Ok, so I applied to SOMD (school of ministry development) in LA, and got accepted back in... nov?.
My dream is to have a local mobile ministry serving native america here in muskoka, ontario. So, right now i'm really praying/looking for some people with the same or similar vision- i guess pray for that too!
(this is where i need your prayers)
When i got into my car accident on Jan 22, I got charged for careless driving b/c it was an unknown reason as to why i went off the road. (praising God that i managed to WALK out of that accident alive! pix on facebook if you haven't seen/heard) The police officer advised me to go court, and ask for a lesser fine and fewer points. Otherwise i'd have to pay $400 and lose 6 points... So of course i chose the court option.
On Jan 25, a different cop showed up at my house, to "re issue" me a different ticket because the one the first police gave me had the wrong date (he put jan 21).
well, on the 26, I mailed out the re issued ticket. and i have been waiting a month to find out when i go to court. However, YWAM LA is coming close, so i was starting to get a little antsy about this whole court thing. So i called the Ontario Justice department, and when they were checking my file, they said that NOTHING has come in...
So, now i am over my 15 day "grace" period, and they could take my lack of a ticket as a "plea of guilty". and the police officer entered the WRONG ticket into the system. well, just pray that i find out my court date sooooooon, i still havent given my notice yet, and missing court dates are a big deal.
So pray that things will speed up, and i'll find out my court date SOON, and that it's before March 19! (i'm flying out of michigan on the 26 or 27th, but i have to be up north the week before i leave to LA)
Much Love!
This blog started as "my life in missions" but has become what inspires me, my thoughts through lifes ups and downs, & what is God teaching me.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Just adding this now :)
Updates on my Dad
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 7:17am
Sorry this is so wordy! my mom wrote it, but it explains everything that had happend over the past couple of months, thanks so much for all the encouraging e-mails and prayers :)
Ernie has lived with chronic pain for well over a year. It just got worse in November, were he couldn't stand the intensity of it...so on Nov. 15th at 3am, he finally agreed to go to the hospital. They put Ernie on morphine injections for the pain & on Nov. 20th, they sent him home...he was prescribed morphine pills to take at home but he couldn't digest these because of the hardening of his internal organs, (the esophagus & stomach). He kept waiting for the painkillers to kick in but finally on Nov. 29th at 3am, HE told me he was going to the hospital, he was experiencing chest pains. The ER doctor was Ernie's former doctor. By this time Ernie was down to 119 lbs.. I asked Dr. Hardy if he noticed that Ernie was just skin & bones...he said, "I just see bones". Anyway Dr. Hardy knew about scleroderma, so that was a big help. Even before Dr. Hardy got the blood & heart results, he said he was admitting Ernie. They pumped him intravenouly with iron, 2 units of red blood cells, saline, albumin, morphine, etc.. Dr. Fargher's (hospital doctor), report states, "Examination revealed a wasted, thin, chronically ill looking man whose weight had dropped to 55 kiolgram from 62.7 kilograms on Nov. 15/09". On Dec.2nd & 4th, they gave him a barium swallow which left him in tremendous pain and to make it more horribly painful his body was rejecting the morphine. On Dec. 5th, another ER doctor put a nasalgastric tube to drain the barium and morphine from his stomach. Lots of trials to "get to the problem". On Dec. 9th, Dr. Clark(family doctor) ordered a CT angiography and later told Ernie his stomach was very much hardened and there was nothing that can be done. This left Ernie absolutely devasted! Ernie cried, "Lord if your not going to heal me of this disease, than take the pain away." I called all the prayer lines I knew, and Pauline Gunner called all the APM churches to Pray for a Miracle! I requested prayers on internet. Martin Lasbrook visited him and prayed through with him...Ernie said he felt the pain leaving. On Dec.10th, I asked the doctor if I could take Ernie home, (thinking if there was nothing that could be done, than I wasn't going to leave him in the hospital). Dr. Fargher looked surprised at Ernie's meal and said, "If he can eat the solids without getting sick he can go home by the weekend!...not realizing that the kitchen staff hadn't brought him full fluids!..so there was Ernie eating solids! Hallelujah! Today, he is still pain-free.
Oh, I want to mention, Ernie use to take lots of diabetes pills per/day, because he refused to take insulin. Anyway, while in the hospital the nurses came in to give him insulin. I seen the look of fear(?) in Ernie's eyes as he told the nurse, he wasn't taking insulin...he never ever wants to be on insulin!...Stigma attached to going from pills to insulin!! Anyway, the nurse explained because he couldn't digest the pills, they were ordered to give the insulin...so he finally gave in.
Ernie was discharged from the hospital on Dec. 12th. He no longer takes any diabetes meds! He does not have celiacs! While in hospital he got bed-sores. Dec. 10th, I changed the tegaderm and saw that it had worsened. Dec.12th, I asked if they could change the tegaderm before we left. The bed-sores were all cleared up!!! Today, January 4th, Ernie is still pain-free and has gained 20lbs. Praise the LORD! God is good! Amen
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 7:17am
Sorry this is so wordy! my mom wrote it, but it explains everything that had happend over the past couple of months, thanks so much for all the encouraging e-mails and prayers :)
Ernie has lived with chronic pain for well over a year. It just got worse in November, were he couldn't stand the intensity of it...so on Nov. 15th at 3am, he finally agreed to go to the hospital. They put Ernie on morphine injections for the pain & on Nov. 20th, they sent him home...he was prescribed morphine pills to take at home but he couldn't digest these because of the hardening of his internal organs, (the esophagus & stomach). He kept waiting for the painkillers to kick in but finally on Nov. 29th at 3am, HE told me he was going to the hospital, he was experiencing chest pains. The ER doctor was Ernie's former doctor. By this time Ernie was down to 119 lbs.. I asked Dr. Hardy if he noticed that Ernie was just skin & bones...he said, "I just see bones". Anyway Dr. Hardy knew about scleroderma, so that was a big help. Even before Dr. Hardy got the blood & heart results, he said he was admitting Ernie. They pumped him intravenouly with iron, 2 units of red blood cells, saline, albumin, morphine, etc.. Dr. Fargher's (hospital doctor), report states, "Examination revealed a wasted, thin, chronically ill looking man whose weight had dropped to 55 kiolgram from 62.7 kilograms on Nov. 15/09". On Dec.2nd & 4th, they gave him a barium swallow which left him in tremendous pain and to make it more horribly painful his body was rejecting the morphine. On Dec. 5th, another ER doctor put a nasalgastric tube to drain the barium and morphine from his stomach. Lots of trials to "get to the problem". On Dec. 9th, Dr. Clark(family doctor) ordered a CT angiography and later told Ernie his stomach was very much hardened and there was nothing that can be done. This left Ernie absolutely devasted! Ernie cried, "Lord if your not going to heal me of this disease, than take the pain away." I called all the prayer lines I knew, and Pauline Gunner called all the APM churches to Pray for a Miracle! I requested prayers on internet. Martin Lasbrook visited him and prayed through with him...Ernie said he felt the pain leaving. On Dec.10th, I asked the doctor if I could take Ernie home, (thinking if there was nothing that could be done, than I wasn't going to leave him in the hospital). Dr. Fargher looked surprised at Ernie's meal and said, "If he can eat the solids without getting sick he can go home by the weekend!...not realizing that the kitchen staff hadn't brought him full fluids!..so there was Ernie eating solids! Hallelujah! Today, he is still pain-free.
Oh, I want to mention, Ernie use to take lots of diabetes pills per/day, because he refused to take insulin. Anyway, while in the hospital the nurses came in to give him insulin. I seen the look of fear(?) in Ernie's eyes as he told the nurse, he wasn't taking insulin...he never ever wants to be on insulin!...Stigma attached to going from pills to insulin!! Anyway, the nurse explained because he couldn't digest the pills, they were ordered to give the insulin...so he finally gave in.
Ernie was discharged from the hospital on Dec. 12th. He no longer takes any diabetes meds! He does not have celiacs! While in hospital he got bed-sores. Dec. 10th, I changed the tegaderm and saw that it had worsened. Dec.12th, I asked if they could change the tegaderm before we left. The bed-sores were all cleared up!!! Today, January 4th, Ernie is still pain-free and has gained 20lbs. Praise the LORD! God is good! Amen
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