[Faith-talk] Prayer requests

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Ericka,

Wow, so many to pray for in your life! Thanks for sharing these 
with us, that we might pray for them, too.  I'm sorry to hear 
about Jenny, but glad she's maybe getting better.  I wish her 
wealthy parents would step in and help her with some of her 
needs, since she can't get the help she needs anywhere.  I 
continue to pray for her.

Blessings,

Linda

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From: Ericka via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org
To: faith-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:22:05 -0500
Subject: [Faith-talk] Prayer requests

Hi all.

Every day I count my blessings as most all of you do too.  Well 
now that we have three people who are diagnosed with some kind of 
cancer or extremely challenging medical issue, we really need to 
be on our knees.

Chad and I are both friends with his ex-girlfriend.  She's had a 
lot of medical troubles in the past and doctors have been kind of 
putting her off thinking she's a hypochondriac.  Well I am so 
grateful that she's change doctors and medical facilities because 
today she was definitely diagnosed with colon cancer.  We don't 
know what stage it's in or whether she'll need radiation and 
chemo but she certainly has lost a lot of blood.  I'm thinking 
it's going to be more serious then beginning stage because she 
already has an autoimmune disease.  Janessa certainly is a 
fighter as she's had hearing loss and medical issues all her life 
including needing back surgery as a child because she was not 
born with an entire spine.  She's walking fine and everything but 
she certainly has a lot of medical issues now including diabetes.  
Please pray for Janessa Olson, Bob Mulder, and Chad's mom Barbara 
Nelson.

Your prayers do work.  My cousin is now attending counseling 
sessions and hopefully this will draw my family together and deal 
with our issues better.  My mom seems to think that walking away 
from my cousin Who is hurting is the best thing to do.  No he 
does not do everything we wish she would do but he did not have 
the life the rest of us did.  Abandoning him yet again is not 
right.  I think my mom believes she's just giving it up to the 
Lord when she walks away.  I think when the small silent voice 
from God says go to counseling with him for mediation and learn 
how to handle this right is sometimes the better option.

I would like to report that Jenny Keller has her rotten days 
still, but is having more better days.  The 24 hour syndrome  
medication is still trying to right her clock and doctors are 
trying to figure out more about the damage to her brain will 
change her life.  Nothing seems to be predictable right now and 
that is really frustrating I would say!  She's trying to get help 
from county and state programs but nobody is offering at home 
assistance for someone who is low income.  She definitely need 
some help at home.  She  is sounding more positive which makes me 
happy too.  I don't know if you would mind, but her ex-husband is 
on dialysis and waiting to die.  I don't remember what his name 
is, but we should be praying for him also.  It hurts her to see 
him like this.  I understand.  Even when I knew I was going to 
get divorced after 10+ years of marriage I could tell suicide was 
being considered and that scared me!
Love isn't a switch you can turn off.  In fact, I just sent my 
ex-husband a birthday card telling him thank you for doing the 
best he could but also asking him to move on with his life.


Ericka Short
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