Re: OT---Please Pray for My Family

June 30, 2005

-, there are no words that i can think of that could possibly

ease the pain of losing a family memeber. I can only say that you

are not alone, and please keep your faith in God, for he is the one

who is going to walk through this with you and love you and hold you

and keep you safe. You will see the lord in the love of your family

and others. To greive is very important and is a process. Through

my own experience of losing loved ones, I have learned to allow

myself to feel. You and your family are in my prayers.

(tdybear5150)

-- In The_Thyroid_Support_Group , " "

<marin@q...> wrote:

> I lost my oldest son this past Saturday morning to heart attack,

caused by drug addiction. He was a licensed chemical dependency

counselor and had been clean for more than six yrs now. He had come

from the bottom of the pit and had made such progress, and I was so

proud of him. He already had heart damage from all the former

crap. If anyone thinks that doing drugs is sexy and manly or

womanly, think again. He was a 35 yr old man in the body of an old

man, and you can't go back. When he cam clean, he would tell you

that there was none of the drug types he hadn't done, including

mainlining heroin, at one point. His wife is having a very tough

time, and some of my other children are also. I have a faith in the

Lord, and I kind of think that something was " whispered " to me to

prepare me, but I just couldn't figure out exactly what it was. How

does ANYone go through this life without a faith in God, I just

don't see how they can go it all alone. He was my stepson, but I

never called him by anything other than my son. His mother also has

thyroid disease, and I long suspected of having it, but I

just couldn't get him to pay attention to this end of it all.

>

June 30, 2005

You are in my prayers and so is your family. I know what it is to

lose family memebers. I can not imagine what it would be like to

lose a child. I am so glad to see you have faith in God because you

are right without God I do not know how people make it through life.

When something like this happens if you do not have God to lean on I

know I would not be able to take it. God bless you and your

family. It is so hard to hear about someone so young dieing. But I

pray that others will learn from this and not go down the path he

did. Remember that there are people who love you and are praying for

you.

Theresa

> > I lost my oldest son this past Saturday morning to heart attack,

> caused by drug addiction. He was a licensed chemical dependency

> counselor and had been clean for more than six yrs now. He had

come

> from the bottom of the pit and had made such progress, and I was so

> proud of him. He already had heart damage from all the former

> crap. If anyone thinks that doing drugs is sexy and manly or

> womanly, think again. He was a 35 yr old man in the body of an old

> man, and you can't go back. When he cam clean, he would tell you

> that there was none of the drug types he hadn't done, including

> mainlining heroin, at one point. His wife is having a very tough

> time, and some of my other children are also. I have a faith in

the

> Lord, and I kind of think that something was " whispered " to me to

> prepare me, but I just couldn't figure out exactly what it was.

How

> does ANYone go through this life without a faith in God, I just

> don't see how they can go it all alone. He was my stepson, but I

> never called him by anything other than my son. His mother also

has

> thyroid disease, and I long suspected of having it, but I

> just couldn't get him to pay attention to this end of it all.

> >

June 30, 2005