Thanks everyone!
My scan is this coming Tuesday 2/15/11. The insurance company denied my request for a Pet Scan and allowed only a Catscan. This means we’ll see little black dots on my liver, but we won’t know if they are dead or not!
I didn’t yell and fight (this time) but I will ask again in a month to be allowed to have a Petscan because that scan makes living cancer light up…I mean it would be nice to know if the cancer is dead or not!
On a related note - this week is a year ago since this all began and I came to this forum to ask for help. Thank you! I was re-reading some of the posts from that first week - how shocked and scary it was to hear bad news followed by worse then followed by even worse. I went from thinking I had hemorrhoids, to being told I had a year to live in less than 10 days, with a couple steps in between. Well, it’s a year this week and I’m not dead! A different doctor said a 1 1/2 to 2 years - I think I can outlast him also!
Peace
Tim
aka Max37
Hi Tim you are our living miracle at the moment! I can not begin to know how much stress of a rollercoaster you and your dear wife have been on.I am glad God has heard and answered our prayers for you.I pray the Catscan will bring good news and you get that Pet scan soon.Prayers continue for you my friend and God bless you always!
Lord we are so grateful to You for hearing and answering our prayers for Tim in this past year that we have been praying for him.I ask You would continue to bless him and guide his doctors to heal him Amen
Merciful Father please hear our continued prayers for Tim and please grant he will be healed.He has been suffering in his faith Lord and I thank You that Your Holy Spirit upon has come upon him to bless him and fill him with the confidence of Your love for him.Lord in Your mercy please hear our prayers for Tim. Amen
St. Jude, the glorious apostle faithful servant and friend of Jesus,
the patron of hopeless cases of things despaired of,
pray for our friend TIM who is sick and so miserable.
Make use we implore you of this particular privilege accorded to you,
to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of.
Come to our assistance in this great time of need,
that TIM may receive the consolations and succor of Heaven
in all his necessities, tribulations and sufferings,
particularly to help our friend to get better from his illness
and to give him good health
and to guide his path,
and that we may bless God with you
and all the elect forever.
I promise you, O Blessed St. Jude,
to be ever mindful of this great favor,
and I will never cease to honor you
as my special and powerful patron
and to do all in my power to encourage devotion to you.
Amen
A Prayer to St. Peregrine for Sick Relatives and Friends
O great St. Peregrine, you have been called “The Mighty”, the “The Wonder Worker” because of the numerous miracles which you obtained from God for those who have turned to you in their need. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being. You turned to God when the power of human beings could do no more, and you were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His cross to heal your affliction. I now ask God to heal these sick persons whom I entrust to you:
(we pray for Tim to be healed)
Aided by your powerful intercession, I shall sing with Mary a hymn of gratitude to God for His great goodness and mercy.
Amen.
Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
Prayer for a Miracle
God of all creation, you who spoke a simple command and brought forth light from
the darkness, I ask you now to send forth your miracle-working power to heal (TIM). You cleansed the lepers, opened the eyes of the blind and by
speaking a simple command, you empowered the crippled to rise up and walk.
You sent forth your life-giving power to all those in need, including those you raised from
the dead. I ask you to send forth your healing power into TIM’s body and give him the strength to fight his illness. I ask this through my Lord, Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen