Prayer requests
Kasia January 14th, 2008
First, as I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t think to post this prayer request sooner, my friend DJ’s co-worker’s grandson is being treated for cancer. Prayers would be deeply appreciated.
Second, this morning I was told about a young woman, home from college, pregnant, whose father took her to get an abortion. I’m not sure how much pressure or coercion might have been involved, but she committed suicide two days later. I don’t know her name, but God does; please pray for both her and the baby. And please pray for her father as well - again, I don’t know his name, but God knows each of us by name, and surely He won’t disregard heartfelt prayers just because we don’t know who exactly we’re praying for.
They’ve been added to “Mother’s Hit List” (I have the BVM keep track of prayer requests for me. I’m too scatter brained).
As for praying for “unnamed persons”, C.S Lewis mentions in one of his works (”The Great Divorse” I think) that one of the joys of heaven is meeting all those who prayed for us, especially tthose we never knew. I think it gives new insight into the “Communion of Saints”
K, thanks for mentioning my prayer intention. I haven’t heard any updates about this young man, but I’ll see if I can find out anything from his grandmother this week.
But I have more prayer requests for healing from a potential cancer, this time in the son of our department’s administrative assistant. Nick is 17 years old and was in the midst of planning for college when he recently began complaining of headaches and vision problems. Last week, doctors performed surgery, and this is what they’ve found:
“They saw the doctor this morning, and Nick’s tumor is a germinoma (it’s possible that the tumor will return). They’re going to start radiation in 2 weeks to get rid of the remaining tumor. The doctor didn’t want to call it cancer; he just said it’s possible that it could return and was common in boys.
They’re going to do an MRI body scan to see if any parts of the tumor moved down the spinal column. They’re also going to do a spinal tap and spinal MRI to see if they can detect anything in the spinal fluid. Depending on their findings (a board of doctors is meeting on Wednesday to make a decision), they will decide on their course of action (radiation, chemotherapy, etc.).
Tomorrow they’re going to cap off the tube that the spinal fluid has been draining through. They’re hoping that the fluid movement will return to normal. If, however, he starts to have headaches, they’ll try again in a week, and may have to reroute the spinal fluid to flow through his stomach (I’m pretty sure that’s what she said).”
This is the section of the update I found most impressive:
“Her and Nick have decided that after they get through this, they want to make pillows for the little kids in the hospital because the hospital pillows are terribly
uncomfortable (she brought his pillow from home).”
Imagine yourself at age 17, lying in a hospital bed wile recovering from rather serious brain surgery. I don’t know about y’all, but I most certainly wouldn’t have been thinking about how to relieve the suffering of others! How impressive is that!
Very impressive indeed.