The Prayer Link

“If you want to know what God wants you to do,

ask him,

and he will gladly tell you,

for he is always ready to give

a bountiful supply  of wisdom

to all who ask him.”

~James 1:5a NIV~

Macy Gueldner

Macy’s counts have jumped up a good bit. As a matter of fact, I don’t ever remember them being this high. As a result of this and her bigger weight and height, they’re increasing her chemo once again. I hope this doesn’t bottom out her counts when she’s supposed to start school soon. That would be our luck.

We’re in Memphis waiting on anesthesia, then recovery, a shot of chemo, then home.

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Things took a turn really quickly this afternoon. Just before we left for Louisiana, while waiting for Macy’s last push of chemo, she became very sick. She was shaking uncontrollably, screaming in severe pain, crying lots of tears, getting splotchy, and turning blue. It was very scary, to say the least. They got her to her clinic quickly, gave her morphine, and started a couple different antibiotics. She finally settled down, but while waiting to be admitted her blood pressure dropped dangerously low. So, we stayed put for a bolus of fluids until that got better. We had just gotten settled in on the second floor when her fever spiked to almost 103. She was red as a beet. The fever slowly went down, but now her blood pressure has dropped again. She’s on her second bolus.
Her pulse is high, and her oxygen saturation is low. They are probably about to put her on oxygen. We are inching closer to the ICU, but are praying she gets stable enough to stay on the second floor.
We don’t know what’s causing all of this, but they are thinking it may be an infection. We’re waiting on blood cultures to hopefully give us some answers.
By the way, we had to wait 2 hours to get called back to the medicine room this afternoon. If it hadn’t been for that wait, we would have been on the road in the middle of nowhere, MS when this would’ve happened.
This has been VERY scary for us SEVERAL times today. There were plenty of times where I was just praying shed keep breathing. That’s never what a mother is supposed to be thinking while holding her baby. Please keep us in your prayers tonight.

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Macy has been stable for a couple of hours now. Thank you all so much for the many prayers!

Mr. Milton Johnson – Pray for this resident of the St. Helena Nursing Home in Greensburg.

Pray for the teachers, students, bus drivers, and other school staff who will be returning to school soon.  Yes, it’s that time of year again.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Read the Bible in 2015 – John 1-2

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

• “How to Have Peace” – http://odb.org/2015/08/01/how-to-have-peace/
• We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.                                                                                                                                                   ~Romans 5:1~
• Two songs to share today
  • “In Times Like These”    
    • http://lyrics.astraweb.com/display/504/hymns..unknown..in_times_like_these.htm
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNfU8GZ4KXA
  • “All the Way, My Savior Leads Me”              
    • http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/All_the_Way_My_Savior_Leads_Me/  
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEOtFEs0Jos

Have a great day preparing for the Lord’s day.  

Don’t forget your frozen food to contribute to a local family (families).  It is always greatly appreciated.

Anna Lee