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Thread: A Trouble Shared
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StevHep
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It is only seldom that I comment on these threads so I don't expect a big reaction.
I have been ill for quite some time, as I mention on my latest blog. The illness is, as yet, undiagnosed and quite insidious in terms of its impact upon my mental and emotional well being. I do not ask for sympathy or for a cure but I would be very glad if shipmates could offer up prayers that I might be granted the strength to endure with gladness whatever it is that the future holds for me.
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rolyn
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) For your future .
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Chronic illness is particularly wearing - especially something you can't put a name to.
Do keep on at doctors: you will eventually find the one who knows what it is. It can take some time - the only comfort is, they tend to work through all the really dangerous, life-threatening stuff first. So the longer it goes on, the more likely you are to end up with one of the less glamorous specialisms, but one that can help.
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StevHep
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Thank you each for the support, it feels curiously important.
Firenze, what you say is exactly what I have said to others in the past (possibly because we are both Edinburghers) but it feels a whole lot different when you need to receive good advice than it does when you give it.
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Abigail
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Praying
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Lyda*Rose
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StevHep
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I love the kindness of strangers, thank you. It is vaguely surprising to be the receiver rather than the giver but I suppose I always knew that this day would come. This is the day that The Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I don't know that it's an Edinburgh thing (tho' Western General/Royal Infirmary, how I love thee).
It's more that I'm of that age where chronic infirmity is becoming the norm (she said, cheeringly).
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Horseman Bree
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Lord, grant us patience, but please do it soon.
On a more serious note,
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by StevHep:
... I would be very glad if shipmates could offer up prayers ...
Consider it done, StevHep - that's what we're here for.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm holding you in the Light.
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Nenya
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quote:
Originally posted by StevHep:
This is the day that The Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it
Or, as I saw on Twitter some months ago - This is the day that the Lord has made; let us refer all complaints to him. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
I am heading off on a retreat day today and will hold you in my thoughts and prayers.
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Nicodemia
WYSIWYG
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You are in my prayers.
And just keep on at those doctors. You know your body is wrong - its up to them to find out why!
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jacobsen
seeker
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It sounds like a combination of ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif) for you and from us. Hoping it works out and that the s eliminate the
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The man who made time, made plenty.
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Raptor Eye
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Father God, we invite you to send your Holy Spirit in power to give strength, peace, perseverance, trust, and your healing touch to StevHep at this time; in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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roybart
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quote:
Originally posted by StevHep:
I love the kindness of strangers, thank you. It is vaguely surprising to be the receiver rather than the giver but I suppose I always knew that this day would come. This is the day that The Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it
Although I am not in your shoes, I have enormous respect (perhaps envy?) for the way you are approaching this. I clicked the link to your blog and came across the following, which was also enormously helpful to me:
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It is argued by the Church that one reason for devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, is that she helps us to approach more closely and more warmly to Jesus her Divine Son. Others ask 'why not approach Him direct, what do we gain by calling upon Mary?' My waiting room observations amount to this. The doctor will not tell us more if we approach her with a companion, it makes no difference to her, but it makes a huge, life changing difference to most of us. A friend who listens to our anxieties as we wait, a companion who hears what we hear, a mother who rejoices as we rejoice or mourns as we mourn that is what most people seeking health and living with sickness need and dearly desire. That is the least of what Mary Health of the Sick is.
I am not a Roman Catholic, but you speak directly to me nonetheless. To be the "friend" in difficult times -- the "giver" -- is at the heart of Jesus's wish for all of us. Thank you for reminding me.
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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I add my prayers too.
Do keep us posted to whatever extent you feel comfortable. It really does help to have a name, especially if it affects others at all. So I hope you get some insight soon.
And whenever you don't feel strong, visit this thread, and we'll send you along whatever spoonfuls we can all spare.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Adding my prayers.
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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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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
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And mine
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Bene Gesserit
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Adding mine too
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Amos
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# 44
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And mine.
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M.
Ship's Spare Part
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And mine.
M.
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StevHep
Shipmate
# 17198
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Again thank you for your thoughts and prayers. I'm still waiting to hear about a bone marrow scan. I was kind of under the weather over the weekend which is why its taken me so long to get back to you all.
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Nenya
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# 16427
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You're still on my prayer list, StevHep.
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BessLane
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Another added prayer here.
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
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God bless you, StevHep, and hold you in the palm of his hand
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Graven Image
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May The Giver of all Mercy, keep you in comfort and restore you to
wholeness and health.
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