Request for prayers

Last week I made this layout from a FB photo my friend Judy had shared. (Judy is the itty bitty 5'2? woman just above the title under their boat.


We used to work together and if I say it myself, we made a great team. It turned out that she was from a small town in Pennsylvania and her family lived right behind the house my Aunt(married to my mother's brother) and her family lived! A town full of Irish and Eastern European coal mining immigrants. Not only did Judy and I work together we shared so much and became good trusting friends. When I retired, she stayed on in MD government but not for the same Senator we'd worked with.

Judy called me last night to sadly tell me the day she received the layout image she had just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Never smoked, never lived with a smoker but grew up in homes where asbestos was common place. But once you have a disease, how you got it isn't as important as how they can treat it. She has a very good oncologist and a friend working at the hospital where she's having a lung drained today and more tests. Her stalwart Philadelphia Irish roots husband is really having a hard time. She said each time he looks at the layout he starts crying. Never underestimate what a layout can do for someone not expecting it.

Prayers, any type of good thoughts @keepscrappin or energy work you can send her way would be appreciated. She's done Reiki and I do Jin Shin Jyutsu so we know how self help can work on the body. Her name is Judy Brennan and I love her.

 

Thank you all so much!! @BevG , @keepscrappin , @flowersgal , @LynnG , @Dalis, @Tree City, @scarletsierra , @Nemla ,@KimJ , @Cherylndesigns , @AJK ,@janedee, and especially @gonewiththewind I can't imagine what you all are going through with Theresa. So many surgeries... and that even if thry'tr part of the treatment it's such trauma to the body.

I think for me with Dick having swallowing issues for 6 or more months, we just kind of expected cancer. And Judy said she had had a terrible cough and exhaustion from January on, and suspected that she and her husband had contracted Covid coming back from the Virgin Islands around New Years Day. But this was before testing was easily available.

Love to you all and prayers from me to all who need them or just good energy. We all need it especially those who suffer in silence.

 

@A-M I missed you while writing. Thank you!