I am doing pretty good this Monday morning. I was scheduled to sub, but received a call this morning cancelling that job...so I will run errands, clean the house, block scenes for the weekend. I am waiting for a transfer to go through with my Starbucks store. I have a friend who asked if I would transfer to her store in order to help her out. She has a lot of new partners and needs someone experienced to help reinforce Starbucks standard. I willingly agreed...but now my current manager is not returning my phone calls. So I will try to track her down again today. Pray that this goes through without a hitch! I also received an email this morning from my aunt regarding my cousin Holly. I wanted to pass this email on to you so that you will better know how to pray. Here it is: The truth is that Holly and I are both feeling quite overwhelmed, dismayed,
and defeated. We can reason and know that God is still there, and He has a
plan. We may have moments of things being okay, but the next thing we know, nauseau, pain, or some other "crisis" is upon us. The majority of the
time life is so painful. Not even the tiniest fragment of our lives seems to be
"right", anymore. It takes away from our time with Holly's daddy,
siblings, extended family and friends. It affects everything.
The head surgeon at Doernbecher Children's Hospital does not give us any
hope for life to get better anytime soon~many months of the same to come. He also feels her abdomen is "inoperable"...making it impossible to fix
the original source of nauseau.Consequently, we are checking to see if it is at all possible, feasible, reasonable to get a second opinion at the Mayo
Clinic. There are many hoops to jump through, and they might come to the
same conclusions as Doernbecher's. I know that I don't want to do this if it
only means more painful tests, lots of extra (immense) bills, and more
separation from our family if we won't be finding something positive for
Holly. We are praying that God will lead us.
Our other concern is that Holly's liver function has not been good for a
while (with the IV TPN...Total Parenteral Nutrition), but is getting worse.
Also, her little face is quite puffy (to the point that she doesn't want to
see anyone she knows), and she is jaundiced. We are trying to straighten all
of this out, but it is a process, and she is not able to get off of the IV
nutrtion at this point, or anytime soon.
I pray that things will get better, somehow. I spend each day just "getting
through", and wishing this battle could end. My heart is heavy for my family. I don't know how to help... |
