sb, how is your family, is she still improving in the hospital, been praying!!...nm

• It's SNOWING!!!!!!!! - sbMT
  • it was snowing here in south Alabama today - kids loved it here
  • I LOVE THE SNOW!!! - penny
  • sb, how is your family, is she still improving in the hospital, been praying!!...nm - Cyndiee
  • We've been getting snow twice a week, another foot at least tonight...sm - Cyndiee
  • Have fun with it.............sm - m
  • SNOWING - Cheri
    • I'm with you. I live in west Michigan. I am more than ready. nm - MT and worn out
    • I'm sure I'd be singing a different tune if I was in Ohio! :-D - sbMT
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I'll keep you and your family in my prayers.  I know it's hard to lose your grandmother.  I lost mine a couple of years ago.  I received this in an email today.  I hope it helps in some way.  I don't know if the monitors will keep this here, but here goes:

“I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.” (John 16:20-22 NIV)

Worship/Fellowship — There are some days when, frankly, I don’t feel much like worshiping God. There are probably more days like that than I’d care to admit.

But usually those are days are when I’m staring at my circumstances and making faithless judgments about what I see around me. And I struggle with the God-truth that he is in the circumstances that surround my life – all the circumstances.

Have you ever considered that heartbreak is part of God’s plans for you, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”? (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV) We put so much energy into avoiding the hurt when God would have us embrace it. He wants us to know that he can heal our hurts, even use our hurts for his benefit, and for us to faithfully believe that sometimes the circumstances we think are harming us are actually positive situations God is engineering.

God, who is omnipotent, sees the breadth and depth of our circumstances, and he knows his plans for our lives. Thinking, then, like Christ, we can slowly, ever so slowly, begin to understand that avoiding the pain in our lives is actually an act of faithlessness. God calls us to faith in him during difficult circumstances; we’d rather place our faith in avoiding the circumstances.

As always, Jesus shows us the way – because he is the Way. Jesus embraced the pain of God’s plan for his life, and he did it with full faith that God was still working the plan to bring a “hope and a future” to your life and mine. (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV) Christ was so sure that his grief would turn to joy that he showed a radiant certainty in God’s faithfulness (“Radiant certainty” is a phrase William Barclay uses to describe the attitude of Jesus at the Last Supper).

Our Brother Jesus, who is also our King, was heading into a crisis that would cost him His life, yet He was so certain – radiantly certain – of God’s faithfulness that not one of his disciples even discerned the gravity of the crisis! Jesus was so certain of God’s faithfulness that it radiates throughout his whole being.

And we, too, can have this radiant certainty about God’s hand in our lives. We can say, when it comes to God’s faithfulness, “I know because I know that I know.” That’s radiant certainty! The Cross was Christ’s glory, not His penalty – and the same is true of difficult circumstances in our lives.

So what?

· God’s faithful character - You will develop this radiant certainty in God when you learn to trust in his faithful character. Your daily worship of God is irrevocably tied to your faith in God.

· Praise God anyhow - You must choose to praise and worship God every day, no matter what the circumstances of your life. Developing a radiant certainty in God begins with simple steps of faith and obedience.

· Respond to God, not your circumstances - When faced with a painful or difficult circumstance, ask God, “How do you want me to respond to this?” Keep your eyes wise for the ‘Why me?’ traps that lay about your circumstances.

You can be radiantly certain of this: Difficult circumstances are opportunities for you to intentionally focus your faith in God and to see what he will do to give you hope and healing.

Seeing a post like yours really puts things into perspective. You're so calm. What an inspiration to me!

And to everyone who responded, God bless you. You have helped me immensely, and the long lunch I had today with my best friend helped much too!

I'll let you all know the results. Was told that the next mammogram won't be until Dec. 27.........

Sorry, but the dog needs to stay where she is.  Parvo is highly contagious and very often fatal.  The dog needs constant monitoring by a trained staff, not a loving mom. 

Hope the baby gets better soon. Sorry to hear she came down with this.

My 72yo FIL was transferred to the trauma unit in a bigger city this past Saturday because of a fall and head injury he sustained Saturday morning.

Since he has been there (more than 48 hours now), he has not eaten and is not receiving a dextrose drip or the like through his IV. They only took complete x-rays, CT, and MRI on Sunday afternoon. The first time a doctor/resident evaluated him was on Sunday evening sometime after 9 p.m. Also, he is somewhat delusional. He knows his name and where he is, but he is grabbing at things in the air, wants to take the trash out, etc. This is definetly abnormal for him. He has always been alert and oriented.

My question is this: Should it take 36 hours before he is evaluated by a doctor? Is it normal not to give him any type of nourishment (no food, no IV) for more than 48 hours? Is it normal to wait 2 days to see a neurologist (who won't be in to see him until late today) when the main reason he was transferred was for neurology consult? I understand he went in on the weekend, but should it take this long to get answers.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Melissa

As long as you pay something every month, there is nothing they can do to you.

I would not take my money out of the CD's or move it.  Just keep paying something every month. 

pampered chef, anything you wanted to buy, you could purchase all on company time.  There were also people that would sell dinner plates through their church.

This "daylighting" is nothing new.  I myself on breaks would "deliver typed reports to an internal office."  I stayed in the building, but I was on my break (not paid) or on lunch (not paid).  So, what's the difference?

Tell me this isn't true; anyone who has worked on-site knows it happens every day.

as a nurse's aide, there were several episodes similar to that.  I was young about 19 to 20.  One particular episode, I went in and picked up a breakfast tray and asked the guy if he was ready for his shower.  He said yes, I told him I will be back with a new gown and towels.  He said okay.  When I came back in he was stripped down to nothing but his birth suit.  I put the towels down and went and told the other nurses about the incident.  Also, there was another man wanting me to wash his thing, KWIM.  If he were comatose or had both hands broken I would have to but there was not a thing wrong with this man and I refused.  I went and got another aide and asked her advice and she said she wouldn't either.   We told the nurse's and the doc about the incident and he wrote that up as an incident report.  

Usually men like that I took it that they had some screws loose. 

she went in with breathing problems, but the longer she was there the more issues came up.  She apparent came down with C. diff.  They started coming in with the yellow suits, for infectious disease precautions.  She finally asked why, and the nurse said according to her chart she had a history or MRSA with open wounds. I said WHAT.  The last problem she had with a wound was in 1987 with gallbladder surgery when she had a bile leak and some wound dehiscence.  MRSA was not even around then.  She has never been told anything about MRSA.

My question is:  Should I confront them and ask when this was diagnosed, and what the circumstances were.  I am wondering if this is another example of OFFSHORING records where mistakes were made.  I mean really, if this is an error I feel it should be corrected, and if not, why was she never told this?

It was a physician owned hospital.  The story was on CNN.  A man had back surgery there, had some sort of bad reaction to the anesthesia and the wife herself had to do CPR.  The surgeon walked in and told her to call 911. 

The hospital has been shut down. 

Uneeda Lay (had to call out her name on a loudspeaker)

Crystal Chandal Lear

North West

Sandy Beach (married name)