Please pray for the family of one of my best friends Her 11 month old neice, Olivia (she would have turned 1 year old on December 26th) passed away last night weekend. The doctors believe it was due to the flu virus.

Thanks ladies!

ETA: It was due to the flu. :(

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2003/local/12/15/fludeath.html

Eclipse, my prayers go out to you for a speedy recovery for your mother. Honeykiss1974, your friends family is in my prayers as well.

G-Ma goes into surgery on Wednesday. The doc said that she will be hospitalized for about 7 days. I pray that she makes a quick recovery and is able to come home before Christmas. Thanks for all of your continued prayers.

My prayers are ALWAYS with my GreekChat family.

Please pray for my colleague whose 30-year-old son just committed suicide two days ago. He'd just recently gone through a divorce. Left a 5-year-old boy fatherless.

...pray yall.

I am so sorry to hear of that. You and your colleague (and his family) are in my prayers.

Lord, watch over the little baby.

Thanks to everyone that has prayed/continues to pray for my mother. I just wanted to give you guys an update...

The doctors closed my mom's chest on Monday afternoon and has begun to ween her off some of the meds that put her in the medically induced coma. Last night she was responding to the sound of our voice by trying to open her eyes. She's still heavily sedated, so no real movement is happening as of yet. She's had further complications with her kidneys, so she is temporarily on dialysis, but prayfully when she is moving around again everything will be o.k.

Thanks again everyone and I too send up a regular prayer for my "GC family" and what ever they need! Love you guys!!

....good news, Eclipse! I'll continue to keep your moms in my prayers. please keep us posted.

I'll be praying for you Tony and you too Eclipse.

Continue to pray for the Troops that are in other countries during the holiday season.

I just wanted to tell you that G-Ma Savvy had surgery on yesterday morning. I finally spoke to HER a few minutes ago. They moved her out of ICU about 6:30 this morning, and she is on a regular moniter floor. She said that she's just tired, but she is over all feeling okay. They have her on and off oxygen because her oxygen saturation level could be higher, but she's doing pretty okay. She said that they are still monitering her progress, and she should be released in the next 5-7 days. :D
We will know probably tomorrow if the mass was malignant.

Your continued prayers would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

GLOOOOOOOOOOORY!! ALLRIGHT G-MA SAVVY!!!!! :D :D :D Glad to hear that she is OK! :D

*doing a happy dance*
More prayers for a speedy recovery for G-Ma Savvy!! :)

Alzheimer's
 

Please pray for me. My 86-year old granny, whom I have been the sole caretaker to for the last 3 years, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She was in the hospital Christmas week, and since she's been home, she has had various episodes. She's been calling me by my deceased mother's name on more than 1 occasion lately.

I have a family meeting scheduled for this week to discuss immediate and long-term plans with 2 of her 4 living children, and 1 of her neices. I work full-time, and if she keeps progressing as rapidly as she is, I will not be able to give her the 24-hour care that she needs. We are already doing all of her cooking and administering her meds to her.

Please pray that the Holy Spirit will give me the right words to say to the family, as I am trying to hold back some hostility I have towards them for not having an active role in the care of their mother for the past 3 years. Pray that a consensus is reached, and that my granny will be cared for the way she deserves to be cared for.

Re: Alzheimer's
 

MzDestiny, You will definately be in my prayers. I was in a similar situation before my beloved Big Mama (that's right, Big Mama! I am from Georgia, ya know! :p ) passed away. I pray you let the Holy Spirit truly be your guide in this conversation. Read Philippians 4:6 - 9, especially meditating on verse 8. Psalm 27 is also a confort to me in times of stress.

Hey everybody,

I'm going through something very trying & just want to ask your prayers for strength & happiness. Thanks in advance guys:(

Prayers are on the way! :)

update on my Mommy
 

It's been a while since I gave an update. My Mom is still in the hospital (it's been over 6 weeks!!) but she is doing much better. She is much more alert and is somewhat communicating with us (which can be difficult when you have a trach) by moving her lips. They even had her sitting up in a chair and have reduced her dependance on the ventilator. We didn't know this at the time,but I think some of the doctors had given up on her when she was at her worst. I'm just glad we are a praying family!

I don't think anyone here knows this, but my mom is a very active member of a AKA graduate chapter in our hometown. Her sorority sisters have been sooooooo wonderful throughout her illness. They have called and encouraged, sent cards and just really been supporting even though they are almost 200 miles away. True sisterhood in action!!

Tomorrow my dad and I are going to visit some rehab hospitals to see the next step in her recovery.

Please continue to keep us all in your prayers! Thanks!!

Re: update on my Mommy
 

This is great news, Eclipse. You and your family stay encouraged. Yall keep informin', we'll keep prayin'.

Prayer for my Aunt
 

Good Morning All

I ask that you all say a special prayer for my Aunt Valerie Royster. She has been on dialysis for about 8 years now and they called her this past Thursday to advise that they found an kidney and she had the transplant on Friday. Right now the kidney is working very slowly...but I know that the devil is a liar and by Jesus stripes she wil be healed. So I'm calling on all the prayer warriors on GC to pray so the kidney will not reject. Right now she is in very good spirits and my whole family is praying for her.

Thanks for your prayers

06

I would like to ask that you guys say a prayer for me and my family (especially my brother). In the next couple of days we will be going through some life changing things. All prayers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks GC Family.

Prayer Requests
 

Greetings,

Please pray for me as I journey to Ohio University for my last round of interviews before I know if I will be going there for graduate school. I really want this so badly! If admitted, I will be obtiaining a Master's degree in College Student Personnel.

Sisterly,

Soror Erika

Please pray for me, guys. I have been SOOO depressed lately. I don't even know what's wrong with me. I am unhappy with things in my life and I just need to take it one day at a time. Please keep me in your prayers.

I'm glad you shared this
 

Please talk to your doctor. Depression is not something to ignore, especially if you cannot pinpoint a specific situation. There are meds that can help you while you sort things out.

Re: I'm glad you shared this
 

I can pinpoint why I am depressed, but I don't know why I am so overwhelmingly depressed. I will be making an appointment though. Thanks for the concern.

RedefinedDiva ,
You are in my prayers! I had an unexpected bout with postpartum....and i know how hard it can be. God is with you always... remember that.

Please pray for God's will concerning an upcoming interview I have on Tuesday. Its with my old company but its a management position at the corporate level. Not only is it an opportunity to learn some new things at a high and confidential level, but the responsibilities are right up my alleyl - plus the salary is dag on good too :~).

"My plan" was to move in August after my lease is up. However, I know God's ways are not my ways and his thoughts are not my thoughts (THANK GOODNESS) so if He's not done with me here in Kansas, then I'll be here.

Gracias saints!

Prayers are on the way for my sistahdiva and for HK1974. :)

JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE.....
 

On Saturday 2/28/04 at 3:52 pm Ava Chantal was born. My daughter weighs at 5 lbs 1.6 oz and is 17.5 inches long. This 33 week old preemie is currently in Neonatal ICU and is doing well. Me and hubby are fine, we ask that you pray for Ava for that she will be in the ICU for the next few weeks. I hope to have pictures shortly, but in the meantime I just wanted to share this news.

So to all of my GC'ers hoping for an April baby, sorry guys.

Darling1

Congratulations:D :D :D :D :D

Re: JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE.....
 

Darling1,
congratulations to you and your husband!! I'm praying little Ava will be out of ICU soon and home with her peeps.

God bless.

Re: Re: JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE.....
 

thank you so much tonyb06...she's doing well, check the other threads :).

blessings

Please pray for a dear friend of my family. Her two year old daughter Allison was found Monday face down in a garden pool (one of those koi ponds). She was dead, but a neighbor revived her until the ambulance came.

Today, the doctors are pulling her off life support. Please pray for the family. The grandmother was watching Allison when this happened, and she is so filled with guilt that she is under suicide watch. Both parents are distraught as well.

Please pray that God will comfort them during this time.

Please keep my family in your prayers my uncle is leaving for Iraq on the 3rd of April. His 11 yr. old son is not taking it very well.

OMG, for both of you. :(
Poor granny. :(

CG and HK1074, I will keep your uncle (and family) and Allison's family in my prayers.

Y'all, just pray for a sista's sanity.

My prayers are with you Ideal08, CountryGirl, and anyone else needing intercession.

Here's an update on Allison:

Her mom wants to pull her off life support, but her father still doesn't. Not only has Allison's kidneys, liver, and one lung have stop functioning, but now the doctors may amputate Allison's hand because there is no circulation.

Her father still will not consent to taking Allison off life-support. Instead, he is not coping with this well at all. He is calling his wife's mother a murderer and all other kinds of things.

Please keep this family in your prayers. Pray that God will heal his heart and fill him up with peace and the wisdom to do what's best for Allison.

I get teary just thinking about this situation. :(

Thanks for everyones prayers and well wishes.

HK1974- I will continue to pray for your loves ones. It is so hard to see a child suffer.

Ideal- I understand you need of pray! My great-grandmother stressed that everyone pray that she keep her sanity "Cher, pray Madea stay in the right mind... folks treat you anyway when you loose by the head". From my lips to God's ears "Please let Ideal keep her sanity". ;)

Once again thanks for the prayers.

To all,

please keep my grandmother and my cousin in your prayers. my Nana had a stroke last night and is not doing well at all.
we're hoping against hope that she'll pull through. my cousin just lost his wife this week to cancer. she was only 34.
right now, i'm typing in near tears. i'm so afraid to lose my Nana. she's been through a lot healthwise and with the loss of her mother, my great-grandmother 1/12 yrs. ago. she's a fighter and i hope that she's still got a lot of fight left. my cousin seems strong but how can one be after losing a spouse?
thank you for reading.

Lord, we come before you right now asking for blessings and miracles that we know only you are capable of. We ask that all those who are ailing and sick, may be restored. Lord, we know that we should not lean into our understanding, so heal our hearts and our minds. Help us to cope with things that happen in our lives and to those we love. Give us peace and let us be able to carry on in time of tragedy, guilt, and confusion. Lord, we know that to be absent from the body is to be one with Christ, but we still seek comfort Lord. We're only human and it's hard sometimes. But we thank you in advance for the peace, blessings and restoration that you will provide in our lives and the lives of those we love. In your most holy name we ask these blessings. Amen

Amen

i have to thank those who sent up prayers for my family, especially to TonyB06 for the PM. my cousin is hangin' in (as i like to say) and my Nana is still w/us. she's stable at this time, no better but no worse.
thank you again for reading.