My father is in the hospital..

If you happen to visit my blog, I am asking for thoughts and prayers for my father John.  He is now 67 years old.   My father lives with my hubby and kids, I take care of him the best that I can, as much as he will “allow” me. He has so many health issues and has to live in pain each and every day.  He suffered a brain aneurysm that burst and multiple stokes at the age of 49.  He has COPD/Emphysema, and advanced stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis.  He takes so many medications to try to keep him as pain free and mobile as possible with the R.A.  He immune system is suppressed because of the medications he takes.  So its very easy for him to get sick.   Right now my father is in the hospital and not doing well.   He has been coughing and choking a lot when he eats and drinks and out right refuses to see a doctor about.  I do what I can to help the issue.

Yesterday morning my son woke me up before 7 to say grandpa said to wake you he didn’t feel well.  He had no color, was barely able to talk much and I took his temp was 101.  I feared it was pneumonia again, he was throwing up too.  I called the squad then my hubby home from work.  At the E.R. they ran a bunch of test, noticed some new drooping on the right side of his face and weakness in his right hand later into the evening.  He had a CT scan, x rays, lots of blood work, two I.V.s and meds going.  He still felt as if something as “stuck” in his throat.  At 1pm they did an upper GI scope and found a tiny piece of meat stuck on a growth on his esophagus which they removed and sent to biopsy and that his esophagus is lined with fungus and further into his stomach they found severe gastritis which they are testing to see if bacterial.

He is still due to have an MRI because they suspect a stroke (they think it was a TIA-mini stoke but still very concerned with the weakness in his right hand), and has to have a Swallow Study Test something today as well.  I am waiting for my daughter to  finish her shift at work then I can leave in a few hours to be at the hospital with my father.

The fungus is a result of all the R.A. meds he is on and it is really a touch decision to make to either continue the meds to be mobile and as pain free as possible, or stop the meds and the pain will be once again unbearable for him and he will become immobile again.  He isn’t a candidate at this point for replace joint surgery due to health issues.

He has a fever of 101 and white blood count is very high, something is brewing for sure, they are treating him for pneumonia even though it didn’t show up on x ray because of the white blood cell and history but are running some blood work on his liver today too.

So if you happen to visit my blog, would you say a prayer for my father (and family)?  I am so very exhausted.  I had a very restless night…….

Proverbs 15:1

A gentle answer will calm a person’s anger, but an unkind answer will cause more anger.  Proverbs 15:1

In Loving Memory

This evening, after my dad got home, I learned that my cousin, Timothy Gamrat, passed away on October 17, 2008.  He was only 44 years old.  He had a lot of health issues, and at one point in his life had a kidney replaced.  He lived with my Aunt Helen all his life and my heart just aches for her this evening as she still is the very early stages of mourning.  She had him cremated and is going to take him back to Pennsylvania in two weeks for services and then to bury him.

Timothy F. Gamrat

March 11, 1964-October 17, 2008

LORD, Make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow your love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness; light; where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand, to be loved, as to love, for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying, that we are born to eternal life.

My heart and prayers are with my Aunt and family

Free Truffle Samples

A sweet friend of mine sent me an email to share with this this sweet freebie treat from Haydee Chocolatier, and boy do they ever look delicious!  I can’t wait to try the strawberry white chocolate cheesecake and the cherry guilty pleasure!  Even that milk chocolate mousse looks good too.  Those are the only three I am not sharing!!  But I promise to share the rest!!  Thanks Amy!!

Trial Issue of Today’s Christian Woman

I just signed up to receive a trial issue of Today’s Christian Woman and thought I post about the free trial issue in case any one else would like to sample the magazine and see if they would like to subscribe too.  I already receive Decision Magazine, as it is a gifted subscription from my mother in law that comes to hubby and I, but I am the only one who reads it.  But I been wanting to see what an issue is like so I am sending for it, so I thought I share it with my visitors too.  I may even sign up for the two for one, where I can get two subscriptions and gift the other to a friend.

My son attends school at home

My son attends school from home.  No, I do not home school him, honestly I have tried doing it on my own, but it just doesn’t work with him.  With his AdHd, the attention span, he needs the accountability, meaning answering to someone who isn’t mom or dad when it comes to his school work.  Public school in a traditional sense didn’t work for him.  So he attends school over the Internet through a charter school, and the software they use is pretty cool.  This afternoon as I sit here at my computer I can hear the students before class starts talking, and they are now discussing diet pills.  I guess there is a girl who just started attending the charter school because of weight issues and the kids are asking a lot of questions.  It is nice to hear them all just talking and not being rude and hurting her feelings but I guess from what she is saying she didn’t want to go to school anymore because kids are cruel.  Trust me when I say we can relate to that.  Kids were cruel to my son too because he was different.

Time to wrap it up!

I have to remind my hubby this afternoon when he gets home that its time to wrap it up for the season.  It’s time to pull out the patio furniture covers out that I bought to protect our investment.  Last year we had some damage to my canopy swing and we had to toss it away!  Broke my heart as I loved sitting on my swing.  I am very concerned about the glass table out there and want to make sure we didn’t press out luck this year by not using proper covers.  I am unsure if he is going to pull the lights up in the flower bed this year or not since these ones are not solar power ones, like the ones we used last year.  He didn’t seem to like those too well, they did not get very bright at night.  With the winds last night I heard the a few chairs tipping over and just reminded me that I need to make sure he gets those things taken care of because our weatherman mentioned that four letter word last night…..SNOW!!

Rev in World Missions..on it’s way!

I was contacted by email after my post about not receiving the book I had requested, Revolution in World Missions, so that other’s who were hoping I let them know what I thought about it after I read it and did not want them to think I was ignoring them.  I was very excited to have been contacted by on the websites web servants regarding it.  I will post again to let you know when it arrives then after I read it a little review!  Thanks again to Tom, from the Gospel for Asia site who contacted me regarding it.

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