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ljwrench
Being around on this planet for some 58 years or so I have met many people. Of all these people I can only claim to have 3 friends over the years who I could count on through thick and thin. The guy to bail you out of jail or give you his last beer or cigarette without even flinching. The friend who would loan you $100 and not ask why. The friend who tells your wife yah he was at my house last night. A friend that every time he'd come over would bring beer and when you went to his house he handed you one before even saying hi. If your car broke down and you called him he'd ask where can I pick you up. These friends are few and far between. One I buried 15 years ago, the second I will bury tomorrow. If any of you have ever had a friend like this please say a prayer for them and for mine. Bob, you'll be sorrowfully missed by me but even more so by your family.


I want to thank all of you that offered their thoughts and prayers.
Bob hired me at the auto parts store that he managed back in June of 1969. I was fresh out of high school and had been sworn into the Army. Because I wouldn't be 18 for a few more months and the fact that my AIT didn't have an opening until early the following year I had some time to kill. Bob was buried this morning witch included a beautiful service and a an amazing eulogy from his 3 children.
The one thing though that I will probably never know or understand was how did he ever get the Budweiser truck to deliver to his house.


Thanks again to all.
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  • ljwrench
    I am not usually one to ask for prayers here but I could really use them right now. I can't go into details but I'm sick to my stomach right now with frustration. It is hard when you do the right thing and you're honest and the powers that be think otherwise.
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  • ljwrench
    Got word last night at work that Jeff's father, Dean, is in the hospital with gangrene in his foot and he might lose part of his leg.

    Dean's a good egg and need all the help he can get at this time.

    TIA
    Scott
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  • ljwrench
    Hey guys keep my Secretary, Barbara, in your thoughts and prayers please. Her husband, Gary, died yesterday at 49 years old. Thanks!
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  • ljwrench
    My wife's grandmother passed away yesterday. Dear sweet lady, full of spirit. Ended her battle with cancer after 6 long years. Lived to the ripe old age of 98.

    My wife's mother had been her care giver the last six years. It's been really hard on her to do that, and now to not have that in her life is going to be a big switch.
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  • ljwrench
    Please have a prayer and kind thought for Wanda.
    Jay Wesley Core, my father, passed recently.

    Veteran of WWII and KHP Trooper for thirty years (1953-1983)with the Kansas Highway Patrol.

    Prayers for strength and comfort for Wanda would be greatly appreciated as he was the center of her world as she was for him.

    and for those who understand pegs down.


    Thanks to all of you.

    Scott
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  • ljwrench
    I have a friend going through a rough time right now, both with family stuff and business stuff. He is a wonderful person and I am asking for prayers for him. I cant really elaborate but God knows the reasons. Thanks all!
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  • ljwrench
    I don't usually ask for prayers from this group, but I am now. My youngest daughter is adopted and we just got word that her birth mother passed away a couple of days ago. This alone is bad enough, but she just lost her birth father about six weeks ago. She was blessed by having four parents, by being adopted, but now she has lost three of them and is having a hard time. Your prayers for her would be appreciated.

    Thanks.
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  • ljwrench
    My friends daughter was in a car wreck, and broke both legs, badly. Now, she has an infection set in. She sure could use all the prayers that she can get. Thank you.

    Peace

    Dan
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  • ljwrench
    If you can spare a moment, please pray for my family. My grandmother passed away last night. It was not wholly unexpected. She would have been 92 next month and she had been admitted to hospice care a couple weeks ago.

    She was, if not the biggest influence on my life, one of the biggest influences in all things.

    She held all the very desirable qualities one looks for in a person:
    Loving
    Kind
    Devout Christian
    Hard working
    Smart as a whip even with minimal education
    Writer of long letters
    Tender
    Stern
    A wonderful story teller
    Beautiful
    Giving
    Self deprecating
    A great cook
    A great baker
    Loyal
    An accomplished seamstress
    A farmer
    A fisher
    A gardener
    Dutiful wife
    Doting mother of 4
    and if you think there is some other quality that should be on a list of greatness, she is that too, most assuredly.
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  • ljwrench
    My wife is having her right knee replaced at 1:30 this afternoon. She had the left one done in Feb.and got along great. I truly believe the prayers and good thought had a lot to do with that. Thanks Jay
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  • ljwrench
    I don't do this often, so when I ask for prayers, it truly is a dire situation.

    One of Mrs. Zulu's coworker's young teenage daughter is currently fighting a very rare auto-immune disease, and is on a medication that will basically destroy what's left of her immune system for the better part of a year.

    I ask for prayers that this young woman recovers from her ailment.
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  • ljwrench
    My mom was hospitalized on 31 January for a hysterectomy and bladder tightening surgery. Three days later she was rushed into emergency surgery for a ruptured intestine. Her gallbladder and appendix were removed and a portion of her small intestine. The surgeon said that due to the thin walls of the intestine he placed a colostomy bag so that the intestine could strenghthen and he would remove it in about six months. She was in ICU afterward for about five weeks. She was then transfered out to a regular room and has been in rehabilitation to rebuild her strength.

    Yesterday they sent her back to ICU. Her heart rate was extremely elevated and white blood count had dropped drastically. She is now on dialysis and they are trying to determine where she is harboring an infection. She has gone from 230lbs to 190 (lost 40 pounds) in the seven weeks that she has been hospitalized due to her inability to hold any food down. She has been throwing up anything she consumes.

    My father passed away in December and she may not be fighting back like she should.

    Please pray for her.

    ***KATN!***
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  • ljwrench
    Please pray for my son Josh. He is in danger of harming himself and I've done all I can do, but he is going over the edge.

    I know he has problems, and I know he has brought most of them on himself, but he is my son, and I love him.

    Thank you in advance,

    Danny and Sandy
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  • ljwrench
    i went to check on mom as i always do every morning and found her in bed crying. she has had the shingles for almost a year now. the pain had eased for a while, but now has returned in full force
    i ask that those of you who believe will say a prayer for mom that the pain will leave her
    thank you
    jim
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  • ljwrench
    I think we should all pray for the safe and happy return of p3skyking.[}:)]
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  • ljwrench
    was going to ask all of you to pray for a friend who a couple of years ago went thru treatment and surgery for colon cancer made it thru just fine then went to his Dr a few weeks ago for a hernia, they told him he had lung cancer and had about 18 mos. to live without treatment and app 36-60 with, he had decided to do the treatments and had a port installed when he had the hernia repaired, well I just got a call from his wife saying that he had passed away from an apparent clot to his lungs as she said the Lord decided for him not to have to go thru the suffering of the cancer, they are very religious people and have a lot of faith, I ask all who will to remember this fine man's family and friends in your prayers and thoughts, he will be sadly missed
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  • ljwrench
    Not something I would usually ask for. My wife's little sister is going in for open heart surgery on the 23rd. She is six years old and a precious little girl.
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  • ljwrench
    My family has of late been plagued by physical misfortunes. My father was released from the hospital Sunday recovering from pneumonia, my grandmother lost feeling in her left foot and while settling into a chair at the doctor's office fell and broke it. My sister is still in the hospital after having surgery to remove scar tissue from her intestines. She was diagnosed with endometriosis in her late 20's and had a full hysterectomy. The endometriosis had spread to her lower intestines and they had to remove some of this while performing the surgery. She has been plagued with scar tissue growth ever since. She is now at the point where no solid food will pass through her and is being tube fed. In her last surgery they removed approximately 50% of the blockage, but had to stop as they were losing her vital signs.

    They want to send her to St. Louis once she has regained some strength to see if the surgeons there will attempt more surgery. At this point she is on morphine drip with a pump that she controls to ease the pain. They do not promise a cure, maybe some partial relief. She is only 38. If you would please send up a prayer for Tiffany I would be ever so grateful.

    ***There's a difference between living and living well!***
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  • ljwrench
    Been a ghost for a bit. But i could really use some prayers tonight. Have my first hearing in my divorce tomorrow and me and my boys (and even The Wife) need all the help we can get.

    Thanks in advance
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  • hotshoot
    will do
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  • spurgemastur
    I'm sorry. I hope the outcome is more good than bad.
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  • elkoholic
    Sent
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  • ElMuertoMonkey
    My prayers are with ya.

    If it helps, with medical science these days, chances are your pa will be just fine. Smoking's no good and as you said, maybe this'll be a wake up call.
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  • ljwrench
    My grandfather died of a heart attack when I was 10 years old. He was a WW2 vet having been a 1lt. with the 69th tank battalion/6th armored div. As I got older I resented the fact that he died when I was too young to appreciate what he did and saw during the war. His first day in combat he was wounded but managed to save a tank crew that got hit. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star on the same day. He fought from Normandy to V.E. Day. I have his medals along with his 1911 (Remington Rand), a 1915 luger, a P38, and a German hunting rifle/shotgun, and a dang good set of photos that he took starting with the battle of the bulge, the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, and ending with him in Austria on the Elbe meeting with Soviet Troops. Now that my dad had a heart attack and seeing all the modern medical advances I wish that my grandpa had the same opportunites for treatment. I pray that my dad will pull thru and hope that our day's of fishing Blue River are not over. Sorry for rambling on but it's been a bad weekend and I have a hard time opening up to friends (including my wife) about this kind of stuff but after a little bit of too much wine I just need to vent and this forum seems like the right place.
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  • ElMuertoMonkey
    ljwrench,

    Sorry to hear about your granddad. He sounds like he was a helluva guy.

    I hear ya about opening up to family and friends, but if you want my advice, talk to 'em. It's not enough to tell yourself "they know" because one moment of honesty is nowhere near as hard to bear as a lifetime of unspoken words.

    My prayers are with you and your family. Stay strong and keep the faith.
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  • spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by ljwrench
    My grandfather died of a heart attack when I was 10 years old. He was a WW2 vet having been a 1lt. with the 69th tank battalion/6th armored div. As I got older I resented the fact that he died when I was too young to appreciate what he did and saw during the war. His first day in combat he was wounded but managed to save a tank crew that got hit. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star on the same day. He fought from Normandy to V.E. Day. I have his medals along with his 1911 (Remington Rand), a 1915 luger, a P38, and a German hunting rifle/shotgun, and a dang good set of photos that he took starting with the battle of the bulge, the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, and ending with him in Austria on the Elbe meeting with Soviet Troops. Now that my dad had a heart attack and seeing all the modern medical advances I wish that my grandpa had the same opportunites for treatment. I pray that my dad will pull thru and hope that our day's of fishing Blue River are not over. Sorry for rambling on but it's been a bad weekend and I have a hard time opening up to friends (including my wife) about this kind of stuff but after a little bit of too much wine I just need to vent and this forum seems like the right place.


    It's hard, it's raw, it's necessary. EMM hit it right on. You need to talk to your folk. They love you and they hurt as much as you do, and they won't judge you for feeling low.

    I know this:
    1: it's hard to do.
    2: if your family is worth a damn they will make it worth your while to talk to them--and almost all families are worth that much.
    3: In my experience, people outside of my family have been supportive to an amazing extent, and those people have been
    a: family
    b: close friends
    c: acquaintences
    d: co-workers
    e: internet 'buddies'
    f and beyond: well, if you'll open up, you'll find that most folks will support you.

    Best. Sorry for your loss.
    -spurgemastur.
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  • WinM70
    Sent.
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Prayers sent. Sorry to hear the bad news.
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  • cmd66
    Prayer's sent. Hope he get's better soon.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    prayers sent.
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