Ronda

Please know I'm praying for you and ben?  *lots of hugs*
Jenifer gilley
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: about my life...


> Ben went to the doctor today.the doctor said he should get on a transplant
> list because he would run out of veins to do dialysis with! He asked if 
> Ben
> was feeling better, Ben said some but he was sure he'd feel better once 
> his
> anemia was better the doctor said he would never feel normal.I hate the 
> word
> never!! I think that doctors should not say that,  never is so final!
> He said transplants had problems of their own, one had to take steroids 
> and
> medications to keep the body from rejecting the kidney a  ray of wsunshine
> he wasn't!
> Honesty is good for a doctor, but  could you possibly temper that with 
> some
> compassion, hope,  sometimes I worry what if Ben were to die, he has so 
> many
> medical problems, high blood pressure, diabetes,  end stage kidney 
> disease,
> his sight  is not good at all now!!
> I realize logically that worrying is not a productive thing to do, but if 
> I
> am awake late at night, it seems those types of thoughts come in to my 
> mind!
> Just trying to take life one day at a time.that is all I have right now,
> not tomorrow, not yesterday!
>
> How is everyone?  Awfully quiet lately.
> I start classes tomorrow, so maybe that will give me something to occupy 
> my
> mind! Probably more than I wish to have.
>
> Know I am praying for all of you!
>
> Blessings!
>
> Rhonda
>