Please, please say a prayer for Laura Beck today. She'll be undergoing extremely risky brain surgery today. Please pray that God will use her surgeon's hands to bring about a miracle for this sweet young woman. Also please say another prayer for her family. I can only begin to imagine the agony they are going through and will experience as they say goodbye to her before she goes into surgery and while waiting for news.
Also, please say a prayer for my father-in-law. As most of you know, Ramy's dad had a stroke in December 2004, which left him quite debilitated and strongly affected his speech. He then had another stroke in January 2008, which was even more devastating and left him with essentially no ability to communicate and seemingly little awareness of or interaction with anyone who might be around him. He's also had other health problems which have complicated things, and he has steadily declined in the last several months. We expect that he will likely not survive for very long. Although the father that Ramy has known all his life has been gone for quite some time, this will be a very difficult time for him, his mom, and his sisters.
Finally, say another prayer for my good friend Julie. She and Adelaide left yesterday for New York City. Derek still hasn't found a job in NYC, so Julie and Addie will be bachelorettes in the Big Apple until he finds a job and can join them. Julie has to quickly find a place for them to live and childcare for Adelaide. It's a really stressful time for her to be getting settled in a new place without many contacts, starting internship, taking care of Addie alone, adjusting to working full time/Addie being in daycare full time, and still being on job search mode for Derek.
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