- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances SJPP to SdC Oct/Nov 2015
Frances Burgos toSdC March/April 2016
W. Highland Way August 2016
Camino Somewhere September 2017
Please: if you or your church or family routinely prayers, I am requesting prayers for S and L. God will hear your prayers, and he won't mind the initial. I think it would be wrong to use their names.
Here's the narrative...
S's favorite movie has always been "The Way," and years ago, she became obsessed with it. She wanted to do the Camino, but health would never allow.
Yesterday, my husband and I went to visit Sy. Sy, 57 years old, has been a friend of mine since we were 13. She's had a bad heart for about a decade, owing to an infection. About a month ago, Sy's heart began to die.
She's considered morbidly obese--and weighed about 300 pounds when she went into the hospital. With diabetes II, she's struggled for years, and I'm not one to judge, but had tried to help her with some better choices. She's one of those ladies who is "large and in charge," and I love her as she is.
Sy has been in the cardiac part of a facility for about seven weeks. She's now lost about 30 pounds, and if she can lose 40 more, she will go on a transplant list. Currently, she has an apparatus implanted in her chest (a vac something??) that pumps the blood, and requires great care.
When we went in to see Sy, there stood an individual who was so unusual that I immediately just stopped and stared. It was odd for me: I'm a high school teacher, and am well-accustomed to unusual people, but I was expecting to see Sy, so I was taken aback. This young lady---was she the nurse? what was her role? Oh....a patient. I see.
She was so absolutely alabaster, with dark, dark circles. That was when I realized she was holding onto a pole that held her IV drip medications. When she said hello, and Sy introduced her, her voice was small and soft, like autumn leaves just lifted suddenly by the wind. After J and I visited Sy, we went next door to L's "suite". Born with an enlarged heart, she had finally, at the age of about 25, gotten a heart transplant. Here she is, at 27, in a bad place. Her body is rejecting the implant that she got in 2013.
L paints beautifully, and art is propped around her room. Her doctor shows me a cell phone photo of L in her band--a punk rock band. In the photo, she is platinum blonde with red lipstick and beautiful eyes. She wears a mini dress and has a guitar on her back. She is beautiful. Now, she lets me comb her newly-washed hair.
L. read me a beautiful chapter of her novel. She's writing about her experiences. She writes so well, and I am struck by her use of language. As an english teacher, I notice that stuff. She also seasons her words with the word "auspicious," and I laughingly mention that it was one of the vocabulary words for the high school students I teach.
I was so moved by the resilience of Sy, 57 years old, and longing to change and live. And then there was L. A very young adult--a twin sister, whose sister is married and pregnant. Please pray for them. Thank you.
Here's the narrative...
S's favorite movie has always been "The Way," and years ago, she became obsessed with it. She wanted to do the Camino, but health would never allow.
Yesterday, my husband and I went to visit Sy. Sy, 57 years old, has been a friend of mine since we were 13. She's had a bad heart for about a decade, owing to an infection. About a month ago, Sy's heart began to die.
She's considered morbidly obese--and weighed about 300 pounds when she went into the hospital. With diabetes II, she's struggled for years, and I'm not one to judge, but had tried to help her with some better choices. She's one of those ladies who is "large and in charge," and I love her as she is.
Sy has been in the cardiac part of a facility for about seven weeks. She's now lost about 30 pounds, and if she can lose 40 more, she will go on a transplant list. Currently, she has an apparatus implanted in her chest (a vac something??) that pumps the blood, and requires great care.
When we went in to see Sy, there stood an individual who was so unusual that I immediately just stopped and stared. It was odd for me: I'm a high school teacher, and am well-accustomed to unusual people, but I was expecting to see Sy, so I was taken aback. This young lady---was she the nurse? what was her role? Oh....a patient. I see.
She was so absolutely alabaster, with dark, dark circles. That was when I realized she was holding onto a pole that held her IV drip medications. When she said hello, and Sy introduced her, her voice was small and soft, like autumn leaves just lifted suddenly by the wind. After J and I visited Sy, we went next door to L's "suite". Born with an enlarged heart, she had finally, at the age of about 25, gotten a heart transplant. Here she is, at 27, in a bad place. Her body is rejecting the implant that she got in 2013.
L paints beautifully, and art is propped around her room. Her doctor shows me a cell phone photo of L in her band--a punk rock band. In the photo, she is platinum blonde with red lipstick and beautiful eyes. She wears a mini dress and has a guitar on her back. She is beautiful. Now, she lets me comb her newly-washed hair.
L. read me a beautiful chapter of her novel. She's writing about her experiences. She writes so well, and I am struck by her use of language. As an english teacher, I notice that stuff. She also seasons her words with the word "auspicious," and I laughingly mention that it was one of the vocabulary words for the high school students I teach.
I was so moved by the resilience of Sy, 57 years old, and longing to change and live. And then there was L. A very young adult--a twin sister, whose sister is married and pregnant. Please pray for them. Thank you.
