What Prayers Are For

I am writing this post to follow up on the prayer requests I made via Twitter yesterday evening. I can not thank those of who you responded to me or prayed for those family members I mentioned enough. I told you I'd provide details once I knew them, and here they are.

My grandmother on my mom's side, and my only grandmother since age 5, was admitted into the hospital late last week because she was unable to breath or stand. After running tests, they've discovered that she has severe sleep apnea which she's been dealing with for some time and her oxygen levels are low. At the beginning of this week it looked as though she was taking a turn for the worst, but was admitted back into the hospital and is being treated now. More than anything at this point, please pray that she feels encouraged. She isn't keen of the idea of having to live on oxygen for the rest of her life, and we all know how much attitude matters with anything, especially life itself. She's never really been sick, so dealing with it isn't coming easy for her.

We had a distant cousin who lost his battle to cancer yesterday so please pray for his closer family/friends who are dealing with this right now.

My aunt was having symptoms last night that lead us to believe last night that she was experiencing a heart attack, so she was rushed to the ER. She's back at home now after being diagnosed with low potassium levels and anemia.

Tomorrow morning we're leaving town for 2 weeks so none of this was seeming to occur at the most appropriate time (not that illness can ever be appropriate). In a moment of concern, I requested your prayers. After all, that's what prayers are for right? Moments of concern!

Again, thank you all so much.