[Magdalen] Prayers please...

[Ginga Wilder]

Praying for Alice and her children and her friend Grace.  May God be
merciful.

Ginga

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:21 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> For Alice, my good friend of 46 years, who has not wakened from a
> medically-induced coma after two weeks. She suffered a massive heart attack
> April 18th, went from an urgent care clinic to the ER to the ICU. They
> inserted a breathing tube and put her into a coma. She had severe injury to
> the mitral valve, and they hoped to stabilize her enough to replace it,
> which they did last Thursday. But she still hasn’t wakened, and they don’t
> know why. All tests have been negative. Her son sent an update today
> suggesting that folks visit and talk to her; I’m going up tomorrow. We’ve
> known each other since our kids were in nursery school together; I taught
> piano to two of her kids and performed her second wedding and her
> daughter’s (only) wedding.
> She converted to Judaism after her second marriage, and I’m going to
> contact a rabbi friend here to ask him for some appropriate transliterated
> prayers and/or psalms to read to her.
>
> A little while ago my daughter, who knows the situation and once dated
> Alice’s oldest son, said, “I know this sounds terrible, but if it was
> you...we’d be done!” It took me a minute to realize what she was saying,
> and then I said I agreed. In fact, I don’t think I would have opted for the
> valve replacement at her age...she’s 79. Even if she does pull through, her
> quality of life is likely to be very poor.
>
> I feel for her kids having to deal with this. There are four of them, and
> her son said they met with the medical team this morning, and now it’s just
> a waiting game. Their dad died a number of years ago.
> I was a hospital chaplain for 8 years, but these situations are much
> harder when they involve friends or family.
> Thanks for listening—I didn’t mean to go on so long.
> Grace
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