Nearly died, could have died, might have died...

[Doubleshadow]

Hi. I went home for the weekend and it was a doozy, and the fact my parents don't tell me things when they should is still a problem.

I found out this weekend that my Dad's little sister (47 years old) has a major ongoing heart disease that results in sudden severe tachycarida. Weekend berfore last, she had an attack and was hospitalized. I may have screwed up the names of the meds on this, hopefully not. They gave her Denison (?), "slammed" it, which basically stops your heart. That fixed it, but earlier this week she had another attack and two "slams" of Denison had no effect. At one point her heart rate was 160 beats per minute. They put her Cardrazin (sp?) and it cleared up. But this time she also had chest pains. The checked heart, but the don't know they cause, and they have found a faulty valve in her left ventricle. There is also a free flap of tissue that can only be repaired through open heart surgery, so they are leaving it alone. She has two little grandbabies who love her to death and I don't want to lose her. This on the same side as my Aunt who is now severly brain damaged in the nursing home.

I also learned from a neighbor before my parents told me my younger brother almost died Wednesday. He drank himself into alcohol poisoning and almost choked on his own vomit. His "friends" said they didn't realize he was that drunk. The only thing that saved him was he passed out with EMT's nearby because the hospital was across the parking lot and a sober stranger realized how bad he was. He was on a respirator with every tube they can put in you because they were afraid he wasn't getting enough oxygen. They pumped a massive amount of hard liquor from his stomach, and he had a blood alcohol level of 2.93. He is 18. My parents were beside themselves, especially my Dad who was afraid he was going to be brain damaged like my aunt, but my brother seems to be fine and is on antibiotics just in case he gets pnuemonia from the vent. My Mom said when they couldn't give him the phone (against the law because he is 18) to talk because he couldn't talk, she had never been so scared. Our cars are trashed, and they considered coming to get my car because theirs couldn't make the trip. They borrowed the car of my aunt with the heart trouble to get there. My Mom is so heartbroken to leave him with those same "friends". He didn't even bother to call this weekend like he promised them until the called him first and left a message.

Speaking of cars, driving home this evening I hit a deer and smashed up our only good car, because the two at home are raggedy and the last is still in the shop from when my was T-boned by that pick-up in October. I'm okay, I had my seat belt on. I hit that big buck pretty hard; the folks at the gas staion half a block away heard the hit over the TV. The airbag deployed and busted, so my lungs hurt from the fumes and I have rashes on my arms. The radiator is shot, but it's fixable. It could have been bad. My Mom has always told me never to swerve to miss a deer, so I slammed on the breaks; in the other lane was oncoming traffic, and the side of the road sported a telephone pole I stopped a foot short of beside the road and a straight-down five foot bank two feet off the road. I would have been so hurt. People stopped to help me, which I needed because my car horn was blaring (apparently, the wreck triggered it), and I was gagging on the fumes and powder from the airbag, so I couldn't breathe and couldn't see. People pulled me out of the car and called the police for me. I felt so bad because my parents did not need another problem, although I couldn't miss the deer. And my parents, after all this trauma, my Dad an emotional wreck from my two aunts and my brother, my Mom is not much better but dealing better because she is an RN, but still bad, came to get me to get me back to the dorm, where I am now.

Between all the car bills, mine with limited insurance, the hospital bills from the emergency room and the ICU, we need pray for finances. We also need pray for emotional trouble, especially my poor Dad, who turned 50 last week, and please pray for my brother before he dies because he honestly thought he handled the liquor well before the doctor reminded him being on life support is generally considered a bad thing. He also may lose scholarships and be kicked out of or have to drop out of college.

SUMMARY: (Sorry, I must be venting)
My Aunts mysterious, potentially fatal heart trouble.
My family's fiances and emotional health.
My brother.

Last thing, God watched over my brother I. I felt moved to put my brother on my churches pray list just Sunday, and because of dodging two deer with my Mom driving yesterday, I remembered her rules for hitting deer. I feel blessed and protected, but, obviously we need prayer.

[Spector]

Wow.....what a mess. But, God can handle anything.
I will pray.

[Silent Hunter]

I hurt for you. . I think maybe God is letting you have a crash course in patience and the need to simply rely on Him and let all of your stresses and anger be lifted. Needless to say, I will pray for you. - Stephen

[Hephzibah]

>_< Ouch... talk about having lots of things happen at once. I'll be praying for your family; btw, are they Christians? If not, we should pray for their salvation too ^^

[justaservent]

ouch
i have Prayed and GOD Willing ill keep at it:thumb:

My Mom has always told me never to swerve to miss a deer,

GOD Willing it looks to me your mother tries to prepare you for every situation imagenable

[Doubleshadow]

[quote="Talame"]>_< Ouch... talk about having lots of things happen at once. I'll be praying for your family]

My parents are. My aunt, I don't know; my brother, I thought he was but now I am thinking not. Thank you everyone for praying.

[Tommy]

I am undoubtably praying for you. Sounds like you have it rough. Dang.

[shadowblade]

Wow, that's a lot of stuff to be dealing with. I'll be praying for you and your family, hang in there! *hugs*

[Ryupower]

I'm deffinately praying here! :O

[Doubleshadow]

Hi, more to add. I found out today I left the my checkbook at the gas station near where I hit the deer. I realized my purse had been open and I checked it in the dark and I must have mistaken my coin purse for my checkbook. So, there is the chance someone got a hold of it and wrote themselves a check for all my money beofre it was found. Driving up to retrieve my checkbook, the car my parents were driving died (I told you our cars were in bad shape), now they are driving the suburban, which has over 150,000 miles on it and has not had a tune up in about ten years. We need so much prayer.

PS- All this has been rough on my grades, so I need prayer for focus and studiouness.

[Ryupower]

Hi, more to add. I found out today I left the my checkbook at the gas station near where I hit the deer. I realized my purse had been open and I checked it in the dark and I must have mistaken my coin purse for my checkbook. So, there is the chance someone got a hold of it and wrote themselves a check for all my money beofre it was found. Driving up to retrieve my checkbook, the car my parents were driving died (I told you our cars were in bad shape), now they are driving the suburban, which has over 150,000 miles on it and has not had a tune up in about ten years. We need so much prayer.

PS- All this has been rough on my grades, so I need prayer for focus and studiouness.

WOW! That's even more mess! O_O

I'll pray, of coarse!

I also pray that if someone tries to rob your money, that they'll get convicted of it, and that they'll get saved too...and for your finances .

I'l also get to the schoolwork, I'll pray.

[Falcon]

Lord, you are the great I AM the way the truth the light you are the one who we can trust totally in no matter what is happenning. I Pray for the Aunts mysterious, potentially fatal heart trouble for the family's fiances and emotional health and the brother. For all these people Lord may they see you in this situation. May they see that you care for them and Love them and really do want the best for them. Rally christians around them so that your Love and compassion can be seen first hand. May your Holy Spirit touch these lives and cause a healing in all of them, weither it be physical, emotional, finacncial. Lord move in the coming days, weeks, months to allow thisd familly to live a victorious, debt free, abundant life in you. I pray also for your peace in their lives that they may know that you are in control and that they can trust you.

[freerock1]

Lifting you and your family. Thank God that things didn't turn out any worse for you than they did. And even though things are still rough, know that it's in God's hands.

[Doubleshadow]

Thank you all for praying. I thought I should tell you all how its going.
My Aunt with the heart trouble is an RN and really sharp. She is not taking any chances with this thing, so I have alot of hope that she will do alright.
My Dad tells me my brother seemed a lot more 'somber' last time he talked to him, so hopefully he is getting a clue. A friend of mine has contacts at his college she said she would have keep an eye on my brother and try to provide him with some Christian friends if I wanted to give them my brothers phone number. I'm not sure yet if I should do that.
We called the bank and no checks were written form checkbook. My money is safe.
The cars are on the mend! My Mom called my uncles and they came to help. My Uncle R drove his big old six wheeled truck to get the flat bed trailer from my Grandpa and come get my car. They found a station wagon just like mine, only a different year (and different color, my Mom said, "So, do you want green with white or white with green?"), and are getting parts from it (only paid $400 dollars for it). My car needed a new grill (we never found mine, we guess its with the deer), a new hood, a new radiator, a new headlight, and a new steering wheel. My Dad and my Uncle E have been putting it back together and it should be ready by next week. The car that my Mom was T-boned in is out of the shop, and because it was absolutely the other guys fault, after some run around with the insurance company we did not have to pay anything. The last car that broke Monday has a broken timing belt, so we can't fix it until the middle of next week.
Thank you all again for praying for my family. It has helped tons. Things are much better now, but my Aunt and brother (especially my brother, he is very susceptible to peer pressure) can still use prayer.