Prayer/Positive Thoughts Requests

Its an emotional day for me and my loved ones as well today!

Its now been 8 years today since my dad has left us! He is greatly missed and we never get used to the void left behind by a pillar when its gone! Estoescialy when its your #1 confident and advisor about everything! we feel it even more on bad days when we sure could use his moral support and advice!

And to think that my pops used to hate the number 17...I remember how happy he was 13 years ago on a 17th when his first grand child was born! The very first 17th that was positive in his life. 17 was his 13.

Surely enough, 5 years later on 17 April he was hospitalized, only to pass away exactly a month later on 17 May 2008!....I now dislike that 17 too!

A litlle positive energy goes a long way people, spread the love around, our Earth and its residents needs it!

Thank you for the thoughts and prayers for my friend. Nugget, I like the way you describe it as a ripple effect. That is a really good description of it.

Teye, you were in my thoughts today. Your family, too. Anniversaries of loved ones passing are hard and I hope that you know that your online family here were with you in thought.

Baby Dragon (his nick name) has had the EEG removed and they are decreasing his oxygen so that he can start breathing on his own more. He is slowly improving and hopefully the progress will get faster and better.

Some good news and another prayer/thoughts request. First, the good news. My cousin's grandson got to come home from the hospital today. He is only 2 months old, but will need to start physical therapy and the doctors still believe that he will make a full recovery. It was suggested to baby Dragon's parents that they should look into getting a seizure detection dog, so they are seeing what is involved in that. Still a long recovery ahead, but he is at home with his mama and daddy and they couldn't be happier.

The request is for a local family. I don't know them, but they lost their son tonight. About 4:45 this afternoon I heard every emergency vehicle in town fire up the sirens and roll out. I didn't know what was going on until later. Russ called on his way home from work about 2 1/2 hours later to let me know he was going to be a few minutes longer getting home because there was an accident and the main highway was closed and detoured and the detour was a bit out of the way. He said that it was a semi vs. car head on collision, but he didn't know any other details. Then shortly after that Facebook lit up amongst local friends and quite a few of Dillin's (Quin's boyfriend) classmates posting messages to the siblings and parents of the boy who was killed. Quin and Dillin didn't know him, but he did go to their school not too long ago. They believe that the boy was a year or two older than Dillin who is only 18. There was another person who is in critical condition, but I don't know who and if there has been any update on their condition.

So, I don't know the boy who died or his family or who the person in critical condition is, but I know that the family is hurting so badly and many of the kids friends who knew the boy and his family are also hurting right now. If you could offer a thought or prayer for them, thank you.

I don't know if he had his first set of immunizations before this. Maybe? I assume he had the ones that they give at the hospital when the baby is born because they pressure parents to get them. I didn't experience it 16 years ago with Quin, but I have heard in conversations about other friends who were just asking what all of the shots were and what they are for and they were being treated like they were abusing their new baby or something just for asking questions. In regard to my cousin's grandson, I don't know if he had them or not.

Yeah, I am hurting for those parents. I am terrified of sending Quin out driving on her own and that accident yesterday didn't do anything to calm those fears.

Hey guys, if you could keep Russ and his family in your thoughts and/or prayers I know they would appreciate it. Russ got a call from his mom tonight about 10 pm or so letting him know that his grandma had an incident today and was in the hospital and they didn't think she was going to live much longer. His parents are planning to head down to where she is in the AM. Then about 11:30-ish his mom called back and said that the hospital doesn't think that she has much more than an hour or so. His mom was going to call again in the morning, so I won't know any further details until then. This is Russ' mom's mother and they are hurting really badly right now. If you could keep them in your thoughts, I would be very grateful.