[Magdalen] [SPAM?] Re: pain

[Molly Wolf]

Love, prayers, and very gentle little pats.  The golden hammock surrounds you.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Aug 27, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Catharine Phillips <revcphillips at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Praying, Jon.
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you for letting us know what's going on with you, Jon.  I am praying.
>> Ginga
>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Love to you.
>>>> On Aug 27, 2015 3:57 PM, "Judy Fleener" <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Vent away Jon.  You have my prayers.
>>>> Judy
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:12 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I remember watching the movie, "the Song of Bernadette," that there
>>> were
>>>>> all of these miracles associated with the spring at Lourdes, and
>>>> Bernadette
>>>>> herself was whisked away to a convent where she lived in obscurity,
>> not
>>>>> seeking recognition. She was seen limping one day and a physician
>>>> examined
>>>>> her, to find she had a tumor of the bone in her leg, which had
>>>> undoubtedly
>>>>> been causing her enormous pain for some time. When her superior asked
>>> her
>>>>> to consider going to the spring at Lourdes, she said that the spring
>>> was
>>>>> not for her.
>>>>> At the end of her life, in response to an official asking if she had
>>>>> anything to add or any words for the faithful, she cried out, "I did
>>> see
>>>>> her! I DID see her!" And at that moment, she saw Her again. It gives
>> us
>>>> all
>>>>> hope that, come what may, we all may one day see Her.
>>>>> 
>>>>> May angels sustain your faith.
>>>>> 
>>>>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>>>>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
>>> preserved,
>>>>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Despite being mobile, my pain levels are raging ever higher, the
>> doc
>>>> has
>>>>>> increased my slow release morphine to 75mg every twelve hours. He
>> has
>>>>> also
>>>>>> increased the vicodin.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The two hospice RNs who care for me have begin mentioning 'nursing
>>>>>> facility' and 'hospice care facility' to me.  My non-response has
>>> been
>>>>>> noted.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pain getting worse, more narcotics, pain meds,  and talk of hospice
>>>> have
>>>>>> left me crestfallen today. There are no words to describe how sad
>> and
>>>>>> scared I am.  During the spring of 2013 a parishioner asked me to
>>> pray
>>>>> for
>>>>>> myself and my healing.  I thought for a long time and replied,
>>> "Sister,
>>>>>> I've seen my x-rays...God can't fix those lungs." Such praying (for
>>>>>> yourself) seems so self-centered, so full of hubris, and terribly
>>>>> selfish.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for letting me vent. Peace, baseball, and Netflix will be my
>>>>>> companion until Dawn gets off work at 830 tonight.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Grace and peace,
>>>>>> brud
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Judy Fleener, ObJN
>>>> Western Michigan
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> *Catharine Phillips, MA, MDiv, CADC*
> 
> 
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> 
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