UPDATE ON MUM

09/03/2007 by Ted.

EVENING OF FRIDAY 9TH MARCH 2007. TODAY MUM WAS AS YESTERDAY - BRIGHT IN THE MORNING, SLEEPING A LOT DURING THE DAY AND TIRED AND READY FOR BED ABOUT 6PM. SHE HAS EATEN ALL HER MEALS ONCE AGAIN, TRIED LISTENING TO THE NEWS AND FELL ASLEEP WHILE LISTENING, THEN LATER PUT ON ONE OF HER TAPES AND DID THE SAME.

THIS EVENING SHE BELIEVES SHE HAS DISCOVERED THE REASON FOR HER STILL BEING HERE.  ONE OF THE CARERS, WITH WHOM GWEN WAS IN HOSPITAL WITH BREAST CANCER, CONFIDED IN MUM THAT SHE HAD BEEN IN AT THAT TIME WITH THE SAME DIAGNOSIS.  SHE HAS HAD CHEMOTHERAPY FROM TIME TO TIME SINCE THEN AND THE BREAST CANCER HAS BEEN CONTROLLED.  HOWEVER SHE RECENTLY DISCOVERED ANOTHER LUMP AND HAD TO GO FOR MORE CHEMOTHERAPY THIS WEEK. NO-ONE BUT THE MANAGERESS OF THE HOME IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM, BUT TONIGHT SHE UNBURDENED HERSELF, IN CONFIDENCE, TO MUM - BECAUSE HER OWN MUM DIED LAST YEAR AND SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR MUM - CARING, UNDERSTANDING AND A CHRISTIAN WHO LOOKED FORWARD TO THE ENJOYMENT OF THE LIFE TO COME. WITH MUM’S EXPERIENCE OF GWEN’S PROBLEMS SHE KNEW THAT MUM WOULD UNDERSTAND. SHE SAID THAT HER DAD IS LOVELY BUT DAD’S CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND LIKE A MOTHER. MUM HELD HER HAND AND TOLD HER THAT SHE WOULD PRAY FOR HER AND THE CARER SAID THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HER MOTHER WOULD HAVE SAID. SO IT APPEARS THAT MUM HAS BEEN KEPT TO BE A PSEUDO-MUM FOR THIS LOVELY CARER DURING HER HARD TIMES. THE CARER IS A CHRISTIAN WHO GOES TO CHURCH BUT MUM’S ASSURANCE IN THE LORD AND HER ABILITY TO GIVE HER SCRIPTURES WHICH BRING HER THE COMFORT SHE NEEDS AT THIS TIME IS PROVING A BLESSING. IF YOU HAVE ROOM ON YOUR PRAYER LIST, PRAY FOR THE CARER AT THAT SHE MAY EXPERIENCE THE COMFORTING PRESENCE OF THE LORD IN ALL THAT SHE HAS TO GO THROUGH. AND GIVE GOD THANKS FOR USING EVEN A 93 YEAR OLD, HEART-FAILED CHRISTIAN LADY TO HELP ANOTHER NEEDY CHRISTIAN ALONG THE WAY.

MORE TOMORROW,

LOVE TO ALL,

TED.

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