Grandma

I'll start this new blog of prayers with a request to pray for my grandmother, Evelyn Dougherty Peek. While my Mom was here, helping us care for Gabriel and the rest of the family, my grandmother fell and broke her arm. It was set surgically and things seemed ok at first, but her condition began going down hill rapidly. My flew out to Denver the next week to help my Aunt care for her. To make a long story short, she wound up in the emergency room after several days of severe nausea and not eating. She was diagnosed with pancreatitis and admitted for a week. She was released from the hospital yesterday, but to a rehab hospital to help her hopefully go home soon. She is doing better, but because she has been in so much pain and unable to care for herself, it had been understandably difficult for her and she has not quite been herself. Please pray for her and for her daughters (my mom and her two sisters) as they cope with this stage of life where the caretaker roles are reversed. It isn't easy for any of them and it is hard to be so far away and helpless to do anything but pray, and listen. You should know my grandmother is a proud and stubborn woman (hmmm...sounds a little bit familiar, but I'm not sure why...) who has helped so many in her 86 years. We love her very much. Thanks.