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Thread: Praise and Thanksgiving 2015
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Lothlorien
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Wonderful news re new grandchild. Blessings on all, especially the baby.
That is good news to, Rolyn about your son's job. I hope all works out well for him.
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Piglet
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Congratulations Grandpa and Grandma Sioni! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Welease Woderwick
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Great news from Sioni and Rolyn!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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JB
Independent Thinker
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Prayers, please.
Friend and collaegue K just informed us that his wife T has a "stress test" on Tuesday. She had a heart attack last year that shocked them. Please remember T, and K, this Tuesday.
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You live, you learn
You learn, you live
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teddybear
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I am very thankful for all the wonderful things in my life but most grateful for the kidney transplant I received three years ago today. In fact, at the time I am posting (9:30 am central time here in the USA) I was in recovery and my new kidney had already put out a liter and a half of urine! The surgeon told me it had started working immediately after it was connected to me. The whole process was just incredible! Got the word the day before that a kidney was available. It was from a 20 yo male who was on life support, we were an 85% match, which is unheard of in a cadaver donor. He had tested negative for HIV, hepatitis and all of those fun things they check for, even for the virus that causes cold sores! Of course I accepted it!
I got to the hospital at 1am on the 28th, spent the rest of the night being prepared for surgery. Went to the OR around 7:00 am. I was told the surgery would take 3-6 hours, I was done in an hour and a half. I was told I would be in surgical ICU for a week or more, I went right back to the transplant unit. I was told it could take several days for the kidney to start working, it started working immediately. I was told I would be in hospital 2-4 weeks, I went home on the fourth day after surgery and could have gone home sooner had I pooped sooner. The day after surgery I was up walking the halls, doing a couple of miles a day. It was all pretty awesome.
The hospital care and nursing staff were top notch. My doctors were all very good too. They were all amazed at how well my new kidney was working and more than one stated that it worked more like a family donor that that of a cadaver. Since transplant the kidney continues working perfectly and my renal doc is ecstatic at how well it continues doing. I am a very, very lucky man!
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Piglet
Islander
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Good on you, Teddybear, and long may it continue.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Great news!
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Amen!
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Huia
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Teddybear that's great and has reminded me I must have that conversation with my family when I visit on Tuesday. Here there is a space on your Drivers' Licence that says Donor but family can veto it after death. I will warn them I'll come back and haunt them if they do ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Huia
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Piglet
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As I recall, a donor card was actually included with my (British) driving licence when it came in the post (many moons ago). I wondered if they knew something about my driving skills that I didn't ( ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) ) but I signed it, and have carried it ever since, and hope that my nearest and dearest would honour it.
A couple of years ago, a friend of ours had a "live" kidney transplant (affectionately known as Sid the Kid), given by his son, and is doing very well on it - it's literally given him a new lease of life.
[ 30. August 2015, 00:21: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Beenster
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I would like to share my thanksgiving news. As an epileptic, my driving license is only granted on a 3 year basis. I had to renew it recently, something which should be a formality given that I'm clear of fits - for the last 7 years. However, I had messed around with the medication without medical consultation (successfully and carefully) and I was concerned that the DVLA were going to tut-tut me and deny me a license for a period of time.
The process has been a nightmare. A letter arrived at the beginning of the week saying that my application was with the medical team and would take 9 weeks to process. In which time my license would have run out. Then yesterday, my new license arrived.
I'm overjoyed and so grateful. These things leave you / me so vulnerable, we are at the mercy of so many things that we might normally take for granted. And whilst it is a small thing in the grand scheme of things, not having a car is, for me, a life changing situation. Not insurmountable but nevertheless, choices that I had been hoping to make could have been constrained.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Proving that the right hand knoweth not what the left hand is doing!
Great news, Beenster.
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Fancy a break in South India?
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Sioni Sais
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More good news about Our Grandson. He is out of the neo-natal care unit and with H, his mum in a single room, so J can come over any time. He has to go over to the care unit for meds and tests but that's only for 30mins, three times a day.
Looks like he'll be in for at least two more weeks, which is a bore but I just thank our NHS and wonder what this would cost "over the pond". Basic delivery costs would be one thing but a lumbar puncture on a newborn? Heck, the liability insurance would be a hefty portion of that, plus mother and child in care for (probably) three weeks and three weeks of meds and tests. I wouldn't expect much change from a six-figure sum.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Piglet
Islander
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Glad to hear things are going in the right direction, SS - prayers continuing though. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Here in Canada as I understand it most of what happens to you in hospital is free, but as soon as you leave, any medicines or treatments cost the earth unless you've got health insurance.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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That is good about your grandson's progress, Sioni. I will say when I read "lumbar puncture" that I shivered. Miss M, my granddaughter had them every few days when hospitalised with leukaemia. They are now about every six weeks and always with a general anaesthetic. The thought of a newborn needing one made me shivery.
However, progress is good news.
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Sarasa
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So pleased things are moving in the right direction with your grandson SS.
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Sioni Sais
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Got in to see him again yesterday. Being a grandfather is a totally different feeling to becoming a father.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
Glad to hear things are going in the right direction, SS - prayers continuing though.
Here in Canada as I understand it most of what happens to you in hospital is free, but as soon as you leave, any medicines or treatments cost the earth unless you've got health insurance.
You have that right. Back in the day, I brought along all my meds to the hospital except for the one that cost $1200 for a seven days supply. I knew I would be back on that as soon as I left the hospital care, so I looked ahead.
edited to correct horrid typo
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daisymay
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My computer has been fixed now ! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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jacobsen
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The password which was lost has been found!
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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All last night as I slept and not with pain !
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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And all night I had not pain and I just woke at 10.30 now ! Thank you God for helping me !
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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Daisymay, I have a bad hip, quite painful at times, so I can understand how thankful you are for a good sleep. May there be many more nights like that one
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Erroneous Monk
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Dear Lord, another day to love Thee!
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And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
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Sioni Sais
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At long last the medication course and tests are over and baby S got home at 11:30 on Monday night!
There was a bit of a kerfuffle on Monday afternoon when the registrar wanted to do another lumbar puncture "just to be sure" but S's mum gave her what for, stating that they had been told that providing there were no reactions, they would go home after the 8pm meds, tests and feeds. It was still delayed by paperwork then when they got home the community midwife rang after midnight asking about her paperwork (which the hospital should have handled).
It's all sorted now and Mrs Sioni is going to drop in this afternoon so I'll probably have the house to myself.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Welcome home, Baby!
Many prayers of gratitude for a heavy rain in Napa and Lake Counties, California, which has given huge relief to this week's devastating fires.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Graven Image
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We had to evacuate our home in 10 minutes because of forrest fire in our area last Saturday night. We just found out our home made it through. So thankful for that and great outreach to our community as well as wonderful friends and neighbors who are supporting each other.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Wow, that is a big praise moment. So glad your house made it
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Nicolemr
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The move to the new apartment happened yesterday and went comparatively smoothly. Now I just have to clean the old apartment, and then unpack....
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Piglet
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Excellent news, SS, BL and Nicole.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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rolyn
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Graven Image and Nicolemr
Praise be to God that your homes have been spared and given.
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Change is the only certainty of existence
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Nicolemr - try not to rush the unpacking too much, particularly the kitchen items, but decide where everything goes BEFORE you put it all in the wrong places!
So pleased that you are relocated.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Huia
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4 fine days in a row forecast for the first week of the school holidays
My doctor halved the new diabetic meds and I Have regained some energy and clarity of thought plus my mood has lifted (helped by the sunshine).
Huia
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Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
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Huia
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Thanks Lothlorien. The trouble with being confused as a side effect is that you don't always realise that you are - or what's causing it.
Next time I have any new meds I'm going to ask the pharmacist for the patients' information that comes in the packet, but which you don't get if you have a bubble pack.
Huia
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Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
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jedijudy
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I had spinal surgery two and a half weeks ago, and am full of thanksgiving that my healing is going very well! When I had my first follow-up with my surgeon on Monday, he declared me to be the poster child for this particular surgery.
Most of you weren't aware of my medical status because I kept it pretty quiet, but I think the good news is something well worth shouting about!
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Piglet
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Quite right, JJ.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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jacobsen
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Congratulations, JJ. Isn't it wonderful to know that all has gone,not just very well, but superlatively well!
Following my other hip replacement this summer, I've just achieved a long standing aim, which was to walk into the town centre and back without a stick. The round trip, which included a moderately steep hill on the homeward stretch, was about 3.5 miles. Dead chuffed.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Dead chuffed.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) What an achievement!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Piglet
Islander
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Good on you, Jacobsen - don't be overdoing it though.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thanks that this morning, sitting on the floor by my handbag, I found the contact lens that I lost a week ago yesterday IN TOWN!
(it must have fallen into my handbag and been pulled out at some point)
That's £80 saved - thank you, thank you, thank you!
Mrs. S deeply grateful
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Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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daisymay
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I belong to St John's Hyde Park church and today they were 3 woman trained, and just one man. Last Sunday there were 4 men and only 2 women.
It is always lovely to be in this church. And we always get tea and coffee and bread after the service.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I have just this evening been in the Scottish church in London, Crown Court. It has been great with good singers and hearing about the Bible and they have many in our place. He speaks very well to us. And later we have tea and coffee and something to eat. I love being in this church.
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neandergirl
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Yay! for all the Yay!
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Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. Hebrews 13:5 NIV
We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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