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Tomorrow morning, I will be having angiography to determine the precise location and extent of a significant blockage affecting arterial blood flow in my left leg. The surgeon's hope is to be able to address the blockage immediately and resolve it through placement of a stent. Presuming all goes well, I'll be home in mid-afternoon, spend the remainder of the week and the weekend recovering, and be able to return to work on Monday, free of the nearly debilitating pain that has been pretty much my constant companion these past 3 weeks.
Please keep me in your prayers, particularly that this can be remedied without more invasive surgical intervention, and that I be restored to full activity. (I didn't run marathons beforehand and don't expect to do so afterwards, but active little folk need a Dad who can be active with them - despite his creaky old bones.)
Thank you, my brothers and sisters.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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You know you are in my prayers  May the Lord guide the hands of those treating you tomorrow . May the treatment be successful without requiring more invasive treatment. May your recovery be swift and trouble free .
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Prayers for you Neil, and those who will be working with you!
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NEIL:
Prayers, my brother, for your full recovery.
Lord Jesus Christ, during your life you were surrounded by suffering and you eliminated it whenever you could. Look down on Your suffering servant, Neil, and ease his suffering. Come to his aid and encourage him at this time and in the time of his recovery. Guide the hands of his physicians as they seek to help him with the healing gifts you have given them. Through the prayers of Your Holy Mother, Lord Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, hear and answer our prayers on behalf of our brother and Your servant, Neil. And through the prayers of St. Nektarios, the holy physician of souls and bodies, grant neil the healing he needs to return to his family to praise Your Holy Name. Amen.
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Prayers for my home state friend, may all go well with your examination, procedure and recovery...
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Prayers that all goes well tomorrow. Extra prayers for the doctor who will be treating you!
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Come, Holy Spirit, renew our friend and brother Neil, healing him and giving him even more strength to serve his family, in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of the Father.
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Many prayers for you, Neil, that you may return to full strength and vigor, that your precious children may engage their loving dad with all their energy for many years to come.
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NEIL:
Prayers, my brother, for your full recovery.
Lord Jesus Christ, during your life you were surrounded by suffering and you eliminated it whenever you could. Look down on Your suffering servant, Neil, and ease his suffering. Come to his aid and encourage him at this time and in the time of his recovery. Guide the hands of his physicians as they seek to help him with the healing gifts you have given them. Through the prayers of Your Holy Mother, Lord Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, hear and answer our prayers on behalf of our brother and Your servant, Neil. And through the prayers of St. Nektarios, the holy physician of souls and bodies, grant neil the healing he needs to return to his family to praise Your Holy Name. Amen. AMEN--and may your guardian Angel and the Archangel Michael protect you from all evil and danger, and make sure that all goes well during the procedure. In Christ our Lord, Alice
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Lord of the Powers be with us, for in times of distress we have no other help but You. Lord of the Powers, have mercy on Neil and bring him back to the fullness of health.
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Heartfelt prayers for you, Neil, that God heal you, provide continuing good medical procedures and care needed, free you from further pain, and give you peace and a renewal of energy for those little ones.
Yours in Christ,
Mary Jo
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My thanks to all of you for your prayers. Unfortunately, the extent of artery involvement precluded stent placement to resolve the issue. I'll be admitted Monday for bypass surgery, which will keep me off-line for 3-4 days and out of work for that and the following week. So, I'd ask that you please continue your prayers.
Having spent 4 decades of my professional life assessing the quality of care afforded patients in acute hospital settings, I'm a very informed and critical observer of medical and nursing care. It was personally very gratifying to observe that the care provided to me by my surgeon and nurses met and exceeded all that one should expect - both professionally and in terms of being very personalized. My thanks to them and prayers for them.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Oh, my goodness, I have just gotten online to byzcath and just got to see this ...
I add my thoughts and prayers to those here and now that you will be having bypass surgery on Monday I will be remembering you.....!!!!
Glad to know your care was excellent this week.
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O Lord our God, Who by word alone did heal all diseases, Who did cure the kinswoman of Peter, You Who chastise with pity and heal according to Your goodness; Who are able to put aside every malady and infirmity, do You Yourself, the same Lord, grant aid to this Your servant Neil and cure him of every sickness of which he is grieved; lift him up from his bed of pain, and send down upon him Your great mercy, and if it be Your Will, give to him health and a complete recovery; for You are the Physician of our souls and bodies, and to You do we send up Glory: to Father, and to Son, and to Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Many years! and a speedy recovery!
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