Prayer request for Blackwater

[smokeywolf]

Prayers continuing for you. Hoping that the appt. with your specialists produces the results and info you need to map a path back to general health.

[DoubleAdobe]

I too just saw this and am sending prayers, good wishes and all.
Gosh, Dennis, get well and know that you have a lot of good people rooting for you.Hoping to hear more good news from your corner soon.

[OS OK]

Well Dennis, you giving that ole PC Dr. Legal a piece of your mind must have been the right medicine for the day...you sound pretty good in spirit, at least those typing fingers can still put out a novel!

Don't start feeling all warm and fuzzy cause your getting your own Dr.'s on the job...I'll bet your gonna get a 'horse sized hypo' right in the butt before it's over! . . . . . . "Oooowiieee!"

You know your in my prayers Dennis.

[smoked turkey]

Blackwater you have been on my mind today. We are praying for your medical condition. I am glad that you listened and went with your internal radar to get somewhere where you can feel your getting the best treatment. I am praying for wisdom and guidance for you provided by the Holy Spirit. May He also guide and direct those who are doing testing and figuring out what exactly they need to do for you.
Stan

[GhostHawk]

Still praying brother. Hang in there brother, not ready to try to step up to fill your shoes yet.

[aspangler]

Saw this thread this morning but got called away before I could type anything. Blackwater, I am praying for you that God's hand will be on you and heal you quickly.
Your Bro. in Christ, Albert.

[toallmy]

God bless ,

[GhostHawk]

Ohh Lord God Almighty, I come to you this morning with praise and concern.

You have lifted me up, you have rained blessings down upon me. Thank you Lord.

I am however concerned about my brother Blackwater Lord. He is not well, he needs your healing love Lord. Wrap him in your arms, heal him if it be thy will Lord. He does much here in the chapel to bring others to you Lord.

I do not go against your will, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
But if it can be Lord, I ask it. I beg for it.

Either way be with him in this time of trial Lord.

In the name of the Father and the Son, two together as one and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

[Boaz]

Amen .

[Boaz]

Help Blackwater Lord , guide those in charge of giving him care here . Give him and his family strength and comfort . Please speed his recovery Lord . Amen

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I'm still prayin' for you brother...

[w5pv]

Praying for Blackwatwer well being

[GhostHawk]

Still here praying brother. Updates?

[johnson1942]

blackwater, as a retired registered nurse the worst kind of Dr. one can have is someone who wont send their patient on to someone else if they cant figure it out them selves. it is very selfish of them and they are all about them selves. i dont know if this was the case but could be. if you find your self in that situation again do as my first cousin did. he had tremendous neck and head pain and they said at the hospital he was in it was nothing. so he took his room phone and called a ambulance co and said come and get me and take me to the other hospital. they did and he had a broken neck and had to wear a halo for a long time so it would heal. later he also called the first hospital and said, try and bill me, i will own you if you try. they didnt. if you feel you have been wronged at the hospital contact a medical malpractice lawyer and get a consult. he or she will tell you if you have something. you should never ever be in the dark about what is going on when you are in the hospital. when my mother inlaw had a bleed in her head several years ago a underskilled dr. wanted to keep her under his care and the results would be that she would have died. i said to him this, fly her to mayo and fly her now or i will own every thing you own and i told him the name of the lawyer i was going to contact. thatr lawyer was a dr. also and then become a lawyer. he had her flown to mayo and they saved my mother inlaw and she can even walk and talk as she did before the bleed in her brain. some times you just have to draw the line in the sand and back it up even if you just pay a lawyer and one time fee to come with you to talk to them. get a consult from a medical malpractice lawyer, the first one should be free, maybe you wont even have to pay the bill. every one in that hospital will watch out for each other, dont go to them. right now i had a incident with the nursing home my mother is in. they think they put the run on me and they dont know that from now on one mistake and they belong to me. all i did was ask some questions after my mother fell and broke a couple of small bones. one staff member said my nursing is out dated and not used much anymore. wrong oh man is she wrong. i wont talk to them anymore but now they are under the microscope. just to let you know, there is a group mind at every hospital. it comes from the top. the profit places are the worst.the only time you will get there attention is if you are a threat to the money. call a lawyer and next time see a kidney(nephro) dr. keep us posted.

[buckwheatpaul]

Father please continue to be with Blackwater and help him to heal through his physicians. Please whisper into their ears and have them advise Blackwater about what is wrong and what they are doing to cure his ailment. Father, Blackwater is a faithful person who puts You first and I am praying that You return his health unto him. AMEN

[GhostHawk]

Ohhh Lord my God, source of love and inspiration, font of ever flowing love and healing.
Be with my brother blackwater as he struggles with this time of trial.

If it can be restore him to health that he might return to being a good shepherd to your flock.

If it can not be, if his time is come, gather him quickly into your loving hands and console his family.

Not my will but thine be done Lord on earth as it is in Heaven. He is a good man and is deserving of your care.

In the name of the Father and the Son, two together as one with the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

[Blackwater]

Today's sitrep: I'm better than I was, but still not as good as I need to be. I'm so tired and dragged out! Still hard to make water or defacate. Certainly not normal yet. But at least it's getting better, if slowly so. The meds my kidney doc gave me seem to be working, and there's all indication that the infection has been met and stopped. Now, I think I mostly just need to heal and recover, and get my eliminations back to normal.

And Johnson, thanks for the advice. I've had a number of opportunities to sue the local hospital on behalf of Mom and Dad, but just never felt right about suing a local facility. I'm not TOTALLY averse to that, though, and if it's the only way to get them to do right, I'll certainly take it. And I have a friend who knows the lawyer in Savannah who is probably THE best med. malpractice lawyer in SE Ga., and one of the best in the state in all probability. And he seems to enjoy "sticking it to them" when they've been overly haughty. So I'd already wondered if that might not be what's needed here. The idjits that run at least some of these "for profit" hospitals just don't seem to respond to anything less, and while I'd MUCH rather go another way, if it has to be, I'll just shrug and go with it. I think they're used to PC overriding almost all cases, and intimidation of patients seems to be their stock in trade when they meet with resistance. They don't seem to be used to patients who demand to be dealt with rationally and effectively, and who refuse to kowtow to their pretensions.

All I wanted was to simply know what they were doing, the results, and how they were interpreting it all. What I got was one Dr. after another not relaying info to the next one that I'd given them, that had great bearing and needed to be passed on for my docs to understand better what to do in my case. It seemed all I got was a "by the book" treatment, with NO specialization to my particular case. And I'm no doc, but I DO at least know enough to know when I'm not being treated effectively. They DID at least have the right tests being run, but absolutely refused to talk to me about them, and the implications of changes as they occurred.

I did get a little music to my ears from my kindney doc Thursday, when he said I wasn't near having to go back on dialysis again!!! THAT was a BIGGIE for me! He was actually mildly complimentary, albeit through the back door, about my leaving AMA. He couldn't support it, of course, and I didn't expect him to. He's one of those rare docs who seem to be born to do what he does. Haven't seen my urologist yet, but will this week, I think. He's a friend, and I've worked on his guns before. He's demanding as a client, and he was well pleased, so we got to be kind'a friends, and he asks me questions on occasion during OV's about his shooting and guns. I trust him a lot. And I'm SO grateful to have these kinds of docs now too!!! For a number of years, I searched for a GP I "clicked" with, and found him in the next county. He's my GP and main diabetes doc, and he's long been a bit of a specialist for a GP in diabetes. I've been an awfully lucky guy to have found the docs I have, and I'm VERY thankful for that.

Thanks again guys, for all the prayers and advice. I'm still not up to being online much. Mostly just lay around with my lips pooched out, wishing I felt better and weren't so dragged out feeling. But this too will pass, one way or another. And thanks for your ongoing prayers as I heal up, hopefully. You folks are the best.

[shoot-n-lead]

More prayer sent, Blackwater...I love your attitude, brother.

[Boaz]

Still praying . Really glad to hear your not not on dialysis , that is a blessing . Be better and post when you can . GOD bless !

[Riverpigusmc]

prayers. I miss his insight