OPEN HEART SURGERY 3rd TIME IN 3WEEKS
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toomanybikes
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Wow, that has to be rough for you and even more for your father. Praying for a quick recovery.
ridersonthestorm
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Hope All Goes Well. I'm sure Once Was More than Enough
Ray
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Sorry I haven't been around much since our prayers have been answered since the plant closed down and work has been in a sad state. I have been "Working" and it looks like it is going to get even better in a next little while too. So as I was always told be careful what you ask for, or possibly seems even beg for at times. I chose not to be refered to as religious because often times that also comes with a name like hypocrite. I believe and have seen the power of prayer in my own life and even people around me as well. When it comes to situations like what our father is going through, well they bring us all to our knees. I believe in the power of prayer and what scripture says what it.
A quick as possible little story. My mother in law and my wife were very very close and she had a heart attack and ended up in the hospital in crititcal condition. While she was there she had a stroke about a week into it and they lost her a few minutes and she never came out of it. A few days into this, even though myself and others were praying she pasted away. I was the only one in the room holding her hand when I saw her take her last breath. I got to go get my wife and her brothers that were taking a break in the waiting room. It was extremely tough on all of them especially my wife. My mother in law was not a church goer but she was a good woman even though she wanted to have me arrested the day my wife and I when to the court house and got married. I knew my wife at this point was hurting and possibly questioned that heaven and hell thing for her mother. I simply ask the Lord to help us all through it. A couple days later we went to the apartment where she lived and was going through her things, just my wife and me. I was the first one to enter her bedroom when I saw it. I instantly got my wife to show her and told her to get it and take it home with us where it still is today. It was her personal Bible I had never seen before on the night stand next to her bed. She had been talking to Him as well. I know it gave my wife tremendous peace through out the passing of her Mom as it still does today. Like the "Still small Voice" in tremendous times of trouble. Praying for this for you.
Ray
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A quick as possible little story. My mother in law and my wife were very very close and she had a heart attack and ended up in the hospital in crititcal condition. While she was there she had a stroke about a week into it and they lost her a few minutes and she never came out of it. A few days into this, even though myself and others were praying she pasted away. I was the only one in the room holding her hand when I saw her take her last breath. I got to go get my wife and her brothers that were taking a break in the waiting room. It was extremely tough on all of them especially my wife. My mother in law was not a church goer but she was a good woman even though she wanted to have me arrested the day my wife and I when to the court house and got married. I knew my wife at this point was hurting and possibly questioned that heaven and hell thing for her mother. I simply ask the Lord to help us all through it. A couple days later we went to the apartment where she lived and was going through her things, just my wife and me. I was the first one to enter her bedroom when I saw it. I instantly got my wife to show her and told her to get it and take it home with us where it still is today. It was her personal Bible I had never seen before on the night stand next to her bed. She had been talking to Him as well. I know it gave my wife tremendous peace through out the passing of her Mom as it still does today. Like the "Still small Voice" in tremendous times of trouble. Praying for this for you.
Ray
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Tomtang aka Reptilejim
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A speedy recovery is my prayer!
Thoughts and prayers.
Knuckles
Active Member
thank you again.
surgery went ok on Sat. it's been up and down. He threw up blood so now going in with a camera to determine the source. also giving 2 more units of blood. He is tuff as hell but has been way too much. Had a kidney removed 16 months ago, his bladder and prostate in Feb and now all this for his heart. I feel helpless.
surgery went ok on Sat. it's been up and down. He threw up blood so now going in with a camera to determine the source. also giving 2 more units of blood. He is tuff as hell but has been way too much. Had a kidney removed 16 months ago, his bladder and prostate in Feb and now all this for his heart. I feel helpless.
BIG DOG AZ
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Thoughts and prayers for your dad, you,and your family!
Ray
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Wonders how your Father is doing close to a week later ? I can understand that helpless feeling as I am sure many of us can as well. Spending trememdous time at any hospital is tough on everyone concerned. It kinda reminds us all how helpless we are and how fragile life is really. We all need someone like your Father in our lifes that is and I quote that is "Tuff as hell" to be an example for us where we can pass that trait on to we deeply care about around us. I suppose for me it was the lady I refered to as my grandmother on my Father's side of the family. The lady that stepped in when my real grandmother walked away from my Grandfather and a several kids, my father being one of them. These were real life country folks. My Grandfather owned and worked a sawmill out in the backwoods close to the Tennessee river. I always looked forward to getting to be around her because she was one of those very special people everyday and all the time. When I saw what you said about your Father being Tuff I thought of her and had to smile in a very very respectful way. The last time I saw her alive was a few weeks before she passed on to be with the Lord. I rode my motorcycle at the time down to see her because she had been going through some severe health issues ( cancer/lung issues/ all the crap that is associated with that too). She was living with my aunt then and I rode up on the back patio like I lived there. The suzuki 1200 was certainly not loud like the scooter I have now but she knew it was me. I tapped on the door and she said "Come on in here!" She was hooked up to oxygen to help her breath sitting there on the sofa. The backdoor I went in was shut but unlocked as always and as always there was a 12 gauge double barreled shotgun within reach of my Grandmother by the sofa.(City folks might wonder was it loaded
) We had a great visit just her and myself there that day. Somehow I knew that I would possibly not get to see her alive again. She told me the last memorys she had of my Father before he lost his life in July 1962, I was four years old. Before I left there that day I asked her if she was ready for what we both knew was close at hand. She smiled and said "Yes". We talked about it a while before I left the final time I would see her alive. Her cancer had come back and she decided she was not going through the treatments again! The Dr. said the cancer didn't kill her but that her her lungs were just worn out. She smoked possibly until she couldn't get someone to get her another one (camels/roll your own). The last time I saw her she had one burning in between her fingers. She was'nt smoking it it was just a habit she saw through till the very end. The next time I was down there I had the honor of being one of the grandsons who carryed her. Her body was placed beside my Grandfather's underneath a huge oak tree in the family graveyard just a few hundred yards from where she raised the family that loved her so very much. Praying for your Father and family,
Ray :2thumbs:
Knuckles
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Dad is still in the hospital, but getting better. I hope to get him out and to a skilled nursing center in the next week. He has had some complications ( blood clots, nerve damage in his leg due to heart balloon pump). Overall he is getting stronger and able to walk short distances. He will be discharged with a pick line (IV that can stay in for a year) as he'll need antibiotics for several weeks to fight the infection.