I had fully intended to make use of the summer to write my heart out.  But, life gets in the way of writing, sometimes.  I have never had a month of deadlines as April 2012.  It seemed that I was always pounding away at the keyboard of my computer until my fingers and wrists were sore!

Health issues: the kids’ and my husband’s and now, my mom.

For those of you out there who have heard that my mom was rushed to the hospital, yes, it’s true.  She had an obstructed colon: her colon got caught in the remains of her tubal ligation.  She was unable to move her bowels and it had to be surgically repaired. She was in the ICU for the better part of two weeks.  She was cleared to leave the ICU and had actually left the ICU and stayed in a regular room, but, she had respiratory distress and she had to be brought again into the ICU early this morning.

To those wondering if you can visit: perhaps not.  She is prone to infection.  Only relatives and close family friends (who are accompanied by relatives) are allowed to see her.  And you have to wear a gown and a mask.  You cannot talk to her as she has been hooked up to a ventilator.  Please understand.

What you can do for her is to pray for the Lord to work his perfect will for her: her body is terribly tired of fighting but I do not know if she wants to go home to be with the Lord.  I know my father wants her to be healed and to remain here with us.  So, that issue in itself needs to be resolved by prayer and surrender to God’s perfect will.

Please pray for my mom.