[__ Prayer __] Prayers & Praise!

[Luminous_Rose]

First, the praise:

My father has worked as a firefighter for over 20 years and today was his last day of work. He is officially retired. They did his last call this morning before he came home to announce his retirement over the scanner system and in the firehouse. It was a bit of an emotional moment for me in a way - I would have horrible nightmares as a teen that I'd find his burnt body or get news that he died in a fire and wouldn't be coming home. Some nights were just scarier when dad would work a few 24 hour shifts a week and my mom, siblings, and I would pray for my dad's safety while he was working. Other firefighters haven't been so fortunate and never make it to their retirement. Praise the Lord that my father has made it all these years as a firefighter and that God has kept him safe!


Then, the prayer requests:

-For my husband and I to each me able to find part-time jobs. My husband's health is doing better, but still isn't 100% and we're not sure if/when it will ever be. He got super sick in September and ended up resigning in October, now we're in January and we know our funds to get through probably aren't going to last more than another month. We have had plenty of financial help and God has blessed us again and again and that's why we've made it this far. My husband wants to be able to get back to working, but knows he couldn't do it full-time at this point. Pray that we can both find a part-time job and if it comes to it, that I'll be able to get a full-time job. We haven't gotten a lot of responses back from applications even though these places are supposedly dying for workers and it is getting a bit frustrating.

-My husband and I are also considering starting a business venture again. We're taking time to think and pray about it. Taking time to go over the details and see if this is something we can realistically do in the long run; trying to calculate for all sorts of worst case scenarios and if we have a solution for them. We miss working for ourselves and the freedoms that came with that and if we can't seem to get hired anywhere, we might have to start something.

 

[eddif]

Praying

How did the ear problem turn out?

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[Luminous_Rose]

Praying

How did the ear problem turn out?

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If this is referring to the ear infection I had a while ago (sorry, my memory isn't always the sharpest) where I was having issues walking and such - it all went away with antibiotics after the compacted ear wax got cleaned out. I had much more energy after that.

Lately, I've been having the worst allergies, hives, breaking out on my face pretty bad. Air filters are helping, but I have no clue what I'm even reacting to. I'm so tired each day. I guess it's something in the air. I feel much better when I go for a ride away from this neighborhood. Our neighbors also burn all sorts of wood this time of year and I wonder if I'm having issues with this at times, but I can't be for certain.

Thanks

 

[eddif]

If this is referring to the ear infection I had a while ago (sorry, my memory isn't always the sharpest) where I was having issues walking and such - it all went away with antibiotics after the compacted ear wax got cleaned out. I had much more energy after that.

Lately, I've been having the worst allergies, hives, breaking out on my face pretty bad. Air filters are helping, but I have no clue what I'm even reacting to. I'm so tired each day. I guess it's something in the air. I feel much better when I go for a ride away from this neighborhood. Our neighbors also burn all sorts of wood this time of year and I wonder if I'm having issues with this at times, but I can't be for certain.

Thanks

The only time I broke out in hives was from the antibiotic
Lincocin. If that is spelled correctly. Now it is just usually used for livestock (pigs?).

I had the joy of having a mild case of shingles the 20th of December . By grace rash is almost gone and pain is about gone too.

I just about avoid all medicines, pain killers. I have had several mild reactions,

1 Peter 2:24 is about the only thing that works for me.
IP224 LOL

 

[for_his_glory]

This is good news about your father and I'm sure a relief on all of your family.

Is there any way that your husband can draw temporary disability until he gets better, as we are praying he does. If he could he still can work a few hours each week. You need to look into it.

It's just seems so weird as so many businesses are in dire need of help, but yet no one has hired you yet. It could be that God wants your desire to be opening your own business and will bless you greatly. Sometimes we can overthink our self into not doing those things we want to do. I know the both of you will make the right decision and always in my prayers.

 

[Luminous_Rose]

The only time I broke out in hives was from the antibiotic
Lincocin. If that is spelled correctly. Now it is just usually used for livestock (pigs?).

I had the joy of having a mild case of shingles the 20th of December . By grace rash is almost gone and pain is about gone too.

I just about avoid all medicines, pain killers. I have had several mild reactions,

1 Peter 2:24 is about the only thing that works for me.
IP224 LOL

I'm allergic to the penicillin family of antibiotics - that's never fun! Finding these things out is usually a hard lesson.

I wouldn't think shingles is fun, either. I've known people who have had it and they are often miserable. I hope that you're feeling a whole lot better and that it all goes away soon.

My family and I have a lot of issues with all sorts of different foods. It's hard for us to go out and eat anywhere, and even a walk through the supermarket can be problematic.

I'm still suffering from allergies today. Plenty of violent sneezing, runny noses, and more itchy skin and hives...I haven't changed anything in my diet so I'm a bit puzzled and feel this is going to be impossible to pin point. I just hope it all goes away soon

 

[Luminous_Rose]

This is good news about your father and I'm sure a relief on all of your family.

Is there any way that your husband can draw temporary disability until he gets better, as we are praying he does. If he could he still can work a few hours each week. You need to look into it.

It's just seems so weird as so many businesses are in dire need of help, but yet no one has hired you yet. It could be that God wants your desire to be opening your own business and will bless you greatly. Sometimes we can overthink our self into not doing those things we want to do. I know the both of you will make the right decision and always in my prayers.

Yes, we are all super relieved that Dad has made it to retirement!!! A big breath of fresh air!


I've been wondering the same thing about temporary disability. His primary care doctor he's looking to change for many reasons, but he's been spending a lot of time with specialists. It seems that they're going to charge us a fee for the paperwork, but they're not wanting to do it at this point, either. His primary doctor even told him no to filling in leave of absence paperwork for until a week after his work needed it - she just wouldn't do it for him and it became harder for him to even keep his job so he let it go. She hasn't even been wanting to tell him what his condition was and he learned it from the phlebotomist so she hasn't been wanting to talk about disability paperwork.

He's been trying to find a job, but I'm not confident in him getting a job at this point...at all. He sleeps all day long (some days this alone worries me), he has missed many interviews because he didn't wake up, sometimes right before an interview he ends up getting high fevers again, etc. I can't rely on him for a job at this point and it burdens me to even say that as he's been the sole source of income for us for many years.
I've been putting in applications for work for a few weeks now. I've only gotten one job interview that was this group thing and she said she would call us all individually to ask the more individualized questions since the wifi wasn't letting her pull up our applications that day. She said they're dying for people and that last time they literally had to hire whoever applied so I had high hopes, but it's been 2 weeks since the interview and she said we could message her about the status so I did two days ago and still nothing. My hopes for that are waning. There haven't been a whole lot of jobs around here that I can do (I can't drive so this cuts out a lot of jobs for me or sometimes employers see my ID card and I wonder if they think I'm lazy because I haven't learned how to drive - it hurts me a lot), and it's hard for me to do jobs that are life or death based decisions because if my judgement was impaired that day...all it takes is once and I'd feel guilty the rest of my life. Pretty much what's left is call centers, retail, and fast food (I'm still terrified of fast food...never done it and it seems like it could pose a lot of dangers for me, but I guess if that's what I get, I'm just going to have to pray it'll be all right). Lately, our only call center gave up their building and they're going full remote, which I can't do because my kids are too loud...

One of the jobs he went to the interview to only guaranteed him 3 hours a week (made all this talk about promoting him to lead and such), but they wanted him in the big city (2 hours away) for 5 days for training and they "might" comp gas, but there was no signed agreement. To pay gas money we don't have for a job that's 3 hours a week didn't seem worth it and my husband isn't supposed to be driving long distances like that - especially by himself. He decided to let that one go, which is okay.

His cardiologist hasn't found any problems with his heart, so there's nothing there he can sign for. The referal for the endocrinologist was put in like a month ago now and still no call back. His insurance kept refusing sleep studies for him, but his cardiologist pushed it through since he's concerned. Insurance will cover it, thankfully, but it means he's going to have to drive to the big city by himself to spend the night at a medical facility. We're both uncomfortable with him driving up there alone, it's not like he can just get a ride to and back because he's staying the night. If I go with the kids, he's going to have to drop us off at a hotel before he gets there, but it might be better than nothing if we can even afford it...

If one of the specialists finds something wrong, it'd probably be a bigger bet for trying to get temporary disability. Although, I'm confident they will find loads wrong with his sleep study...I've noticed speel apnea where he has periods of not breathing and such so I guess it's about time he had a sleep study. Perhaps if he gets another perimary care provider that's willing to work with him then he could perhaps get something filed.


We have a business idea that would be lower maintenance than cleaning houses like we did before and something we can do out of our home. Just gotta make sure what all business licenses and such we'd need. We don't have another business like it in the area so we have some hopes that it'll be a good, convenient thing to help us through. We so miss working for ourselves. We could take days off or only work 3-4 days a week if we wanted. If we had an appointment, we didn't have to put up with employers saying, "No PTO." or, "You can't have the day excused, it will count against you."

If it's from home, I feel like I can help a lot with this, too, and press to get the work done. We have a lot of hopes it can get us through, it's not easy to own your own business, but there are easier ways to do some things. We'll have to wait until tax time if we end up going for it for the upfront cost, which is thankfully low.

Thanks for all the prayers

 

[eddif]

I have a simple diet also.yesterday my wife decided to help find me a new food.
I read on the box:
Gluten free. That sounds good.
But it does not say No GMO ??
What it does say is: ( contains bio engineered food )
Which means it has GMO.
As a Christian the OT unclean foods are ok because all foods have been declared clean. I am trying to work through eating ground up old telephone poles (?) treated with bio engineered organisms, and declared food. And I used imagination to say telephone poles, but what is being declared food? This must be a spiritual battle of faith. I must be able to drink poison, but I am reading labels right now. Faith is not handling snakes on purpose. We are sure in a spiritual battle.

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[eddif]

Mark 7:18 kjv
18. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19. Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

I need to start a personal Bible study on faith to face todays synthetic foods.

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