[Magdalen] Prayers please...

[Jay Weigel]

Prayers for Alice. Echoing the advice to sing. Music reaches when nothing
else can. I have that on the experience of my late Israeli friend, who was
in a coma for several days following a massive reaction to pre-anesthetic
drugs. (Some of you may remember praying for him)

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:55 PM Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prayers rising for Alice here in Houston.
> Lynn
>
> On May 2, 2019, at 6:02 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Praying For Alice.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 2, 2019, at 5:51 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
>