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Hi everyone on a bright and beautiful Georgia morning, but a rather chilly one.  I plan on staying home the rest of the day.  The three trips to Atlanta in three days with another tomorrow has taken a toll on my stamina although have rested well and will get more rest today.  The news regarding Stacey just gets worse and worse.  The arterialgram done on Monday showed blockages up and down the entire femoral artery in her leg, which undoubtedly was the cause of the gangrene.  So tomorrow at noon they have her scheduled for another arterial gram at which time they will see if they can balloon the artery and also they will remove the remaining four toes on her foot.  If they can't successfully balloon the artery then they will have to remove her leg.  This morning she was told they wanted to do an echo cardiogram before the surgery, which is to be done this afternoon,and the surgery will definitely be done tomorrow and is schedule for noon.  At least we won't have to fight the rush hour traffic to get down to the hospital.  Pat is planning on going with me tomorrow.  She has definitely been much stronger and is walking much better.  She saw the doctor yesterday and will see him again in a month and did get a good report and I see a noticeable improvement with her this week . 

Don, do hope your grandson wins the prize as sure that would be very exciting for him. 

Etta Sue, glad you are able to get out and that your g-nephew shoveled the path for you and opened your driveway.  I really dislike heat pumps, although we have one for the upstairs room but don't have to use it now as we don't go up there. 

Judy, thanks for the hymns.  At least this isn't a real long trip for John and he is doing what he likes to do.

Please, God!  Take this cold away from me.  Four nights now and I haven't been sleeping well.  I do believe it's time for this cold to be gone! 

'Meal On Us' was a success.  Meatloaf, mac and cheese, broccoli cole slaw and a pink strawberry cup cake.  Wonderful. 

It is bright and sunny here and the snow is slowly disappearing.  Looks like palomino ponies in the fields.  The birds are loving it being able to eat whatever is in the grass.  Inky is watching Kitty TV as I am typing.  She loves watching everything that moves from her kitty perch!

After shutting off the heat pump for 3-4 hours yesterday, last evening, it worked fine and still is.

So terribly sorry to hear this news about Stacey.

Larry, I am so sorry to hear the continuing bad news about Stacey.    I'm keeping her in my prayers and asking for strength for you and Pat as well. 

Larry, I'm truly sorry to read this news.  At prayer meeting tonight we'll have her name added to our Prayer Request list.

Larry we have been praying.  This is such a burden on you and Pat.  We will continue to pray.

I just heard from Chris Saunders over in England and I so love his photographs!

He gave me this link to a YouTube and thought I'd share it with you all:

Larry, I continue my prayers for your family.  I know the stress must be awful for you as parents, but am so glad you trust in the Lord and take life one day at a time, as you often tell us.

Thanks for that, Pat.  Lovely!

That's beautiful, Pat.  Thanks for sharing. 

Lovely Pat.  When are you going south?

Larry I will continue o pray for Stacy. Diabetes is an is an awful disease. The disease can do so much harm to ones body if one doesn't take good care of themselves. I'm not saying  that Stacy hasn't taken good care of herself. She has had so many health issues to deal with and this one  has really taken its toll o her. I pray for her peace of mind as she goes into surgery and has the atrial-gram today. I pray they won't have to take her leg.

Hi everyone.  I am going to be brief this morning and just check in for now.  We are ready to leave for the hospital for what could be a very long day.  The surgery for Stacey is now set for 1 pm rather than noon.  Pat is going with me this morning.  We are taking our lunch so we don't have to do all the extra walking at the hospital to get to the cafeteria and back.  I will try to get back later today to let you know what has happened.  If I don't just know that I was too tired to do so.

Thank you all for your continued prayers.  This is going to be a very difficult day but God will see us through it.

Praying fr Stacey, Larry and Pat.

What a bright sunny day in Indiana.  Not a cloud in the sky and quite breezy...the American Flag is standing straight out to the southeast. 

Today I am taking Ivalou to get her massage, then we will get a bite to eat somewhere.  Once I am back home, I will get in my car and go do cat duty at Kitty's house.  I need a few things at Dollar General and then back home. 

I need to do laundry sometime.

I did get some Mucinex at the drug store.  Finally some relief from the chest congestion.

Larry praying for you  Pat and Stacey.

Another bright day here in the north.

My prayers are going to heaven for you at this time

Larry, I am continuously holding you, Pat, and Stacy before the throne of God as you walk through this period of uncertainty and stress over health issues ... 

Thank you, so much, Pat, for sharing the link from Chris and Margit.  I really enjoyed listening. 

It went well for me at the hospital this morning, My Dr. was there and she said I did amazing on the treadmill part. Then they sent me to the cafeteria with a coupon to eat fatty foods before the imaging took place. I had 2 slices of real bacon ,1 scrambled egg, a small scone, yogurt, whole milk, and some string cheese. 503 calories. Yikes. I knew this day was going to mess up my food intake.

I go back tomorrow for the resting part of the stress test they are going to chemically ( Radioactive Isotope) stress my heart/ after then inject the stuff they want me to go eat and come back an hour later and the will put me through the imaging machine again, That's the part that scare me. That bed they had me on today had a thing with a pillow on it for my head and it had a ridge on the end that was right below my neck on my upper shoulders and it sure did hurt.

I didn't get to tell the tech until after it was all over. He is supposed to change that tomorrow so that I will be more comfortable. They took 512 pictures today and there will be that many again tomorrow.

Praying for Stacy, Larry and Pat.

Marilyn, I had that same test a few months ago ... not anything to be afraid of.   

As the Supreme Court ponders same sex "marriage"  the ground is falling away in Washington State.  A message?

One of the interviews with gays quoted something about recognizing "holy matrimony" - I want to know how anything that is described in the Bible as "an abomination unto the Lord" can be called holy!  And one woman complaining that because the federal laws didn't recognize her "marriage", when her partner died she had to pay $300,000 plus in inheritance tax.  How much must that inheritance amount to?

How long will the Lord stand for this?

Thanks for that, Jeanne.  "Holy"!!!!  NOT! 

"Come quickly Lord Jesus!"

Quote from: Marilyn on March 28, 2013, 03:47:25 PM
It went well for me at the hospital this morning, My Dr. was there and she said I did amazing on the treadmill part. Then they sent me to the cafeteria with a coupon to eat fatty foods before the imaging took place. I had 2 slices of real bacon ,1 scrambled egg, a small scone, yogurt, whole milk, and some string cheese. 503 calories. Yikes. I knew this day was going to mess up my food intake.

I go back tomorrow for the resting part of the stress test they are going to chemically ( Radioactive Isotope) stress my heart/ after then inject the stuff they want me to go eat and come back an hour later and the will put me through the imaging machine again, That's the part that scare me. That bed they had me on today had a thing with a pillow on it for my head and it had a ridge on the end that was right below my neck on my upper shoulders and it sure did hurt.

I didn't get to tell the tech until after it was all over. He is supposed to change that tomorrow so that I will be more comfortable. They took 512 pictures today and there will be that many again tomorrow.

Praying for Stacy, Larry and Pat.

I'll be thinking of you, Marilyn.

No, Jeanne, not a coincidence at all!  I just read two books, Israel Omen 1 and Israel Omen 2, which show the parallels between when the government does something totally against the Word, and then we have catastrophic weather, etc.  The second volume is all about since O has been in office, and warns that we are in for a horrible event to come!

My mom's sister used to live on Whidby Island, where the ground is falling away!

And O is so determined to take our guns away and leave us defenseless.  Using the tragedy in Sandy Hook is just beyond the pale, in my opinion. 

I need to be typing up another story, just haven't been able to make myself get with it!

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Hi everyone.  It is 9 am and both Pat and I are still resting from a good nights sleep.  I am going to share the email I sent to family and some local friends last evening after we had talked to the doctor when Stacey's surgery was over.

Stacey made it through the surgery of about 3 1/2 hours.  They had to take care of a blockage in the lower abdomen that the doctor had to fix and then were able to to balloon and stent her lower leg in the one of the three vessels in the lower leg.  The other two vessels were blocked and he couldn't do anything with them but said he was able to get good blood flow to her foot.  He then amputated the remainder of her toes up to the mid arch.  There is another problem with infection that he doesn't think is related to the foot and they need to find what is causing the white cell count to be so high as ist is running 18 to 20 thousand and she has been on antibiotics since she has been the hospital the last nine days. 

She was in  recovery for an hour or so and then was taken back  to her room.  He said she will eventually be able to bear weight on the heal of her foot, which is great news.  She will be here for another week or so and then go to rehab.  We were gone yesterday for eleven hours.  Pat got along well but we both immediately went to bed as soon as we got home.  I haven't decided whether I will go back down to be with her for a couple of hours today or wait until tomorrow and just try to rest today.

Marilyn, as Jane said the chemical stress test isn't to be feared but hope the tech makes you more comfortable.  Glad you did so well on the walking part but not surprised since you do a lot of walking.

Janet, agree about how something can be Holy when it goes against what the Bible says.  I head a minister and someone else debate this issue a couple of days ago and the minister didn't believe that gay marriage was wrong.  I don't know what church he represented.  I wonder if North Korea is what is going to bring us great trouble either in trying to attack us directly or cause us to get involved in another war. Certainly hope I am way off base here.

Larry, thank you for the news about Stacey.  It is good news that they are able to get blood flow to her foot and so the surgery didn't have to be any greater.  I pray they'll be able to find and cure the infection that remains.  It must have been a very long and very stressful day for you and Pat.

Larry I am glad that the results were better than expected.  I am praying they find the source of the infection. 


Jeanne thank you for the cross and the hymn.  Very appropriate for today.

Marilyn you will be fine,

So many prayers and concerns today.  May God bless you all.

I do believe this cold is slowly going away!  I think I am among the living again!

I got an email from Kitty.  They were spending the night at Jackson, MS, last night.  May go by Sikeston, MO, where they have a farm...if not they should be home late this evening. 

I got an email from Tony and Charlene...they must have left in the wee hours of the morning for Jacksonville Beach, Florida, pulling a trailer with their cycle in it behind their car.  Charlene's aunt, uncle and cousin is in Jacksonville Beach.  She also sent me a link to Glympse.  I checked it out and I could see a map with an arrow (Tony and Charlene) inching through Atlanta.  It is a free app so now I can see where they are!!

Tonight is Good Friday Service with a drama, communion and candlelight service.

Larry, thank you for the update on Stacey, and I pray they do find the source of the infection and get that stopped.  Try to get some rest now, and trust the staff to care ofr Stacey until you feel up to going back to see her again.

I attended a Good Friday service at the care home and it was so nice.  The church doing it has a number of kids who are being taught music by one of their members; so lovely to see and hear kids playing strings!  One little girl must have been all of eight or so, and playing a tiny violin!  Others played violins, one little boy had a smaller size bass.  They also sang He Arose!  which is my favorite Easter song!  So nice to attend a well prepared and presented program.

My eyes do not want to stay open so I am about to take a little nap!