I haven't been able to spend as much time on the board the last few months as I used to due to my wife having some health problems. She had surgery a couple of weeks ago though and we are hoping those problems have been taking care of. She is feeling 100% better and is feeling better and better with each passing day.
Now about the needed prayers....
My father-in-law had been diagnosed with prostrate cancer a few years ago and went through months of treatment to an excellent end. The cancer was gone. Well a few months back he started having some pain in his back that eventually became unbearable and so he went back to the VA for answers. After a few tests and an MRI they told him he had a mass on his left lung that was malignant. They ran a full body scan and the news wan't good. The cancer had spread to other parts of his body and there is basically nothing they can do except try to keep him comfortable. He told me about a week ago that the doctor had called him and told him that he probably only had about six months and needed to get his affairs in order. I am the only one he has told and vowed me to secrecy. He asked me not to say a thing to anyone, not even my wife. Everyone knows he is terminal, just not that he only has about six months to live. He is 72, a great guy and has worked his ass off all of his life. It is a sad thing!
Then on Friday evening we got more possibly bad news. My son and his wife were expecting a baby about a year and a half ago and she miscarried about 3 months into the pregnancy. They were devastated and have been trying to get pregnant ever since. She finally went on some fertility drugs and wound up pregnant again four months ago. She had gone in last week for an unltrasound and some bloodwork and from the ultrasound they told her that everything looked good. Then Friday evening she was told that according to the results of the blood work that there was a possibility that the baby could have Trisomy 18, which is basically where the baby has an extra chromosome #18. This usually always causes a major defect and deformity of the heart. Fifty percent of all babies born with this do not survive past a week, some only hours. She is scheduled to go in the 22nd for an amniocentesis. We are very much hoping that the blood work was wrong. The doctor told them that the blood test was a mild indicator of the Trisomy 18. I can only guess that he ran that test because of her last miscarriage.
Then I get a call last night that my boss had been life flighted to Tulsa and that they thought he had had a heart attack. I found out later last night that they had to go in and put in some stints. He is a great guy and you couldn't ask for a better person to work for. He is only 44, a couple of months younger than me, which is scary as hell. I spoke to him earlier this afternoon and he seemed to be doing good. They had to put in two stints but he still hadn't talked to the doctor and gotten the full report on whether there was any heart damge or not.
I know this is a tall order but if you will, please keep them all in your prayers.
James
Now about the needed prayers....
My father-in-law had been diagnosed with prostrate cancer a few years ago and went through months of treatment to an excellent end. The cancer was gone. Well a few months back he started having some pain in his back that eventually became unbearable and so he went back to the VA for answers. After a few tests and an MRI they told him he had a mass on his left lung that was malignant. They ran a full body scan and the news wan't good. The cancer had spread to other parts of his body and there is basically nothing they can do except try to keep him comfortable. He told me about a week ago that the doctor had called him and told him that he probably only had about six months and needed to get his affairs in order. I am the only one he has told and vowed me to secrecy. He asked me not to say a thing to anyone, not even my wife. Everyone knows he is terminal, just not that he only has about six months to live. He is 72, a great guy and has worked his ass off all of his life. It is a sad thing!
Then on Friday evening we got more possibly bad news. My son and his wife were expecting a baby about a year and a half ago and she miscarried about 3 months into the pregnancy. They were devastated and have been trying to get pregnant ever since. She finally went on some fertility drugs and wound up pregnant again four months ago. She had gone in last week for an unltrasound and some bloodwork and from the ultrasound they told her that everything looked good. Then Friday evening she was told that according to the results of the blood work that there was a possibility that the baby could have Trisomy 18, which is basically where the baby has an extra chromosome #18. This usually always causes a major defect and deformity of the heart. Fifty percent of all babies born with this do not survive past a week, some only hours. She is scheduled to go in the 22nd for an amniocentesis. We are very much hoping that the blood work was wrong. The doctor told them that the blood test was a mild indicator of the Trisomy 18. I can only guess that he ran that test because of her last miscarriage.
Then I get a call last night that my boss had been life flighted to Tulsa and that they thought he had had a heart attack. I found out later last night that they had to go in and put in some stints. He is a great guy and you couldn't ask for a better person to work for. He is only 44, a couple of months younger than me, which is scary as hell. I spoke to him earlier this afternoon and he seemed to be doing good. They had to put in two stints but he still hadn't talked to the doctor and gotten the full report on whether there was any heart damge or not.
I know this is a tall order but if you will, please keep them all in your prayers.
James
