Prayer Requests & Personal Testimonies

[GaryK]

In the past week, my mom has been diagnosed with an aggressive stage 4 lymphoma. It is treatable. She is in hospital finishing up the first round of chemo. She has developed several other complications including pneumonia and extreme anxiety, and is being very difficult to care for. If you think about it, pray for her.

My mom passed way yesterday. Five weeks ago, she experienced cardiac arrest following a pulmonary embolism. She was resuscitated by EMTs at the scene, but she never really recovered. She had been becoming weaker and weaker presumably from the cancer and from the chemo, and she just couldn’t come back from the cardiac arrest. Couldn’t successfully get off the vent, and even after putting in a trachea tube, she couldn’t breathe on her own. Developed internal bleeding due to being in blood thinners, which they could reverse, but only by putting her back at risk of more blood clots. There was no way forward, and her kidneys failed as well as other problems. Still, she lived a week after being taken off life support. It was a relief to finally have her pass into the next life after such intense suffering.

Praying for you and your family, Mike. Sorry for your loss.

[JohnL]

Mike our family prayed for your family to experience God’s comfort and healing. It’s really hard to lose a parent. It changes our perceptions of our lives.

[temporal1]

It should be instinctive and normal to protect others.
i believe it is, esp in healthy children.

Minneapolis / Annunciation Catholic Church and School

Teachers, children became heroes 'within seconds' after shooter opened fire
Teachers, faculty and children at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis helped save lives. 'It could have been far worse,'
said Mayor Jacob Frey.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 857362007/

[Outsider]

Can I prayers for myself, and for the girl I'm speaking to in this image? I found this stuff from a porn ad in my inbox.

I have been getting targeted harassment on all my social media accounts since I started talking about this stuff. There are screen captures and videos of the things they've done on YouTube, and I'm pretty sure it was why I was mobbed on meta. I can't post the images they injected into ads on my timeline, because they're graphicly sexual. Pretty tight narcissitic abuse- baiting in a way I cannot show to the social network to explain my anger, because if I do, I "violate community standards". Which are basically non-existant, btw. Pornographic songs are fine, y'know...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rtkHB2ui4Vs

[temporal1]

Praying, Outsider.
i expect there are some here who have good advice about being careful on the internet.
i’ve had good practical advice here several times.

btw. Pornographic songs are fine, y'know...

this is a really really bad problem, not improved over decades.

[Outsider]

I've always had a tendency to be too open, to trusting of stangers and their intent on the internet. I have learned the hard way to be a bit more cagey, a bit more obfuscated in my information footprint (now I'm using duck email to generate a separate email for just about every account I have, and it forwards it to one address that I do not share with any site on the internet.

I've been talking to someone I thought was an aunt, and find out weeks later that it wasn't her, because her account had been hacked and she was locked out of it. She had created a new one (I wondered why she had 2). It's getting bad, and it seems like there's more bad actors every day.

Thank you so much for your prayers, I need them. She needs them.

[temporal1]

I've always had a tendency to be too open, to trusting of stangers and their intent on the internet. I have learned the hard way to be a bit more cagey, a bit more obfuscated in my information footprint (now I'm using duck email to generate a separate email for just about every account I have, and it forwards it to one address that I do not share with any site on the internet.

I've been talking to someone I thought was an aunt, and find out weeks later that it wasn't her, because her account had been hacked and she was locked out of it. She had created a new one (I wondered why she had 2). It's getting bad, and it seems like there's more bad actors every day.

Thank you so much for your prayers, I need them. She needs them.

My adult children rule me with iron fists wrt the internet. Wait. Other things, too. They can be bossy.
They were 100% against me registering for MD.

i have to be careful, ‘cause i’ll have to answer to them if i make a mistake.
i don’t know where they learned to be so .. intolerant. uptight. they live far away but expect to control me.
like phantom security guards. they’re scary.

[Outsider]

My adult children rule me with iron fists wrt the internet. Wait. Other things, too. They can be bossy.
They were 100% against me registering for MD.

i have to be careful, ‘cause i’ll have to answer to them if i make a mistake.
i don’t know where they learned to be so .. intolerant. uptight. they live far away but expect to control me.
like phantom security guards. they’re scary.
[/quote]

Hahaha! Seems like more peole (not my family even!) are more interested in telling me what to do at 68 than there were when i was 12!

[temporal1]

Hurricane Melissa.

prayers for people suffering, where ever they are.
reports are of flooding in NYC, i presume an effect of Melissa?

prayers for peace.

[JoyE]

My brother Joseph--the one whose son was murdered this year--was diagnosed with colon cancer and leukemia. He went through surgery and chemo. Now he has been basically sent home to die.

There are a number of natural methods to fight cancer, and his wife is trying a simple one.

Prayers would be appreciated.