Dennis: I am very sorry to hear about your mother's recurring serious illness, and want you to know that you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.
We wish you, your mother, and the rest of your family much strength to get through this very difficult time.
Stuart
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Your Mom, you, and your family are in my prayers. I know how hard it is on a family to watch a loved one go through an illness. Draw as much love and strength from each other as possible and know that you are never alone.
I will pray for your Mom and the rest of your family tonight. It is the most beautiful thing in the world to see a family's love, yet with love comes heartbreak when things go wrong. Keep loving. Your love for your Mom shows us what kind of person you are and also shows us how her love for you enabled it all. May God bless you all now. John
Dennis, I'm so hopeful that the powers that be see your mother and you through your mutual time of need. All our prayers are with you, no matter by what name we may call God individually. I hope that you and your family may find strength in the knowing that the hearts and prayers of many stand behind you and yours.
mojo
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<< <i>My mother was diagnosed with Leukemia 7 years ago. I was 29. We were told that we would lose her. Her first round of chemo therapy did not work. They put her back in. The second round did not work either. This time they told her that chemo would not work and that she should consider taking transfusions at home with antibiotics and just go in peace. My Mom is an Italian immigrant and to say that she is a fighter is an extreme understatement. She said that she would beat this. We searched for a bone marrow donner, but the national bone marrow registry is limited to younger people (under 35 I think). By this time she was 62 years young. We contacted our relatives in Italy, specifically her sisters, as they were the most likely matches. They did not match. The doctors suggested an experimental treatment at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. We accept the chance and my Mom went through an excruciating treatment for 9 months. I took her to all of her appointments. She was too weak to walk and I carried her in and out of the car. By this time she only weighed 100 pounds. Each time I would have to inject her with various drugs prior to treatment in our hotel room. Though barely able to utter words, she always found the strength to give us comfort in knowing that she would be okay and that we not worry. She also never forgot to beg us to eat. I remember the doctor, Dr. Umberti, telling me that the odds of her surviving were 10% within 30 days, and that only a few people who have had the treatment have made it past 2 years. She made it. She defied the odds and the doctors were amazed.
We have had a wonderful life for the past few years. My brother bought her 2 beautiful Persian kittens after she returned home and they have been her pride and joy. We have been so thankful. The Christmas holidays together. The cups of coffee that we have shared....the laughs...the tears. So thankful to GOD.
We just learned yesterday that her leukemia has returned. She confided that she knew 8 months ago, but did not want to tell us. She felt weak again. She bruised too easily. Now the doctor has suggested that she stay home and take transfusion and he gave her up to 4 months to live. He does not want to give her chemo again as he thinks she is too old. Today, at the doctor's office, she told him that if she has a chance, she will risk the chemo and fight until the end. A true Italian. Una testa dura. Prego a Dio per la mia Mamma.
I ask of all of the kind people on this forum to pray with us as we continue the fight. Pray for my Mom, who is one of the kindest people on the face of this earth. She is the kind of person who cries when she sees a dead animal on the side of the road, or a sad story on the news. She literally cries. She would share her last piece of bread with a hungry person. She's a saint in my eyes. I don't know how I can go on without her, other than I have a beautiful gift from GOD; and wonderful 6 year old son and a loving wife by me that I must be strong for. I pray that my Mom will once again beat this cancer and we will have more wonderful years together. But I ask for you prayers.....please. >>
To all the responses to this important thread, I say "Here, here!!" I have asked for and received prayers for both of my parents, both of whom were given very dire diagnoses ( the pulmonologist looked my mother and I straight in the face and said my Dad would never be coming home again!)...but they're both still here and with clean bills of health. ( It was a long dismal Spring, but Dad's been home for 6 weeks and looks better than when he was admitted). I read an article a few months back that compared various organisms (from petri dish cultures to plants to family pets to relatives & friends) in 2 groups - one group (the control) was not prayed for, the other group was, and sure enough, EVERY living thing in the 2nd group showed marked signs of improvement over time than the control group. Prayer works, and after my personal experiences, I am a firm believer that the more involved, the more effective the results...so let's all raise our voices! God bless you and your Mom's great spirit to not give up....miracles happen every single day - they walk into my drugstore and greet me, and many of them helped me through the past year.
Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on Earth to be young at heart? And as rich as you are, it's much better by far, to be young at heart!
<< <i>Dear Lord: We pray that you would look over this family in their time of great strife and anxiety. We ask in your most kindest of ways that you would allow this woman to be in full peace with her demise and that she not have to endure any more than You, as deemed would allow such a gracious and kind person to be up against. Dear Lord, we also pray that your most precious gift of life coincide with the greatest gift of eternity with thee and that this family is more strengthened by having to dealt with the selfishness that you, Lord, know so well we all have. God, please allow this woman's legacy retain all of the grandure she was rewarded with in life as we know her earthly presence has contributed to your kingdom and we pray that her grace bestow this family with all they need to have to be comforted during these troublesome times. These things we pray dear God, in you son Jesus Christs' name. Amen. >>
I'm saddened to read about your mother's apparent relapse. Please be strong for her as it may comfort her, regardless of the outcome.
May I ask what type of leukemia (AML, ALL, CML, etc) your mother has been diagnosed with? The reason being is that I am not familiar with an age limit imposed by the National Marrow Donor Program. Might it have been a limit imposed by the regional transplant center because of their technical skill?
May your god bless and keep your mother and your family.
I lost my father March of this year after a brief battle with Alzheimers. I say brief in that it was only about a year from diagnosis to laying him to rest. After he was diagnosed he ask if I would vacation with him and my step-mom at Myrtle Beach. That was May 2003. He was always the comedian and even with the "tone" of knowing his disease was progressively taking him from us. Picture of my father from Myrtle Beach 2003 He had all of us laughing to the point our sides hurt the first 4 days. He and my step-mom left early and let us stay at the condo the remainder of the vacation. That was the last time I saw him until the funeral as he lived in Georgia and I in Mississippi. Just 2 months before his death the disease had a horrible grip on him and he got it in his mind to leave my step-mom and come and live with me. I prepared a room for him, but he never made it. He became lost on the trip and wound up at a friend of his house only 12 miles from his home. I talked with him on the phone a few times those last months, one of those conversations he told me he loved me. It was the only time he ever verbally said it to me and it confirmed in my mind his days were getting much fewer. Our last phone conversation he was incoherent and I couldn't understand a thing he said and he hung up. The next morning he was admitted to the hospital, 3 days later a nursing home. When I heard he was placed in there I knew it would only be a few days. It wasn't, it was only 2. It's been 5 months and I still catch myself picking up the phone to call him and tell him something funny that has happened to me. I made a great financial sacrfice in order to make that trip to Myrtle Beach but I will be forever thankful that I did as it made his passing much easier on me.
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It's truly funny, no make that truly sad, that people in this day and age are so wrapped up in their own little world that they refuse to try and teach someone else the correct or accepted way of doing things.
Not much I can add, except my thoughts and prayers are with you and your mom. I might add that you are blessed to have such a close relationship with your mother.
Jeff
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We wish you, your mother, and the rest of your family much strength to get through this very difficult time.
Stuart
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Your Mom, you, and your family are in my prayers. I know how hard it is on a family to watch a loved one go through an illness. Draw as much love and strength from each other as possible and know that you are never alone.
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You and your family are in our prayers. We hope she can beat it again.
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<< <i>My mother was diagnosed with Leukemia 7 years ago. I was 29. We were told that we would lose her. Her first round of chemo therapy did not work. They put her back in. The second round did not work either. This time they told her that chemo would not work and that she should consider taking transfusions at home with antibiotics and just go in peace. My Mom is an Italian immigrant and to say that she is a fighter is an extreme understatement. She said that she would beat this. We searched for a bone marrow donner, but the national bone marrow registry is limited to younger people (under 35 I think). By this time she was 62 years young. We contacted our relatives in Italy, specifically her sisters, as they were the most likely matches. They did not match. The doctors suggested an experimental treatment at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. We accept the chance and my Mom went through an excruciating treatment for 9 months. I took her to all of her appointments. She was too weak to walk and I carried her in and out of the car. By this time she only weighed 100 pounds. Each time I would have to inject her with various drugs prior to treatment in our hotel room. Though barely able to utter words, she always found the strength to give us comfort in knowing that she would be okay and that we not worry. She also never forgot to beg us to eat. I remember the doctor, Dr. Umberti, telling me that the odds of her surviving were 10% within 30 days, and that only a few people who have had the treatment have made it past 2 years. She made it. She defied the odds and the doctors were amazed.
We have had a wonderful life for the past few years. My brother bought her 2 beautiful Persian kittens after she returned home and they have been her pride and joy. We have been so thankful. The Christmas holidays together. The cups of coffee that we have shared....the laughs...the tears. So thankful to GOD.
We just learned yesterday that her leukemia has returned. She confided that she knew 8 months ago, but did not want to tell us. She felt weak again. She bruised too easily. Now the doctor has suggested that she stay home and take transfusion and he gave her up to 4 months to live. He does not want to give her chemo again as he thinks she is too old. Today, at the doctor's office, she told him that if she has a chance, she will risk the chemo and fight until the end. A true Italian. Una testa dura. Prego a Dio per la mia Mamma.
I ask of all of the kind people on this forum to pray with us as we continue the fight. Pray for my Mom, who is one of the kindest people on the face of this earth. She is the kind of person who cries when she sees a dead animal on the side of the road, or a sad story on the news. She literally cries. She would share her last piece of bread with a hungry person. She's a saint in my eyes. I don't know how I can go on without her, other than I have a beautiful gift from GOD; and wonderful 6 year old son and a loving wife by me that I must be strong for. I pray that my Mom will once again beat this cancer and we will have more wonderful years together. But I ask for you prayers.....please. >>
every treasure on Earth
to be young at heart?
And as rich as you are,
it's much better by far,
to be young at heart!
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<< <i>Dear Lord:
We pray that you would look over this family in their time of great strife and anxiety. We ask in your most kindest of ways that you would allow this woman to be in full peace with her demise and that she not have to endure any more than You, as deemed would allow such a gracious and kind person to be up against.
Dear Lord, we also pray that your most precious gift of life coincide with the greatest gift of eternity with thee and that this family is more strengthened by having to dealt with the selfishness that you, Lord, know so well we all have. God, please allow this woman's legacy retain all of the grandure she was rewarded with in life as we know her earthly presence has contributed to your kingdom and we pray that her grace bestow this family with all they need to have to be comforted during these troublesome times. These things we pray dear God, in you son Jesus Christs' name. Amen. >>
In Jesus's name Heavenly Father...
Amen..... >>
AMEN
My thoughts are with you and all your family.
Allen
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She is also on my prayer list.
Steve
May I ask what type of leukemia (AML, ALL, CML, etc) your mother has been diagnosed with? The reason being is that I am not familiar with an age limit imposed by the National Marrow Donor Program. Might it have been a limit imposed by the regional transplant center because of their technical skill?
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I lost my father March of this year after a brief battle with Alzheimers. I say brief in that it was only about a year from diagnosis to laying him to rest. After he was diagnosed he ask if I would vacation with him and my step-mom at Myrtle Beach. That was May 2003. He was always the comedian and even with the "tone" of knowing his disease was progressively taking him from us. Picture of my father from Myrtle Beach 2003 He had all of us laughing to the point our sides hurt the first 4 days. He and my step-mom left early and let us stay at the condo the remainder of the vacation. That was the last time I saw him until the funeral as he lived in Georgia and I in Mississippi. Just 2 months before his death the disease had a horrible grip on him and he got it in his mind to leave my step-mom and come and live with me. I prepared a room for him, but he never made it. He became lost on the trip and wound up at a friend of his house only 12 miles from his home. I talked with him on the phone a few times those last months, one of those conversations he told me he loved me. It was the only time he ever verbally said it to me and it confirmed in my mind his days were getting much fewer. Our last phone conversation he was incoherent and I couldn't understand a thing he said and he hung up. The next morning he was admitted to the hospital, 3 days later a nursing home. When I heard he was placed in there I knew it would only be a few days. It wasn't, it was only 2. It's been 5 months and I still catch myself picking up the phone to call him and tell him something funny that has happened to me. I made a great financial sacrfice in order to make that trip to Myrtle Beach but I will be forever thankful that I did as it made his passing much easier on me.
USMC Veteran 1981-1992
Cold War Veteran
It's truly funny, no make that truly sad, that people in this day and age are so wrapped up in their own little world that they refuse to try and teach someone else the correct or accepted way of doing things.
Not much I can add, except my thoughts and prayers are with you and your mom. I might add that you are blessed to have such a close relationship with your mother.
Jeff
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."