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Prayer Requests 8-17-13

Who has a request or praise to share today?

Psalm 5

1 Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

28 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 8-17-13”

  4. Prayers requested for 3rd Arrow. She was taking out the garbage and got herself a pretty deep gash on her leg from a piece of broken glass that was sticking through the garbage bag. Then she fainted and hit the back of her head on a closed door before I could catch her. Hubby is taking her in for stitches in her leg, and the bump on the head (which wasn’t a very hard hit and didn’t leave a mark, as far as I can tell) doesn’t seem to be a problem.

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  7. Hubby and 3rd Arrow are back home. Four stitches and a tetanus shot.

    Hubby called when they were done at the clinic (he wanted to tell me they were going to stop at a couple other places on the way home). I asked him how it went at the clinic, and I could tell he was irritated with some things. Hubby and 3rd Arrow went into a room and got asked a ton of questions. Then a different room and a ton more questions. Things like, “Do you know how to read? How do you learn best?” I presume they’re trying to determine whether she’s an auditory or visual or kinesthetic learner.

    My husband asked why they needed to know all this stuff. They said, “We’re required to ask this.” Grrr. Probably Obamacare junk. Then hubby told them, “In the future, why don’t you ask this stuff after your treat the patient?” (Third Arrow was getting all woozy again with the constant questions.) They responded that hubby could fill out a comment card if he wanted to. We’re both skeptical that that would do any good.

    Anyway, most of that could have gone on the Rants & Raves thread. But she’s doing fine now, and I thank you for your prayers.

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  9. 6Arrows, I asked the Hubs about this and he said he had never heard of such. ( He was in the medical field for 30 years and after Navy retirement worded at an Urgent Care Clinic)
    My thoughts is did they ask her about school and she replied she was home schooled? Were they trying to find out if she was being abused and not taught? It would make me angry.

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  10. My friend who’s an RN tells me they’re being hit with major changes at her (Catholic) hospital — lots of additional administrative paperwork, extra steps, related, she says, to the government coming in to take over the health care system.

    Instead of nuns, they now have bureaucrats operating the place. 😦

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  11. Donna, yes, I think the coming changes in the healthcare system are behind a lot of this. As you can imagine, my husband and I have got experience taking sick or injured kids to Urgent Care, but never before have we been asked any questions like the ones I mentioned above.

    Kare, isn’t it crazy? Asking things like that before treatment instead of after? My husband said that, at one point, he asked, “Can’t we just look at her leg?” I guess at Urgent Care, it’s more urgent to ask questions (that can wait, or don’t even need to be asked at all) than to provide care. Should be called “Urgent Questions” then, instead of “Urgent Care”. 🙄

    Kim, they didn’t ask about homeschooling, so I don’t think they know. Apparently, they ask the “Do you know how to read” question to find out if the patient knows how to read the discharge instructions, or a medicine label, or what have you. But she’s a minor, attended by a parent, so it’s ridiculous they would even ask her such a thing. And if she was an adult, you’d think they would have had the sense to treat first before asking something that isn’t pertinent to the immediate care she would need rendered.

    It’s completely idiotic, in my mind.

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  15. LOL, Cheryl 🙂

    Yes, I’m glad she seems to be okay, too. But she did seem pretty tired at the supper table tonight. Laid her head down on the table for a bit. And she doesn’t remember fainting. It’s good that she was standing close to a corner in a very tiny area of the bathroom when it happened. She started falling backwards a little, but was quite close to the door behind her, so she didn’t go far before just slumping straight down into the corner pretty much. She’s fainted two other times that I recall, one time backwards against an easy chair, and the other time sideways and down to the floor. It can happen so fast, it’s hard to catch them, even when you’re right there, and she doesn’t seem to recognize the signs right before it happens and get herself down safely.

    I’m wondering if she has adrenal fatigue or something. But I do know that she doesn’t handle trauma very well, either when it happens to her or to someone else she’s with. So her fainting spells may simply be due to immediate stress rather than a response to a long-term issue.

    But all of those factors are some of the reason we don’t want her driving a car yet, though she is 16. (Bringing in a little of the Rants & Raves discussion here.)

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  16. Literacy level and learning style on a Patient Profile? Now that’s what I call over-documentation. It’ll never get read again and will just clutter up the chart, making it even harder to read. I remember as a student, part of our learning experience was reading the whole patient chart. It soon became apparent that we were about the only people who did that. Once I found the results of a lab test and another time the results of an X-ray that no one else was aware of, and both had a bearing on treatment for the patient.

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  17. I had the strangest dream this morning. I looked down at the carpet and saw teeth. I ran to the restroom with a handful of them and realized they were my front teeth. Some had roots and some did not. When I opened my mouth I had a new tooth growing in. I went back out and found a woman and begged her to take me to the dentist before the ones in my hand “died”. I woke up as we were wrapping the teeth in wet towels.

    I went on line to see what the “interpretation” of such dreams were. They can mean anything from fear of loss, to fear of getting older, to anxiety and feelings of helplessness, to fear that you have said the wrong thing and the list goes on. I figure since in the dream I was begging someone to take me to the dentist, if there is a problem in my life I already know how to fix it or Who to get to fix it.

    It just really was strange and disturbing.

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  18. Roscuro, I was thinking the same thing — there would be so much on her chart, that it would be hard to find the truly important things to note regarding my daughter.

    Kim, I’ve had dreams about my teeth being loose and falling out, too. I wake up and always feel compelled to check in the mirror to see if any are loose or out.

    Prayers needed for husband this morning. He hurt his hip somehow working out in the garage last night on one of our vehicles, and today he’s in a lot of pain and can hardly move.

    When it rains it pours. But at least he knows how to read. 🙄

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  19. Kim, I have had dreams of my teeth falling out and when I woke up, I had to check to make sure they were still there. They are disturbing and very vivid. My family always said when you dream about losing teeth, you’re worried about money.

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  20. Perhaps that is true but I had a new tooth growing in when I looked in the mirror…I was somewhat worried about pulling it forward into the gap in my mouth and I was asking someone to get me to the dentist
    I’ve worried about money so long that I didn’t think I had any worry left in me.

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  21. Hubby was able to go to church today with us, and could get from a sitting to a standing position without groaning out loud like he did at home. 😉 The hip isn’t quite so painful if he can keep moving. It’s long periods of sitting or lying down that bother the most.

    Third Arrow is fine today. She was tired and a bit testy yesterday after all the business I mentioned above, but is doing well now.

    Thank you for all the prayers. And Mumsee, I’m praying for you. I didn’t mean to dominate the thread like I did with everything that’s going on in your life. I’m sorry this has been such a long haul, and am praying for rapid resolution.

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  24. When my husband was in the military, the first question a military wife would be asked upon bringing in a child to the ER was, “where is his father?”

    It made me so angry–what difference did it make where his father was if my child was in the ER?

    I also took it as an insult–that as his mother I couldn’t make a proper determination if he needed to be seen or not.

    Years later I learned they were doing a survey at that Navy hospital if moms brought in their children more often when Dad was out to sea.

    That made me angry all over again–of course we did, there was no other adult to ask if this was a serious injury or not.

    I don’t know if it would have made me feel better to know they were doing a study or not, but it undermined my confidence in mothering my child and added yet another layer of upset to what was frequently an upsetting experience.

    I don’t think I’m over the emotional torment of military hospitals, yet. 😦

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  25. That would make me angry, too, Michelle. I’ve also not heard not good reports about giving birth in a military hospital. I’m glad I don’t have experience with that to verify the accuracy of those claims, but I wouldn’t doubt it a bit.

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  27. An early prayer request for tomorrow:

    First Arrow comes home from his vacation. He and my BIL are leaving around 4:00 in the morning, and son will be arriving home probably in the early afternoon. Please pray for safe travels. Thanks.

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