Saturday, April 8, 2006
The Faces of Those You Are Praying For
Posted in Just Our Day-to-Day Life
This is a picture of Dad and Aunt Ginny, his sister. They are both staying temporarily at the nursing home/retirement community that my sister is DON (Director of Nursing) at. It is HUGE!!! They are having fun getting to see each other so often, and my dad is pretty helpful in getting Aunt Ginny to do her physical therapy. He gets through his with flying colors, and is done in no time. We think that he will get to come home on Monday. Tonight Mike and I, along with my brother and sisters families, took him out to eat at a favorite restaurant in town. Then Mike and I went back to the home with Dad and his girlfriend Millie, and we played euchre. The men won, as always , but only by one hand at the end of the game, so Millie and I made it close!
Aunt Ginny is having lots of trouble with leg strength and balance, and can't walk well. Part of it is due to diabetic neuropathy, and part just because she isn't moving around enough anymore. They are also trying to get her blood sugar regulated.
Dad is being monitored for atrial fibrillation and blood pressure after his episode at home last Thursday that led to his hospital stay in the unit. Dad is also battling lung cancer. The original lung is showing all clear on the current PET Scan a couple weeks ago, but the other lung is now showing a couple spots.
This is my mother-in-law, the very next day after a full mastectomy. Doesn't she look GREAT???? She got to come home already the day after surgery! We were amazed at how good she looked, and how perky she was. She wasn't even in much pain. The little pillow under her arm has to be her companion for the next two weeks to remind her not to do anything at all with her left arm. She will be needing follow up treatment as well as physical therapy for her arm.
I hope this has helped give faces to the people in my family that you have been praying for. I don't have one scanned into my flickr account for Aunt Mary and my sister-in-law Holly yet. Aunt Mary is going to have chemo and radiation to shrink the colon cancer tumor before removing it. Holly had her pathology reports of the surrounding tissue come back clean after the removal of her squamous cell cancer that was removed from behind her ear, so we hope that is the end of that story!
Please continue to pray for all of my wonderful family.
If you would like, you can even pray for the dog, Eddie Haskell. He ran off tonight after we got home, and Mike is still out trying to find him. We got home around 11:30, and he never came back from going to the bathroom. So Mike is out hunting through the woods, up and down the roads, and still hasn't found Eddie. I'm so worried that he has gotten run over, or attacked by coyotes. Don't know what we'd do without that dog! BJ is in Boston now with family friends, and would kill us all if something happened to his dog while he was away.
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Saturday, April 8, 2006 - Thanks!
Posted by LittleEblingsAcademy
Thank you so much for the pictures! It is wonderful to see the faces of the people in our prayers. And... Wow! They look so great!
I will be praying for the dog... We have had tons of dog troubles, so I can relate to the need of puppy dog prayers.
Blessings and continued prayers! ~Beckie
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Saturday, April 8, 2006 - Thanks for the pics....
Posted by Jaybird
your family must have great genes! Everyone looks amazing....
Poor Eddie....I will be praying.
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Saturday, April 8, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Titus2woman
Thanks sooo much for sharing these beautiful pics! (((((HUGS))))) sandi
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Sunday, April 9, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Posted by writmm
It is great to have faces to go with the names and everyone is looking so well! Hope you found Eddie!
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