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would like to ask all of the believers of GreekChat to please pray for my mother. I posted about her situation some time ago, but we are in need of prayer once again.
To give you a short recap of a very long saga, my mother went into the hospital on December 11, 2003 to have heart valve replacement surgery. There were complications after the surgery and she has been in one hospital or another every since. She has been ventilator dependant most of that time (there was a period of about 9 days where she was not on the ventilator). For the last several months she has been plauged with bacterial and fungal infections in her blood and her lungs. These infections cause her blood pressure to lower and her temp to spike as high as 104. She has been on several different antibotics, but the infections continue to come back. To complicate matters, her kidneys failed shortly after the surgery and she has been on dialysis. Because of her low blood pressure they have not been able to effectively dialyize her for over a week. The doctors have indicated that the infections have attacted them selves to her heart valves and that only removing the valves would correct that. Because of her weakened state surgery is not an option, so the doctors say there is really nothing more that they can do for her.
I know that God is a healer, but it is HIS choice where he heals her--on this side of the earth, or by taking her home with him. In my selfishness, I don't want her to go, but I know that his will must be done. What makes this extra hard is that my mother's grandchildren--my only sister's children--other grandmother passed away about 3 weeks ago suddenly. They are extremely close to both grandmothers, and I would hate for them to have to go through another funeral so soon.
As you can imagine, this is difficult for my entire family. Please pray for peace, for healing, for her doctors and nurses and that through this all that God gets the glory!
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