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I'm Linda and I participated in chats here as I was working to get ready for my surgery. In December 2008, I had a coronary artery stent placed when it was found my artery was 95% blocked.
In August this year I was working towards getting ready for a December, 2009 surgery date. Unfortunately, the 24th of August, I had to have yet another coronary stent placed. This was due to another blockage, this time 90% blockage, in front of the stent. The doctors tell me it was due to scar tissue.
This worries me tho now as it happend once, it can happen again. Now I can't have surgery until August 2010 at the earliest.
I was working out and had lost 34 lbs, but now am in cardiac rehab and the weight loss has come to a grinding hault as I'm not allowed yet to work out as I was working.
I hope this doesn't sound like a 'woe is me" post, because it's not. I am VERY grateful to once again slip out of the grim reaper's grip.
I am requesting prayers, lots of them for me. I am struggling emotionally with all of this as I did everything I was suppose to....and still am not better. So frustrating! Please pray for clarity of mind and patience for me as I struggle thru this 10 week stint of cardiac rehab again. If I can lose and keep the weight off myself, that would be grand, but I've done this so many times before, I can't see how that will be.
I don't normally ask for prayers for myself. yet, I know this is the first thing I need to do, and the rest will fall into place.
Thank you all so much!
Now...I'm off to read about what you all have been doing!
Linda
I'm Linda and I participated in chats here as I was working to get ready for my surgery. In December 2008, I had a coronary artery stent placed when it was found my artery was 95% blocked.
In August this year I was working towards getting ready for a December, 2009 surgery date. Unfortunately, the 24th of August, I had to have yet another coronary stent placed. This was due to another blockage, this time 90% blockage, in front of the stent. The doctors tell me it was due to scar tissue.
This worries me tho now as it happend once, it can happen again. Now I can't have surgery until August 2010 at the earliest.
I was working out and had lost 34 lbs, but now am in cardiac rehab and the weight loss has come to a grinding hault as I'm not allowed yet to work out as I was working.
I hope this doesn't sound like a 'woe is me" post, because it's not. I am VERY grateful to once again slip out of the grim reaper's grip.
I am requesting prayers, lots of them for me. I am struggling emotionally with all of this as I did everything I was suppose to....and still am not better. So frustrating! Please pray for clarity of mind and patience for me as I struggle thru this 10 week stint of cardiac rehab again. If I can lose and keep the weight off myself, that would be grand, but I've done this so many times before, I can't see how that will be.
I don't normally ask for prayers for myself. yet, I know this is the first thing I need to do, and the rest will fall into place.
Thank you all so much!
Now...I'm off to read about what you all have been doing!
Linda
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." ..... MarkTwain
All you need to do is ask on this site and you'll have oodles of prayers going up for you. You've had a rough road, but you're still here to talk about it thank god. Putting things off for a while doesn't mean it's not going to happen. If you're meant to have gastric by-pass you will. Maybe later than sooner, but your date will come, as most of ours have. The people waiting will see their surgery date come soon enough.
I certainly know how hard it is to wait, but we've all gone through it. You've got to feel a sense of accomplishment in that you've lost 34# so far. That's great. Just take it one day at a time.
Praying for patience and peace and healing for you.
Jan
I certainly know how hard it is to wait, but we've all gone through it. You've got to feel a sense of accomplishment in that you've lost 34# so far. That's great. Just take it one day at a time.
Praying for patience and peace and healing for you.
Jan
Hi Jan
Funny thing....when I read your posting I started to cry. I have had a rough road of it, but I've always been the strong one in the family and I have attempted to pretend it hasn't been hard on me, but it has.
I have changed so much in my life over the past 10 months and I feel like I"m not getting anywhere sometimes. I have a little pity part once in awhile and then I pick myself up off the shower floor (for women do for some reason cry in that shower!) and keep on , keeping on!
One day at a time. Good advice! I've given it myself before, but somehow forgot it.
Thanks for your post and prayers!
Linda
Funny thing....when I read your posting I started to cry. I have had a rough road of it, but I've always been the strong one in the family and I have attempted to pretend it hasn't been hard on me, but it has.
I have changed so much in my life over the past 10 months and I feel like I"m not getting anywhere sometimes. I have a little pity part once in awhile and then I pick myself up off the shower floor (for women do for some reason cry in that shower!) and keep on , keeping on!
One day at a time. Good advice! I've given it myself before, but somehow forgot it.
Thanks for your post and prayers!
Linda
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." ..... MarkTwain
Linda, there is nothing wrong with asking for prayers for yourself. I just wanted to let you know that you never need to ask me twice for them...I am always right there waiting to add someone to my prayer list. I am just a bit sad that it seems like the list is getting longer and I think it should be getting smaller.
Your time will come in it's time. Just remember that it isn't always in our time..and that is a hard one to live with when we want it so badly.
I will keep you in my prayers and I know that you will get what you want but it will be in God's time and not ours. He has no calendars or watches.
Just put one foot in front of the other and keep on walking...you will get to your destination one step at a time.
Your time will come in it's time. Just remember that it isn't always in our time..and that is a hard one to live with when we want it so badly.
I will keep you in my prayers and I know that you will get what you want but it will be in God's time and not ours. He has no calendars or watches.
Just put one foot in front of the other and keep on walking...you will get to your destination one step at a time.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Thanks, Brenda.
I knew coming here was the right thing to do. I've been putting it off because I'd been away so long, but you folks here truly understand what it feels like to want and need this surgery so much and have it snatched away from you for various reasons.
I promise to listen to all of you and not be a stranger. One foot in front of the other... I can do that. :) Thank you for your prayers..and for understanding me.
Linda
I knew coming here was the right thing to do. I've been putting it off because I'd been away so long, but you folks here truly understand what it feels like to want and need this surgery so much and have it snatched away from you for various reasons.
I promise to listen to all of you and not be a stranger. One foot in front of the other... I can do that. :) Thank you for your prayers..and for understanding me.
Linda
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." ..... MarkTwain
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