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 Gentlemen, please take a moment and vote for the Hadley family’s research efforts. The film “Extraordinary Measures” is promoting a contest and will donate $10,000 to fund research for the winner of the contest. You can vote here. (Just click on the link and click “Continue.”)
The family’s inspirational video is here: Hadley Hope
By Nod on January 13th, 2010 | Category: Prayer RequestNib is my smart, cute, funny little two year old girl. She’s also a pint sized munchkin.
Her growth chart is abysmal, with height and weight starting to fall off the bottom of the curve. So she’s headed in to the specialist for an endoscopy to see if there are any upper-GI or digestive issues.
Prayers appreciated.
She nearly choked to death on a little rubber ball yesterday while in the car. --Yikes! That’s going in the trash!
It’s hard to keep all that kind of stuff away from the toddlers in a big family. The older kids have toys with small parts that don’t always get put out of reach. I finally had enough close calls with Blynken’s bead making kit and threw it out.
Life with Nodlings is never dull. Did I mention that prayers are appreciated?
By Rob Kaiser on December 29th, 2009 | Category: Prayer RequestDaren from My Catholic Reflections wrote asking:
Can you post the following on Catholic Dads, I can’t seem to get on with my iPhone:
Prayers please for my parish priest and his family. His brother had a heart attack this weekend and will undergo quad bypass surgery tomorrow. On top of that, his elderly mother was admitted to a local hospital yesterday right before her flight home with pancreatitis. She is in sever pain and in the ICU.
Thanks
By SRMcEvoy on December 13th, 2009 | Category: Prayer RequestI am writing this looking for a Christmas miracle. But let me begin with a story, many years ago when i was a student at Queen’s University, I was not registering to go on a retreat, a friend asked me why. I said I could not afford it. He then rebuked me for not asking for help. He knew I had helped sponsor other students in the past who could not afford retreats as this time I needed help and would not ask. He said by not asking I was committing a sin, the sin of robbing other of the blessing of giving. His words have always stuck with me, and though it is never easy to ask for help and I struggle every time I need to. It is indeed time to ask for help. First and foremost I covet your prayers. We are in serious need or a Christmas miracle.
As many of you know I was off work for 3 years with a shoulder injury. We are still recovering financially from that, and every time we seem to be getting caught up, we get slammed with yet another problem. Each and every time we start getting caught up something happens. This fall we have been hit three times. First We asked for help in August for my last course to finish my University degree. A number of people responded. And we borrowed the money to pay for the course. Then only about half of what people committed came in. Next Andrea lost about half of her income with three weeks notice, then they changed it to 2 weeks without warning. Next our landlord informed us he is moving back into the house and we need to move out March first.
We are in need
By Nod on November 29th, 2009 | Category: Prayer RequestHey all,
My 4 year old, Nub, (who also has Down Syndrome) is having a hernia surgery Monday morning and I sure would appreciate your prayers. This is a complication from his open-heart surgery when he was 1 year old that saved his life.
It’s supposed to be out-patient surgery and No Big Deal, but as a parent you always worry. It’s in God’s hands! Ora pro nobis.
Thanks,
Nod
UPDATE: Surgery was quick (45 minutes) with a fast recovery (1 hour as opposed to 2). We left the hospital around 10:30 am. He was walking around and playing almost normally until a little while ago when the numbing agent given during surgery wore off. Now he is getting a little fussy. Tylenol is all he is cleared to have. We expect him to be cranky the rest of the day. Total recovery in about two weeks.
He is currently at his normal post looking out the window, playing his musical caterpillar. Thanks for all your prayers.
By Will on November 17th, 2009 | Category: Prayer RequestWe get to see baby #2 in all his or her glory. Pray for us, for everything to be OK.
Update: “no abnormalities detected.” It’s a brother!
WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!
By Will on November 2nd, 2009 | Category: Prayer Request…and it’s hard not to be worried, since #1 has Down syndrome.
It is over 99% likely, based on that alone and my wife’s age, that #2 won’t. (I think God wants me to trust Him 100%, not the numbers 99%.) She’s in the middleish part of the “you ought to feel a kick” period (I think), and hasn’t yet. Pray for us.
By Rich on September 20th, 2009 | Category: Parenting, Prayer RequestHomecoming was last night. The youngest two of my five sons looked great. They were well groomed and each had a wonderful young lady to escort. Everything was perfect. Except that the youngest called home in tears early into the evening. Things had changed. One of their classmates (who would have been at the homecoming dance) had been killed a few short hours before in a tragic accident. Another boy was seriously injured in the accident. Here is how the evening was described by the local paper:
School officials planned to break the news to Murphy’s teammates at the dance by pulling them aside. But word of the tragedy had already begun to spread as the dance began, and students instinctively made for the chapel a short walk from the gym on Lorain Avenue at West 30th Street.
Soon, most of the dance crowd had poured into the chapel, the young men in suits, their dates in summer dresses. Many expressed shock. Jesuit priests led them in prayer. A vigil emerged. Crew coach Matt Previts wept to see it.
A great tragedy. A time for prayer and reflection. A time to reinforce this idea that we need to prepare for our deaths in our everyday life. An occasion to remind ourselves and our children that God in His infinite wisdom and mercy may call even the youngest home to Himself at anytime. An opportunity to reorder priorities (yet again) and let the little things that distract us from loving our children fall away.
Please pray for this young man, his family and the injured.
In paradisum
In paradisum deducant te angeli:
in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
By Rob Kaiser on September 6th, 2009 | Category: Prayer RequestPlease pray for fellow Catholic Dad, David Obied.
He is suffering a herniated L4-L5 disc and is in quite a bit of pain.
He is scheduled for microsurgery this Thursday.
Please remember his wife as well, is running everything and taking care of david. his quote: “She is a saint.”
We are all called to help our spouses get into heaven. David, I am glad you are helping your wife toward sainthood, but I will be praying for your recovery.
By Aaron on July 9th, 2009 | Category: Prayer RequestMy wife came home on Monday afternoon. She is still weak and has a long recovery ahead, but I’m glad she is alive and that she’s back with us.
We have not begun to deal with the loss of a second child in three months. We wanted to have a large family. Who knows why we have been blessed to be parents three times over and to lose two of them? Who knows why God would take one of my wife’s fallopian tubes and make it that much harder to get pregnant? Is it to show that HE is the one bringing about the miracle and not us? Is it to show forth HIS glory in the midst of adversity? Something else?
I know that the Lord has a lesson for us, I just wish I knew what that was, and that there was a less painful way to learn it.
Many thanks for your prayers.
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Gentlemen, please take a moment and vote for the Hadley family’s research efforts. The film “Extraordinary Measures” is promoting a contest and will donate $10,000 to fund research for the winner of the contest. You can vote here. (Just click on the link and click “Continue.”)
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