Hi all. Just wanted to thank everyone for the continued prayers and words of wisdom. Y'all are really helping me. Today I took a "mental health day" and slept in late, then went out shopping with said family member. Had a lot of fun. She's not worried at all (she says), and frankly it's rubbing a little off on me. And y'all are right, nothing I can do now other than pray while we wait for the testing and later the results. Might as well get on with life as normal. It's hard though. I hate doctors on a good day, so anything medical makes me nervous, let alone something like this. The regular doctor had told her before the testing started that she thought my family member was fine, so I'm trying to remember that. It's just scary.
Mr. Man, prayers to your friends and you and yours. I am so very sorry. If there's anything I can do beyond prayer, please let me know.
So glad you enjoyed them-aren't they easy? Last night was pumpkin bread night-the house smelled SOOO good.
Mr Man-I'm praying for you and your friends. DH and I truly understand how you feel about the situation. We were unable to have children, and after much struggle accepted it as God's will for us to be childless. Lots of people recommended in-vitro and adoption-and we prayed a LOT about both those options. We both came away with the message that God had a plan for us and by doing something outside of His plan we were trying to force His hand. I'm not saying that's true for everyone-it's just where we felt God led us. Because we don't have children, we have more free time to volunteer, more money to donate and we're usually available on short notice if anyone in the Church needs help. I can't tell you how many times we've been called by Pastor to run to someone's house and babysit for little ones, help out an older person when a spouse goes into the hospital...things like that.
It's hard sometimes, but it is the cross God has given us to carry and we believe there is a reason.
Welcome, mkingdomlvr! Sorry I didn't greet you yesterday, I was sort of out of it. I'm sorry you weren't able to have children, but I admire the way you turned it into something positive, volunteering, giving, and so on. I try to think something good can always come out of something bad. Once I'm time-wise removed enough from a situation, I usually see that's the case in my own life too.
I'm too anal retentive to read backwards. Must.read.things.in.order.
That should be a tag!
Hope you don't mind me posting this but I can share a perspective on this.
Dh is a high risk OB/GYN and he has run into this just a few times in his practice. Sometimes it works out just fine but sometimes it is problematic.
For example, he had a patient that agree to carry a pregnancy for her sister, got implanted with her sisters 5 eggs, all "took". The patient who was the surrogate did not want to carry all 5 as that would put her health at risk but the sister she was having them for was in total disagreement. Until the patient had the babies, she had full rights to make all the medical decisions regardless of what her sister wanted. The patient decided on elective reduction to 2. The sister was enraged and angry at everyone involved (patient, Patient's dh, all the doc's involved etc.) and let it be known.
Wow. I hope their family can heal and get along again some day. How terribly sad.
I hope so, too. I have prayed about it and I've felt no go ahead but neither have I felt a stirring not to do so. So we'll just have to see.
I keep thinking about how in the Bible they used handmaidens and concubines to give the (primary) wife children when she was unable to have them. I don't think any of them were ever punished for doing so.
I know what it's like to want a child. It took us awhile to conceive our first and we lost her at 10 weeks gestation. We then took a break of 6 months and started trying again.
I "knew" when I'd get pregnant because God told me. In a dream, not audibly.
I would just like to give someone the chance to have a child; generally when someone does egg donors that's their last chance.
It is an interesting thing to think about. I've never personally given it any thought really, but sitting here now, I don't think I could do it. I would, in my heart, feel like it was my child, and like something would always be missing from my life. The people who can though are giving an amazing gift to someone, though.
We weren't thrilled when McCain was picked, either. Not really sure anyone here was. He's too much of a RINO.
He's a great guy, with a good sense of humor AND a strong foundation in Biblical principles. Hey, Fred Thompson ran after being on Law and Order-why couldn't Mike run after being on Fox!
Huckabee's problem will be that the opposition would have hours worth of talk show footage to pour through and use against him, possibly. Whereas Thompson didn't have the same situation in that regard since L&O was a fictional show.
Ok guys, I'm just a heathen Lutheran, and my religion is very private. I just don't feel the desire to really discuss it, and I know that I'm not a model Christian. This might not be a popular opinion, but I don't want a preacher in the top spot. I want a leader who respects people's different beliefs. I don't mind one who has a faith of their own, but I am a believer in free will. Let people choose their own path, but I don't think the government should try to influence it's citizens in one direction over another. Sorry, but I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
I wouldn't mind having a preacher if he kept freedom of religion. I know very few pastors (read: one, maybe two, but they're jerks anyway) who would take away someone's freewill when it comes to spirituality. If God gave us freewill who are we to take it away? I think most pastors, including Huckabee, gets that.
I would too! Like I said, no President, no matter how God fearing he/she is, will likely change the First Amendment.
The only atheists I've ever come in contact with seem like pretty angry folks to me. I mean, there was that fellow that wrote the book last year-he was on TV a few times and he seemed to be a pretty miserable person. I guess they can follow a moral code, but without God-what do they base it on? A Christian tries to do what's right because they're trying to follow the example of Christ. If you don't have that foundation, what would the reasoning be?
Here's my take on this. I'll preface it though with the statement that I don't like Huckabee at all for a lot of reasons beyond this topic, in the interest of full disclosure.
I don't mind a preacher in the top spot; I don't think being a preacher and respecting different beliefs are incompatible. I don't, however, think Huckabee is someone who fits that bill. I didn't like his comment about rewriting the Constitution to fit God's standards. Now, I am a Southern Baptist like he is. Been a Christian my entire life. This issue is mostly separate from my other disagreements with him. But I look at it from the point of view of how would I like it if one day down the road our President came along and said based on that precedent, he or she wanted to go back and rewrite the Constitution again, but this time to be in line with the Koran. I wouldn't particularly like that, to say the least. Just because Christianity is the majority religion in this country now doesn't mean it always be. So while I would agree with laws based on Christianity now, later on down the road if it was changed to another religion as the majority, I wouldn't like that. I try to put myself in others' shoes. I don't like establishing a precedent, is what I'm trying to say. So I'm very leery of any laws or politicians who want to push one religion over another. I'm also leery of those who want to squash all religion out of everything.
Ours was due Oct 17th, 2006. That's my DSis' birthday and DH's grandpa's birthday. My nephew was born 8 days after my baby was due (same year) on Oct. 25th so even his birthday is bittersweet for me.
My DSis and I were pregnant at the same time both times. I was ahead the first time, she was a trimester ahead this last time. My niece turned one year Oct 9th (yes, she has irish twins!) and my son will be one January 24th.
This is totally OT, but someone keeps calling me from an unlisted number in Missouri. I don't know anyone from Missouri. I'm assuming it's a wrong number, but I'm getting a wee bit tired of seeing Missouri on the caller ID.
Gotta do it again.
I gained 35 lbs during pregnancy but I'm now 12 lbs below pre-pg weight but I'm still too heavy. 
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