((( @idj ))) Please keep us updated!
((( @ThunderBunk and mum )))
((( @Robert Armin ))) Such good news!
((( @Galilit ))) Prayers always
((( From all affected by this evil disease )))
I'm having tremendous pain and trouble moving around since taking a hard full-body fall on Saturday morning. Nothing was broken (I know this because I spent the day in the ER, having X-rays and CT scans), but you couldn't prove it from my pain levels and immobility. I'm grateful to have you all on my team.
I don't often post, but I read most days. You are in my daily thoughts and prayers. My recent check up mammogram was clear, but I'm still having unwanted side effects from the hormonetherapy. Seeing oncologist next week and the gynae/ surgeon the fortnight after. Hopefully something can be done.
Ross, Robert, Galilit, idj, et al...may God give you all that you need.
Holding all those in pain and all those in anxiety in the light of love and compassion.
I have been reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes, her 2018 investigation of the ways in which our collective struggles to extend life and battle ill health are sometimes anything but life-affirming. The cures and treatments sometimes do seem worse than the cures, ameliorations, remissions, etc. they purport to strive for. Her discussion of the role(s) of macrophages (and other types of cells) in both the destruction and metastasis of cancer cells is particularly unsettling. She writes, "If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and 'complexity,' we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else."
While not an actual lab-coat-wearing practitioner of scientific research, Ehrenreich holds a Ph.D in cell biology and appears, at least to this layperson, to be keeping abreast of developments in her field.
"If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and 'complexity,' we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else."
ISTM that this chimes in (sort of) with the Ministry of Healing practised in, umm, sensible Christian churches. That is to say, 'healing' may not necessarily mean the complete eradication of a Fell Complaint, but may mean being given the humility, and grace, to accept it, and to do something positive with it.
Does that make sense? I'm not really quite sure what I mean...
Perhaps it's relevant to quote Ron Ferguson, a former Leader of the Iona Community and later the minister of St Magnus in Kirkwall (also a very wise and funny writer). He once wrote that when we are praying we’d better make sure we know the difference between curing and healing when we’re asking God for help. He later elaborated:
“I'd heard a radio programme in which a woman said she'd prayed for her husband - who was suffering from cancer - to be healed. Her husband did die, but before his death they discussed the matter, and he said he'd felt more "whole" than at any time in his life, even though his cancer was worsening. He was ready to meet his Maker, and that, for him, was a form of healing/wholeness/health. I think that makes sense”.
Perhaps it's relevant to quote Ron Ferguson, a former Leader of the Iona Community and later the minister of St Magnus in Kirkwall (also a very wise and funny writer). He once wrote that when we are praying we’d better make sure we know the difference between curing and healing when we’re asking God for help. He later elaborated:
“I'd heard a radio programme in which a woman said she'd prayed for her husband - who was suffering from cancer - to be healed. Her husband did die, but before his death they discussed the matter, and he said he'd felt more "whole" than at any time in his life, even though his cancer was worsening. He was ready to meet his Maker, and that, for him, was a form of healing/wholeness/health. I think that makes sense”.
Please pray for N and her family. She died yesterday, leaving a husband and three children (16, 14 and 11). I haven't seen much of her since her diagnosis (mid November) due to my own condition, and the speed with which the cancer moved has shocked me. Her family are in bits.
So sorry for your loss, RA - may N. rest in peace.
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ST - Ron Ferguson is indeed a very good, wise and funny man. He succeeded Bill Cant, the minister who married us, at St. Magnus and we got to know him when we came back for holidays.
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(((For N and all who love her)))
<votive> For @Robert Armin, for @idj, for @Dormouse, For @Galilit, and for all who suffer from this monstrous disease,
I’m back in hospital, with pneumonia (unless it’s heart), severe pain, and what not. I hope I can return to my home and felines very soon.
(((For N and all who love her)))
<votive> For @Robert Armin, for @idj, for @Dormouse, For @Galilit, and for all who suffer from this monstrous disease,
I’m back in hospital, with pneumonia (unless it’s heart), severe pain, and what not. I hope I can return to my home and felines very soon.
[flexes arms, cracks knuckles] Can I bag you a cardiologist? Got some curare arrows, right here.
@Rossweisse I hope a crack cardiologist has turned up, but in the mean times I'll try a find a few Oneries for you this side of the Atlantic. My mum used to have a friend called Honore, pronounced in very British fashion Onorie. She never stood any nonsense, but had a great sense of humour. I always think of her when I see the word.
I went to spend the night with my brother. He has been home from hospital nearly a month but seems to be spending a lot of time in bed. I think he's depressed as well as everything else. Not the most joyous of visits. It's truly terrible the knock on effect this dire disease has. Both his wife and son are pretty miserable too.
Hmm. Depression (being suffered by patient, and family) is hardly surprising, under the circumstances.
Is his consultant, and/or GP, aware of this issue? I'm sure people like Macmillan, for instance, know how to approach it - not necessarily to resolve it, but at least to ameliorate it.
If so, time for them to get to work, along with the Orneries, and the Feline Ministers To The Sick...
<votives galore> for all on this thread.
We can't leave it all to the birds and the cats. Some of us want to be more directly involved.
Could we steal some big name healing evangelists and force them at sword point to cure Ross? If one fails, we kill them, and move on to the next. It sounds like win-win to me.
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@idj , please keep us updated, if you can.
🕯 @idj
🕯 @ThunderBunk's mum
Hugs for ((idj)), if acceptable.
Continued prayers for all. May you find comfort from us who care, both known and unknown to you.
🕯 @ThunderBunk's mum
((( @ThunderBunk and mum )))
((( @Robert Armin ))) Such good news!
((( @Galilit ))) Prayers always
((( From all affected by this evil disease )))
I'm having tremendous pain and trouble moving around since taking a hard full-body fall on Saturday morning. Nothing was broken (I know this because I spent the day in the ER, having X-rays and CT scans), but you couldn't prove it from my pain levels and immobility. I'm grateful to have you all on my team.
((idj))
((Galilit))
((Thunderbunk's mother))
((Rossweise))
((idj))
((Galilit))
((Thunderbunk's mother))
And For ((Robert Armin)) too.
Indeed and amen. And flights of orneries bring feather beds to cushion every protesting bone and joint.
Ross, Robert, Galilit, idj, et al...may God give you all that you need.
Prayers for all, but especially @Rossweisse with pneumonia (in case anyone has missed the Prayer thread).
I have been reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes, her 2018 investigation of the ways in which our collective struggles to extend life and battle ill health are sometimes anything but life-affirming. The cures and treatments sometimes do seem worse than the cures, ameliorations, remissions, etc. they purport to strive for. Her discussion of the role(s) of macrophages (and other types of cells) in both the destruction and metastasis of cancer cells is particularly unsettling. She writes, "If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and 'complexity,' we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else."
While not an actual lab-coat-wearing practitioner of scientific research, Ehrenreich holds a Ph.D in cell biology and appears, at least to this layperson, to be keeping abreast of developments in her field.
ISTM that this chimes in (sort of) with the Ministry of Healing practised in, umm, sensible Christian churches. That is to say, 'healing' may not necessarily mean the complete eradication of a Fell Complaint, but may mean being given the humility, and grace, to accept it, and to do something positive with it.
Does that make sense? I'm not really quite sure what I mean...
“I'd heard a radio programme in which a woman said she'd prayed for her husband - who was suffering from cancer - to be healed. Her husband did die, but before his death they discussed the matter, and he said he'd felt more "whole" than at any time in his life, even though his cancer was worsening. He was ready to meet his Maker, and that, for him, was a form of healing/wholeness/health. I think that makes sense”.
“I'd heard a radio programme in which a woman said she'd prayed for her husband - who was suffering from cancer - to be healed. Her husband did die, but before his death they discussed the matter, and he said he'd felt more "whole" than at any time in his life, even though his cancer was worsening. He was ready to meet his Maker, and that, for him, was a form of healing/wholeness/health. I think that makes sense”.
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ST - Ron Ferguson is indeed a very good, wise and funny man. He succeeded Bill Cant, the minister who married us, at St. Magnus and we got to know him when we came back for holidays.
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<votive> For @Robert Armin, for @idj, for @Dormouse, For @Galilit, and for all who suffer from this monstrous disease,
I’m back in hospital, with pneumonia (unless it’s heart), severe pain, and what not. I hope I can return to my home and felines very soon.
[flexes arms, cracks knuckles] Can I bag you a cardiologist? Got some curare arrows, right here.
If so, time for them to get to work, along with the Orneries, and the Feline Ministers To The Sick...
<votives galore> for all on this thread.
My mother used to have a cat that would lunge at her throat if she started singing. (Starting from her lap, of course.)
I went to spend the night with my brother. He has been home from hospital nearly a month but seems to be spending a lot of time in bed. I think he's depressed as well as everything else. Not the most joyous of visits. It's truly terrible the knock on effect this dire disease has. Both his wife and son are pretty miserable too.
Is his consultant, and/or GP, aware of this issue? I'm sure people like Macmillan, for instance, know how to approach it - not necessarily to resolve it, but at least to ameliorate it.
More Orneries needed, I think!
We can't leave it all to the birds and the cats. Some of us want to be more directly involved.
Could we steal some big name healing evangelists and force them at sword point to cure Ross? If one fails, we kill them, and move on to the next. It sounds like win-win to me.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OeAZ5IuydBA
Tell me that killing him wouldn't be a blessing.
DT
HH
That Ghastly Gobshite, Bentley, even gives Satan, and his Daemons, a bad name...