Phil,

Please let George and his famiy know that I'm praying for them. I'm also
praying really hard for George and his Daughter as well.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson



At 11:46 PM 10/3/04, you wrote:
>George called me last night before leaving for work.  He works nights from
>10 PM till 6 or so in the morning for Wal-Mart.  His daughter is still in
>the hospital and they were giving her the wrong medication for like four
>days until somebody figured it out.  Her cat scan, as I mentioned, showed
>further deterioration of her lungs.  I knew, the moment George told me this,
>it would trigger an anxiety attack sooner or later.  When he got home, he
>slept for awhile before going to work but when he got up last night, he
>called me and we prayed.  I could tell on the phone how bad he was and had
>already instructed him about the medication he was on.  He was already
>taking more than the doctor said.  When I got off the phone with him last
>night, I prayed throughout the evening for him because the way he sounded, I
>was afraid he might take more medication just to get relief.  He did and
>over dosed.  No, he wasn't trying to kill himself.  If he was, he would have
>taken the whole bottle.  Some Christian neighbors took him to the emergency
>room.  He was ok but had to be taken to the mental health hospital to answer
>some questions like, what do you think you were doing any way taking that
>much dope?  The county sheriff drove him to the hospital and as they went,
>come to find out, the cop is a born again Christian.  He sat with George
>during the meeting with the mental health specialist and George told this
>unsaved guy everything about intercessory prayer, the Lord, renewing of the
>mind, and a whole lot more.  Of course, George was probably a little high by
>this time, haw.  The MH guy probably thought, well, shoot, that Christian
>prayer stuff ain't helping him at all but George said he told the guy, if
>you think I am bad now, you should have seen me 11 months ago.  The sheriff
>invited George to come to his church on the way home.  This experience,
>believe it or not, has already brought some special healing to George and
>his wife in ways that would take a book to describe.  I called George's cell
>phone last night while I thought he was at work but his neighbor answered
>and I thought it was his wife.  The neighbor never told me, of course, she
>was at the hospital at that moment with George.
>
>Phil.