3 Meter Para Bellum
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- Apr 17, 2020
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2025 was a rough year for my family, and 2026 is promising to be rough too so far. My mom has had numerous health problems for years of various different natures, but one of them has gotten so bad she will probably be looking at surgery in short order. This will be the second surgery for her in the last few years, the last one being a gallbladder removal. Gallbladder was a fairly straightforward surgery, but no surgery is fun obviously. I don't have the details, but this surgery is more intensive and not without side effects either. We are at the point of not having a choice though, she is in too much pain too often to go without it.
The good news is that despite the usual 6 month wait to see the doctor about the issue and plan a surgery, after telling her story my mom was able to head to the doctor with my dad this morning. It is very difficult to get an appointment that quickly normally. The hope is that we will be able to get her the surgery scheduled basically as soon as possible at this point. That doesn’t give us as much time to mull over the details as we might have liked but it is just too much for her so it needs to be done with swiftness and prayer. I’d like to ask for any prayers from the kind folks here concerning my mom and her health going forward.
This is hard but I hope that it could be the start to some stability for her in the future. Her and my dad are such full hearted people, they adopted six of my younger siblings and I know that my mom has not been able to spend as much time as she would like with the kids over the last so many years because she ends up bed ridden so often. While our parents are away, me and my two other adult brothers are watching the kids at home and praying God will guide the situation as only he can.
Another continued bother is this house’s foundation. It is still rotting and we got next to nothing done on it last year. My health took a dip last February that I haven’t recovered from, I developed a knee issue, and I am fairly certain that I will not be able to work under the house again for the foreseeable future. We are certain at this point that we need to enlist some kind of help in order to manage it, but what help and how to get it is completely up in the air. Our kind next door neighbor who is a realtor said she may be able to help us find somebody to do some of the work, so perhaps that is a lead. At a minimum we need somebody stripping foam and moving dirt out of the crawl space because we just don’t have enough healthy people to do it. Even then my dad is going to need help installing joists and setting up pillars. I feel bad because I don’t know if I will even be able to help with that anymore. So anyway, foundation is still a mess and we could also use prayer for that.
I appreciate any good thoughts and prayers. Praise the Lord.
The good news is that despite the usual 6 month wait to see the doctor about the issue and plan a surgery, after telling her story my mom was able to head to the doctor with my dad this morning. It is very difficult to get an appointment that quickly normally. The hope is that we will be able to get her the surgery scheduled basically as soon as possible at this point. That doesn’t give us as much time to mull over the details as we might have liked but it is just too much for her so it needs to be done with swiftness and prayer. I’d like to ask for any prayers from the kind folks here concerning my mom and her health going forward.
This is hard but I hope that it could be the start to some stability for her in the future. Her and my dad are such full hearted people, they adopted six of my younger siblings and I know that my mom has not been able to spend as much time as she would like with the kids over the last so many years because she ends up bed ridden so often. While our parents are away, me and my two other adult brothers are watching the kids at home and praying God will guide the situation as only he can.
Another continued bother is this house’s foundation. It is still rotting and we got next to nothing done on it last year. My health took a dip last February that I haven’t recovered from, I developed a knee issue, and I am fairly certain that I will not be able to work under the house again for the foreseeable future. We are certain at this point that we need to enlist some kind of help in order to manage it, but what help and how to get it is completely up in the air. Our kind next door neighbor who is a realtor said she may be able to help us find somebody to do some of the work, so perhaps that is a lead. At a minimum we need somebody stripping foam and moving dirt out of the crawl space because we just don’t have enough healthy people to do it. Even then my dad is going to need help installing joists and setting up pillars. I feel bad because I don’t know if I will even be able to help with that anymore. So anyway, foundation is still a mess and we could also use prayer for that.
I appreciate any good thoughts and prayers. Praise the Lord.
