Life Stages

Life Stages
Dexter's Minor to Major problem
I recently fostered Dexter, a lab/pit mix for around four months. He was extremely emaciated, anemic, and flea infested when he was found in a back yard with around five other dogs. After a botched adotion, we decided to adopt him ourselves to keep him safe. Everything was going great until he started...
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Jackie's husband Charlie
I'm going to take the liberty of posting this -- I will let her fill in the blanks later, but she called me from the hospital. It's Charlie and he's going into surgery at about 6 - 6:30 pm e.s.t. on Wednesday -- I will let her say anything futher, but her cell was about to die before I asked...
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Please Pray and Send Good Thoughts for Riley (mrstjohnson) - UPDATE
Oy what a week! Long long story completely unrelated. but it led to me working from home this morning. I brought Riley over to neighbor's house to say hi when she asked me what was wrong with Riley's knee since it was swollen. I looked down and it was. She wasn't showing any pain, but then...
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Mom's in surgery today (brain tumor)
Today is the day. Mom has already left, the surgery is complicated and will take a lot of the day. Please pray for her.
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A friend's mother needs all the strength she can get (aDork)
For those of you friends with me on Facebook you already have an idea, but those who are not, a very dear friend of mine passed away Monday. He was on his way to Indiana with his mother when they were involved in some sort of accident. The information I have been able to gather is that it involved a...
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Prayers for hubby's BIL - Shadowsgin
I mentioned in my Step Daughter's update this morning that we have had another family member in need of prayer. My hubby's Step sister's Husband was rushed to the hospital on Friday a.m. in Missouri, they immediately Life Flighted him to Kansas City. He was unable to move his right side...
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Please say a prayer (R.I.P. Tony)
My aunt's fiance had a stroke and it's really serious. I just found out that he sat on my aunts couch for 9hrs until she got home from work. Her son was home but he thought her fiance was being distant since they got into an argument the day before. My aunt is devastated she has been divorced...
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Prayers for my hairdresser's son...
...who just got sent to Afghanistan. Hope the idog vibes can keep him safe.
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I'm scared--I need a prayer circle.
This morning I woke up to find Willow has a bit of swelling on her muzzle area. I am trying not to panic as it could be anything from she banged it into something to a bite. It could even be her teeth. But, with her history and she's going to be 9 this year I cannot stop worrying. She's...
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Good thoughts for Jewel
Miss Thing has got a bad tooth (we hope, cause that's an easy fix!). She goes in, tomorrow, to have it fixed. Send lots of good stuffs her way, please. She handled anesthesia GREAT, a few months ago, at her LAST dental appointment. The breed is known for bad teeth, LOL. We're guessing one is...
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Asking for prayers for the family of a dear friend (shadowsgin)
I just received an email from a very dear friend, his baby sister, Darci, ( early 40's) just passed away yesterday. She has been battling a intestinal/colon disorder for several years now. Apparantly after another major surgery last week she developed pneumonia and just couldn't fight her way...
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Prayers for my friend's daughter, please
Hi everyone - the chief of our intertribal group called me last night to ask for prayers for one of our members whose daughter was taken to the ER, then transferred to MGH in Boston. Apparently, some sort of neurological problem. I'm sure that she is scared and her mother is terrified - please can...
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Fergie
Well, she's thinner by the day, now, although a little spring is, amazingly, still in her step, and she still gets up at the same times, finds everything, knows where her water bowl and bed are, and greets the other dogs and me with a wee wag when she sniffs us. But, I know that she is fading rapidly...
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Bugsy the Bull Terrier NEEDS your prayers (miranadobe)
Hi guys- My very good dog friends, who recently lost their Giant Schnauzer, Leroy, are at the vet right now with their Bull Terrier, Bugsy. (He's the dog who was at Westminster a few years ago.) He's screaming in pain and there's no explanation, despite consultations from 4 different vets...
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Good thoughts needed
We need some good thoughts right now...my mom just called and told me they are rushing Tequila, their 12 year old Shih Tzu/Pom mix, to the vet. She said it looks like there is a hole in her eyeball and there is material leaking out of it. No idea what happened, but it is her good eye that is affected...
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Good vibes needed (Joyce)
My BIL (the late DH's youngest brother) is in the hospital in New Mexico and it doesn't look good. It seems he has cancer that started in his colon and then went to his kidneys and liver so I'm waiting for the phone call to tell me when I have to book a flight to NM. I feel really bad for...
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Gobie needs good vibes please- Final Update
It's probably nothing, I always freak out whenever one of my guys gets sick. Gobie has been vomiting brown liquid this morning- he hasn't eaten yet. He is acting like his normal self now, but for about an hour it was shaking and vomiting. the one thign that worries me is the brown liquid. Gobie...
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Prayers for my mother, please
My mom (not blood, but closer than that) Mary, has a brain tumor. Her last MRI showed that it has grown signigifcantly and looks to be cancerous. They are going to operate ASAP in hopes to keep it from spreading any further. Please pray for my mom :'(
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Maska Needs IDog Vibes - UPDATE
He has a growth on his hind leg that I had tested. The vet found some "nucleated cells" in the needle aspirate, so he's having it excised. Please pray for no mast cells, or if there are, that she gets the whole thing out. First available surgery date is at the end of the month, but she...
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Prayers for my friend
I just got word that my friend Patti is now in hospice care. I'd posted some time back that she'd been diagnosed with lung cancer and then had had a recurrence. They'd tried laser knife ablation on the tumor in her brain and other treatments for the tumors in her spine and apparently all...
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