thread for middle age to older Christian women.

Ade

Lita what a sweet photo! LOVE your smile. I'm so sorry for your pain and aggravation - but lifting you up to the Lord.

Kae ~ This from Charles Stanley today reminded me of you. ~ This may bless someone else too.

"There will be times of darkness in your life. However, realize that God is with you (Ps. 139:11-12: Heb. 13:5). He never leaves you alone to fight any battle. His design for your life will often include dark training sessions where you learn to trust Him even when you don't feel that He is near. The truth is, when you feel Him the least, He is as close as ever."

Blessings upon your day, Ladies,

Ade

Lita57

Thanks, Ade!

Faith-840

Lita, lifting you up in prayer and praying that you can feel God's loving healing arms around you and that you find some pain relief and sleep.

Nancy, praying that you have an easy trip home from your mothers with no problems in the unending rain we are having this week. I'm sure it's never easy to leave her as she has so many issues now. May our dear Lord lift you up.

Faith (in the future)

bandwoman1234

Deuternonmy 31:8

8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

Thank you for your prayers. I made it home safely. When I was packing in the rain I told myself I would not melt! LOL We had tons of rain at my mom's and some things got done and some didn't. The story of my life. I will return in May and hopefully get some things done that require contractors. Getting them to return my call is the challenge.

Ade, love your deer pic. Thanks for your encouraging posts. I hope you are feeling better.

Lita, love you with your little furry friends. I am praying for you and I hope you can get into rads soon and that it will help you and you will be able to tolerate the SE's.

Aurora, how are you doing. I pray for you always and I know how difficult this has been in so many ways.

Faith, thank you for your prayers. I did have a safe trip but the weather was pretty awful with rain all the way home. All my daffodils that I didn't get to see in bloom are all laying down apparently from all the rain. Oh well, there is next season God willing. Praying for you to have better days.

Joanne, praying for your mammogram tomorrow as I know how horrible those are with your graft.

Have a good night dear sisters.

Love

Nancy

zjrosenthal

Nancy I am happy to hear that you are home safely. You're right about the daffodils they will come up again. Last year we had a tree that bloomed beautifully outside with lovely pink flowers and then it snowed. We had it for 24 hours and that was it. Hopefully this year will be better. My granddaughter Alexia was released from jail yesterday she does not want to come here to live even temporarily and she's not allowed to live at my daughter's. She is allowed to visit the baby so that's good. I just lifted up a prayer for all the ladies here especially those in stage 4. Today I am very grateful for my granddaughter. I know God has a plan for her. I was disappointed that she wasn't going to stay with us but God has another plan for her and I praise Him for whatever it is. I am fighting a cold and I think that's God's way of keeping me still. I would love to go out and save the world but God does not want me doing a whole lot right now. Love, Jean

auroaya200882

Nancy thank you for always keeping me in your thoughts I read the thread every day and always pray for each one here. I just prayed for your mother as she is left almost alone and I understand doesn't want to give up her home. I relate as my mother lives alone and even though my brother and my niece take turns visiting she has fallen three times and hurt her face. The good news is we convinced her to come spend some time with me which means she won't be alone for a whole month. She arrives tomorrow.

Cancer wise I'm on my second month getting Abraxane which is IV chemo and I've lost my hair. But thank God the side effects are minimal. Some fatigue and nausea the first few days after the chemo and that's it. I'm in a mild dose of one infusion every two weeks.

Praying for every one here.

Aurora

bandwoman1234

Jean, I am praying for this situation. I am glad that Alexia can see Valentina. That is an answer to prayer.

Aurora, I am so glad you mom is coming for a nice long visit. I pray it will be good medicine for both of you. So glad to hear you are tolerating your new chemo without a lot of SE's.. That is such an answer to prayer. I can't imagine what it is like to lose your hair once but twice has got to be tough. I pray that this chemo will do it's intended job.

Have a good evening dear sisters.

Love,

Nancy

2 Chronicles 7:14

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

kae_md99

sisters in Christ,

i need your prayers, will you pls pray for wisdom for my MO, Kristen Rice is her name. i am having bad reflux from chemo. i have gotten 3 out of 6. we will meet on wednesday next week.dont think i can tolerate taxotere anymore.. lump not palpable, i pray that God wil heal whatever is remaining cancer should taxotere be cut short.God bless my sisters ..

kae

bandwoman1234

Kae

I am so sorry to hear you are having these ongoing SE's. I would guess that your MO may want to try another treatment or find something to help the reflux. I will pray as soon as I log off. Just saw your post as I was about to shut off my computer. I would contact your MO and ask if there is anything you can do in the meantime as Wed. probably seems like a very long ways off at this point. Can you take over the counter Prilosec? I will be praying.

Love,

Nancy

bandwoman1234

The song Hosanna that was popular a few years ago has a bridge to it that I don't ever remember singing.

These words have penetrated my heart for the last couple of weeks after hearing them. Here are the words to the bridge

"Heal my heart and make it clean.

Open up my eyes to the things unseen.

Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks yours

Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause

As I walk from earth to eternity"

Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest…………..

As we prepare for the Easter season it is good to reflect on the state of our heart and to try to understand just what Jesus did for us on the cross and what His resurrection means to us personally.

I took this picture actually at Christmas time in a downstate nursery. It seems fitting for the season.

Love,

Nancy

kae_md99

Thank you Nancy,

i am already on anti reflux meds, all of it and then some. i am already referred to a gastro specialist. it is not going away with all the meds and prilosec is just one the 5 meds ( my specialist said he cannot add anything anymore as i have everything)..i will be have an endoscopy on the 19th....thanks so much.

Ade

Nancy, your post on the Hosanna bridge and the flower photo are just beautiful! THANK YOU! Part of my SE's is insomnia - not being able to sleep until two or three a.m. or being awake for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night. I was up in the wee hours this morning and I am reading Hannah Hernard's HINDS FEET ON HIGH PLACES.This version is a devotional along with the allegory with journaling space too and it is blessing my heart. I very much felt the Lord saying what you quoted in the bridge. Oh what a blessing!

Kae we will just keep praying for an answer for relief of your gastro troubles. Many of us know well what it's like!

We had quite a breakfast crew to feed today. You can see that spring is near us here

in the high desert. (Photo taken from my porch early morning) God is so good.

Blessings,

Ade

Teka

Nancy and Ade,

I am enjoying the lovely pics!!

bandwoman1234

Thanks Ade and Teka.

I would love to see deer like that. Amazing and what a view!

Kae, I have been praying for you. I am so sorry you having such a time. I do hope that your apt this week will give you reassurance and hopefully something to calm this reflux.

I am in a mini crisis and trying to decide if I should go to urgent care. I would appreciate your prayers for wisdom.

Here is a version of Hosanna that has that bridge in it.

Love,

Nancy

zjrosenthal

Thank you Nancy. I am wiping tears as I listened to this beautiful song of my beautiful Savior. Love, Jean

kae_md99

thank you Nancy

Teka

Nancy,

Please don't hesitate to go to urgent care if feeling worse this evening.

I keep all of us in evening prayers! )

Faith-840

Nancy, I'm so sorry you aren't feeling well. I hope by now you have gone to urgent care and gotten some help. I think it's always so much worse to be sick when you live alone. Don't hesitate, just go and get yourself looked at. Praying that things will be better very soon if they're not lready.

Sending hugs and prayers,

Faith

Lita57

Daughter and I at today's annual tea at church. I've also been asked to speak at the Easter Sunday Services about our Lord's resurrection and the hope it has for those of us who are actively dying as stage 4 cancer patients and the hope for the rest of you. I already have verses selected.

God is indeed using my "test" as a testimony for His glory. My dying has a powerful purpose.

(For those who are new...things are going downhill for me in Stage IV land.)

Teka

Lita and Daughter, lovely pic!

bandwoman1234

Thank you for your prayers. I was not able to go to church as I spent some time in urgent care today. I had a very large cyst on my back that got so bad so quickly that I knew I was in trouble. It became and infected abcessed. They cannot remove the cyst in that state unfortunately but it was drained. Sorry if this is TMI. It was a very unpleasant procedure. Before the doctor started he said I would need to see a surgeon after this healed. However afterwards he said I might be able to wait. I have to go back in two days and will know more. I would appreciate your prayers because he put me on an antibiotic and that is the worst case scenario for the GI issues I have had. I am so relieved that the worst is hopefully over. This thing was so painful I had trouble sleeping and sitting. It feels better already.

No swimming for many days. Sigh.

Beautiful pic Lita of you and your daughter.

Teka, thanks for posting something for Palm Sunday.

Have a good evening dear sisters .

Love

Nancy

kae_md99

Nancy,take care.. i am glad it was drained..

Faith-840

Nancy, was glad to see your post as I was concerned about you. Hopefully the worst is over and you will be on the mend and the antibiotics are healing but also kind to your GI system. May our Lord hold you and all of us in His healing arms of love.

As we walk these last days before Easter may we remember how much He suffered and then died for us so that we may rise again with Him on the last day.

Have a goodnight everyone.

Love, Faith (in the future)

bandwoman1234

Thanks Kae and Faith. How are you both feeling?

John 3:16

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Ade

Lita, lovely photo of your tea! May the Lord continue to give you His words to say and may He open eyes to see and ears to hear His message through you. What a blessed opportunity to speak - wish I was there.

Nancy I have been there with the infected cyst thing! OH MAN do they hurt! Had the first one at age 15 BESIDE MY NOSE and had it removed FOUR times - not counting the series of 6 cortizone shots in it first that didn't work. Had many more too unfortunately. They want you on the antibiotics, for it to shrink as much as possible before they remove it. I have a TOPICAL antibiotic that works miracles when I begin to get an infection. It is amazing - wish I'd had it years/decades ago. It is called CLINDAMYCIN PHOSPHATE and BENZOYL PEROXIDE GEL 1%*/5%. By prescription - but being topical it wouldn't affect your gastrointestinal situation. (It is expensive but you only use a dab - and then you have it for any other infection coming on)

Also, Nancy thank you for posting the Hosannah song - SO beautiful!

Blessings upon this Holy Week as we contemplate what our Savior did for us from God's mighty heart of love and mercy.

Ade

bandwoman1234

Thank you Ade. I am on the oral version of Clydamycin and not sure how this is going to work. I was familiar with the name but don't know if I have had it before. I have had trouble with some AB in the past. Not feeling great today so just hanging out in my Lazy Boy. It is not as painful as it was but I am bracing myself for a repeat procedure on Wed. I got very sick right after the painful procedure. My insurance is so strict in their meds allowed I can imagine that they would not cover the ointment since they are so many things they don't cover. I have had some ointment in the past and it was sooooooooo expensive. Now that I think of it I am wondering if that is what it was because it was for a skin issue. I'll have to see if I can find that. Thanks for the info.

Hope I have not repeated any of these. I should have kept track and I didn't. There are MANY promises in the Word.

Proverbs 3:5-6

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Matthew 6:31-33

31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Ephesians 3:16-19

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

18 may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Lita57

Sending healing prayers your way, Nancy. I always get sick from antib's.

Hope my irises cheer you up. They don't last very long. Onlyou a couple I my yard right now.

So many suffering right now. Offering up prayers for us all.

Faith-840

Sending healing prayers to everyone here. Nancy I hope you will be on the mend quickly with these AB. I think I remember you've said in the past that you take probiotics and that's very important when you are on those drugs. I'll be thinking of you on Wednesday when you have the next procedure and we can both pray for each other as I will be having a PET scan that morning.

It is always good to reread God's promises especially during this holiest week of the year when we remember what He has done for us.

Lita, I love your daffodils, they are such a hopeful sign of spring. I think of you so often and always pray that God will give you the strength you need to face this trial.

Have a goodnight everyone. God's blessings on all.

Hugs, Faith

bandwoman1234

Thank you for the iris pics, Lita. I love yellow flowers. My daffodils that were all blown to the ground when I returned on Wed night from my mom's I thought were done. Many had not even opened up. Miraculously they are all open and have sprung back up so I am thankful for those blessings which probably don't mean too much to anyone else in the neighborhood but they were God's gift to me. I hope that the Lord gives you a good word to share to your church that will touch lives.

Faith, I will be praying for your Pet scan on Wed. I can only imagine how nerve wracking that must be waiting for results. I will be praying for good news.

Thank you for your prayers.

Have a good night dear ladies of faith.

Love,

Nancy

bandwoman1234