Needing prayers.

[VolNExile]

It’s not that simple, wished it was. She told me that even though I went through surgery, the surgeons will probably put restrictions on me after. That’s what I’m most upset about. You know, Behr and I had this conversation not long ago, about having to giving up cooking for a living. That’s the part that’s killing me the most.

Oh, that’s heartbreaking. Would it be somewhat short-term, or for good?

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Oh, that’s heartbreaking. Would it be somewhat short-term, or for good?

I don't know. I really like and trust my neurologist, but the way she put it, it was a little jarring. "girl, looking at all of this, you really need to be careful, here is a list of the restrictions and after you have surgery, the surgeons will give you instructions on restrictions going forward, sorry". My phone hasn't let me take pictures and post them for a couple of months, but I will try again later after I get off work. I know you know medical terminalogy, like I do, so you can see what she is talking about. Crap.

 

[malinoisvol]

Prayers up for ORB, rocy's sister, and Tiffany!

 

[volfanbill]

ORB, this breaks my heart. Like I told Joe in Tiffany’s thread, I’ve just been slammed busy trying to start my new life the Army picked out. I pray they find the solution to heal you and that this is only short term. But you’re stronger than most here and I know you can seek and find positives and good vibes. Just don’t let all the scariness take over. You’re too strong to let that happen, so I’m not even worried there. Just pray the docs can get you taken care of.

Also, Pearl Jam is phenomenal. Just saying

 

[volfanbill]

Rocy, hope your sister is on the mend. Prayers for her and your family.

 

[rocytop2624]

She is thank you and everyone.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

ORB, this breaks my heart. Like I told Joe in Tiffany’s thread, I’ve just been slammed busy trying to start my new life the Army picked out. I pray they find the solution to heal you and that this is only short term. But you’re stronger than most here and I know you can seek and find positives and good vibes. Just don’t let all the scariness take over. You’re too strong to let that happen, so I’m not even worried there. Just pray the docs can get you taken care of.

Also, Pearl Jam is phenomenal. Just saying

I’ll give you the same as NorCal yesterday. . I was on the schedule as a shift cook this morning, it broke every one of my restrictions. When my boss came in, I showed her the list, but wouldn’t let her take it, you know what that means. I refuse to live my life scared or on egg shells.

Edit: as before, because you are one my favorites, I’ll not say anything derogatory towards Pearl Jam.

 

[rocytop2624]

I’ll give you the same as NorCal yesterday. . I was on the schedule as a shift cook this morning, it broke every one of my restrictions. When my boss came in, I showed her the list, but wouldn’t let her take it, you know what that means. I refuse to live my life scared or on egg shells.

Edit: as before, because you are one my favorites, I’ll not say anything derogatory towards Pearl Jam.

I love me Veep and hate it for you and wish I could do something. But try and look on the bright side you may get disability. I know you don't want to hear that but if so make the best of it. You can still find something to be happy.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

I love me Veep and hate it for you and wish I could do something. But try and look on the br

for you also kiddo, I always do Prez, I always do.

 

[rocytop2624]

for you also kiddo, I always do Prez, I always do.

You hit it up to fast.

 

[rocytop2624]

You can cook the zone breakfast and make us sammiches and cook us super and would be so happy.

 

[rocytop2624]

I love me Veep and hate it for you and wish I could do something. But try and look on the bright side you may get disability. I know you don't want to hear that but if so make the best of it. You can still find something to be happy.

Fur VEEP.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

You hit it up to fast.

I see that and no to disability. That’s a flat no.

 

[rocytop2624]

I see that and no to disability. That’s a flat no.

That's me I just try to find something good out of anything.

 

[rocytop2624]

My mom had to get disability

 

[Orangeredblooded]

That's me I just try to find something good out of anything.

Nothing wrong with that and a good way to face life. If we don’t continuously look for the good and strive for that, then what’s the point?
On a lighter moment, okay. I have nothing.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

My sister couldn't breath today so she is in the hospital and they was about to put her on a ventilator but at the last second her oxygen came up in the 80's so it's on hold I am not sure if she has Covid yet she had one shot was supposed to be getting the other she has all kinds of health issues.

I didn’t want to fire up the old ORB thread, so it’s in here. I’ve been going back to my neurologist for a couple of months. I went today to get the results of my latest MRI. I really didn’t think much about it when I went. Sigh, she told me that I have to go back to the Neurosurgeon in Nashville and it’s urgent. She also put me on heavy restrictions. The physical part isn’t the part that bothers me the most. It’s the taking away something I love to do, cooking professional. @Weezer, Nashville trip?

Continued prayers for Tiffany and everyone else......seems like a lot of folks on here going thru tough times.

 

[Tin Man]

I have nothing.

Not quite nothing. You got us, ORB.

 

[Orangeslice13]

SHMA YISRAEL / SHMA ELOHAI
K'SHEHALEV BOCHEH

HEAR ISRAEL / HEAR MY GOD
WHEN THE HEART CRIES

SH'MA YISRAEL ELOHAY

K'shehalev bocheh rak Elohim shome'a
hake'ev oleh mitoch haneshamah
adam nofel lifnei shehu shoke'a
bit'filah k'tanah chotech et had'mamah

Sh'ma Israel Elohai atah hakol yachol
natata li et chayay natata li hakol
be'enai dim'a halev bocheh besheket
uch'shehalev shotek haneshamah zo'eket.
Sh'ma Israel Elohai achshav ani levad
chazek oti Elohai aseh shelo ef'chad
hake'ev gadol ve'ein le'an livro'ach
aseh sheyigamer ki lo notar bi ko'ach.

Kshehalev bocheh hazman omed milechet
ha'adam ro'eh et kol chayav pit'om
el halo noda hu lo rotze lalechet
le'Elohav kore al saf tehom.

HEAR ISRAEL MY GOD

When the heart cries only God hears
the pain rises out of the soul
a man falls down before he sinks down
with a little prayer (he) cuts the silence

Hear Israel my God, you're the omnipotent
you gave me my life, you gave me everything
in my eyes a tear, the heart cries quietly
and when the heart is quiet, the soul screams
Hear Israel my God, now I am alone
strengthen me my God; make it that I won't fear
the pain is big, and there's no where to run away
make it end, for no more strength is left within me

When the heart cries, time stands still
all of a sudden, the man sees his entire life
he doesn't want to go to the unknown
he cries to his God right before a big fall​

may blessings fall upon all my friends here that need the love of G-d today

 

[82_VOL_83]

It’s not that simple, wished it was. She told me that even though I went through surgery, the surgeons will probably put restrictions on me after. That’s what I’m most upset about. You know, Behr and I had this conversation not long ago, about having to giving up cooking for a living. That’s the part that’s killing me the most.

Thoughts and prayers Orb. He has this.

 

[Orangeslice13]

13 Is anyone among you (AG)suffering? (AH)Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to (AI)sing praises. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for (AJ)the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, [m](AK)anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15 and the (AL)prayer of faith will [n](AM)restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will (AN)raise him up, and if he has committed sins, [o]they will be forgiven him. 16 Therefore, (AO)confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be (AP)healed. (AQ)A [p]prayer of a righteous person, when it is [q]brought about, can accomplish much. 17 Elijah was (AR)a man with a nature like ours, and (AS)he prayed [r]earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for (AT)three years and six months. 18 Then he (AU)prayed again, and (AV)the sky [s]poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.


I’m certainly not a righteous man by James definition. I fail more that I succeed but I pray for you all often

 

[Orangeslice13]

Hey gang, long time no see.

My family could really use your prayers. It's been a wild month and a half.

1. My dad calls me and my brother in early April to tell us mom is dying, and fast. Came out of nowhere; her body could no longer regulate its salt or electrolytes.
2. I get the email that I'm a finalist for the permanent position that I'm the interim for.
3. Second week of April, mom is transferred to Hospice. End of the week, Dad calls to say she has days left.
4. Third week of April, I have to teach a sample lesson on Tuesday morning for the search committee. It can't be moved. Even though I fly out immediately afterwards, I miss my mom's last lucid moments. The next morning, I have the final interview from hospice at her bedside. She dies that night.
5. We get home from the funeral and find out my wife's unemployment has been cancelled and Michigan wants us to pay $20k back. It's a computer error but we still have to go through the formal protest process. We're still running without that income.
6. Two weeks ago, my boss calls me to tell me she's offered the job to someone else. She praises my work and says I've been exemplary, but the other candidate had a couple "intangibles" that put them over the top. Best of luck, please use them as a reference, etc. This is after a spring of "we hope you're committed to us, we want you here long term" so we felt comfortable not searching for tenure track positions. We even joined a church and started house hunting.
7. This sends my daughter into a tailspin. The move from Michigan to here upset her so much she tried to kill herself (at 9 years old...). We spent the whole fall semester in therapy and dialectic behavior coaching. She seems better, but we're having to be extra vigilant. We bought a small safe for knives and medicines just to be on the safe side.
8. We're one of those unlucky families in tax return limbo. Our CPA filed in early March, we're still "processing".
9. A new job means all of my insurance resets, which means a whole new deductible and out of pocket. Counting grad school, this will now be 7 years in a row we've had to pay two insurance resets per year.


Let me say this right now: WE ARE FINE FINANCIALLY. I made the decision with this job to take my paycheck over 12 months instead of 9, so we have stable income. Unfortunately most of the jobs we're looking at are major steps down in income for both of us. We'll make it work. We're a resilient lot and have a little bit of savings and some farmland we can tap into if things get worse. We also have faith and family.

You guys know I deal with depression and OCD. I am in a good place right now and have a therapist on speed dial if I start to feel off. We just covet your thoughts and prayers to get through this all.

@AshG
This group will send up prayers without ceasing.

 

[malinoisvol]

Prayers up for AshG and family.

 

[Guest]

@vollygirl
Sunday was with someone visiting their grandmother’s grave site. She would’ve been 103 this year & she never learned to drive either. Some of the strongest most truly amazing ladies came from your grandma’s era and they laid the foundation for whom and what we are today. God bless you & your family

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Alrighty, I’m asking that you all pray for my Son, my granddaughter, and especially for my Daughter-in-law and my unborn grandson. I knew my son was hiding something for awhile. I finally got the truth from Ashley (DIL, daughter to me) tonight. I never posted that her parents were worried all along about her health issues, which we knew up front and worried there maybe some issues with the pregnancy. It’s here. Liam Patrick will be taken (delivered) early a few weeks early. I’m going to be somewhat busy. A prayer from of you would be appreciated. I’m not going on a walkabout, I’m just going to be busy for a few weeks taking care of stubborn son and his family.