This is the
latest report I received from my daughter-in-law, Sharon about her mom and
sister. Please continue to pray for her and thank you to all of you who
prayed. The enemy is defeated and Jesus is the victor.
Much love,
Jerry & Arliss
*************
I just wanted to let you all know that my sister is doing better from
what I've been told. She is still in the hospital and heavily medicated
to help control the pain but it seems they are saying now that at least there
is no infection, her body is just reacting in a way that they call surgical
trauma (seeing how she had 3 surgeries opening her stomach completely up all
within a few weeks time). And the inflamed pancreas is just a result of
this surgical trauma and it should just go away with time. Still not sure
why she got sick and ended up dehydrated but at least she seems to be on the
mend. Thank you soooooooooooo very much for all of the prayers! Please keep praying. It is a very
trying time for her and her family.
I've shared a lot of the encouraging emails that have been
sent with my mom and she says thank you!
I am so thankful to have such wonderful friends and
family, you are all such a blessing, I love you!
Thank you so much for praying
for my mom and sister!
Love,
Sharon
From: Jerry &
Arliss Cooney [mailto:hsm@macnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
1:10 PM
Subject: FW: Please Pray!!!!!!!!
Please lift
this situation up in prayer.
Sharon, Nathan’s wife, just sent us this cry for prayers. We will
keep you posted as soon as we find out any more. Satan is on the warpath
and he has no grounds.
Jerry &
Arliss
From:
Sharon Cooney
[mailto:sharoncooney@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007
2:06 PM
To:
Atsuko
Cooney
; Stephen and
Pasha Cooney
;
Steve & April Macdonald; George and Jeanette Ehara; Craig and Ericka
Scarbrough; Kim and Sabino Arredondo; Jen Wieber; Steve & Melissa Barela;
Chelsea Drake;
Heather Cooney
;
Cooney, Damien; Dan & Julie Obrien; Dad & Mom Cooney; Lori Gammon;
Gerber, Rachael; Jonie McCrory; Katie Jennings; Jan Peters; Keri Swan;
Kristin Cooney
; Kevin Cooney; Katrina Kropf; Kara
Kropf; Stephanie Lasater; Marnie Boyenger; Jenny; Aunt Pat; Suzanne Porterfield
Subject: Please Pray!!!!!!!!
I can't think of a short way to tell
you this so here it goes. It's alot of information in as short of a way as I
can put it all.
Please pray for my sister, JoEllen and for my mom.
My sister is back in the hospital.
Two years ago next month my sister ended up with what we thought was the flu to start with. She was almost 8 months pregnant at the time.
It turned worse and she was sick for more than a week and ended up very
dehydrated. She ended up in the hospital for the first time. She
ended up staying there for almost a month. They never could decide what
to diagnose her with, it wasn't just dehydration once she got there and they saw
all of her symptoms (which I won't go into detail with as they are pretty
gross). It was either crones disease or ulceritis colitis (sp??).
They were finally able to get her
problems under control and send her home two weeks before
Christmas 2005. She was home for Christmas but ended up back in the
hospital right after the New Year 2006.
She ended up staying for almost two months this time and was released a week
before she went back in at the end of
February to have her baby boy. Who by the wonderful grace of God was born healthy and strong!
She stayed in the hospital almost a week after he was born and she went back
home. She was able to stay home for five months but ended up back in the
hospital 6 months later again for what they finally decided was ulcertise
(sp??) colitis. She stayed for almost a month again. After
that she has been home from the hospital with at least weekly visits for
treatments and check ups and tests.
Now last month (October 2007) a
little over a year later they finally decided she needed to have her large
intestine removed. She had that surgery and a few days afterwards they
discovered something they did wasn't quite right so they took her back in for
surgery again (before she ever even made it home) and repaired the problem but
also found another problem while they were in there (again sparing you the
details, trust me they aren't pretty). Then two weeks later she got to go
home. Only to turn around and end up in the hospital two days
later. They took her in for surgery again. She then stayed in the
hospital for almost another two weeks. She was home for a little over a
week and I received a call from my mom today saying they took her back into the
hospital last night. She somehow has ended up severely dehydrated and now
has an inflamed pancreas from what they call a 'superbug' and some
infection that is causing the inflamed pancreas and they are having
trouble controlling her pain due to her dehydration. And for some reason
her body even though she's had iv's trying to hydrate her for almost 24 hrs she
isn't hydrating.
My heart is just breaking for
her. She has been away from her husband and little boy
now for almost two months (just this time) and it's breaking her
heart. Along with all of the physical pain she has been going through,
she is really struggling. She is a
christian but is struggling so much right now. Please pray for
a miracle for her!
And my mom......... my sweet
mom...... My heart is breaking for her too.
In June of 2002 her husband, my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer
and went home to be with the Lord two months later August
of 2002, it was very fast and a hard loss for us all, ESPECIALLY my mom. There are five of
us children. My mom then moved in with her parents (all of us kids are
grown, my little sister is the baby of the family) as her mom (my grandma)
was struggling with emphysema and needed in home care. So my mom was
working full time at a bakery and would go to work at 3:00 in the morning and
be home before lunch time to take care of grandma (and grandpa who was having
the beginning symptoms of Alzheimer's). Grandma went home to be with
the Lord one year and one month after my dad in September
2003. Mom stayed living with her dad and working full time and taking
care of her dad until March of 2006 when grandpa went home to be with the
Lord. Then 8 months later was when my sister was hospitalized for the
first time and you know the rest of the story from the paragraph above about my
sister. My mom is still working full time and is either at my sisters
house almost everyday or running my sister to one of her MANY doctors appointments. Or staying
with her at the hospital if that's where my sister is. My mom is a saint
and will do anything for her family as you can tell. I just pray that the
Lord will sustain her and give her health and encouragement. And peace
through all of this that only He can fill her with.
Please, please, please pray for my mom
and sister!