Bad things happen to good people ...

[Mary Anne in TX]

Steph, I send my prayers for you and your dad. If love could turn it all to the good, yours would be enough to get it done! Dads are just the bestest!

[vickie h]

Dear Steph, Praying for your father, for his health to return, for you and he to spend many more days and years together. Love, Vickie

[Cathy1]

Dear Steph,

I am praying for your beloved father during this Holy Week. He sounds like such a wonderful person and dad.Keep praying hard at the hospital with your family.
We are all in the comforting hands of an awsome Heavenly Father.
God Bless And Keep You All- Cathy

[MCS]

I'm so sorry to hear about your dad, Steph. I don't check pages everyday so I will be a little late on wishing your family hope and recovery


Maria

[lexigirl]

Saying prayers for your beloved dad right now. I hope he is doing better.

Hugs and Prayers,
Lexi

[Soccermom]

I am praying too,{{{{{{{{{{{{ Steph }}}}}}}}}}}
Marcia

[StephN]

You all are just the best! Your good wishes and prayers are meaningful. Things have gone from bad to worse this week with the discovery that Dad has MRSA, the worst of the "superbugs," in his chest.

The way he is being kept sedated and on the ventilator (mainly to keep him quiet and out of pain) is worse than what I know of the passing of my cancer sisters over the years. This is a BIG "BUT" - he does not have a major disease process such as cancer, and all vital signs are stable in the normal range. His fervers are down now and his white blood cell count has been in normal range the past 2 days. His doctors are expressing hope.

They ask us to keep walking through this a day at a time and see how Dad does. I can hardly bear to see him like that day after day, but I have to go down and take Mom to the hospital each day.

We are doing the isolation "thing" putting on special gowns and gloves when we enter his room. We are not allowed to take any personal belongings in with us so leave everything in the cart outside the door. At present there are five such rooms in that cardiac ICU. Apparently there are a LOT of MRSA carriers out there and the hospital is screening surgery patients as part of pre-op tests. Dad was neg of course.

This is a topic for another day, but an important one, as many of us cancer survivors go to hospitals frequently and we need to take precautions against these virulent bacteria that are getting more prevelant.

[Mary Anne in TX]

Good Morning (middle of the night, I see for you) Steph! You're doing the very hardest thing. Seeing your dad so sick and having to comfort your mom as she deals with it. Nothing that happens to us is as hard as that, is it? When my mom was so ill, there were many days that I thought I couldn't get through the day. But I did. I must have worn out God's ears with prayer for strength and peace and no pain for mom. That prayer worked each time, though sometimes it took a while for it to get inside of me. Best wishes for you and your family during this very difficult time. May you take it one hour at a time and experience more love than pain. ma

[Christine]

Stephanie,

Of course our prayers will go out for your Dad on this holiest of weekends.

Hugs
Christine

[Becky]

Dear Steph

I have been away on business since you updated us about your father. I am so heartbroken. Hopefully by now he is resting comfortably and beginning to heal well. I am thinking of you and your family and will say a special prayer today.