Wow! It's Friday all ready!

..Seems like I missed a few posts.

Actually, dialysis is going well. The staff are really friendly. Because there are adequate numbers, the place is relatively quiet. Any alarms (normal in a dialysis center) are dealt with in a short time.

Each day as I'm feeling better, I feel a need for my own transportation. I'm only a mile from the clinic and feel like I'm such a burden on everyone.

On another note, I'm trying to get things arranged to spend a month in North Carolina with my son Jackie and his wife Kari and of course Charlotte. If you're the praying type, I'd appreciate a prayer about that. I'd be leaving on Sept. 9th and need there to be an opening on the 8th so I can get dialysis a day earlier. Man am I a high maintenance person!

I'm really grateful for the invite. wew hoo!

Please pray for Vince Sr this week. He's a good guy and needs our prayers.

Looking forward to Church this Sunday. Pastor's message have been real helpful, and have caused me to look at the way I think about things. The messages are worth listening to again to try to apply them.

Have a great weekend!

Love, Dan

Thank you Lord!

Just heard from Al that Janet's surgery went well.

Please continue to pray for her recovery and also for Al's health problem.

Love, Dan

prayer request

I was talking to the social worker Thursday and was telling her that one medication I buy costs 1/3 of my income per month.

Anyway, They are going to ask the doctor if there is any other less expensive, but effective medication. So that's my prayer request. If you are on medications, many of you already know they are expensive and if you have to have them, you have to have them.

I'm not complaining. Even if there is not another medication to replace it. God has been so good to me and you have been so good that I don't have the right to complain.

What I'm more concerned with is some of you. Janet is going to have surgery Monday I think. Please pray that she would be at peace about it.

Please pray for Aaron for another matter.

The absolute truth is that God is sufficient for all our needs!

Love, Dan

Ah yes!

Another succesful dialysis!

 

I'm enjoying some of the techniques they use.  Just little things that seem so make it more pleasant.

 

Please pray that I may reach Craig, Roxanne, and Luana (patients) with the gospel.  The way it's laid out we have some opportunities to talk.  Not a lot, but some.

 

Love, Dan

Brace worked

The back brace worked on Sunday. Was able to stand much longer.

Weak today.

Please pray for Janet and Al. She has surgery soon. Pray it works out.

Lesson learned this week:

If you make an agreement between friends, write it down. There can be much misunderstanding on both sides later if you don't.

You could lose a good friend.

Love, Dan

Friendly place

The new dialysis center seems to be working out.

The people are friendly and the patients are kidding around which, to me, is a sign of a good place. Our chairs are not hidden so much from each other, that if you want, you could talk to the person next to you.

I know there is always a honeymoon period, but the relaxed atmosphere indicates to me, so far, that this is a good place.

Another thing it that the dialysis machine alarms aren't constantly going off. If they do, the tech corrects the problem in short order.

I, once again, have another opportunity to make a first good impression.

Today I'm looking forward to the worship service to hear what Pastor has to say. I'm also looking forward to hear how the picnic at the Sturgill's went.

I bought a back brace so I could stand longer during the service and to talk to our members and visitors during break time. I've really missed that these last months. God has been so good to me, I want to pass that on to others and to see how I can encourage them.

Boy, this letter is full of a lot of I's. Going to have to work on that.

Please pray for Carolyn and Al and Vaughn as they deal with physical issues.

There are so many people with spiritual issues. Help me by your prayers to be an encouragement, if at all, to as many as the Lord allows.

You be an encouragement to others that God puts in your life too.

Love, Dan

Hi Friends

...and family

Had a pretty good dialysis yesterday. They took too much weight off of me and that sapped my strength today.

But I'm going to see 3 of my sons play softball in a bit.

Seeing our church family Wednesday night and missing some that didn't come it reminded me.

It reminded me to not take anyone for granted.

Life if so so short.

Please pray for one another and

hope to see you in church Sunday or to hear you've been in your church.

Love, Dan

For God KIND of loved....?

...no God wasn't "wishy-washy" about us... He SO loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...

 

...and I'm SO glad He did.  One of the benefits of having "end stage renal disease" is that it gives me a lot of time to think, pray, and observe.  I'm SO glad He gave me this opportunity that I might not ever have if I had continued in the rush of life.

 

I had prayed to be transferred to a new dialysis place so I could get all my doctors in the same system so they could know each other when I get in trouble and they need to make important decisions on my care.  But as I sat in dialysis yesterday (which went fine by the way), I was kind of bummed.  Bummed because they changed my hours later.  That put a burden on you that I didn't really want.  Sher of course had to get up for the last several months at 5:30am and maybe in a way God is giving her a break finally.

 

The Lord willing some day I'll get another car and drive my self.  My sister Linda or my daughter said "what happens if you are too sick to drive?".  Then that will be an exception for the day and I'll have to burden someone to take me and pick me up.  But the other days I can drive my self.  Actually I've been feeling good the last 3 months except for a few days.

 

  I have mentioned getting my own vehicle a while back and a few of you said that I would be taking a blessing away from them.

 

That would be something I'd ask you to pray about.

 

 

Please pray for Carol Crumpton's grandson, Jake.  I understand he is in grave condition.  Also for the family that God would give them peace about the situation.

 

Also for Jim Pantele's stepmother children,  Ashleigh and Jonathan, on the loss of their mother.  Please ask God to comfort them and that they would have some Godly influence in their life as they grow up.

 

We only have one life to live in this world.  One life to live for the Lord and be a living testimony to His glory.  Let's not waste it.

 

One thing I need to work on is to lift one another up.  You know how they say when you go camping that you should leave nature in better condition when you came?  I want to leave this world having encouraged people by my talk and walk so that they do the same to others.  But most of all that they find the Lord and sing praises to His name!

 

This life is so short.  Let's not take for granted the friends and loved ones God has given us to be an encouragement to.

 

Love, Dan

New dialysis center

Well, tomorrow is the day for a new dialysis center. Of course I'm a bit apprehensive. I've been feeling pretty good overall for the last 3 months so I don't want to go downhill going there. But there are some legitimate reasons to do.

One thing is to get all my doctors on the same system. Another is for my blood thinners I'm taking. I should now get direct response here. The other center had to contact the blood testing unit, then contact my doctors at another place, then they would contact me back, sometimes a week later. Now, supposedly, they will get the results directly and let me know right away.

We'll see.

Another thing I'm hoping is that I'll be able to go for a shorter dialysis.

So, thanks again for your prayers. And thanks to the people who have volunteered to pick me up.

Love, Dan

Good

dialysis today

 

blood is way too thin

Another beautiful day

Had a good dialysis.

Went to lunch with some friends.

We need to encourage one another to love and to good works. I'm thankful for the life the Lord has given me and the people he has placed in my path.

Thank you so much for praying for me.

Please pray for one another.

Don't ever forget how the Lord has saved us and how He watches over us.

Do you know about the "silent sufferers" in your life? If not, seek them out, find out their needs, then pray for them. If you don't know any "silent sufferers", then ask me and I'll tell you about them. Silent sufferers are people that don't complain. They don't make it known about the trials they are going through, but nevertheless, they need our prayers and support.

Pray for Tony and Andrea as they move this weekend and all the work they are doing to get ready for the "big day"

If you can help them, then do.

Love, Dan

Wow!

Had a good dialysis today. I really appreciate the hard work the techs and nurses do to take care of us. For the most part, the majority of them are really a blessing.

p.s. the rest of them should find another line of work to do that would be more fitting to their talents.

Went and watched 3 of my sons play softball right after. It was great to be able to do that. I'm so blessed. They're such good sons.

I know one thing. If you have children or grandchildren, don't ever take them for granted.

Man, I wish I had my grandchildren's energy. If you could just bottle just a fraction of it...

Beautiful day. I'm looking forward to the privilege of going to church tomorrow. Can't wait to hear the message.

Please continue to pray for Ken at dialysis, and Al and Janet W and Carolyn. They definitely need our prayers.

Love, Dan

2 of the best daughters a dad could have!

Really anyone could have...

I called them this afternoon and asked for something for energy and they came back after work with all kinds of food packages to give me energy. Drinks, sandwiches, foods I could prepare real easy.

I am so ashamed to be thinking of myself. These girls are the best!

I just say thank you Lord for giving me such great daughters!

Love, Dan