibility involves cancer, so I shouldn't be posting here. Forgive me, but this has become my medical thread.
The latest. The doctors seem to have agreed that it's a heart problem, so I'm about to me moved to a cardiac ward, presumably so I can have some tests. All of which means that there's no clear end point in sight yet, but I can see that this is the best place for me. (And one of my Wardens is going round to feed my cats, so there's nothing to worry about there.
My Bishop visited me this afternoon, and she was so supportive I wept. I have to much to be thankful for.
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You are, however, still on the weekly prayer list at Our Place, as I'm sure you are at many Other Places.
I could add the Blessed Orneries to the list, as they too need upholding in prayer, but people would be convinced* that I was bonkers...
*They wouldn't need much convincing...
I am always very happy to be included in the prayer lists at various Our Places. I believe that those prayers really make a difference.*
* The average survival time for a woman with my rare-but-aggressive variety of breast cancer is 3 1/2 years. I was first diagnosed in November 2010, so we're closing in on ten years. Some of it's the orneries, some of it's the docs and their medications, but I strongly believe that much of it is the prayers, and I am grateful for them.
I misread your post. About a healing needle: (I'm not pricky.)
As George Takei is so fond of saying, "Ohhhh, MY!" LOL.
We'll go into town to get it in time for my first dose tomorow night
Indebted to all for thoughts, prayers, candles, etc
Off to light a candle to Our Lady of the Baseball Bat...
( @Nick Tamen, I see what you did there.)
Hope she missed the orneries gathering over Galilit.
I daresay they will protect the flock from anything badly aimed by OLotBB...
Complete and utter heresy to imagine it could ever happen
Praying for you, @Robert Armin!
@Robert Armin prayers ascending.
Many thanks for all the support.
In addition, I've realised that neither possibility involves cancer, so I shouldn't be posting here. Forgive me, but this has become my medical thread.
Forgiven. Post away.
My Bishop visited me this afternoon, and she was so supportive I wept. I have to much to be thankful for.