VickieLou, I'm praying for your family and your dad! I hope things go well!
The past few days I haven't exercised, (or eaten anything really) because I found out a friend of mine who I've known almost my whole life committed suicide. It's a tragedy, and has majorly affected me. Please pray for strength, and that God will comfort his family and friends with a blanket of peace.
VICKILOU ~ prayers going up for your DAD (Dick) that all goes well with his treatments ...
HAPPENSTANCE ~ prayers on there way for your friend, his family, and friends (like yourself) for comfort and peace during this sad time. Try to eat a little something to keep up your strength ...
Last edited by Justwant2Bhealthy; 02-15-2011 at 08:22 PM.
First, I have a praise that I was able to talk to my friend, Diana, yesterday and they believe the radiation has killed the cancer in her hip. Praise God for that!! She's still on chemo and still having lots of bad side effects from that though, so still asking for prayers for the sick, flu-like side effects of that to go away (she's been having these effects since Christmas).
Next, I have another request for my DH and situations at his work. Since we came here 5 1/2 years ago, there have been problems-unsafe practices by other workers that go ignored by management, favoritism by management (even to the point of less skilled and less senior employees getting promotions rather than my DH). In the last week, they had a person come in who's a 'mock OSHA' inspector and she listed out many, many things that would be violations if the real OSHA would come in (most of which my DH had listed out a couple years ago, because he has 25 years experience at this job). Now, management is ignoring the recommendations on what needs fixed, including having no fume hoods over chemical areas in the lab my DH will have to work in (it's a new construction being put up by a friend of one of the management's 'favorites'). DH also caught one of these contractors running plant equipment in violation of the lock-out procedures and union contract, but the 'favored' employee says he lets them do it all the time, which is very scary, as someone could get killed if they turn on something that's supposed to be locked-out. That apparently turned into something of a yelling match yesterday. Things aren't being done to code or contract and are being done by unqualified people.
So, after this long, yet not nearly inclusive, explanation, my prayer request is for safety for my DH, including his vehicle, as we've already had 2 mysterious flat tires, due to nails, on his car. It would also be nice if HR, who has been contacted on several occasions, would finally step in and remove a couple of the managers who are allowing this stuff to go on. In the other plants my DH worked at before this transfer, the offending 4 employees would have been fired 3 years ago, but here, the management seems to like the 'kiss-up' attention and atmosphere.
Thanks and know that I'm praying for all requests here, too.
Today my family and friends will be having our #4 Grandma Judi's Chili celebration. A time we set aside to honor and remember her and all of our loved ones that have passed on. We play games inside and out and I make my mom's chili and my family favorite and Angie makes her white chili.
Today will be a bit sad as my sister and her mil will be taking my bil's aunt off life support...Aunt Val was always a part of Grandma Judi's Chili Celebration and always at our house for holidays and bbq's....she will be missed!
What she is going through once again reminds us of how precious life is....we thank you Jesus that our life does not end here as we believe in you and what you did for us!
GARY ~ to you & all your family at this time -- your family memorial gathering is a great idea. You & Angie are a blessing to your family; hopefully this celebration of life will continue perpetually ...
And I am sure the Grandma Judi Chili celebration will continue...we are already working on the kids moving our family traditions into their homes....although they still want them at my house because THAT is the tradition...then I explain that it is now but before it was at Grandma Judi's
The date for the GJCC is never the same...I designated it a few years back to be a week or so after the Super Bowl...we make it flexible so most/all can come.
My brother in law's Aunt Val moved here after she retired 25 years ago...she has been a part of my family ever since...another reason to continue the celebration...after yesterday and knowing she will no longer be with us it increases the reason we do these things.
We are fortunate to have almost all of our family close.
Gary-I know you're probably gone for the week, but just wanted to say how sorry I am for your loss. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers.
Update-my DH finally decided he'd had enough and has filed a complaint to the company's ethics board. Not sure if it will do much good, but it does come with the protection of them not being able to trump up some reason and fire him-he'll be considered a 'whistle-blower' and they would have to have much substantiated proof of wrong-doing to fire him. He'll be parking within view of the video cameras as well, to help prevent those mysterious flat tires.
