Random post about something important

I know you LBY sisters probably don't know anything about this, but some of you might recall a few entries back in February about Jason's mother. I'll recap here:

She was having problems with her eye. It began to droop and closed involuntarily and she was unable to open it. She was suffering from headaches and frightened, went into emergency. The doctor told her she had an aneurysm and they would set up an angiogram to determine what to do next. After the angiogram another doctor told her she didn't have a aneurysm - that it was in fact - a mass. A tumor if you will. "A good tumor in a very bad place," they said to be exact. "A good tumor..." Meaning small, and "...In a very bad place," meaning on her brainstem between two major arteries. Then a third doctor said that they didn't know WHAT it was, but they knew WHERE it was and set her up with an appointment to see someone else.

The past few months came and went and they finally set her up with a surgery appointment to get it out, whatever it was. They said the surgery would take about 18 hours and of course the risks are great. The surgery was set up for Thursday, May 18th of this month.

A few hours before the surgery was supposed to take place, her doctor called her and told her that they had an emergency the night before, all doctors that were supposed to work on her were up all night and felt that it would be a very bad thing for them to perform this surgery in the condition they were in. They asked her if she minded if they could please reschedule. Colleen, being the soldier of God she is said in her perfectly gentle, southern belle voice, "Of course doctor, everything happens for a reason." They thanked her for her awesome attitude and set her up for an appointment on Thursday, June fifteenth.

What makes this story interesting is this: The night before the appointment, she had stayed at her friend, Jeannie's house because Jeannie was going to drive her and take care of her during the recovery. There was a fire at the house next door in the wee hours of the morning that eventually caused some damage to Jeannie's house. The fact of that matter is if Jeannie and Colleen had left well before sunrise to go to Galveston for the surgery, they would have left Jeannie's husband and all their dogs to sleep, blissfully unaware that the house next to them was burning down and about to burn them all in their dreams. "Everything happens for a reason," indeed. The fire was put out before it engulfed Jeannie's house completely and nobody was harmed in either.

Also, I felt terrible because I forgot to send out a prayer request the night before for Colleen and I called Jason the next day crying and asking if he had heard anything about her yet. That was when he told me this story. So now, I am making sure I get that prayer request out there, so when the time comes...If I forget the night before, it is out there already.

Please Lord protect Colleen in her time of need. Please bring the doctors on duty to her surgery bright eyed and fully aware. Guide their hands with precision. Keep us strong and faithful for her. Not that she really needs it, but just in case she's pretending to just be strong for all of us, please let us extend her the same courtesy. Please, Lord, above all things, if it is your will, save her for us. Please don't let her die or come away from the surgery a vegetable or paralyzed. If it is your will that any of that happen, God please I beg of you to give us all the strength to see it through with grace, love and gratitude for what we have. Amen.