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Okay, so I usually don't take to public forums with family issues, but we need everyone we know praying for my mother in law. So I'm asking everyone here to please keep her in your thoughts.

She is fighting Multiple Myeloma, an incurable blood cancer, and is losing the battle. She has been through four different types of chemo, stem cell transplant, and is on the last known chemo cocktail approved for this cancer. Last Friday she was admitted to the hospital with the flu and pneumonia. They have tried just about everything and can't get oxygen into her system or the fluid off her lungs. An hour or so ago they sedated her and put her on a ventilator. The hope is that her body wont have to work as hard to breath and can start healing, but she could also not come out of this.

We are keeping positive as best we can, and my wife is going up to the hospital tomorrow while I keep the kids at home. We both lost grandparents to pneumonia, and dont want our 4 year old's last memory to be her grandmother in a coma like ours are. Anyways, I'm rambling now, so I will close with this request...

Whatever greater power you believe in, I would appreciate it if you could say a prayer tonight on her behalf.

Thanks
Jim
 
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in my thoughts and prayers. If you need anything brother let me know (I;m not too far away). Make sure you are there for your wife, women fuckin lose their mind when illness/death is close to them.
 

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Jim,

I am praying for her now and will be sure to keep her in my daily prayers. Having also lost my Grandmother to respiratory issues I am keenly aware and empathetic to your situation. Please let me know if there is anything else that I can do or if you just need to talk.
 
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Jim I will most definitely carry your mother in law and family in my thoughts and prayers. May god carry you all through your difficult times.

Know you have your brothers here for you through it all. If you need to just talk shoot me a pm at anytime.
 
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Oh Man I am very sorry to hear about your mother in law. She will be in my Thoughts and Prayers as well as you and your family!
 
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