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The Good Thoughts and Prayers Needed Thread 2

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Proud2baLaker said:
Last week my cousin (41 years old) had a sudden heart attack. Collapsed at her home in the morning while she and her kids were getting ready for the day. Her oldest son (14) began CPR (having been trained in boy scouts and by her husbands father who was a firefighter). Meanwhile, the middle son ran to a neighbor for help who then called 911. The oldest continued to perform CPR until medics arrived. This was a massive heart attack. It put her into a coma and just before the weekend they were ready to take her off life support. However, she began so breathe on her own. They left life support on for the time being. However, later tests would show that the damage was done. She had brainstem activity but no brain activity is what I am told. Her husband was given the choice of removing her from life support for good, or finding a long term care facility to care for her until she passed. Ultimately, the choice was made to remove her from life support last night. She hung on for about 3 hours before passing away. Please keep my cousin Angie, her husband Jeremy and their 3 children and the rest of my family in your thoughts as we deal with this difficult time. Thank you.
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I am so proud of your cousins' children for acting that way. They should be celebrated even if the outcome is devastating. I am so sorry for your loss, though. Life is grossly unfair.
 
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Hi all. Asking for prayers/good thoughts, vibes for my best friend from HS. She lives on St Croix and it looks like they are going to take a direct hit from Hurricane Irma. They can't leave the island. Praying she, her family and all those who are there are safe! Things look like they are going to get very, very bad :(
 
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leswp1 said:
Hi all. Asking for prayers/good thoughts, vibes for my best friend from HS. She lives on St Croix and it looks like they are going to take a direct hit from Hurricane Irma. They can't leave the island. Praying she, her family and all those who are there are safe! Things look like they are going to get very, very bad :(
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THey made it thru the last one but now they are looking like they will be slammed this time. So worried. Any prayers, good vibes, thoughts appreciated!
 
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One year ago today at about this time, I found out my dad had an accident, and that it was likely cancer. Earlier today he lost his battle with cancer. :(
 
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Oh I'm so sorry. I don't normally post in here but you and your family will be in my thoughts.
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
One year ago today at about this time, I found out my dad had an accident, and that it was likely cancer. Earlier today he lost his battle with cancer. :(
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Terribly, terribly sorry for your loss. Having unexpectedly lost my own father some months ago, I understand what a tremendously difficult time this can be. Godspeed to your father and the best to you and your loved ones.

I was recently reflecting on how most of us not only as boys, but also as men, spend a good deal of time (both consciously and subconsciously) seeking the approval of our father's to varying degrees. I think in part because of this, when at first my father, who was also my best friend, was no longer there, I felt a bit set adrift. But what I have come to find is that this familiar underlying feeling that demands of us to do things in such ways that would make our father's proud of us, remains well intact. It may sound a bit odd as at times in life this feeling can be rather burdensome, but I think I now take a good bit of comfort knowing that my father will remain present with me in that way (at the very least) all the days of my life. Hope in time you will come to find comfort in your own way as well.
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
Terribly, terribly sorry for your loss. Having unexpectedly lost my own father some months ago, I understand what a tremendously difficult time this can be. Godspeed to your father and the best to you and your loved ones.

I was recently reflecting on how most of us not only as boys, but also as men, spend a good deal of time (both consciously and subconsciously) seeking the approval of our father's to varying degrees. I think in part because of this, when at first my father, who was also my best friend, was no longer there, I felt a bit set adrift. But what I have come to find is that this familiar underlying feeling that demands of us to do things in such ways that would make our father's proud of us, remains well intact. It may sound a bit odd as at times in life this feeling can be rather burdensome, but I think I now take a good bit of comfort knowing that my father will remain present with me in that way (at the very least) all the days of my life. Hope in time you will come to find comfort in your own way as well.
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Thank you for that. The biggest thing I've been overcome with so far is just feeling alone and lost. It feels so strange saying that when at the same time I'm surrounded by my family.
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
Thank you for that. The biggest thing I've been overcome with so far is just feeling alone and lost. It feels so strange saying that when at the same time I'm surrounded by my family.
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Having only experienced this once, I am so sorry that you are feeling this way. It is the worst feeling in the world, that level of isolation. Please know that we are here and thinking of you.
 
Got a friend fighting breast cancer. At least they caught it early.

Got a friend with lymphoma. Currently doing well, but is walking a tight rope.

My RD from NMU... her sister has stage 4 colon cancer.

And a friend from high school, his daughter has leukemia. His daughter is 5.

**** cancer.
 
A friend of mine from NMU: was pregnant. But was found unresponsive one night. Taken to the hospital. She's gone; passed away on New Year's Day. They performed a C-section to save the baby, but the baby's on life support with anoxic brain activity. Complicating matters is that the baby's in Grand Rapids while the husband is in the Keewenaw.

Heartbroken doesn't begin to describe I'm feeling.
 
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