There are 2 messages totalling 76 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. PRAYER: My Mom 2. The Border - SERIOUSLY great show ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:46:43 -0800 From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y.......> Subject: Re: PRAYER: My Mom My prayers and best wishes for you both. Kristen Fife Find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter (employeeze) and Plaxo --- On Fri, 2/27/09, Laurie of the Isles <laudon1228@y.......> wrote: > From: Laurie of the Isles <laudon1228@y.......> > Subject: PRAYER: My Mom > To: FORKNI-L@l....... > Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 10:27 AM > My Mom has been ill for over six months. Last summer, after > colonoscopy and endoscopy, they diagnosed her with Irritable > Bowel Syndrome. She has been unable to eat much for months. > In November her doctor diagnosed her with sciatica, and > then at Christmas she came down with shingles. The medicine > healed the lesions but the infection scarred the nerves, and > she still gets bad pain. More recently, her gastro-enterologist > heard indications of > insufficient blood flow in her abdomen, and a CT angiogram > found that the superior mesenteric artery, which supplies > blood to the stomach and intestines, was badly clogged. They > figured that this was the cause of her intestinal and > stomach pain rather than IBS. > > They performed an angioplasty a couple of weeks ago, and > expected almost immediate relief from her pain. There has > been no relief. It's looking like she has IBS, on *top* > of the clogged artery that they cleared. The horrible pain she > often gets after eating has her > afraid to eat a lot of the time, and she has lost about > forty pounds. The last time she was weighed, about a week > and a half ago, she was down to 102 pounds. Her doctor gave > has given her some really good instructions for eating, both > to manage her symptoms, and to put some weight back on, but > she is not really following it. It is really frustrating > and worrying for me. In addition to this, we are getting > absolutely no moral support from my sister back east, no > phone calls, emails, nothing. I would really appreciate any > prayers or good thoughts, both for Mom and for me. > > > Laurie of the Isles > Laudon1228@y....... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:59:22 -0800 From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y.......> Subject: The Border - SERIOUSLY great show I just want to say how much I enjoy The Border. I converted one of my friends in Ottawa :) Kristen Fife Find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter (employeeze) and Plaxo ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 2 Mar 2009 to 4 Mar 2009 (#2009-41) ************************************************************
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