Prayer request

  • I’m won­der­ing if I can ask for a few names from our church to your prayer list: Nico­lae, his daugh­ter Laura and her family.

    Laura is a lovely woman from Roma­nia in our church. Her par­ents came from Roma­nia to visit her for a few months after her sec­ond child was born. But the after­noon after the new baby was bap­tized, her father Nico­lae began to have ter­ri­ble neck pains. When he went to the hos­pi­tal, they found he had major block­ages in his arter­ies. They did emer­gency surgery, and though he was only given a 25% chance of sur­viv­ing the surgery, he pulled through. How­ever, he had a severe stroke while still in ICU, and is now totally par­a­lyzed on his left side. He’s sta­ble now, but dis­ori­ented, and needs a lot of care.

    This sit­u­a­tion has been really hard, of course, for his wife, his daugh­ter and her fam­ily. But there’s an addi­tional bureau­cratic heart-breaker to this: the hos­pi­tal is putting con­stant and heart­less pres­sure on Laura to “have a plan” — mean­ing, take her father or put him in a nurs­ing home, even though they haven’t got the money for either of those options. The hos­pi­tal is, of course, just try­ing to man­age their bot­tom line and free up the bed for another cus­tomer, but Nicolae’s sit­u­a­tion as a non-citizen here on a visa doesn’t allow for any Medicare pos­si­bil­i­ties, and the hos­pi­tal is being unbe­liev­ably harsh, accost­ing Laura or her mother when­ever they come in. Hos­pi­tal staff have even gone so far as to get a trans­la­tor to ask her father “Wouldn’t you like to go home?” and when he says “Yes” (not know­ing what they mean), they present Laura with that infor­ma­tion in order to make her feel like she’s being obstruc­tive. It’s really a ter­ri­ble way to treat her and the whole fam­ily, and I’m at a loss to know what to do for her other than to pray.

    So if you could, add Laura, her father Nico­lae and her fam­ily to your prayers. (And by the way, if any­one out there knows of some help that’s out there for sit­u­a­tions like this, please send me an e-mail.)

    I’ll give updates on this. Thank you.


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    August 14th, 2007 | Grace | 5 Comments |

5 Responses and Counting...

  • Mimi 08.14.2007

    Lord have Mercy, Lord have Mercy, Lord have Mercy. Be assured of my prayers.

  • BJohnD

    Kyrie elei­son!

    I will add them to my list. My god­par­ents are Roman­ian, and wonderful.

  • DebD

    Lord have mercy! I will indeed pray.

  • Grace

    Thank you, all!

  • Anam Cara

    I belong to a Roman­ian Ortho­dox church and have for­warded your request to our priest and the woman who leads our woman’s Bible study.

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