Re: Reply to PLEASE READ .... KEN!!!IT IS IMPORTANT!!!

[Guest guest]

Ken, I am praising God with you! It it so good to hear your enthusiasm for

life and friends and God. I hope this joy remains in your heart and am already

praying for your next surgery on the 12th to be a success.

laura

kerri paquette <ksp2242@...> wrote:

((((((((((((((ken)))))))))))))))) glad you are back home and doing well, may God

continue to bless you and your family.

kerri sue

kenneth samuelsen <squarehead52@...> wrote:

Greetings to you all! a, Lynn, Tawney, Tess, Jan, Pat, ALL OF YOU: I

am so grateful to be alive! And the ONLY reason, which I believe with ALL OF MY

HEART is because ALL of you, who have kept me in your prayers,asking God not to

take me home yet,are the reason I am sitting here. Let me explain:

For some unknown reason, because I do NOT drink, my liver started

shutting down. I remember desperately trying to send Alvarez, (only

ONE of you who I hold dear to my heart) a messege, and the words were all

jumbled. Couldn't get them out right. Finally gave up. My legs, from my feet,

all the way up to my belly, were swollen terribly, my face and eyes were

yellow...This happened after my cataract surgury, which was a REAL trip,

because even tho' the surgery went GREAT ,they tried for an hour to wake me up,

and couldn't!. Finally, I did, went home(when I tried to contact Pat), and my

Lady, Tammy came home, tried to wake me and even tho' she could, I couldn't

STAY awake for more than a few minutes!

She rushed me to the V.A. Hospital, and they took one look at me,

and told Tammy that it appeared that I had extensive liver damage, and was

" shutting down " . They gave me a shot of something, and my heart started burning

so badly, and the burning spread all thru my abdomen.....the last thing I

remember, before blacking out was the Dr,yelling at me, " Ken, stay with us,

ken, stay with us! " .Just as I was going " down " . I remember calling for my wife,

and she came to me, and the last thing I remember was telling her " I've always

loved you with all of my heart! "

They tell me I slept for two days,hardly ever coming out of it for

more than a few minutes....Finally, when I DID wake up, with all of these tubes

running into and out of me, I did wake up. They then told me I had severe liver

damage, they didn't know yet how much....but upon weighing me, they told me

they had " drained twenty five pounds of " water " from my body! . I started

contemplating my own death,and couldn't quite come to terms with it. I wasn't

even quite sure of my Faith....Then I got a phone call from a friend, " Blue " ,

who has been my best friend for 35 years....then from Jim, same story. We've

always kept in touch, tho Jim lives in Seattle, and Blue lives in North Palm

Beach. At that pointe, I realized how much God Loves me, and Tammy told of how

she had called Alvarez, and of how so many of you all across the

country were praying for me. I can NEVER thank you all enough! Truly, as

Frost, Late Great American Poet once said: " Family

is NOT a manner

of " blood " ..........

it's a manner of LOVE!.

I'd been in the hospital five days by then. Satuarday, I awoke

feeling a world of better! Sunday, I felt even better than that! They took that

" real embarresing tube " out of me, by then (I'm sure you know what I mean,

haha). They had been running all kind of tests on me, to find out how much of

my liver was still working. C- scans....ultra sounds..they gave me e.k.g.'s.

all kinds of tests!I can't remember the name of the machine, but it was one

where they put you in a " tunnel " , kind of...they even did that!

Monday morning, my Dr. was supposed to come in and read all the

tests, and stuff.....time went on....and on...and on...and I'. wondering, by

this time " where the heck IS she, she TOLD me she would see me first thing in

the morning, and by now, it was afternoon.

Well, my Dr.finally showed up, and THAT was good, because I was

feeling really pretty good,tho very weak, and all I wanted was to GO HOME!(Has

anyone ELSE out there ever noticed how BAD hospital food was? and how their

idea if pajamas, which fall down every time you stand up ,to their thinking is

o.k.? ) Ha! I told Tammy to bring me a pair of flannel lounge pants, and the

guy in the room, who was across from me just " lost it " laughing, 'cause when

she got them to me, all HE saw was a pair of scrub pants come SAILING over the

curtain, to land in the middle of the room! Yeah, I was feeling pretty good by

then.!!

The Dr. FINALLY came in, and sat down on the bed next to me, and

motioned Tammy over.: Are you ready for this? I mean, ARE YOU REALLY READY for

this? She said she had gone over EVERY TEST over and over.................and

could NOT find ONE THING WRONG with me! NOTHING!!!!! My liver was working

just like it was supposed to, all the yellow went away, the weight went away

along with the swelling, and she could not find ANY liver damage! NOTHING AT

ALL!!!!!!

I believe in God the Father, maker of Heaven and earth, in

Jesus Christ, His only son, the power of PRAYER , and the power of THOSE WHO

LOVE YOU!!!!!!

And I believe that because of all of you who lifted me up in

prayer, and in love, when I needed it the most, because of YOU.....I was

healed! The Dr, said she could not figure it out, and she couldn't tell me what

happened, or what was wrong with me, and all that she saw was a 53 year old

man, in reletively good shape! Go Figure!

And by the way....for the firdt time in TWENTY YEARS I am sitting

here WITHOUT a pair of glasses! And nexx the ninth, I go in for " pre-op " . for

the OTHER eye, and they do the surgery on theOTHER one the 12th!!!!! FaR

OUT, HUH?

i AM SORRY THIS HAS BEEN SUCH A LONG POST.I just wanted to thank all of

you for being the family I have needed for so long, for the love you have shown

me.....and I wanted to tell you all how much effect your prayers have had!

Please believe me when I tell you that I love you all, and you ARE my family!

To al of you....bless you, and thank you.......from the bottom of my heart!

With all my love....the " squarehead " ...ken

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