To Rick and All on prayer list and non-devotees

[Guest guest]

Rick wrote:

 

I don't know if she has ever met Amma, but in response

to the devotee who sent this in, I thought I might add her to the prayer

list.

 

Dear Amma, please bless and look after Judy Bar-Shimon, and her

boyfriend Stan Rosen of Fairfield. Judy is at U of I hospital in Iowa

City and may be dying of an auto immune disease. She can't move or even

swallow, and the doctors don't know what to do.

 

 

Dear Rick and All ~ I am not sure how others participating in our digest

feel, but I have always felt that it was more than okay to put someone on the

prayer list, whether the person knew or had met Amma or not. In fact, I have

simply assumed that there are people who are doing this. We are, after all, all

Her children. I will add Judy and Stan to the prayer list for two months. If

you think they should be on the list longer, please let me know.

 

Now a personal note: auto-immune diseases are afflicting more and more

people. I have read many accounts of people who, when they first developed

Fibromyalgia, could not move, couldn't get out of bed. Some get better; I talked

to

a friend of mine today who I didn't know had Fibromyalgia, and this is what

happened to her. For me, it has been more of a progressive illness, starting

off with irritating chronic, but not severe, pain, and then gradually getting

worse. Now I am to the point, where there are days I can't get out of bed.

Difficulty swallowing is one of the key symptoms of Fibromyalgia. I have great

difficulty swallowing much of the time, and it can be somewhat scary.

 

I am not saying this is what Judy has, but it could be, and if her doctors

haven't considered it, perhaps a little bee could whisper in her boyfriend's

ear. The truly sad aspect of this and other auto-immune diseases is that they

are all relatively new, and most doctors haven't a clue what to do to help

people who have them. (Sorry for the rant, but I went to town to run a couple of

errands this morning, just a couple ... half way through my errand run, I

was in severe pain, my stomach was cramping, and I wasn't sure I'd be able to

make the drive home. Fortunately, however, here I am, so I did make it.)

 

Amma Blessings to Judy and her boyfriend. Jai Ma ~ Linda

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

on 8/30/05 2:15 PM, nierika at nierika wrote:

 

>

> Rick wrote:

>

> I don't know if she has ever met Amma, but in response

> to the devotee who sent this in, I thought I might add her to the prayer

> list.

>

> Dear Amma, please bless and look after Judy Bar-Shimon, and her

> boyfriend Stan Rosen of Fairfield. Judy is at U of I hospital in Iowa

> City and may be dying of an auto immune disease. She can't move or even

> swallow, and the doctors don't know what to do.

>

>

> Dear Rick and All ~ I am not sure how others participating in our digest

> feel, but I have always felt that it was more than okay to put someone on the

> prayer list, whether the person knew or had met Amma or not. In fact, I have

> simply assumed that there are people who are doing this. We are, after all,

> all

> Her children. I will add Judy and Stan to the prayer list for two months. If

> you think they should be on the list longer, please let me know.

 

Thanks, I'll do that. And I wish you well regarding your own difficulties.