Dakotah is puzzling to the doctors. They don’t know why her body is reacting as it is. She also has sepsis, which I don’t know if I mentioned that before.
They are trying to wean her from the vent so her lungs can start working again, but are keeping her sedated during the process.
I don’t understand “blowups” at holiday gatherings. I have never seen one and can’t imagine going to one that is contentious. In non work environments, I don’t generally associate with people I don’t like.
Please pray for my husband who is having some back troubles. Also, our son is having some asthma problems or difficulty getting over an illness he thought he was over with last week. Finally please pray for our medical insurance situation to have a good resolution. Thank you.
Prayers for Hubby. He has a meeting tomorrow morning with the new Principe who is pressuring us to withdraw the Kid from the Christian school. The local public school is not great.
Prayers for all the requests on here this weekend.
Chas, you are blessed to never have seen a contentious holiday gathering. For the most part, I have not either. I was witness, though, to one blowup at a family gathering a few years ago (the blowup I referenced above happened two days after our Thanksgiving gathering this year — some post-hosting stress on top of an ongoing situation that tends to become more difficult on weekends typically). Thankfully, though, there are no lingering hard feelings about that incident from a few years ago, that I’m aware of. Apologies were soon made and everyone moved on.
The blowup from yesterday is sort of resolved, but not as fully or satisfactorily as I feel it could have been. I’m still a little unsettled-feeling about it. It’s probably just something I need to learn to live with (the circumstance that led to the blowup). For the record, *I* was the one who blew up. So when I say it’s “something I need to learn to live with”, it means I need prayers for anger management in the face of a situation that is unlikely to change.
Just being transparent.
I have another prayer request, for a heartbreaking situation in a friend’s extended family, but I’ll put it in a separate comment after this one.
A friend’s sister-in-law is pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. She is in her sixth month, and had a medical crisis where she needed an emergency appendectomy. Her appendix ruptured during the surgery, and the infection from the appendix damaged both children’s hearts. (An ultrasound a week before the emergency showed both babies were healthy at that time.)
Today I learned that the family found out on Friday, when they had another ultrasound, that their little unborn son has died. Please pray for their unborn daughter, Maggie, for the grieving parents and their three daughters at home, and for wisdom for the medical team as they determine whether it would be better to deliver Maggie or keep her in the womb longer. She weighs about 2 lbs. right now.
At work we call them meltdowns or “klebolds” (which is used as both a verb and a noun, named one of the shooters in the colorado school shootings). As a verb: “So-and-so is about to klebold.” We’ve had some epic ones through the years, one that included a trash-can kick across the newsroom (barely missing another reporter) and another that wound up in an HR report & anger management courses for those involved.
On a lesser scale you have the usual slamming down of phone receivers.
Not that blowups happen often. But they can be noteworthy when they do.
Most blowups were suppressed and headed off before they occurred at holiday gatherings when I was growing up. But the best one probably was when my aunt left in a huff with her turkey just as Thanksgiving was to be served. I think she later came back with the turkey, but I’m not entirely sure.
Humans and human nature.
There but for the grace of God go any of us … and thanks to His restraining hand, we aren’t as bad as we really could be, amen?
Never, since I have known the family has there been a blowup, nor a meltdown.
Everybody always leaves full and happy.
Mostly, if you feed a Collins, you can keep him happy.
I have some Collins relatives, and you are right about that.
I probably once had a before the event “blow-up” if they can be of a silent type. My brother decided to do a birthday gathering for our mother, maybe as she was turning 80 or older. My son and I were staying at the house a lot taking care of my mom. My brother lived in her home, but he was out working during the days. As he planned the party by himself, he told me to get my things out of the house (I did not have much there and maybe my son had a few things). I was pretty disgusted about my brother’s approach to the whole thing so I did not attend the party. My mother’s friends wondered why I was not there. Oh, well. I think I was doing my part to keep the peace. My brother and I get along better now that he does not want to try to be the favorite child. He just earned a five year bonus gift from his company and he ordered a nice Brighton purse for me. So things are better now (except for lack of tolerance for indoor cats).
Barnabas Collins! My friend and I watched it everyday we could after we got off the school bus. It was almost like a reward for getting through another day of school.
As of today, Dakotah has been in the hospital, & fully sedated, for a week. They began tube-feeding her a bit today, her lungs are slowly improving, & the bacterial infection is getting a bit better, but until she starts breathing on her own, she is in danger of slipping. There is also the chance that a secondary infection may crop up, which would be a set back. If the infection continues to clear up, she could be off the ventilator in seven days. They are hoping to remove the chest tube, that has been draining fluid from her left lung, tomorrow.
Her parents have hope again. Thank you for praying, & please continue!
Prayer please for some discomfort in the jaw. Maybe a tooth problem, maybe something else. Sadly, no time to go to the dentist as both husband and neighbor are away so nobody to watch my little angels. It has been going on for a few days but I thought it was getting better, until a few hours ago when I realized it wasn’t.
Well… I’ve been super emotional today. It always takes me awhile to regain my equilibrium after a trip home. Please pray I’d bounce back quickly. Fortunately, my husband is very supportive and loving, which helps immensely. My mom is not doing well physically. It was difficult to see her struggling to get around. Prayers, too, for my brother, Jim. He is not in a good place. Thanks.
Follow-up to my 5:30 tonight: More dialogue tonight, and I don’t have that unsettled feeling anymore that I described earlier. I don’t know the answer to the long-term situation, but God’s got it worked out, and His mercies are new every morning. I’ll just be taking it one day at a time. The Lord is in control, and I am at peace.
mumsee, maybe it’s a clenching problem? A few years ago I had what I thought was a toothache in one of my back molars. But when I pointed to the spot, the dentist immediately suspected a jaw issue instead (and X-rays confirmed no tooth issue). He asked if I’d been under stress lately (of course, I said).
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Prayer for us, please, as we deal with various character issues. Thanks.
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You are never far from our hearts and prayers Mumsee and the Nest.
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Big blowup here. Prayers, please.
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How is Dakotah?
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Dakotah is puzzling to the doctors. They don’t know why her body is reacting as it is. She also has sepsis, which I don’t know if I mentioned that before.
They are trying to wean her from the vent so her lungs can start working again, but are keeping her sedated during the process.
Good news is she hasn’t coded since Wednesday.
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Praying, Six.
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Me too, 6, blowups happen. Something about the holidays …
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Thanks for all the prayers.
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I don’t understand “blowups” at holiday gatherings. I have never seen one and can’t imagine going to one that is contentious. In non work environments, I don’t generally associate with people I don’t like.
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Please pray for my husband who is having some back troubles. Also, our son is having some asthma problems or difficulty getting over an illness he thought he was over with last week. Finally please pray for our medical insurance situation to have a good resolution. Thank you.
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Prayers for Hubby. He has a meeting tomorrow morning with the new Principe who is pressuring us to withdraw the Kid from the Christian school. The local public school is not great.
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Prayers for all the requests on here this weekend.
Chas, you are blessed to never have seen a contentious holiday gathering. For the most part, I have not either. I was witness, though, to one blowup at a family gathering a few years ago (the blowup I referenced above happened two days after our Thanksgiving gathering this year — some post-hosting stress on top of an ongoing situation that tends to become more difficult on weekends typically). Thankfully, though, there are no lingering hard feelings about that incident from a few years ago, that I’m aware of. Apologies were soon made and everyone moved on.
The blowup from yesterday is sort of resolved, but not as fully or satisfactorily as I feel it could have been. I’m still a little unsettled-feeling about it. It’s probably just something I need to learn to live with (the circumstance that led to the blowup). For the record, *I* was the one who blew up. So when I say it’s “something I need to learn to live with”, it means I need prayers for anger management in the face of a situation that is unlikely to change.
Just being transparent.
I have another prayer request, for a heartbreaking situation in a friend’s extended family, but I’ll put it in a separate comment after this one.
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A friend’s sister-in-law is pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. She is in her sixth month, and had a medical crisis where she needed an emergency appendectomy. Her appendix ruptured during the surgery, and the infection from the appendix damaged both children’s hearts. (An ultrasound a week before the emergency showed both babies were healthy at that time.)
Today I learned that the family found out on Friday, when they had another ultrasound, that their little unborn son has died. Please pray for their unborn daughter, Maggie, for the grieving parents and their three daughters at home, and for wisdom for the medical team as they determine whether it would be better to deliver Maggie or keep her in the womb longer. She weighs about 2 lbs. right now.
Thank you.
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Praying for the above requests.
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Chas, no holiday-stress blowups?
As in, never-ever? Wow. Impressive. 🙂
At work we call them meltdowns or “klebolds” (which is used as both a verb and a noun, named one of the shooters in the colorado school shootings). As a verb: “So-and-so is about to klebold.” We’ve had some epic ones through the years, one that included a trash-can kick across the newsroom (barely missing another reporter) and another that wound up in an HR report & anger management courses for those involved.
On a lesser scale you have the usual slamming down of phone receivers.
Not that blowups happen often. But they can be noteworthy when they do.
Most blowups were suppressed and headed off before they occurred at holiday gatherings when I was growing up. But the best one probably was when my aunt left in a huff with her turkey just as Thanksgiving was to be served. I think she later came back with the turkey, but I’m not entirely sure.
Humans and human nature.
There but for the grace of God go any of us … and thanks to His restraining hand, we aren’t as bad as we really could be, amen?
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Maybe people in the south are just more genteel than those of us out west …
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And at least one of us in the mid-west. 😉
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Never, since I have known the family has there been a blowup, nor a meltdown.
Everybody always leaves full and happy.
Mostly, if you feed a Collins, you can keep him happy.
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I have some Collins relatives, and you are right about that.
I probably once had a before the event “blow-up” if they can be of a silent type. My brother decided to do a birthday gathering for our mother, maybe as she was turning 80 or older. My son and I were staying at the house a lot taking care of my mom. My brother lived in her home, but he was out working during the days. As he planned the party by himself, he told me to get my things out of the house (I did not have much there and maybe my son had a few things). I was pretty disgusted about my brother’s approach to the whole thing so I did not attend the party. My mother’s friends wondered why I was not there. Oh, well. I think I was doing my part to keep the peace. My brother and I get along better now that he does not want to try to be the favorite child. He just earned a five year bonus gift from his company and he ordered a nice Brighton purse for me. So things are better now (except for lack of tolerance for indoor cats).
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Haha. Well that explains it. We have no people by the name of Collins, not now or in the past, that I know of.
That Collins clan must have received an abundance of the calm and controlled gene.
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The family in Dark Shadows was named Collins. I had a huge crush on Quentin Collins. 🙂
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They hung out with vampires, who never have meltdowns or blowups, either.
Cool as cucumbers, that bunch.
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Barnabas Collins! My friend and I watched it everyday we could after we got off the school bus. It was almost like a reward for getting through another day of school.
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Update on Dakotah:
As of today, Dakotah has been in the hospital, & fully sedated, for a week. They began tube-feeding her a bit today, her lungs are slowly improving, & the bacterial infection is getting a bit better, but until she starts breathing on her own, she is in danger of slipping. There is also the chance that a secondary infection may crop up, which would be a set back. If the infection continues to clear up, she could be off the ventilator in seven days. They are hoping to remove the chest tube, that has been draining fluid from her left lung, tomorrow.
Her parents have hope again. Thank you for praying, & please continue!
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Prayer please for some discomfort in the jaw. Maybe a tooth problem, maybe something else. Sadly, no time to go to the dentist as both husband and neighbor are away so nobody to watch my little angels. It has been going on for a few days but I thought it was getting better, until a few hours ago when I realized it wasn’t.
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Emily & R have another court date tomorrow.
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Well… I’ve been super emotional today. It always takes me awhile to regain my equilibrium after a trip home. Please pray I’d bounce back quickly. Fortunately, my husband is very supportive and loving, which helps immensely. My mom is not doing well physically. It was difficult to see her struggling to get around. Prayers, too, for my brother, Jim. He is not in a good place. Thanks.
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Prayers, Mumsee, Karen and Ann.
Follow-up to my 5:30 tonight: More dialogue tonight, and I don’t have that unsettled feeling anymore that I described earlier. I don’t know the answer to the long-term situation, but God’s got it worked out, and His mercies are new every morning. I’ll just be taking it one day at a time. The Lord is in control, and I am at peace.
Thank you for all your prayers.
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Prayers for all.
mumsee, maybe it’s a clenching problem? A few years ago I had what I thought was a toothache in one of my back molars. But when I pointed to the spot, the dentist immediately suspected a jaw issue instead (and X-rays confirmed no tooth issue). He asked if I’d been under stress lately (of course, I said).
Mouth pain can be hard to pinpoint.
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Now, Donna, with all those teenagers in the house what would Mumsee have to be stressed abou? 🙂
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