JCF has left a new comment on your post "Please Pray For Sue And Ed":
Update:
I'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!)
Prayers for Sue and Fr. Ed for healing and and that they get the assistance that they need quickly. Lord, have mercy.
UPDATE: Original prayer request and story here.
Prayers ascending!
ReplyDeleteRenz, that makes me crazy, too.
ReplyDeleteOh my heart hurts for Sue and Fr Ed. Prayers ascending, lots of them.
ReplyDelete(My mother has gone through much of the same, and I think her pain hurts my father even more than it does her. She now has two artificial knees, a permanent brace on the foot and ankle that keeps breaking for no reason, and takes almost as many pills as I do. I hate to hear of anyone going through much of the same. )
Thanks for bumping this, Mimi, and thank you all for your prayers.
ReplyDeleteOne more thing from yesterday: at the end of mass, I went to talk to Ed about the death of a woman in our church (the day before).
This would be sad under almost any circumstances, but there's this eerie coincidence: she was ~15 years older than Sue, had Sue's SAME type of liver disease (the genetic, non-drinking-type of cirrhosis), and received a liver transplant 15 years before Sue did.
I hadn't known, regrettably, that this woman had been ailing (so badly). When Ed reminded me of her liver transplant/same diagnosis as Sue, and I said I knew about that, then Ed (briefly) lost it (sometimes priests need to cry, too).
Oh, since I've gone this far: please pray for the repose of the soul of Joyce Rutz (her funeral is Wednesday), and for all transplant donors, recipients, and medical teams.
JCF, as I've said before I consider the prayer posts a ministry.
ReplyDeleteMay Joyce rest in peace and rise in glory.
So many prayers, so many prayers!
ReplyDeleteUpdate: Sue's still at home (couldn't get into the rehab center they wanted). FrEd still sounds very stressed out. Please continuing praying!
ReplyDeletePrayers ascending.
ReplyDeleteUpdate (I'm posting on this thread, as it's linked to "The Three Legged Stool", where Sue&Ed are also being prayed for).
ReplyDeleteI saw Sue at home today.
Yesterday, she got put in a cast almost to her hip. As you might imagine, it's none too comfortable (and she's having trouble sleeping). Pain at the worst, itching when not in pain.
DESPITE this, she's in good spirits. She very much appreciates the prayers! And, for you animal lovers out there---and I know there are many in Episcoblog-Land---she's benefitting from the "ministry" of her 3 cats: Jasper, Sapphira and Zechariah (all of whom have found places on her hospital bed to love *g*).
I also saw FrEd today, at the (usual) Wednesday evening Mass. He seems slightly more together, too (the last couple of Sundays, between you and me, he came pretty close to biting a bothersome person's head off: the man's been at his limits!).
Please keep praying! [I asked Sue when she'd be back at church, and encouraged her to shoot for Shrove Tuesday, and pancakes. But maybe as early as Candlemas? "DV"]