Need your prayers!

Posted by pml @pml, Jun 22 3:58pm

My husband's lung cancer has taken a turn for the worse. I would deeply appreciate any and all prayers for him! He's using his nebulizer every 2 hours and is on Prednisone and Morphine. We get up two to three times a night since he is gasping for breath and needs to use his nebulizer. He gets breathless just walking down the hall. He was in the ER two weeks ago. We don't have hospice yet but may have to eventually. I don't know what they could do. I'm doing everything. However, a doctor would come to our home since Ed isn't well enough to go to the doctor's office.

I know that God is in control and always has been. Everything is in God's time. We pray often. We both know that we'll be in Heaven together in the future.
Thank you so much for your prayers!
PML

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irr4et | @irr4et | Aug 26 12:02pm

I sure know how u feel. I have advanced sarcopenia that has happened over 8 yrs bc of chronic pain wh I’ve had 17 yrs. . I eat a lot but cannot gain any wt bc cortisol steals muscle. So I’m going to die - probably this coming winter or 2025.

pml | @pml | Aug 26 5:53pm

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I'm sorry that you are so ill! That must be awful for you especially with the chronic pain. I hope you have good doctors and medications to cope with all of that. Pray to God and tell him how you feel and what you want to have happen. Also remember it's God who has the final answer as to when you die. If you do die, then you will be up in Heaven without any pain or discomfort and you will be the right weight. My husband died a month ago and I know he's up in Heaven and out of pain and discomfort. I know we'll both be in Heaven together eventually.
However, God may just heal you also and you may have a healthy long life. Just pray and leave it up to God and try and enjoy your current life as much as possible. I will say a prayer for you also.
PML

darleneporter | @darleneporter | Aug 26 7:22pm

My prayers are with you 🙏

pml | @pml | Aug 26 7:54pm

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Darlene:
Thank you so much! My husband died a month ago but I know he's up in Heaven and out of pain and discomfort. I also know that eventually I will join him in Heaven in God's time. However, I still need your prayers for me to get used to my life without my husband that I love so dearly!
Thank you!
PML

irr4et | @irr4et | Aug 26 8:11pm

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Pml, your advice is very good. I’m taking life one day at a time and grateful for each one, but as u can imagine I’m so very weary after 17 yrs of increasing pain until it has become life threatening. I have a life-long Christian so I know I will be in heaven healed and with my previous family members, friends and relatives who are already there. Best of all I will be in the presence of my Savior. My heart goes out to you to have lost your husband recently. I hope you have the support of family, friends and relatives. Plus your church family.

pml | @pml | Aug 26 8:20pm

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Thank you so much! It sounds like you are doing the right thing. But 17 years of pain is a little trying on a person. I'm so glad you are a Christian. We need more Christians in this world!
Best wishes and prayers!
PML

thenazareneshul | @thenazareneshul | Aug 27 11:55am

I pray to God that He would help you rest.

It's understandable you want to be there, for him, just in case. Maybe, just maybe, you could let some other people into you two's life. You need to rest while God is slowly taking him Home. It's a very trying time. My husband has been dying since 1976. I knew a woman whose husband was dying for 20 years, and she took care of him. But she also had a son and daughter-in-law to help her. When her husband finally passed, she still carried on with all that there was to do. Then in Bible study one day, she just collapsed. What better place to do it? We had a wise woman leading us, so we carried her to a couch (it was at someone's home) and laid her there to sleep. When she got up, she was fine. I've always been glad of her example. Trust the same God you ask us to pray to, to carry you too, through. He's not the only one who needs our prayers. God bless.

jmonte | @jmonte | Aug 27 12:34pm

God, I pray for this husband and wife that they be in peace, find strength and comfort in your words you give us, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." - Isaiah 41:10 ...I pray in Jesus name...I trust in you...that we all find trust in you who need strength in our spirit with your mercy and love ❤️

Zebra | @californiazebra | Aug 27 6:17pm

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Prayers for you.

mdk1960 | @mdk1960 | Aug 27 8:47pm

I will.pray and think of you and your husband. My first husband went into a nursing home in 2012 because I could no longer care for him. He deteriorated quickly and a nurse there told me to consider hospice. I still remember that day. He passed 2 weeks later. I held his hand through his last breath.