Prayers continue Kat
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Prayers continue Kat
Our thoughts and prayers are with you Katrina.
Small update: "Talked" with SIL tonight (via FB), nephew is still in hospital but is becoming more and more coherent. He actually called my SIL from his room to ask some questions. We're hoping this is a sign of good things to come. Many thanks for all your support and prayers.
Sorry I haven't been on for so long. Have to report my DIL2's father passed yesterday. He had been doing better but his heart was not strong enough and just gave out. Thank you for all your prayers and support. It's going to be really hard for my DIL2 as she was the closest to her dad. Unfortunately her sisters will not be much help.
Sorry to hear about this Kat. My prayers will be with them.
Thank you bp. On the other front, my nephew is no longer a "threat " to himself or others and has been moved to an assisted living facility with full medical services as his insurance won't pay for anything any more. He'll be there 90 days(to start), SO BIL and SIL are paying for it. He's still in full psychosis and is being medicated. Not sure if the Rhabdomylosis is under control yet as nephew is an adult and the docs are bound by the HIPPA law. Hopefully my niece has been able to become his guardian and can get more information soon. As for DH and I, we're just chugging along. Have to take Miss Chloe in, her chin "acne" is gotten way worse, Doc's gonna take a biopsy. Plus She's been yanking her hair out along the one side of her. Vet thinks it may be part food or environment allergies and maybe part behavioral. Have had her on special diet now for 2 months now and she's not stopped pulling her hair out. Oh well, we'll find out more after we take her in tomorrow am.My worry is it's cancer and it may be the kind Zephyr had, incurable.
Thank you for the continued prayers. DIL2 is still having problems with her older sister and having a heck of a time trying to find an assisted /low income place for her mother and younger sister. Her mom is not going to be able to stay in the mobile home as the SS is not a whole lot, DIL said its only about $1000.00 a mth. Keep the prayers up that she is able to rectify the situation. My nephew is getting better, I believe they may have the Rhabdomyolosis/ schizophrenia under control now. I hope he will be his old self soon. Thank you all for your prayers and support.
Hello all!! hope you are all doing well. Update on nephew, he's doing better, thank you for the prayers. Son2 and fam were here Friday for dinner. DIL2 says that mom will have a spot in the senior living appts near us and as soon as the younger sister completes her training as a home care she and mom will be able to move in 3/1. Just an update on Son1 and the older grands. He went to court about a week ago and got ALL his time back with the kids. He has a new lawyer that is really good thank you again for the prayers. However the psycho wants to change the agreement AGAIN, so we're off to court in April. It will be "interesting" to say the least. The kids will be testifying and there's a good chance I'll be called to testify. I had to send his lawyer a letter detailing things I've observed.No I don't hate her, she is mentally unstable and all I want is for her to get treatment before she does something stupid to the kids or Son1. I am hoping that this go round in court will be for the good of the children not her throwing her weight around. SO keep praying for him. Thank again everyone for the prayers and support.
Well good news all around for now Kat. Glad to hear it. Hopefully the April session will go in your sons favor.
Thanks bp, Appreciate the support.
Hi all been keeping busy. Thank you for the prayers and support. DIL2's mom and sister are in the senior living apts now but DIL2 has been getting the apt set up and moving the few things mom and sis need from the old trailer.We've been watching the kids for her. Just learned that there are 19 cases(CV19) down by Son1 in GA. DH and I are going down the end of the month for the baby's birthday so I am praying that we stay REAL healthy. No, that stubborn man is determined to go so I will be packing wipes and maybe adding oil of oregano to my regime, taking minerals and elderberry already. I'm praying that we ALL stay healthy and safe
Kat,
Amen!
Thanks Sniper. DIL2 is happy they got mom settled. She just has to get the rest of the paperwork sorted out. Been hard now that things have shut down. But as she said "I'm off work till the schools open so I can do a lot from home on the computer".
Posted elsewhere but we're not going south end of the month.Staying home and hoping this will get better sooner than later.
Hi guys, pray for me. DH has to have a full knee replacement soon. He went to new doctor (his is leaving her practice).
The X-Rays show there's no cartilage in his left knee and his right is showing spaces where it's gone too. For now they are going to try a series of new shots to hopefully fill in the lost cartilage but he will probably need to go in after first of the year. Told DH to get the crutches out NOW and practice otherwise he'll be falling all over the place LOL. It's going to be hard as he is pretty active (for an old coot) and he's not one to just sit around. Going to have to find a good diet for him so he doesn't gain too much weight while he's flat on his back. I put on about 35-40 lbs during my back to back surgeries a couple of years ago. Got the first 10 off still trying to get the rest off. Other than that we are still pretty healthy and I have been busy knitting and crocheting things for the kids for Christmas.
Update on my nephew, thanks for all the prayers. He is doing much better now. BIL and SIL had to move him from the first home, it was terrible. They didn't take care of him and he was getting worse. So they moved him into another group home and he is doing much better. The home is half the rent and there are only about 5-6 other people there. He gets 2 hot meals a day and is looking so much better. He is fully on disability and can now pay his rent himself. SIL and his sister are now co-guardians for him. The house mother was talking about getting a dog for the home the other month and nephew said he had a dog. So he's allowed to have Rollo and believe me he is one spoiled puppy dog now .Everybody loves the dog. We are so glad he's doing better. Thank you again for all the prayers.
Wishing him all the best. I know what it’s like. After my broken femur, then the knee replacement, then the hip replacement, then the fall from the porch stairs, I had a lot of down time last year and gained a considerable amount of weight. From one old coot to another, stay as active as possible...just not too active.
Prayers going up Kat.
Thanks guys, appreciate it. Not looking forward to DH being down. Dome, glad you're back up and about. Hope you are doing better.
Just to let you know. I am going in for surgery this coming Thursday (1/13). I was diagnosed with Stage 1 cancer and will be having a portion of my right lung removed. It is a cheerio sized spot, 1mm that showed up on the xrays in October when they(doctors) thought I was having a heart attack. Turned out to be extremely severe acid indigestion but that's when they found the cancer. I had spent time at Son1's taking care of DIL and the granddaughters (yes oldest is now living with her father TG) after DIL's surgery. Son1 was on movie at the time, after being off for all of 2020 and most of 2021. SO DH and I went down to help out. I took a very bad fall just before we were due to come home and the docs now think I bruised my heart when I almost did a Mary Poppins off Son1's deck. I was trying to put down and secure the patio umbrella before it blew off the porch before one of the many storms they had. Just as I was cranking it down the wind gusted, my arm got caught and the umbrella almost took me off the 2nd story deck, (son's house is built into a hill) and I landed on my keister quite hard. Bruising didn't go away for couple of months. Made it tough to sit comfortably LOL. And things went downhill after that, when the hospital did an enzyme test that's when they thought I was having an attack because the levels were rising.After all the testing they said I have a strong heart , like bull HA HA but there was this spot on my lung. SO that's what Ive been up to this past year. I just hope and pray that 2022 will be a heck of lot better.
My prayers are with you and the hubs Kat. The good Lord has this.
Thanks BP. Will let you all know how things turn out or I will have DH contact ladyhk and brr via phone. If ladyhk, you haven't changed your #.
Always at the ready to send Prayers!
Thank you all for your support over the years. It is with extreme sorrow to have to report we have lost our firstborn. AKA Son1.
He leaves behind 3 children and wife.
We will be holding the Memorial Service on Saturday, February 12, 2022, at Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Home located at 5035 W. Holt Road, Holt, MI 48842. All are welcome to arrive at 1:30pm with the service beginning at 2:00pm. Masks will be required by the funeral home in order to attend. There will be a small luncheon/gathering to follow service at Buddies Bar & Grill.
For anyone that is not able to attend the Memorial Service in person is welcome to view it online by visiting the Facebook page for Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Home and scrolling down to the live post. Here is a link to their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/PalmerbushJ...alHomeOfficial
The service will go online at approximately 1:55pm.
The family is requesting that in lieu of flowers for the service a donation be made in Chris’s honor to charity: water. During Chris’s time in Namibia he saw firsthand the devastation that not having clean water can cause communities. This charity was close to his heart as they travel the world providing clean water to children in third world countries.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I’ll say a prayer for him, his family and yours.
Thank you RJ , it is very much appreciated.
My prayers are with you all during this time. So sorry to hear this news Kat.
Thank you bp. Much appreciated.
LadyHK an I send our thoughts an prayers. Very sorry for your loss Kat.
wow, extended hugs Kat; to you and all of yours!
Thanks Sniper. We are reeling and trying to deal with this.It's been hard.
Thank you everyone. Your support has been much appreciated .
You all are still in our prayers Kat
I am hoping that you are dealing well with this loss. Please feel free to ask for assistance if you need. We're all here to help as we can.
Hugs Kat!
Sorry to hear of your loss, Kat. I've always thought that the loss of a child is the worst to bear. But, you are stronger than you know, you will get through it.
Thank you Gunfixr. We're doing as best as we can. Right now it's doubly hard as I had some major surgery end of January and am not up to par yet.
Prayers for you to heal fully Kat. As well as for everyone in general
Thanks bp much appreciated
Well I'm still alive(LOL) Went to pulmonologist and actually surprised him. I am at 94% capacity in my lungs, he only expected me to be at 75% after losing third of my right lung lobe and my SAT rate (oxygen in the blood) is still up about 98-97% just as it was before the operation.For those who may not know I WAS a 50+ yr smoker. I STILL have NOT picked up a ciggie, even with losing Son1 and this operation.The Good Lord must really think I am some kind of bad A$$. Thank you all for keeping me and the family in your prayers,I continue to keep all of you in mine. Oh and thank you for the birthday greetings.Guess I'm not doing too bad for "an old lady".
Congrats on staying off them, and keep up the good work.
The lungs will heal, unlike some things.
Well Doc gave me to go ahead so I went to my 50th Class reunion Saturday. Man I'm old LOL. Anyways We are going to be traveling next month. Am headed down to Tennessee to see Grand daughter1 and grandson1 then over to Georgia to see granddaughter#3and the DIL for a few days.In Aug heading to family reunion in Vegas for a long week end (sorry I can only take one of my brothers for a few days before I want to smack him upside his head,love him dearly but he is a jerk), then DH is talking going to AZ in October for our 48th anniversary. We have beans, peas and tomatoes coming along well. The squash is doing good too. Just hope I'll be able to get them put up before we start traveling. Our onions and carrots are not doing so good, DH tried the tapes with seeds on them I'm not sure but I think he may have planted them too deep in the boxes as there are only a few sprigs showing right now.Hope every one is doing good and staying safe.