Thank you all so much for your response! You are fast!! You've all given me good thoughts and I am for sure going to ask for one. I know when I get one, I always feel at peace. Thank you again. love donna

Hi Donna Welcome to the board...I don't post to often but I check in all the time. As for getting a blessing..please do. Those Priesthood Blessings are for us at anytime that we need them. And it doesn't have to be for something as serious as surgery..Heavenly Father gave us Priesthood holders to be his voice on the earth to us at all times in our lives. Before I went to see my surgeon for the first time my hubby gave me a blessing and then prior to surgery my hubby and step son gave me a blessing for health..that is when they use the annointed oil. What a wonderful thing to have Heavenly Father speak to me at a time when I needed reasurance and confirmation that what I was doing was ok and then to receive the blessing that I would heal quickly and I did just that. Listen carefully to what the Priesthood holder is saying because that is for you..totally for you. Take care and stay in touch. I know you have a little while to wait but it will go by quickly Have a great day Alfie 280-197-hope to be 150 one of these days.

Hi Brothers & Sisters - just posting to this board for the first time. I didn't even know their was an LDS board!! What a treat. I am from Northern Virginia, and am in a six month process of having surgery. I think it will probably - hopefully - be sometime in August. I am so buzzed for this. I try to read the main board but it moves so fast I have a hard time, plus I read the state board. Like I said, it was a treat to find this one. I'll have to go and read everyone's profile to get acquainted with you. Okay, I have a sort of personal question to ask, maybe you won't mind answering. I am wondering if any of you who have had the surgery had a blessing before? I don't know why, but I just am not sure even though it's surgery. My daughters (adult girls) are insistent that I do. I don't know. My husband is a non member so I would have to ask my home teacher, which is alright, but ???? Wha do you all think? I really haven't mentioned this surgery to anyone in my ward yet. donna

Hey, I know I said I thought this board should be more active...then look at me, I haven't posted in over a month!! Sorry about that. After my surgery I didn't even get on the boards for probably 2 weeks. Then I would just get on and read the posts that sparked my interest from the main board. I hope all is going well in all your lives. My husband is coming back tomorrow after being gone for 2.5 weeks on a training exercise for the Army. I really missed him and will be glad he is home. Two weeks is just enough to miss him but not so long that we start living without him and he comes home and messes up all our routines! It doesn't matter what state our relationship is in before he leaves, I can reassure myself of our love for each other while he is gone. It may take a few weeks, but I always miss him and can't wait for him to get home. Unfortunately, that feeling only lasts a few weeks to, before I'm ready for him to be gone again!! Anyways, I just wanted to pop my head in and say hi to everyone. My surgery went great. No complications and no pain. I was home a day early and out grocery shopping that afternoon. I went to the ward V-day dance at 8 days post-op. I was pretty sore the next morning, but it was worth it. I am down almost 30# in 5 weeks. I've hit a bit of a stall this last week, but I'm not worried. I have read that a lot of people have this. I have started on regular foods, but not yet started with my exercise. Bad me!! Wishing you all a happy Sabbath Day!!! Bren

It seems like the heartache never ends. In reading the posts from others like yourself, Sherrie, Jonathan and others it helps to know I'm not the only going through major challenges and heartaches. Most of you know that we lost our job on January 1st. We have held the county contract to supply ambulance coverage for our county for over 18 years. We were blindsided when for no reason our contract was suddenly terminated on January 1st without any explanation. Since we have made it known that we are still planning on responding to ambulance calls, our county promptly that same day passed a "flow control" ordinance forbidding us to respond to any ambulance call which didn't specifically request us by name. They have even refused us use of the 911 phone dispatch. If we don't abide by the flow control ordinance than we face up to 6 months in jail as well as a $300 fine per incident. The county commissioners wouldn't give us a reason for the termination. The newspaper got wind of it and I learned more from reading the newspaper article than I ever learned from the commissioners. The commissioners claim they met together about the ambulance 8-10 times in the past year. We were never advised of any of these meetings. Today in a general conversation with someone who was running for county commissioner and lost the election, my husband was told that our full time employee approached this commissioner elect last May and tried to talk him into changing the ambulance service and putting him in charge of it. This has confirmed something we have suspected, our supposedly "loyal" employee has been stabbing us in the back. HE has known about all these commissioner meetings and has even initiated them and hasn't told us about any of them. He has absolutely stabbed us in the back. The commissioners are very enamered(sp) with this man and think he can do no wrong. The commissioners won't even speak to us anymore about anything. I know it's wrong to hate. I know that we are commanded to forgive everyone and to pray for our enemies. This is a hard concept. I'm trying very hard to forgive. I include this man and well as the commissioners in my prayers each morning and evening. I guess I'm a hypocrite because in one breath I pray for the softening of their hearts and then after my prayers are over I wish that they would crash and burn. I'll still have to work on that principle of forgiveness. I'm sure I'm undoing all the good that I'm doing in my prayers. Thanks for letting me vent. (At least I'm keeping my mouth and thoughts clean - at least for now) Melody