JCF said...
The wife of my priest has endured Too Damn Much in the past few years. A chronic liver problem, I think, weakened her bones (and may have done other things to leave her accident-prone. No, she doesn't drink.)
A year ago, she received a liver transplant (w/ all the usual Ups&Downs that that entails, vis-a-vis drugs and rejection-monitoring).
When I spoke to my priest prior leaving Michigan for my own (California) holidays, he was SO looking forward to a week-long post-Christmas Florida getaway.
Just last night, I got an email: while packing for the Florida trip, his wife slipped and fell on the Michigan ice, breaking bones AGAIN (this is about the 3rd time this has happened in the past 7 years).
Florida is cancelled, Sue is in pain, and Fr. Ed has that (via email) "there went my last nerve" sound (recall also, that my parish, St. James, Albion, is still recovering from a devastating sanctuary-losing fire).
Please pray for them---Ed and Sue NEED A FRIGGIN' BREAK! (the good, non-bone kind };-/ )
That's rough, prayers for healing and maybe getting out of the frigid north!
ReplyDeletePrayers for them both and for St. James. Albion.
ReplyDeleteI certainly understand needing a break. Prayers for both of them.
ReplyDeleteUpdate:
ReplyDeleteI'm back in Michigan: saw FrEd (he has t-shirts that say "FrEd", and is joking referred to sometimes as "Fred") today at church.
Things aren't good. Sue came home---but apparently prematurely. They've tried to re-arrange the rectory (2-story) to accomodate her downstairs, but she fell in the middle of the night going to the bathroom, and Ed couldn't get her back up (had to call 9/11, for the paramedics to lift her. This brought back memories for me, of the multiple times this happened to my mom&dad, in the two years before my mom died of ALS).
Ed's going to try to get her into at least a week at the rehab center, tomorrow. Her pain still isn't well controlled [Plus, even AFTER she heals, they may well have to replace her knee anyway! :-0]
PLEASE continue to pray for them? (It hurt me, just to see the obvious pain that FrEd is in---nevermind Sue!)