need your prayers again
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Hello all
I'm afraid I need to call on you once again for your thoughts and prayers. As you might recall my nephew was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and today he underwent brain surgery to remove it. He suffered a fit on the operating table and is now in an induced coma in intensive care. They are in Australia, which means I can't be with my sister who I am very close to and who is obviously distraught. He is a young father with 2 beautiful children of 1 and 3. Before his op he took his girlfriend to the beach and wrote 'will you marry me' in the sand, and filled it with luminous stones so that when a car's headlights hit them it all lit up. I think he knew it might not end well for him and wanted to do the right thing for her. I am brokenhearted, and it will destroy my sister if he doesn't pull through this.
So please, spare a moment to send positive thoughts and prayers his way.
Thankyou
x
I'm afraid I need to call on you once again for your thoughts and prayers. As you might recall my nephew was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and today he underwent brain surgery to remove it. He suffered a fit on the operating table and is now in an induced coma in intensive care. They are in Australia, which means I can't be with my sister who I am very close to and who is obviously distraught. He is a young father with 2 beautiful children of 1 and 3. Before his op he took his girlfriend to the beach and wrote 'will you marry me' in the sand, and filled it with luminous stones so that when a car's headlights hit them it all lit up. I think he knew it might not end well for him and wanted to do the right thing for her. I am brokenhearted, and it will destroy my sister if he doesn't pull through this.
So please, spare a moment to send positive thoughts and prayers his way.
Thankyou
x
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Try to stay optimistic. I knew of someone back in the eighties who suffered exactly as you describe. She regained full health, and is still going strong today......Much love....Rosie.x.
Barbara
Bubba, it's my nephew, not my brother. My brother had his own health scare last week with a shadow on his lung but happily that all checked out. Now it is my nephew.
Marianne, thankyou for your prayers and kind thoughts.
I just called my sister in Oz; she was on her way back to the hospital. I got some more details of what happened. He was taken in for the op, and they opened his head and were starting to operate when he started fitting...he was to be awake for the 10 hour op so they could monitor him, check that they weren't touching parts of the brain they shouldn't etc...but he then panicked and swallowed when he shouldn't as he was intubated. His saliva went into his lungs, and now he is fighting a lung infection as well. They had to induce a coma to stop the fitting and to stop him trying to pull all the tubes and lines out. When he heard her voice he momentarily came out of his coma and tried to speak but lapsed back into it, but he knew she was there. So they now have to break the news to him that he still has the tumour and they want to operate again in 4 weeks. That's if he comes out of this ok.
They gave him options about his treatment...either take away as much as they can which would give him 2 good years with his children or take less of the tumour which would give him longer but would paralyse him. He chose the 2 good years. It's desperately sad.
Anyway, they are going to bring him out of the coma in the morning (which is tonight our time) so I am praying that he comes out of it ok.
Thankyou again for your prayers and thoughts.
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elizabeth x
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no ones definition of your life
Define yourself........
Harvey Fierstein
My prayers are going out.....for nephew, and all the family and of course you
Let us know
Love
Hileena
Hileena, it seems to be never ending, it's been a terrible start to the year. First my brother, then my nephew. I had a lot of upset and worry over my ex as well towards the end of last year so all in all a horrible time. It makes my problems pale into insignificance really. I'm just waiting by the phone for news. Of course I'll let you know
x
and i wish your nephew all the best and hope it works out for him,
life can be so unfair.
I will say a prayer for him and his family.
mike26.
smile another smile and soon there
will be miles and miles of smiles
just because you smiled I wish your
day is full of Smiles
Good news...my nephew has woken from his coma and is talking. He has lost all feeling in his right arm but they have said that may come back. I don't know whether he will opt to have the op again; they want to do it in 4 weeks time, but he came through this ok and that, for now, is the main thing.
Thankyou for all your thoughts (once again)
x
Barbara
Fantastic news about your nephew.
We'll just have to see what happens when he recovers a bit more
Love
Hileena
Had an email from my sister last night. My nephew is in good spirits and recovering. His bandages are off (my sister said it is very hard for her to look at what they have done to him) and he is due to leave hospital next Monday. She talked to the surgeon last night and they don't want to operate again as the tumour is in a crucial position in the brain - he said that without the op my nephew could have 10-20 years...very very tragic for such a young man, but originally they said that WITH the op he would have 2, so the odds are definitely better now. My sister is being very philosophical about it and said that none of us know how long we have left which is true, and I think that she is just relieved that he doesn't have to go through it again.
I'd like to think that every one of your prayers and positive thoughts have helped get him through this, so thankyou everyone.
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This is good news......after last weeks news
You take care now and relax
Love
Hileena (((((((((()))))))))