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jabronij3
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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  • jabronij3
    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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  • jabronij3
    As some people on the board know, my wife is a stomach cancer patient and we decided a while back that she should split her remaining time between NH with me and OH, where her entire family lives. Well she has run into problems with some of the many meds she takes and is not doing well at all. She's at her parents home right now, but is facing being put into an inpatient care facility very soon. I would be very greateful to the members here if you would remember my family in your prayers for both Nora's health and recovery, as well as the stress, sadness and fear that covers the whole situation and all of us involved.

    Thank you.

    New Hampshire, USA - "Live Free or Die!!!"
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  • jabronij3
    This is not meant to be funny or take away from those that are ill or dying but my 26 year old daughter moved back home today. I'll need some prayers said on my behalf.
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  • jabronij3
    A good friend's 18month old nephew was shot through the heart with a pnuematic finish nailer. The nail was removed through surgery, and he is recovering in ICU listed as stable but critical condition.

    I will explain the story later, but for now please pray for him, or at least keep a good thought for those who don't pray.
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  • jabronij3
    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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  • jabronij3
    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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  • jabronij3
    Say some prayers for my wife. She slipped and fell on our back deck last night and broke two bones in here leg. She is 5 months pregnant and surgery is in a few hours.
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  • jabronij3
    We lost an Uncle and fellow LEO today. I ask that you pray for his family and fellow LEO's. He will be greatly missed.
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  • jabronij3
    My grandma is going in for a total knee replacement in the morning. At 87 surgery and recovery are going to be a challenge. Please keep Mildred in your thoughts and prayers. This woman means more to me than i could ever express. She has had a huge impact on me being the man I am today.
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  • jabronij3
    all who will I ask that you pray for the family and freinds of a co-worker/freind of about 4 years he was 25 yrs old and was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday going home from work, we are all saddened but not shocked as he was a daredevil of sorts but had a heart of gold, if anyone missed work he would head up alot of drives of some sort to help with money. he had crashed his first Hyabusa a year or so and when he recovered from that people would say " man I hope that taught you a lesson " his reply alot of the time was " but the speed is such a rush, besides something's gonna kill us all or you gotta go some way some time " His favorite tag line on text messages was "fly low" According to the stories I have heard the authorities estimated he was traveling 143 mph slid some 329 feet before impacting a car, he leaves behind a fiance and a 1 month old baby, he will be missed. R.I.P. Eric
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  • jabronij3
    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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  • jabronij3
    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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  • jabronij3
    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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  • jabronij3
    I'm having shoulder surgery tomorrow afternoon. To reattach the tendon to the top of my arm. 6 weeks with it in a sling. Dr. said not to move the upper arm at all. About a hour surgery. It's going to be a long time until July.
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  • jabronij3
    I think we should all pray for the safe and happy return of p3skyking.[}:)]
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  • jabronij3
    My grandma whom I currently live with has just been diagnosed with bone cancer and she is very scared as am I.

    I honestly dont know what else to say.
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  • jabronij3
    Yesterday, (01-10-2011), at about 1800 hours my 17 year old daughter and a friend had a bad wreck just outside of Commerce, Texas. They were going to eat and hit a slick bridge. There was a Txdot truck and a sanding truck stopped on the bridge with the right lane open. She hit the bridge and started sliding. Like most inexperienced drivers she hit the brakes because she was headed toward the bridge rail. The car spun around and hit the back of the Txdot truck right in the passenger door. The girls were lucky. My daughter ended up with a couple stitches in her forehead and the other girl ended up with a chip on each side of her hip. Not a serious injury requiring surgery but said to be a very painful injury with a long painful recovery and rehab. My last words to her before she left were, "Drive slow and watch the bridges especially after it gets dark".

    Both girls will spend the night in hospital tonight. My daughter was transferred to Parkland in Dallas with a subdural hematoma. They wanted a Neurosurgeon to look at her just as a precaution.

    We had such high hopes for 2011 especially after loosing my son in March of 2010 and now already ten days into 2011 and this. I don't know how much more we can endure. Please pray for us and for Ally, (my daughter), and Jeanette, (Ally's friend).

    The car is totalled and with only liability insurance we are perty much screwed. Oh well. Life goes on.

    Thanks for any and all prayers.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/BMW65/allieswreck113.jpg
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  • jabronij3
    Some close family friends lost there daughter today less than a mile from my home. Rebecca was with her church youth group along the Washougal river Sunday afternoon when she told her Friends she was going to inter-tube by herself a little ways down the seemingly calm river and would return in 45 minutes. After a hour her Friends became concerned and started searching and then called 911 for assistance. The sheriffs departments search and rescue unit searched into the early morning and then resumed searching after the sunrise this morning (I joined the search after learning about the missing girl unaware who she was until I saw her mother at the rivers bank)We searched all along the banks while divers searched under rocks and in the deep eddies that are prevalent along that portion of the river. We prayed that she was safe and possibly only lost. Her body was found almost 24 hours after disappearing less then a hundred yards from where she was last seen.

    Rebecca who was only 17, was involved in auto accident just a year ago and was in a coma for two weeks and was hospitalized for months during her recovery.
    The last words I had with her a few weeks past were how fragile life was and how I felt her life had been spared for great things in her future. She was a very sweet Innocent young lady and now she is gone.

    If you could please say a prayer for her, and her family.
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  • jabronij3
    My wife is having a knee replaced this afternoon. A kind word would be appreciated. Thanks Jay

    Every thing went fine had her up this morning walking. 2 or 3 days in the hospital then home. PT 3 times a week looks like I get to use some of my sick leave. Thanks guys Jay
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  • tobefree
    Odd we are going though the very same thing here as well, except he was killed on Friday!!!
    Prayers sent!!!!
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  • jabronij3
    quote:Originally posted by tobefree
    Odd we are going though the very same thing here as well, except he was killed on Friday!!!
    Prayers sent!!!!

    sent from here for your situation
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  • LOKO383
    quote:Originally posted by tobefree
    Odd we are going though the very same thing here as well, except he was killed on Friday!!!
    Prayers sent!!!!
    same here one of my brothers in the Elks lodge was coming home two nights ago on his harley from work and a black lab ran out in front of him, broke both legs.his neck in two places and he's had surgery on his brain once already. and he was wearing a full face helment...they are talking about taking him off life support tomarrow..all sad situations..prayers sent for all parties..GOD give the families strength..Loko
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