Prayer Warriors, I have felt your prayers for weeks and I sure have needed them. I almost do not know where to begin. Almost two weeks before Irma, the Lord gave me a heads up to start preparing for it logistically. I was always a few days ahead of the rush, being able to purchase things prior to everyone else. Also, He began providing me “angels with skin” because my brother Art (who would have taken care of things) was with Him. The night of the hurricane, because we had no lights, mom fell. Because of the storm, we could not go to the ER until Weds. morning to get an x-ray, to make sure that she did not break anything. She had not, but she was in terrible pain. We went back to our dear friends who had opened up their home because our generator stopped working (we stayed without power for 10 days). However, that night we realized that something worse was going on with mom and therefore the ambulance had to come again to take her back to the ER. Long story short, they found that she was fighting a serious infection, her bladder and bowel were not working correctly, etc. We stayed in the hospital seven days (we should have stayed longer, but hind sight is 20/20). Because our neighbor’s shed hit our power lines, it not only pulled them from the poll it pulled them up from the house. FPL would not fix us until a paid electrician fixed it, they had to get a permit and then the county had to come out and ok the job (because I was with mom 24/7 at the hospital in a room with a bed for me), I had to do all the logistics from the hospital room. The hospital would not release mom until we had power. Mom was released too soon because they did not realize how serious her bowel problem was (she had not had a bowel movement for seven days). It took days for Home Health care to resolve the problem. Mom is on the mend but has a long ways to go. I will stop now, because this is getting long. Miracles upon miracles have taken place over these weeks
. I will encourage you with them in emails to come. Surely, 1 Thess. 5:16-19 has been and is in play, we are at peace. Even in this, even in this. Blessings, D
