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Hey, well, my first Sunday in Advent my trip to Mass was rudely interrupted by another driver and my car totaled and my morning spent in the ER being x-rayed and scanned for internal bleeding.

Broken rib, incredible bruises, hematomas--including a breastfeeding breast out of order and producing bloody milk still a week after the wreck, and more pain from my tailbone than you can imagine. I am not to drive until healed enough to do without pain medicine.

THEN, my hubby got sick, followed by the kids. Trips to the doctor for me, with everyone beginning to get sick, and then trips to the doctor for sick kiddos who have the flu, hubby who is over the flu but is now on a nebulizer and steroids, and antibiotics and he is miserably sick.

So, second Sunday in Advent is a sick day.

Could we have some prayers for health and healing? Also wisdom for doctors to do their jobs well.

And perhaps a prayer that my adult son will get some family loyalty to wake up and make himself available to do a bit of driving for me.

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K. Ann Seeton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle (but the concept is found in John Paul II's books The Acting Person and Love and Responsibility as well.)

Quicksilver to Gold
http://hg2au.com

Praying.

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James Daly

"It is the Lord." (Jn 21:7)

With prayers for all of you - Joe K.

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- Joe Kelley

Death is only a shadow across the path to Heaven.

Will offer prayers for you and all your intentions. I'm so sorry to hear you're going through so much right now.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Oh, what a time you've had! It sounds as though your Advent is definitely giving you plenty of opportunities to offer up suffering.

Saying a prayer.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

I'll say! AND plenty of time to think and blog.

by the way, still in pain, still with one half of my breastfeeding apparatus bleeding too much for baby feeding. Hubby's breathing is worse, the kids are better.

I've had LOTS of reflections on how fortunate I am. But that hardly changes the need for prayers of healing.

Thank you all for praying for us! We appreciate it.

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K. Ann Seeton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle (but the concept is found in John Paul II's books The Acting Person and Love and Responsibility as well.)

Quicksilver to Gold
http://hg2au.com

You and your family have my prayers. God bless.

Sophie

My prayers are added.

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

Update:
Found out today that one of the pain medicines given to me by a doctor who knows I am breast feeding has a really unpleasant side effect.

Now, the pain medicines are so I can rest better.

And the side effect is that it gets in the breast milk and makes the baby VERY VERY CRANKY. Thus, i am not getting any sleep anyway.

I am going to call the doctor tomorrow and tell him I am off the medicine he prescribed and ask him if an over-the-counter like plain old tylenol would not do as well. I KNOW that stuff won't bother the baby.

Up side, I am in less pain. The main injuries are still painful, but a lot of the smaller injuries are reduced to almost nothing.

Kids seem to be pretty well past the flu.

Hubby is still ill.

Thank you so much for the prayers!

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K. Ann Seeton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle (but the concept is found in John Paul II's books The Acting Person and Love and Responsibility as well.)

Quicksilver to Gold
http://hg2au.com

Prayers here as well.

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Bob C

Ann,

I am very sorry to hear of all your woes!

I shall pray for your full recovery and for that of your family.

God bless you

Graham

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Be joyful always; Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians verses 16-18

http://www.stpatricksstafford.co.uk/index.asp

Prayers for you.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

K Ann,
What a start of the new liturgical year! So sorry to hear of your family mishap. My prayers.

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Pax et bonum,
Marie

JMJ