Thoughts and Prayers Needed

Wonderful news indeed! Will continue with good thoughts to you both.

Yet another update:

@liquidsky is doing a bit better every day. He will be advanced to a regular diet the day after tomorrow if everything continues to go well. I am so thankful to you all for your support. I had little to no support from my adult children who both asked for no further updates early in the game because they found the news “too traumatizing”. Even though I have never met any of you IRL, so many of you offered your support and prayers and this has definitely helped me continue to put one foot in front of the other each day!

Wonderful to hear from you again with such great news. It is indeed heartwarming to see the support that you received from this community. Each person acting in their own unique way and according to their own beliefs, but every one aimed at helping you and @liquidsky get through this.

@liquidsky is fortunate to have you as his first line of support. I have to believe that is what is helping him beat the odds. Take care of yourself too!

I had little to no support from my adult children who both asked for no further updates early in the game because they found the news “too traumatizing”.

Time to get some new children.

On another note, glad to hear things are improving. Best wishes to you and yours.

Keeping you both in my prayers. X

I am praying for both of you!!!

THANK YOU for taking the time to keep us updated! SO SORRY to hear about your adult children! I have heard that from so many people...I don't get it! Sending more prayers and good wishes to you both!

This truly is a GREAT community of people caring for ones we will never meet IRL.

Good news about @liquidsky. Sorry your children are not supportive. Your have support here.

@Iris1858 I am so relieved that your precious Larry is safe. As someone else said on this site, I am sure that he made it through because of you. A friend's father told me he survived incarceration in Belsen after being shot down and captured by the Gestapo and the subsequent death march across Europe thanks to the girl he had left behind in England.

Oh! I had not seen that. 😢 What a stroke of bad luck..

Great news @Iris1858. WE all have a date with destiny and sometimes love can do what medicine or doctors alone can't do. Love has given me the strength to hang on in situations and also love has given me the strength to let go of loved ones. Attributed to the creator of the universe is the following: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." It is also said that "God IS love." I love Iris and Larry and have never seen either of you. You are both human beings just like I am, and all our days are numbered. What's not to love about a stranger when we are all sailing through life on the same boat? I wish it were not that way......but it is, regardless of my wishes. Show as much love as you can toward others. It's a burden that lots of people don't understand, but sometimes it can be a blessing. Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you.

Iris

I might be a "hard ass" but if my children did not give me any support for my spouse/or soon to be spouse, they would find a very reduced role at the reading of my will. My church will be thrilled and even more so if the priest would have shone up which he would have several times.

Get well, both of you!

Randy

Best wishes to both of you, may his recovery be swift.

Wishing you both a full and speedy recovery! Has your blockage cleared? Did the enema set you right?

@Iris1858 I'm sorry your adult children are not there for you in your time of need. But you have many on Zity.biz thinking, pulling, and send positive thoughts your way. May that be of help during this time of recovery and healing for you both.

@Iris1858 and @liquidsky

We are so sorry that you are not getting the family support you so richly deserve and need.

Please consider all of us on Zity to be more than just online friends--we are your online family.

No. Forget the online part. Let's just make us family. Right now, in your time of need, we are family to both of you.

Whenever I log onto Zity and I see Iris1858 or liquidsky online, it warms my heart because I love your love story.

We love you, Rose and Larry, and we are praying for you.

Sending up prayers, positive vibes and virtual hugs.

Prayers!!!

@Iris1858 I am so pleased to read that liquidsky is continuing to improve. I hope he may be well enough to leave hospital before too long. I was saddened to read about the lack of support from your adult children. I suspect I am at least a few thousand miles away from you but will give you a big virtual hug anyway. Stay strong. Al. 🌹

It will be extremely difficult, but I hope you can find the grace to forgive your adult children for their lack of support. When the crisis is past, I think it wise to tell them in a non-judgmental way that you needed their support, that you understood it was painful for them but so much more painful for you that their absence was strongly felt.

Whether you mention support from online friends is up to you. All we've done is write words. We haven't sat at bedsides; spent hours holding hands, chatting, reading aloud, watching our patient sleep; invested our grocery money at the hospital cafeteria; spent enough on parking to buy several tanks of gas; fielded the endless and repetitive questions from relatives and friends; and everything else that goes hand in hand with a crisis hospitalization.

I remember well when our children were chronologically adults but still selfish and immature in some ways at some times. They didn't get all the way, full-on empathetic until well into adulthood. And of course some of their peers are still "big kids" who remain self-involved all their lives.

Me, I'm way up there in years and I'm no doubt still selfish and immature at times. All I can do is try to be a better person.

I haven’t had a chance to read everything my friends wrote but I want to heartily thank all our friends (ours @iris1858 and mine). I’m slowly recovering and I just want to say that I love you all!

@liquidsky Good on you mate! Get well soon!

@liquidsky

I haven’t had a chance to read everything my friends wrote but I want to heartily thank all our friends (ours @iris1858 and mine). I’m slowly recovering and I just want to say that I love you all!

You can't possibly imagine how good it makes me feel to see you well enough to post even this quick note!!! I just can't get the grin off my face. I'm sure there is lots of healing still to do for both of you, but the strength you've already shown will get you through it.

@ liquidsky sounds like you're already on the mend....... Good to see you back online

@Iris1858 and @liquidsky, I want you to know that are you in my daily prayers for a complete recovery - as soon as possible. Life is so short. I’ve had my own health scare (which I’ll talk about in the future) but You Guys…..,so many loving people in this Zity community are lifting you up in prayer, care for you, love both of you and are concerned about you! You Are Our Family.

I can’t wait until the day you get married. How joyous that will be! 💗. I hope you are treated like VIP’s in that facility - in that you have genuine love and caring from the Staff to make you comfortable..That makes a huge difference in healing!

Keep us all updated as you’re able. We watch for your posts. And “Give all of your worries to Christ alone, because He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7

MEG 🌸

In reading all these prayers and well wishes I am truly humbled. Last week when I was being shelved between surgeries I had some profound and strange hallucinations. Somehow in the midst of it I came to know that it wasn’t for me to go and I needed to return. I woke to the vision of my son’s Peter’s face and then @Iris1858 which drew me back to life. I didn’t see a welcoming white light—I heard instead a stern voice saying “move your ass.” Thanks to all your prayers and well wishes—they have made a world no a universe of good and I love you all for your help.

Good to see you back here @liquidsky

@liquidsky "move your ass" Like it! Welcome back! 😎

The Universe may or may not be indifferent to our fates, Rose and Larry, but your Zity mates most certainly are not! After my medical crisis 3 years ago (dissecting aorta) I most certainly believe in the power of prayer! Prayers and good doctors and nurses are the best aids we have in this world. Blessings to you both!

And again, all the best wishes for you both for hopefully very quick and complete recovery !! - and don't forget your " wedding plan's " !!