Prayer Requests @ MindSay

my uncle, who is a long-time sufferer of hemophilia (and is HIV+) fell and had a possible seizure yesterday morning. he was rushed to the ER and i can't visit him. he was shipped off to cleveland clinic. turns out he has 3 things that may be wrong with him.

1) brain tumor
2) infection in his brain
3) bleeding in his brain

the bleeding scares me the most. hemophiliacs are missing factor 9 in their blood...aka the CLOTTING factor. put 2 and 2 together, that means he could quite possibly bleed to death in his brain before they can do anything (if anything can be done for him). i sure hope he's been taking his synthetic factor 9. he's been suffering a terrible 6 day long migraine. the doctors did nothing for that except give him more pills.

yes, let's stuff more pills down his throat and call it a day. effing doctors. operate, treat him, do CT scans...do SOMETHING...don't just say "take 3 and call me in the morning". this man has outlived his live expectancy by almost 25 years...SAVE HIM. if you can't i understand, but at least try for christ's sake.

i'm so frustrated at this time, i don't know what to do. just pray for my uncle, please. he's only 37.

today's aaron's first interview... of a set of two. this one's for a music teaching position in langley, and tomorrow's is for a teaching position in abbotsford. tomorrow's actually just a meeting with the principal of a school before his actual interview to see if he likes him and thinks aaron can do the job or not. please pray that aaron would be the prefect candidate for the position God can use him most in, and that he would be led by the Spirit as to what to say, how to answer questions, etc.

just starting out here without any friends and family has been ok, but i'd also like to ask if you could pray that aaron and i would be able to connect with some genuine christian people here who have hearts for God, and also that we would find mentors. i especially am praying that aaron will find a good man who he can trust and who can encourage him in the Lord, rather than make him cynical about the "church" these days.

For all you out there on MindSay that are visiting my blog today, please keep a family in your prayers/thoughts.

A friend of mine's (Adam Groblewski, for all you on here from SF) father passed away yesterday.

I can't remember the exact details about what he had, but I recall hearing that he had some type of cancer.

But I heard about it early this year from my teacher, Mrs. Cooper, and his dad just hung in there until God called him home yesterday.

So please pray for he and his family, because he is only 17, and it's a really big loss for someone his age. Geez. I really have never felt more empathy for a friend than when a friend loses a parent. After experiencing the sorrow that Payton felt when he lost his dad, I know what he must be feeling right about now.

So again, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Much love and God bless,
-Alex

Parents...gotta love em, gotta (can't say hate em, cuz I don't, but for lack of better sounding terms:) be mad at em.


Yellin' at each other right now...

My mom's bein an immature, negative person

Dad's just bein the logical, but unreasonably loud person

Talkin bout marriage issues right now.

Not like I can't hear 'em.

Man...I think my family could just use some prayer right now...

I need some prayer...I've slipped up some since Tuesday.

Sometimes...I wish I could just yell back at my Dad, but I know he'd only yell back louder. Mainly about some things that I see in him that I wanna be able to hold him accountable for...

Like cussing, for example...ever since he started working at the Carolina Center (a Behavioral Health Center), he's started getting a bad mouth (again). It's most likely the people he works around, but still, he has a better heart than to start picking that up again.

But...he's not the only one with a problem around here.

My Mom went from being awesome house and job Mom, to lazy, unemployed "house" Mom. All she does is wear sweatpants and lay around all the time. Sure, she does the laundry, cleans the dishes, and sweeps/vaccuums, but she complains a lot to me and Dad about stuff that's not gettin done around here...yet she's the one that's home about 98% of her time right now.

I swear, this house looked better and was cleaner when she WASN'T at home so much.

I love em both. They're awesome parents. They are the only ones who actually have a grasp on my ENTIRE person. The only ones who know my personality the best. They've seen my crazy side, by boring side, my funny side, my lazy side, my bad side, most everything, and they still love me.

I just wish that some of the things they do, would change. Where did the family go, where we all had our bad sides, but we all did our parts?

But, as I said, just pray for us, we will need it in the next couple months or so.

I'll pray for whoever else is out there who has family problems, as bad or worse as ours.

And to my school-buds. Don't mention anything to my parents about this post or anything.



Thanks,

Now they're bein cool again :)
Much love and God bless,
-Alex