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Please keep my cousin in your prayers.
Nov 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM
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My cousin had a setback yesterday. He was sitting in a chair while talking to his doctor when he started having trouble breathing. He stopped breathing but he was still on the breathing machine. His heart stopped for 20 minutes then they got him back. The doctor thinks he won't have any brain damage bc the machine was breathing for him. The doctor says a blood clot went from his leg into his lungs. He is in a slight coma now but the doctor says he should wake up within the next few days. He is still in ICU & can use everyones prayers. He is a preacher & is right with God if he should be called home. Please keep his family in your prayers as well. His mom is my mom's sister & she has never gotten over losing my mom, I don't think she could handle losing her son. She has lost 5 nieces & nephews this year, too. His mom & dad aren't in real good health themselves. He has 2 grown kids & 3 grown step kids. He as 2 grandchildren that are 2 or 3 years old & a number of step grandchildren. His wife, Linda has lost 1 husband before to cancer. He also has 2 sisters & 2 bil with 2 nephews. His dad was a preacher for many many years. They have a very close net family so whatever happens to one, it happens to all. A couple of family members are staying with him throughout the night, every night. Please keep them all in your prayers. I know for a fact that God does answer prayers, I would not be here if he didn't.

When I was going through my cancer, I have people all over the world praying for me. I always joked how he must have gotten really tired of hearing my name so he healed me. If he didn't know me before he knew me then cause I don't think he got a moments rest from someone saying my name in prayer. Reality is that I know he knew me before I was born. For you see, he took my grandmother in my place. My mom's mom died just a few weeks before I was born. She died suddenly, she hadn't been sick or having any problems. She had a heart attack & passed on, before anyone could help her or even knew she was having a problem that day. When my mom was giving birth to me, she had a dream, they gave you gas & knocked you out back then, of a circle of people, each one had a note to sing but there was one person missing. So when it can to that note to be sung my grandmother stepped up & sang it. My mom was bleeding very badly & they laid me aside to save her. By the time they came back to me I was blue cause I had not be breathing. They put me aside before doing anything to me. My mom thinks I would have died that day if my grandmother hadn't died. There were other things that happened to me that could have killed me if not for the Grace of God. Such as when I was around 4, I fell off a picnic table bench & hit my head on the cement. I pasted out & I was vomiting. My dad refused to take me to the hospital but I made it through the night in spite of it. When I was 8, I got poison ivy on both legs. My dad again refused to take me to the doctor. It got worse & worse, to the point that I could not walk & my legs smelled rotten. They would ose & the poison would run down my leg. My legs were so swollen that they were about 3 times their regular size. My mom finally made my dad take me to the ER & the doctor ran testes to see if the poison was in my bloodstream yet. If it was he was going to call children services on my parents because that meant it was going to kill me. But again, I made it. It wasn't in my bloodstream which was very lucky. There are more times like this but I won't list them all. Then there was my cancer. God gave me dreams that saved my life. I had 5 dreams but the first one I refused to allow the message to come through. It was my aunt that had died of cancer & it really scared me. The next one was a school friend of mine that had died. We walked in the snow,talking & then we sat on the roof of a building & he told me that I should eat alot of snow. A few days later, I was admitted to the hospital for being dehydrated. There was a dream with my dad's best friend who had died of cancer, we were in his Volkswagen Bug & he told me to be sure & take the shots. I didn't understand what he was talking about because I was taking my shots. I gave myself shots everyday to bring up my white blood count. But when I had my last chemo treatment it became clear to me. My red blood count went dangerously low & the doctor was pushing me to have a transfusion, she said I was dying. I told her I would only take blood from my family, no public blood. She thought I was worried about HIV but I wasn't. I knew they were being very careful about that but they weren't so careful about screening for hepatitis. I knew 2 people that got it from blood transfusions & one of them had died from it. So all my family that could, got tested but none of them could give blood to me. My dad was sick , my mom was on heart medication, my step dad was the wrong type, my oldest son had hepatitis when he was 13, my sister did drugs & my step mom refused to get tested. My other 2 sons were too young. So I asked the doctor if there was a shot I could take. She said there was but the insurance company wouldn't pay for it. I told her to call & ask. She did & they did pay for it. So I started giving myself another shot every other day. My red count slowly came up. That was almost 15 years ago. Those are just a few of the things he was brought me through so I know if it is his will, my cousin can make it through this.

I would also like you to remember me in your prayers. I had my mammogram last week & it came back questionable. So I have to have a sonogram on Tuesday. I have been through this many times & it was nothing. But this year I can feel the 3 lumps they are wanting to look at closer. I decided last year to go ahead & get my left breast removed & have reconstruction. But the doctor wanted me to lose some weight which I didn't do. So I am working on losing the weight now & was going to have the surgery next summer. My plans may be forced to happen now instead. So I'm asking for you to ask God that if it is cancer, let it be just stage one. But for my family, I pray it isn't cancer at all. I'm not sure any of them could handle it right now.

Thank you so much for your prayers. I will keep you informed on my cousin & on myself. I have alot of faith & God has always been good to me. There is an old song that has always been one of my favorites, The Answer's On It's Way. The words of the course say oh yes, the answer's on it's way this I know, Jesus said, I believe & it's so. Our Heavenly Father knows our needs before we pray & yes the answers on it's way. This song always comes to mind when I start to pray, always has ever since I was a little girl & sang this in church.

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