Nothing is real to you until you experience it; otherwise it's just hearsay.

WHEN YOU ARE UP TO YOUR EARS IN ALLIGATORS...
IT IS HARD TO REMEMBER THAT YOUR JOB WAS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!

I have been up to my ears in alligators even more so this week than usual.... So the swamp has to wait until a more advantageous time for me to be able to concentrate upon draining it. 
I have been off from work for three weeks and hope to get back to work sometime next week.  I am under a tremendous load that needs to be settled and trying to meet a very difficult 
deadline concerning personal business.  Sleep is in short supply.

My daughter is in the hospital where she is recovering from two abdominal surgical incisions made to debried the infected flesh and clean out swollen pockets of infection deep in the flesh. 
One incision is very large.  The other is fairly small.  They will remain open and she will be on antibiotics until she heals.  

She just had another PIC line installed.  We had a bad time with that just a few weeks ago with her developing major blood clots.  The PIC line site is bleeding and they are having difficulty 

stopping the bleeding.  The large wound is packed with special sponge like material and has a vacuum pump installed to keep it well drained.  The small wound is packed with gauze 
material and is cleaned several times daily.  She was expected to stay overnight but now it looks more like five days or more.

I am still praying for all of you daily.  As long as I can breathe and think that will be done.  My Commander-in-Chief and I do deeply appreciate you taking your stand in the line of defense.  
We will be eternally grateful for all that you have done and are doing.

"BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!"  Be alert, watchful, suspicious and wary.  Take the best possible care of you.  No one else can do that special, personal care of and for us but us.  See to the well 
being of your own spirit.  It needs to be strong for you to be successful.

I have done a lot of praying this week for help when I hit snags that seemed impassable... Each plea for help was answered and the blocks resolved.  I have my most powerful reality experiences in prayer when the job is the toughest.  HE makes a way where there is no way.  My most often crying out in prayer in these tough times is simply, "LORD, HELP!" or "HELP, LORD, HELP!".  He has always brought me through and I am praying that HE will bring you through also.

Call or write if I may be of any assistance.

As it has always been... So it still is!

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