[Magdalen] Prayers please...

[cady soukup]

Grace,

Prayers for Alice, her family, her medical team, and you.

May you be provided with all you need.

Cady

On 5/3/19, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>