sometimesdilly
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A very dear friend of mine will have open heart surgery tomorrow.
The surgery will involve removing all of the tissue surrounding her heart, tissue that was damaged by radiation for cancer she had 3 years ago.
Her doctors have told her the odds are high that she will die during the surgery or shortly afterwards. Best case, she only has several more years to live.
Last year we thought her problems were largely caused by Lyme, and Lyme definitely has hurt her chances of making it through this huge challenge/assault on her body.
She has two young children- 8 and 11, and the prospect of not being there for her children is causing her the most horrible pain imaginable.
Her name is Maureen, her surgery will begin tomorrow about 8AM, and will take, best case, 8-9 hours.
Please pray for her and for her family.
Dilly
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Praying.... God bless her and you too Dilly!
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Praying, Dilly, for peace and comfort for Maureen and her family, whatever happens.
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Praying for Maureen and her 2 dear children.
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Praying for Maureen and her family.
Please let us know how she is doing.
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Prayers for Maureen and her children.
Please update when you are able.
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I am praying for them.
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7/15/2010, 9:50 am CA time. Praying for Maureen.
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Praying for Maureen, her family, and her friends.
Oh - and for her doctors and nurses as well, that they might best be able to help her.
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Thank you all for the prayers.
Maureen made it through the surgery, but the rest of the news is very very bad.
Almost all parts of her heart are badly damaged from the radiation therapy she had, and the amount of fluid they are pulling out of her lungs has not decreased at all.
She may only have days left to live.
Her youngest son is with me now- he spent the night and day here, and will be will us as long as neeed be.
It is heartbreaking to hear him talk about his mom. He has no idea about what is about to happen.
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Dilly,
Thank you for the update.
Thanking God she made it through surgery, now asking God for a miracle to heal her so she may live to raise her children.
Bless you for caring for her son. So heartbreaking...wish I could do more...but prayer is powerful.
Please keep us informed.
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Dilly,
so very sorry. My heart goes out to them. I will continue to pray.
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Oh Dilly, my heart goes out to you, Maureen, and her family. I'll be praying that God will keep His hand on Maureen, bless her, provide for her, give her family courage, strength, peace and comfort.
Remember, God can do what we think is impossible. Sometimes it's not what we expect or hope for, sometimes it's even better than we can imagine.
no words I know can help... but sending love and prayers
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i have to say I am angry with God.
Maureen adopted her 2 children. One, the sweet boy I have here, she adopted right after he was born, addicted to heroin.
Maureen quit her job to take care of that child, who she discovered right away could only sleep in a moving car. Maureen drove him for hours every day and again at night so he could sleep.
She adopted her second child, a little boy of 4 , that no one else wanted, who had been so horribly abused he stood little chance of ever being normal.
She has loved both those boys so well that the youngest is fine emotionally, though behind developmentally, and her older child had a chance of being OK.
Why take THIS woman?! Where is the justice in that???
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Dilly, it's okay to feel angry. Touch it, feel it... and then let the anger go, when it's time.
Thinking of you today...
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So sorry to hear about this. I will be praying for Maureen.
This is a very similar story to my friend's mother (technically stepmother but she helped raise my friend) who died last year, in her early 40's, leaving behind 3 school-age children, the youngest of which was 7 or 8. She had cancer, and died either of cancer or complications....not completely sure. She was SUCH a loving woman, so pure of heart, and her family was her life. I rarely meet people as selfless as her. She was certainly needed here, but for some reason, God chose to take her from us.
This breaks my heart, and Maureen and her family will be in my prayers and thoughts. You are a great friend to care so much and ask for prayers for her...I am sure there are many people praying because they saw this, who haven't even posted here. ((((hug))))
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Dilly,
Unfortunately we do not always understand or know God's plan, but He does know best.
We will continue to pray for Maureen, her children and you also.
Big hugs to you!
Let us know how she, the children and you are doing when you can.
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Oh Dilly, I am so very sorry for your pain. Like Dekrator has spoken; we don't always know Gods plan... we have to have faith!
Praying for maureen and her children.
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Praying for the Angel of the Lord to encamp around her and deliver her.
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Dilly,
Some of my friends are praying for Maureen. One of them asked me to share this with you...(I hope that at some point you find it useful or comforting)...
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God is so gracious that he loves us unconditionally. He understands our questions why, when we cry, are angry. This is normal grief, and part of the grieving process. (Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance)
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -loved for ourselves or rather-loved in spite of ourselves.
No, it doesn't seem fair, anymore than a 3 year old child who dies of leukemia. Our days on this life are numbered, some short, some long.
An 18 century poet by the name of Rainer Maria Rilke said: "Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. The point is, to live everything! Live the questions NOW. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
May it be so with you and this family. Is there a husband? Who will care for the boys?
Man is born broken, he lives by mending, and the grace of God is glue. How true in all pathways of our lives! How often God has put me back together in all kinds of weather.
There are no answers or words to comfort you, though I wish I could. I do know that God will do what I can't if you give Him a chance.
Always in His timing, which is difficult, I know. God Bless.
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she also added this...
HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH GRIEF By Dr. Alan Wolfelt,
1.Allow children to be the teachers about their grief experiences.
2.Don't assume every child in a certain age group understands death.
3.Healing of grief is a process, not an event.
4.Don't lie or tell half-truths to children.
5.Don't wait for one big tell-all to begin to help children understand death.
6.Encourage children to ask questions about death.
7.Don't assume that children always grieve in some kind of orderly and predictable way.
8.Let children know that you really want to understand.
9.Don't misunderstand what may seem to be a lack of feelings when someone loved dies. ( some may internalize and/or withdraw )
10. Allow children to participate in the funeral.
11.Don't forget about the concept of magical thinking.
12.Remember that feeling relief doesn't mean a lack of love.
13.Realize that children's bodies react when they experience grief.
14.Don't feel bad when you can't give children total understanding about religion and death.
15.Keep in mind that grief is complicated.
16.It's best not to describe death as a loved one going to sleep, as this may create anxiety at a child's bedtime.
*** I like to think of life as having two parts: one part involves life on earth; the second part involves life in the hereafter- eternal life with God. ---------------------------
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Still thinking of you and praying for you today Dilly.
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how sad praying...
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Still praying for Maureen, her children and dilly.
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sometimesdilly
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Thank you for the continuing prayers, Hoose and Dek and Cactus and Sammy and MDW and sk8ter and Kelle. I am still praying too.
17hens- thank you so much for that list! It has already made a huge difference.
A few days ago when both Maureen's kids were here they were SO sad and withdrawn. Then I remembered one of the things on the list, which was that kids express grief with their bodies, so I rustled up some water guns and started a huge water battle. They went nuts- they tackled me and we wrestled, we ended up having a pillow fight too, and even a mini-marshmellow battle when one of them found a bag of those and started tossing them around.
It was wild and out of control, and I realized in the middle of it just how wise that list was, because at the end the kids had not just laughed for the first time in days, but they had released a whole heck of emotions and anxiety they had been keeping bottled up.
I'm still covered with bruises from the wrestling, but am extremely grateful for your advice- it was a huge gift to those kids.
As for Maureen. She has already been blessed with a miracle, which is that she will be able to return home. Her lungs are still filling up with fluid at a bad rate, but docs were able to insert a drainage tube in her lungs yesterday, which will allow her lungs to be drained at home.
Her outlook is still very uncertain at best. In the process of inserting the tube, the docs caused one lung to collapse. The surgeon also did severe damage to her heart during the open heart surgery. Her blood pressure has returned to pre-op levels (below 60), and other basic measurements of mortality are dismal.
Maureen is an absolute first class survivor, though, and if anyone has a chance of beating the odds, it is this courageous and remarkable woman.
She called me today to tell me she REFUSES to listen to anyone or anything negative, that she is determined to make it and thinks that she will.
So, I'll keep praying and thanking God that the many prayers being offered up seem to be getting answered.
Thanks again.
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dilly,
You are wonderful to see that Maureen's kids could benefit by silly play. Sounds like laughter and exercise (wrestling) were the best medicine.
God bless you for taking care of them.
How great that 17hens provided all of those suggestions and just when you needed them!
God is answering prayers for Maureen.
So glad she will be able to go home and receive care there.
And good for her!!! I wouldn't listen to the negativity either.
Faith is the best healer.
I will continue to pray for Maureen, her kids and you.
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((((((Dek)))))- thank you again.
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Hi Dilly,
This is wonderful news. You, Maureen and the kids have been on my mind. Will you be staying with the family for awhile when Maureen comes home?
Sounds like the children are blessed to have you there. I will continue to pray for you and for them.
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MDW- Thank you, sweetie.
Maureen's adult daughter will be taking care of Maureen during the day after she comes home.
It is me who is blessed to have her two children in my life. They teach me every time I am with them that love is what keeps people alive and gives us all a chance for grace.
Be well. dilly
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Praise God! Thank you for the update Dilly. I'm so happy and relieved to know that Maureen will be going home soon. She will be able to rest and recuperate better there.
It sounds like she's pretty special woman. It's good to know that she's got you Dilly and a strong loving family to support her through this fight.
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i truly hope she makes it.
makes my problems seem small and insignificant.
i will think of her and her children and wish the very best for her.
do you think a small care package might cheer her and the children? sometimes getting a little mail that's not a bill or something cheers me up.
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Dear Lord, please bless this woman, Maureen, who has given so much of herself.
Please bless these children, whose lives would not have been as good if Maureen had not taken care of them.
Please bless Dilly for what she is doing to ease their pain and provide some normalcy.
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Maureen is still here. Last word is that the tube in her lungs is what is keeping her going, that at some point her lungs will scar over and the tube will have to be removed, or, the tube will have to be removed sooner to prevent infection.
Either way, at the point when the tube has to be removed the clock will start ticking again unless a miracle happens and her heart starts working better.
Without the heart pumping better she will again be in end-stage congestive heart failure with a couple of months left to live.
For today, she is happy to be alive and continues to refuse to think about anything that comes next.
She already was given the miracles of surviving her esophogeal cancer 4 years ago, then of living through her open heart surgery, then of making it home.
Not sure if its asking to much to pray for yet one more miracle, but I am anyway...
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Praying for this remarkable woman, and her children, and her family. And for you, dilly. I'm sure nothing could replace what you are doing for her kids. (((((hug))))))
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God doesnt have a limit on miracles. Im praying so hard for this family. Shes blessed to have such a wonderful friend in you. Stories like this hit me close as i lost my mother to lung cancer when i was 12. I still miss her. I admire maureens courage and determination. Makes my problems pale in comparison. Will keep praying....
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Maureen,her family and of course you will continue to be in my prayers. This is good news to hear today. I hope to hear more good news in the future.
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Dear Dilly,
Thank you for the update. It's wonderful to hear such good news. There are many of us praying for Maureen.
If the Lord decides to take Maureen home soon or give her more time, I think either one is a miracle. A gift of Love. Maybe not the kind we would prefer.
Dilly, the same praying friend who asked me to share the above "Helping Children Deal with Grief" has asked me to share the following.
I hope by sharing these, I have not overstepped any boundaries. If so, please forgive me.
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DEATH By JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN
I often feel that death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious.
It is the truth that time is but lent to us, which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.
We are like children privileged to spend a day in a great park, a park filled with many gardens and playgrounds and azure-tinted lakes with white boats sailing upon the tranquil waves.
True, the day allotted to each one of us is not the same in length, in light, or in beauty.
Some children of earth are privileged to spend a long and sunlit day in the garden of the earth.
For others the day is shorter, cloudier, and dusk descends more quickly as in a winter's tale.
But whether our life is a long summery day or a shorter wintry afternoon, we know that inevitably there are storms and squalls which overcast even the bluest heaven and there are sunlit rays which pierce the darkest autumn sky.
The day that we are privileged to spend in the great park of life is not the same for all human beings, but there is enough beauty and joy and gaiety in the hours if we will but treasure them.
Then for each one of us the moment comes when the great nurse, DEATH, takes man, woman, the child, by the hand and quietly says,
``It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come, you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity.''
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DAILY SURVIVAL KIT FOR SERIOUS ILLNESS BY THOMAS L. MCDERMITT
1. Today, I am going to try to live through this day only, and not dwell on or attempt to solve all my problems at once; just focus on the piece that is today. I can do something for several hours that would be difficult to even think about continuing for several months.
2. Just for today, I am willing to accept the possibility that there is a purpose to this suffering; that it can be a source of meaning and growth for others, and myself though I may not always recognize the ways. And it seems possible that this suffering will not be in vain, because of what may be some kind of existence beyond.
3. Just for today, let me remind myself that I am basically a worthwhile person, worth loving, despite my faults and limits. I deserve the efforts of others to help me through my illness.
4. Just for today, I want to be aware that it is all right to want too much from others at times. Illness brings out and intensifies the small child in all of us. And if I feel hurt when those who care for me cannot be there, it may help to remember that they have needs, frailties, and limitations of their own. A lack of response does not mean that they are personally rejecting me.
5. Today I may feel the need to complain a great deal; I may have little tolerance- I may cry; I may scream. That does not mean that I am less courageous or strong. All are ways of expressing anger over this mess, of rightly mourning my losses. Endurance itself is courage.
6. It is my life at stake now. So maybe today I can allow myself to be a little less concerned about the reactions or impressions of others. Maybe I can allow myself to feel a little less guilty or bad about what I did not accomplish or give. Perhaps today I can be a little gentler toward myself.
7. Surviving this is all so difficult. At times it seems impossible- that I have had enough. Down the line I will know if and when I have had enough, when I cannot push the limits any further. I will have the right to choose to stop, without feeling that I am ``giving up.'' But today, I think I can deal with this illness. Sorrow runs very deep, but I think I can rise again.
8. Just for today, maybe I can give healing ``the benefit of the doubt.'' The drugs are powerful; the natural healing capacity of my body is powerful. And who knows, perhaps there is healing power in my will to struggle, and in the collective love and will of others.
9. Just for today, perhaps I can take heart that we are all connected. And I may still have some things left to contribute to the family of man; some light to add to their light. Even now my endurance (however imperfect) is a gift, an inspiration for others in their struggles.
10. It seems reasonable that there is a season for everything, and a time for every purpose. Pain, weakness and exhaustion may distort my senses and spirit. Today, however, I can at least find some hope in nature's way, if not in some master plan. The chances are fairly good, and it seems worthwhile to hope that I will have some cycle of wellness yet.
**** Written by a person living with Metastatic Cancer
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thank you most especially for your prayers sustaining Maureen, ((Hoose))), Misfit and Carly.
Hens- You haven't overstepped any boundaries.
Part of what is most remarkable about Maureen is that she will absolutely be at peace when it is time to die.
She is not afraid of death at all, knows she'll be going home, and knows she will have done everything she possibly could to stay here for her children.
She's clear that she would have preferred to be here for them until they grow up, but knows already that won't happen, no matter what comes next.
It is not Maureen but those of us who love her who are not serene right now. But, one of the greatest gifts from Maureen is that she is teaching us grace, and that love sometimes means not just letting go, but feeling happiness while letting go--- happiness and gratitude that we have right now with her, not sorrow that we inevitably will lose her light.
Thank you and you all for your prayers-- I know Maureen is being lifted by them.
love, dill
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Praying that Maureen and her children are surrounded by the wonder of God's love and God's peace every moment of every day.
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quote:Originally posted by sometimesdilly: Without the heart pumping better she will again be in end-stage congestive heart failure with a couple of months left to live.
Ohhhh....she may die from the congestive heart failure. Okay, that is something that you can work on.
Congestive heart failure can be treated with CoEnzyme Q10. CoQ10 is usually plentiful in the heart, and is needed for the mitochondria in the cells to do their work.
Dr. Stephen Sinatra has written books about this. You can google for information. BTW, this has not yet been accepted by the AMA.
He found that when he began giving his CHF patients CoQ10, they improved dramatically. He noticed that he wasn't getting those middle of the night emergency calls from them any more.
From what I remember, your friend could take 400 mg daily, which also happens to be helpful for cancer.
CoEnzyme Q10 is present in all cells, but more plentiful in the heart. Statin drugs that are given to reduce cholesterol will also deplete CoQ10.
I found good prices for this at iHerb. There is also a form of CoQ10 called Ubiquinol that is better, but they charge twice as much for it. http://www.iherb.com/CoQ10-100-mg
Disclaimer...I am not a physician. You should research this yourself, not just depend on the recommendation from a friend.
Carol
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17hens...your post touched me and made me cry. I so admire maureens courage. A true testament.
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with Maureen and Dilly in the middle.
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