Prayer request from Marni regarding her mom:
October 27th
Today my mom was diagnosed with cancer. She suspected something was wrong but said nothing until she was sure.
The cancer is in her thyroid, lymph nodes, and there are scary nodules in the back of her throat and in her eustachean tubes.
She's 63, a high school English teacher, mom, wife and a Grammy.
She also has no relationship with Jesus. She thinks she's saved...but she's not.
I believe God won't waste this diagnosis. Please pray for this to be a time where I have ample opportunity to share my faith with her and for her to finally give her heart to God. Ditto for my sister and step dad who need God as well and are reeling from today's news.
Update, October 29th:
As an update, my mom had a biospy yesterday...it's just gonna tell us what the doc already knows...that it's cancer. But today's prayer request is that it NOT be anaplastic cancer. If it is anaplastic, the cure rate is non existent and the life expectancy is less than a year.
But first and foremost, I would love for you all to keep remembering my mom's salvation in your prayers. To me, cancer is secondary to that.
Please keep Marni, her mom and family in your prayers. Praying gal!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Prayer Request
I received this request from Gabrielle Eden. Please be praying for her friend:
My friend Gale has H1N1 and is weak from the results of chemo treatments that have left damage to her body.
We are concerned that she won't be able to weather the virus.
Thanks for your prayers!!!
My friend Gale has H1N1 and is weak from the results of chemo treatments that have left damage to her body.
We are concerned that she won't be able to weather the virus.
Thanks for your prayers!!!
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Good News and Praise The Lord!
Great news from Sherri's friend Cheryl who has been undergoing treatment for brain cancer:
1. 4 weeks ago today I found out I had lung cancer that had metastasized into my brain. Friends brought me to Barnes-Jewish hospital where I was told had I NOT been admitted and started receiving treatment when I did I would have been history within the week!
2. 3 weeks ago today I was in Barnes-Jewish ICU recovery eating scrambled eggs, sausage, and drinking my morning coffee after having surgery a day earlier where a 4 cm cancerous tumor was removed from my brain!
3. 2 weeks ago today I was picnicking if beautiful Forest Park enjoying the view from the World's Fair Pavilion and the company of 2 GREAT recreational therapists and other 2 other patients from the Rehab Center!
4. One week ago today my beautiful sister Marcia spent the day with me, I got to go swimming and even ate Chinese food and managed to take a few bites using chopsticks!
5. Today I am preparing for my discharge Saturday when I get to go home! Where I am REALLY looking forward to seeing family & friends. Sleeping in my OWN bed! Having my coffee pot on ALL day long if I want to.
Will return Thursday evening, July 24th to spend the night before receiving the gamma knife radiation treatment on the 25th. It's NOT really a knife but targeted laser treatment to what is called the tumor base, that's the site where the 4cm tumor was removed, the shadow on the right front brain lobe that showed up on the original MRI. They will do brain CAT scan/MRI that morning to see if any where else needs to be treated. Then I get attached to the equipment where as I envision it they start zapping the bad cells kind of like in Star Wars with the light sabers!
Gee, wonder if after they remove the space helmet thing I'll come out with Princess Leia's hair do? Sure hope NOT!
Like I said it's GOOD NEWS Wednesday!
1. 4 weeks ago today I found out I had lung cancer that had metastasized into my brain. Friends brought me to Barnes-Jewish hospital where I was told had I NOT been admitted and started receiving treatment when I did I would have been history within the week!
2. 3 weeks ago today I was in Barnes-Jewish ICU recovery eating scrambled eggs, sausage, and drinking my morning coffee after having surgery a day earlier where a 4 cm cancerous tumor was removed from my brain!
3. 2 weeks ago today I was picnicking if beautiful Forest Park enjoying the view from the World's Fair Pavilion and the company of 2 GREAT recreational therapists and other 2 other patients from the Rehab Center!
4. One week ago today my beautiful sister Marcia spent the day with me, I got to go swimming and even ate Chinese food and managed to take a few bites using chopsticks!
5. Today I am preparing for my discharge Saturday when I get to go home! Where I am REALLY looking forward to seeing family & friends. Sleeping in my OWN bed! Having my coffee pot on ALL day long if I want to.
Will return Thursday evening, July 24th to spend the night before receiving the gamma knife radiation treatment on the 25th. It's NOT really a knife but targeted laser treatment to what is called the tumor base, that's the site where the 4cm tumor was removed, the shadow on the right front brain lobe that showed up on the original MRI. They will do brain CAT scan/MRI that morning to see if any where else needs to be treated. Then I get attached to the equipment where as I envision it they start zapping the bad cells kind of like in Star Wars with the light sabers!
Gee, wonder if after they remove the space helmet thing I'll come out with Princess Leia's hair do? Sure hope NOT!
Like I said it's GOOD NEWS Wednesday!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Prayer Requests, July 8th
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Heb 4:16
Sherri:
Tyson is a 19 year old soldier, serving in Iraq who was hit yesterday and is suffering brain trauma. They say he is in a hospital in Germany, and they are sending him back to the states (I think to Texas) to a head trauma facility for care.
We LOVE this BOY. He is hilarious and very outgoing - full of life and always smiling and trying to get those around him to belly laugh. He would do ANYTHING to get you to laugh till your sides hurt!
He was thrilled to serve his country and I think we all owe it to him to lift his name in prayer.
When I find out more details, I would love for all of us to send him a card of encouragement - maybe get a bunch of people to join me(your churches, blog readers etc.) Wouldn't that be a great way to encourage someone who sacrificed so much on OUR behalf?
I hope you'll all help.
Annie:
Let's keep Wendy in our prayers as she has been fighting Pneumonia. She started getting worse a few days ago when the fever came back and the coughing became worse and more painful.
Sherri:
Tyson is a 19 year old soldier, serving in Iraq who was hit yesterday and is suffering brain trauma. They say he is in a hospital in Germany, and they are sending him back to the states (I think to Texas) to a head trauma facility for care.
We LOVE this BOY. He is hilarious and very outgoing - full of life and always smiling and trying to get those around him to belly laugh. He would do ANYTHING to get you to laugh till your sides hurt!
He was thrilled to serve his country and I think we all owe it to him to lift his name in prayer.
When I find out more details, I would love for all of us to send him a card of encouragement - maybe get a bunch of people to join me(your churches, blog readers etc.) Wouldn't that be a great way to encourage someone who sacrificed so much on OUR behalf?
I hope you'll all help.
Annie:
Let's keep Wendy in our prayers as she has been fighting Pneumonia. She started getting worse a few days ago when the fever came back and the coughing became worse and more painful.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Prayer Requests July 2
Wendy:
My dad finally had his appointment with the oncologist today. All the tests are saying that he has follicular mature B cell lymphoma. This is a good thing and a bad thing. While it is very treatable with chemo and radiation, it's a recurring type of cancer. Yup, it can keep coming back. Seeing that my dad is more afraid of the treatment than the cancer, this is probably not what he was wanting to hear.
Preliminary results point to him being at stage 2, but they won't know for sure until they do a pet scan and a marrow draw next week. At least we hope it will be next week. There's been way too much waiting around already! Once the testing is done we'll find out about when the treatment will start. Anyway, my dad seems to be in good spirits. I'm hoping that he will stay that way! And as always, I really appreciate all your prayers for him. You guys are the best!
Annie:
A life-long friend of my family needs urgent prayer. Christy is 38, married and mother to a 16 year old son. Her parents were some of the first friends my parents made when they moved to Bend in 1965.
Several years ago, Christy took Phen-Phen (the diet drug) and it severely damaged her lungs and heart. She got better, but has taken a turn for the worse. She is on oxygen to breathe and morphine to control the pain. She is now unable to work. If God doesn't heal her, she will die and leave a husband, son, 2 sisters, 2 brothers and some of the most God-fearing parents I have ever known.
While I pray that God heals Christy while she is on earth, I do not know His plan and it may be that she will be called home. Either way, please keep Christy and her family in your prayers.
My dad finally had his appointment with the oncologist today. All the tests are saying that he has follicular mature B cell lymphoma. This is a good thing and a bad thing. While it is very treatable with chemo and radiation, it's a recurring type of cancer. Yup, it can keep coming back. Seeing that my dad is more afraid of the treatment than the cancer, this is probably not what he was wanting to hear.
Preliminary results point to him being at stage 2, but they won't know for sure until they do a pet scan and a marrow draw next week. At least we hope it will be next week. There's been way too much waiting around already! Once the testing is done we'll find out about when the treatment will start. Anyway, my dad seems to be in good spirits. I'm hoping that he will stay that way! And as always, I really appreciate all your prayers for him. You guys are the best!
Annie:
A life-long friend of my family needs urgent prayer. Christy is 38, married and mother to a 16 year old son. Her parents were some of the first friends my parents made when they moved to Bend in 1965.
Several years ago, Christy took Phen-Phen (the diet drug) and it severely damaged her lungs and heart. She got better, but has taken a turn for the worse. She is on oxygen to breathe and morphine to control the pain. She is now unable to work. If God doesn't heal her, she will die and leave a husband, son, 2 sisters, 2 brothers and some of the most God-fearing parents I have ever known.
While I pray that God heals Christy while she is on earth, I do not know His plan and it may be that she will be called home. Either way, please keep Christy and her family in your prayers.
Prayer Request
From Sherri:
Annie, Please add this to your prayer blog, and if the rest of you will lift up this young man in your prayers---We're needing some miracles here, folks!
*This was forwarded to me by my friend Cheryl who is recovering from Brain Surgery in St. Louis. She had the large tumor removed from one side, but the two smaller tumors on the other side of her brain they did not remove. She will begin radiation on her brain ASAP, then later is scheduled for Chemo for the lung cancer that they also did not remove.
Amazingly, she is in GREAT spirits- I think right now it is harder on those who love her! She has been a rock!
(SHe's a real fiesty thing, so I'm certain she's giving her doctor's fits!)
Anyone, please read the following and lift this young man and his family, (and Cheryl and her family ) to the throne!
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I'm calling on all my friends for special prayers for my stepson and Mark's only child, Christopher Puttmann.
Chris is 18, he just graduated from High School May 28th of this year, where he was given a standing ovation for his strength and courage. He attended the ceremony just 1 week after brain surgery at St Louis University Hospital. He was also voted "Most Shy" in his graduating class (not surprising, considering who his Father is....) Chris rides horses and actually has spent most of his life competing, he loves dogs, video games and country music. His career aspirations are attending college and becoming a Physical Therapist. He is tall, dark and handsome, at 6'1, he towers over his father and enjoys calling Dad, "shorty"
2 weeks after Chris was discharged from his Neurosurgeon he began having pain and twitching in his legs, then weakness with frequent falling and difficulty urinating. We were told at the time of the surgery that the "tumor" was most likely benign and despite our inquiries and concern, we were told that the patholgy report "was not back"
After several trips back to St Louis University where he was given pain killers and seizure medications, we took Chris to Barnes Hospital in St Louis. There they performed a Ct scan and MRI of the brain and spinal cord. Within the hour, we were told that Chris had a rare form of cancer called Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor, PNET for short. In 4 short weeks, after the removal of "the tumor" in the left frontal lobe of the brain, the disease had spread to throughout the brain lining and all through the spinal cord.
Currently, Chris has paralysis from the waist down and has an indwelling foley catheter to help him urinate. He is receiving radiation dly and chemotherapy weekly. Prognosis, we're told, is not good. All the doctors efforts are focused on irradicating the tumors and inflamation throughout his brain and spinal cord in hopes of Chris regaining the use of his lower extremities, his bowel/bladder function and most importantly his survival.
Chris has also been transferred to Children's Hospital in St. Louis as this type of cancer mostly affects children and the staff there are more familiar with the disease itself and the treatment.
Chris has yet to complain and receives daily treatments and rigorous physical therapy with a quiet nod of acceptance. The nurses and doctors consider him their "best" patient.
Chris is blessed with having 2 sets of parents and therefore, someone is always at his side, playing cards, board games or watching movies. He has yet to be discouraged and remains optimisic. He is so couragous and my new HERO. I'm sure he would love to hear from any and all of you. A cherry note of encouragement, a text or a phone call. I'm not sure of the address but he is in room 1201 at Children's Hospital in St Louis, MO. His cell phone # is 618 694-6601
Please pray for our Chris, we all know God is capable of miracles and hopefully he's planning one for Chris now
I will try to keep you updated on his condition and progress. Please keep him in your prayers.
Annie, Please add this to your prayer blog, and if the rest of you will lift up this young man in your prayers---We're needing some miracles here, folks!
*This was forwarded to me by my friend Cheryl who is recovering from Brain Surgery in St. Louis. She had the large tumor removed from one side, but the two smaller tumors on the other side of her brain they did not remove. She will begin radiation on her brain ASAP, then later is scheduled for Chemo for the lung cancer that they also did not remove.
Amazingly, she is in GREAT spirits- I think right now it is harder on those who love her! She has been a rock!
(SHe's a real fiesty thing, so I'm certain she's giving her doctor's fits!)
Anyone, please read the following and lift this young man and his family, (and Cheryl and her family ) to the throne!
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I'm calling on all my friends for special prayers for my stepson and Mark's only child, Christopher Puttmann.
Chris is 18, he just graduated from High School May 28th of this year, where he was given a standing ovation for his strength and courage. He attended the ceremony just 1 week after brain surgery at St Louis University Hospital. He was also voted "Most Shy" in his graduating class (not surprising, considering who his Father is....) Chris rides horses and actually has spent most of his life competing, he loves dogs, video games and country music. His career aspirations are attending college and becoming a Physical Therapist. He is tall, dark and handsome, at 6'1, he towers over his father and enjoys calling Dad, "shorty"
2 weeks after Chris was discharged from his Neurosurgeon he began having pain and twitching in his legs, then weakness with frequent falling and difficulty urinating. We were told at the time of the surgery that the "tumor" was most likely benign and despite our inquiries and concern, we were told that the patholgy report "was not back"
After several trips back to St Louis University where he was given pain killers and seizure medications, we took Chris to Barnes Hospital in St Louis. There they performed a Ct scan and MRI of the brain and spinal cord. Within the hour, we were told that Chris had a rare form of cancer called Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor, PNET for short. In 4 short weeks, after the removal of "the tumor" in the left frontal lobe of the brain, the disease had spread to throughout the brain lining and all through the spinal cord.
Currently, Chris has paralysis from the waist down and has an indwelling foley catheter to help him urinate. He is receiving radiation dly and chemotherapy weekly. Prognosis, we're told, is not good. All the doctors efforts are focused on irradicating the tumors and inflamation throughout his brain and spinal cord in hopes of Chris regaining the use of his lower extremities, his bowel/bladder function and most importantly his survival.
Chris has also been transferred to Children's Hospital in St. Louis as this type of cancer mostly affects children and the staff there are more familiar with the disease itself and the treatment.
Chris has yet to complain and receives daily treatments and rigorous physical therapy with a quiet nod of acceptance. The nurses and doctors consider him their "best" patient.
Chris is blessed with having 2 sets of parents and therefore, someone is always at his side, playing cards, board games or watching movies. He has yet to be discouraged and remains optimisic. He is so couragous and my new HERO. I'm sure he would love to hear from any and all of you. A cherry note of encouragement, a text or a phone call. I'm not sure of the address but he is in room 1201 at Children's Hospital in St Louis, MO. His cell phone # is 618 694-6601
Please pray for our Chris, we all know God is capable of miracles and hopefully he's planning one for Chris now
I will try to keep you updated on his condition and progress. Please keep him in your prayers.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Praise Report
I received this from Gabrielle today!
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I got a new test of my TSH level. TSH goes up when the thyroid goes low. My TSH had gone down. This is just since getting prayer. I went to get anointed with oil and hands laid on at a healing room here in the Cities. I also spoke the words of healing scriptures, and I asked you guys to pray for me.
This is a tangible miracle! Thanks so much for your prayers!
Gabrielle
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I got a new test of my TSH level. TSH goes up when the thyroid goes low. My TSH had gone down. This is just since getting prayer. I went to get anointed with oil and hands laid on at a healing room here in the Cities. I also spoke the words of healing scriptures, and I asked you guys to pray for me.
This is a tangible miracle! Thanks so much for your prayers!
Gabrielle
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