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Post by allglorytogod on Oct 13, 2008 13:42:32 GMT -5
... Hi Sister Darlene ... You and yours are in my thoughts and prayers
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Post by angelicvoices on Oct 13, 2008 15:55:33 GMT -5
I am praying for comfort for you and your family.
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Post by allglorytogod on Oct 18, 2008 20:23:46 GMT -5
Hope you are better sister ... pray for you every day
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Post by sisterAmy on Oct 20, 2008 14:20:36 GMT -5
Bro Ben and Family~ You all are in our prayers here. I hope that things are beginning to look up for Sister Darlene and she is able to shake these issues and feel better soon. We will also keep your building projects in our prayers as well. Maybe the cooler temps will help our dear sister feel better too.
Blessings~ Sister Amy
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Post by benshelpmeet on Dec 4, 2008 20:55:16 GMT -5
Dear sweet sisters who have prayed for me,
I just found this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am out of the thick of the sickness I think.
I thought I was going to die. I suffered for months ( I still have the problem) with what I thought was Kidney pain. I came down with a respiratory virus and had a really bad cough for over 6 weeks, it was awful! At one point I think I had pneumonia.
Then I was in an accident, well almost a bad wreck, Ben slammed on the breaks so hard my bottom left the seat and my forehead hit the visor, I heard my neck crack! Then I was in bad pain all over for days and had to go to the chiropractor. I'm still suffering from that daily.
Then I got a really bad stomach virus ( I guess that's what it was. ) I laid in the floor of the bathroom on a pallet, with a port a potty next to me for 5 days. I had bad problems. I was so weak. I even quit eating and was passing upper GI blood and bile. I thought I would die, I'm surprised I didn't. I decided to just ride it out and not go to the doctor because I had quite a few Dr. visits and a ultrasound and spent quite a bit of money that we didn't have, and they found out nothing profitable to help me with my kidney pain. ( I'm still suffering from that.)
The Lord brought me through the stomach virus, now all I deal with is my new neck and back pain, and my poor kidneys.
As for our camping out experience we fought the elements in many ways, cooking with an extension cord on our front porch, we washed dishes in two dish pans. During the rainy days it was really hard to cook and wash dishes.
Our covered front porch became our living room where we hung out during the day , around 4 each day the mosquito's would come out. Yikes!... and the scratching would start up.
So many things went wrong, our refrigerator and freezers defrosted from he immense heat, they were all 4 running off of 30 Amps and couldn't handle it. We lost lots of food.
Our spices got damp. we had to wash clothes in the middle of our yard in direct sun, rain , you name it... We had close mold from piling up on rainy days until we learned to just wash them and hang them out in the rain.It was so hard on my poor girls and I. ( we were washing for 9 people ) Poor Bro. Ben had to tough it at times with his work clothes damp, or wearing the same pants twice. I felt so bad for him.
We had chiggers, mosquito's, and tick bites so bad we scratched our legs and arms raw, we still have the scars. One night a mosquito bit my little girl and her eye swelled shut. We had bee stings numerous times.
I ended up twice with a severe heat rash, it was so hot I took two and three showers a day.
We moved to our property because we got robbed on May 25th 2008, my oldest daughter helped me pack up our rental house of 11 years and the farm and sell our 9 goats and 2 horses in just 5 days.
As soon as we moved to our property our friends delivered us a travel trailer, the water heater broke the first week and we had to take cold showers...burrr About 1 month after we moved the pipe in the trailer broke and then we had to bathe in the hose after dark with absolutely freezing cold water! We let water heat up in jugs in the hot sun for the children to take baths in a #3 tub. (that was an ordeal, filling all those jugs.)
We camped out on the floors on pallets, brother Ben had to sleep on an old van seat (with a chair for his feet and a chair beside him for his arthritic shoulder. Because of his arthritis he could not get up and down off the floor, we bought tents and the weather ruined two of them. Money...money...money! We were constantly spending money... Roughing it is expensive, we had constant needs, but I can say the Lord carried us through, all our needs got met.
We have a nice out house but it was sort of hard on us at night because our batteries would run out or we would misplace the flash light.
Once the shower was installed, even before our walls were up we hung tarps in the house and took showers...that was great! The water was still freezing though, it would take your breath away.
My girls would take turns going back and forth to the barn toting a round laundry basket full of the items we needed from the barn which was 200 feet away from the cooking area. Sometimes they would forget an item and have to run all the way back to the barn to get it. After a while it got hard on them and began to wear on their good nature and willingness to serve their family. They would begin to bicker and say can't she go this time, then the next girl would want the next one to go. It was so hot, we thought we would parish, I've never sweat (not perspired) so much in my life. And the funny thing is I didn't loose a pound.
These type of situations try the soul. After about 3 months my girls broke, no one wanted to help do anything, they became fussy, I honestly did not know what to do. I prayed hard for my precious girls ( the three oldest ) the other children never missed a lick, they didn't seem to mind all the hardships, not even the bug bites. My girls were actually strengthened by all this, I know they have learned to be thankful in all things. We have learned so much about ourselves and suffering. I have left alot of details out, I cannot remember everything.
These are actually all fond memories now that it's all over. We are so thankful we made it through to the other side alive and well. ;D
Love, ~sister Darlene ~
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