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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    The way I see it, the harder you are trying to follow God, the bigger target you are for Satan's attention.  I try to remind myself of that when I feel beat down.

    He who is without blame....

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2012

    HAH!!! I say "bring it on Satan!!" but then I don't want to feel too proud. How do we balance that??

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Amen, Jo!

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited March 2012

    Hello Ladies, just wanted to drop by and say you all are always in my prayers. I have been keeping busy taking care of Sam and my parents. I interviewed for what I think would be a great job last Monday and am waiting to hear, please say a prayer as I really need a job, if its not great I will keep looking but at the very least I would have a pay check! It looks like most of us are holding steady and I am happy to see that!

    Hugs and Love,

    Linda

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited March 2012

    good to see you, Linda. i'll be praying for that job you and meece need...

     i myself am doing no better.. i've kinda just accepted that this may be the way He has chosen it to be.. i still pray daily for wisdom, and favor.. for now, many many health issues are presenting themselves..

      i've been told to put my will in order, done.. they say it could be tonight (by choking ) aweek, a month, or years, but we all needed to be on the same page..

      papers done, and every spare bit og strength ihave left, im straightening up house, so people will visit, i hope.

      it sounds like im dying, i know, but i don't think so.. just kinda wearing down. i truly pray, and ask you all to pray, that they'll be divine intervention, and i'll bouce back from this time..

      in the meantime, i stregthen myself in His Word,, and remain faithful to prayers for others.

      i would ask anyone here, NOT to share how different i sound here, than on other threads.. only my "friends" get the dtails.. i still DO try to keep koy, and the other threads are for that; to enjoy.......3jays

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2012

    3jays, I know exactly what you mean!! I say different (not conflicting though!!) info on different threads. It's like I share some info, but not all of me, to different posts. There seems to be an unspoken "law" that gives us the common sense to not cross those boundaries. My prayers are on another thread for you....lol.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Just a small request.  My great aunt is in the hospital with pneumonia in one lung.  She is 98 1/2 and we know she will be going "home" within a couple of years, but she is alert and in posession of her senses so we are praying that she will heal and be able to return to her home to live out her life.  The thought of having to go to a nursing home gets her very upset.  She is still living on her own in a house next door to her son.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2012

    Aw, that's a tough one!!! Her son must feel a fair bit of responsibility for her every day. But 98 1/2??? That'd be enough for me! I'd deserve to move up the ladder to a better place....

    Just knowing she'd be moving into a nursing home may be the end of her! She is in my prayers.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Thank you.  This aunt has been like a second mother to my mother.  My grnadmother passed away 26 years ago and that brought my mom & aunt closer.  It is really bothering my mother to know that the end might be near.  When Auntie is gone, my mother takes the position of Matriarc of the family.  It bothers her to think of it.

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  • kcl65
    kcl65 Member Posts: 1,156
    edited March 2012

    I will hold you all in my prayers. 3jays I love you and will keep u in prayer. Ladies my heart is heavy tonight.... I just found out that folks we went to church with a long time ago lost their daughter to breast cancer in December. She was just 30 years old. Please pray for her husband Brian and their two little girls. Hugs to everyone and very tender hugs for (((((((((3jays))))))))

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Oh, kcl, what a shame.  It always hits hard to hear of someone succombing to BC, but when it takes a young mother it is so very sad.  Prayers for the family.

    3Jays, hope you had a great day with your GS and that you are resting well and recouperating.  Hope you are feeling better soon...Laughing  Did you get a pretty necklace?

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited March 2012

    Lord,please lift our spirits today. We all struggle. Only you know our hearts and what each of us need! Help us to keep our eyes on You above all else. Give us comfort and rest. Amen

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Amen

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  • kcl65
    kcl65 Member Posts: 1,156
    edited March 2012

    Amen. Thank you! Hugs to all

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  • Hindsfeet
    Hindsfeet Member Posts: 2,456
    edited March 2012

    3jays, ((((hugs)))) ... I will be praying for your strength and quality of life. I haven't been to the garden lately...mostly, I have been concerned about the whole her2+ treatment. After two treatments, my heart has enlarged and I've developed an irrigular heart beat. The doctors say it's normal.

    I am not sure what to do as to continue treatment or for how long. There is a part of me if I should just seek God's kingdom and leave health issues into His hands. I need perspective on this as to knowing what to do in light of God's will. As long as I'm in treatment, cancer is on the brain as side effects seem to zap my energy and concerns about the whole heart issues. I just want it to be over and move on. I don't want to talk about it with my friends and even if I did after awhile they would tire of hearing about it. They want you to live a normal life as much as you do.

    3jays...I'm going to work on my will this week end. I am so glad that as a Christian I am confident that leaving planet earth is stepping into glory and perfection, mostly being with our Saviour, Jesus Christ. I don't want cancer defining my life.

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited March 2012

    evebarry, i've missed you.

    These doctors and the this is normal baloney. Nothing about this is normal. 

    I pray everyday for my faith to be strengthened and my life to be a light to someone. But the reality is that most of the people I see these days are health professionals.

    Lord, help me to be bold with your  word today.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Eve, it is good to see you again.  It would be nice to never have cause to think about this chapter in our lives again.  I had a heart condition which was enhanced by BC tx.  So every time my heart gets out of sync, I think of the what ifs such as what if I hadn't had the tx...

    We are human, so we must remind ourselves to trust Him.

    My parents went to a memorial service this week and Mother was a bit down.  I reminded her that it was a going home party.  She seemed happier when she thought of it in that light.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2012

    When I met with my cardiologist a couple of weeks ago due to the Long Q-T Syndrome, he did say mine wasn't caused by medication as it wa borderline the last time he saw me before I started the new drugs. So, another congenital disorder!! He did thank God on my behalf that I didn't do chemo OR radiation!!! Said I woldn't have made it through.

    I did a face-plant yesterday! A TOTAL collapse. If I had tripped, my hands would have gone up, right? I fell UP on our front steps. Had felt weird all through Walmart and when I finally got home I felt my body give up. I hit every inch of me on the stairs right down to my right shoulder AND my face!! The right side of my face was actually lying on the cement!! Hard enough that I now have to go get my glasses repaired today...sigh. My right baby finger is pretty bad. Right shoulder jammed pretty bad, then right and left knees are banged up but bearable. Sigh...like I needed anything else!!! My DH was horrifed to turn and see me lying on my face!!!!!!!!!  My arms were at my side...scary!!

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  • Hindsfeet
    Hindsfeet Member Posts: 2,456
    edited March 2012

    Barbe, be careful. Falling is no fun and at our age, we don't need any more medical problems.

    Thanks ladies for your encouragement. You all are so lovable and special.

    Pray that my surgery on Tuesday goes well...the exchange from tissue expanders to an implant. I will be so glad when the whole reconstruction process is over.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Oh, Barbe.  That is scary!  Please take it easy.  Do you have any idea what may have cause you to colapse?  Lack of food, water?  Yoouo might want to have your finger and should checked out.  Oh, dear!  What am I going to do with you???

    Eve, I know how uncomfortable it is awaiting surgery.  I can't wait until they actually put me under.  The anticiapation is awful.  I will pray for a successful surgery and thatyou wake up with two permanent girls.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2012

    Got it, here is what you need to wear, Barbe.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited March 2012

    Ladies, This was on my FB news feed today.  I don't know how old the video is, but I love the song & the kids & their mom are so cute.  It's a good reminder for me that no matter how many things I have going on, there are others more affected at that moment than me.  Have a Happy Paddy Day.  & Barbe I think the sheep suit would be a perfect thing for you to craft for yourself!

    http://supportthefightagainstbreastcancer.com/?p=688

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2012

    The sheep suit is no good as my face is exposed. I literally landed on the side of my face!! My hair saved me getting a grazing, but my glasses bent. I had cement grit in my mouth.

    Eve I cannot believe it is already time for your swap!! How long did you have the TEs???

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited March 2012

    glad to see all you ladies.. i swear, barbe, ya gotta learn to walk like i do now (from experience) i hold onto something, anything.. cuase i stuble like im drunk (i wish, i don't drink a drop) we laff, if i drink now, how much MORE will i fall??

      evebarry, i wish you well with all of your challenges, and the upcoming surgery..

      i have dealt with the dilemna of being ok to going on to be with the Lord, and His Glory; but, i just have to leave it to Him.. He knows best.. i do pray if he leaves me here to do whatever it is im suppossed to do, and haven't yet, that he'll give me the strength to do it, as He's promised.. i sure can't do it on my own.. im thingking and praying A LOT for  Gods' Will; which in the end, all that will be accomplished. i just pray to "sty out of the way"

       someone said something about the 4 G's the other day.. not christian thinking, but good, and funny, anyway....

      Goodness Girl Get a Grip !!!(or as we say, Put Your Big Girl Panties On.. i say it for myself, all the time!!!

      yes, i got a butterfly AND a
    Dragonfly necklace from my GS meece, on silken cords.. they're favs in MY garden, and he knows it!!!....3jays

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  • Meece
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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited March 2012
    you're right on, Meece.. the necklace looks exactly like the one you posted.. $2-3  no sweat.. he had so much fun picking them out!!!3jays
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