Prayer Request Archives

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Racine and James

Racine recovering from shoulder surgery and in therapy. Racine's husband James confined to a wheel chair with disabilities from military service.
Update on Racine and James: 04/10/06 James is having more problems with his back, but doing better lately than I thought he would. I guess I’m going to have to have some more injections where they will burn the nerves in my neck, it has been about 3 years since they did that before. It helped for a long time, but right now I need them again. You'll please keep us in your prayers, and also Pastor Jeff with his knee. He said in the pamphlet that he wrote that he was doing better than he did before when he "blew out his knee." I know he is a lot younger than we are but he is not 16 anymore, either. Racine
Racine and James (Update 06/08/06): Hi, Hank. I am glad to know that you are getting to go to Hawaii to see your Grandson graduate. I hope your brother enjoys attending to the EMFS while you are gone, just travel safely and get back safe and sound.
I am doing better with my shoulder but James' back is still in need of a lot of prayer, so just remember him, I am still doing my Therapy, I tell my Therapist that she tortures me but she is really sweet and good. Her Dad had a stroke last Friday, he is doing a little better, but is still in ICU, please remember him in your prayers as well.

Hank: 08/30/06 There is a standing request for prayer for Racine and her husband James that can be revisited on the EMFS Personal Prayer Archives web page. Just click on the names Racine and James. I ask that all of our EMFS Prayer Pals and Prayer Warriors join with me by intensifying the frequency of our prayers for Racine, James and all of their family. God knows their needs and He knows what is best for them. Pray for God's intervention in their lives.

Racine: Update on husband James. (01/01/07)

Hi Hank, That was such a wonderful story [A Brown Bag Christmas] and shows the faith of Mother's in God. Right now my faith is really lacking. And I was so glad to read that wonderful story. James has a very serious problem in his mind and his memory. I do not know if it is Alzheimer's or not—but, he does not recognize me as his wife of 53 years. He keeps looking for me and wanting to go home to me. Last night he left the house and I found him down on the Highway. Thank God 5 or 6 different people had stopped to check on him and one family brought us back to the house. We had prayer for him and tried to talk to him— but, he was mad at me for making him come back home. He wanted to go out to the old house that in his mind still belongs to him. This has just started in the last few weeks We have taken him to the Doctor and they gave him some medication, but it is getting a lot worse. I do not know what to do—except pray. He just wants to die, because he is and has been in such terrible pain in his back for the past 15 years. He has really taken a bad turn for the worse in his memory. And it is so hard for me to deal with. We go back to the doctor on the 10th, but all they want is for me to put James in a Behavioral Hospital. So far I haven't been able to bring myself to do it. He thinks he is still working (he can't drive anymore, and blames me for that, too). Would you all please pray for him (actually for both of us). Thanks, Racine

Racine: Update on husband James (01/10/07). See Racine's message of (01/01/07) above.

Hi Hank,
I just wanted you to know that we have had to put James in the hospital for Senility, they will only keep him for up to 14 days. I saw that you had him down as being in a wheel chair, that was a misunderstanding. He can walk but barely because of his back. Since he has this bad memory problem (Senile), he has started to wander. He quite often doesn't recognize me as his wife, which is very sad since we have been married for 53 years (54 in June). For the past 6 months he has been getting much worse. He wants to go back to "his home." He thinks we still own the house where we moved from almost 5 years ago and he wants to "drive" himself there, which of course is impossible, since he is not capable of driving, but he won't admit it (I have told more lies in the last 6 months than I have ever told in my entire 69 years of life). I feel so guilty about that but I can't have him driving and killing himself or someone else. The Doctors have told him that he can't drive, but he thinks he can do anything that he did when he was 20. Would you please keep him in your prayers, and every one else that reads this. They say he has Dementia and it will only get worse. I think they are going to discharge him on Thursday then we have to take him to Tyler to get his Morphine pump refilled. I do not know whether they are going to readmit him or not. They say I should find a Nursing home for him, but I am not ready to admit he needs that yet. One nurse says he should go and another nurse says that she doesn't think it is necessary (the one that has been coming out here for a couple of years for Home Health Service—I believe she knows more than the others). The only thing I am thinking about is his safety, and of course, I don't want to think about a nursing home. If I can't keep him safe, I will have to think about it. I found out someone has called the Adult Protective Services, I don't know whether they are saying I am not doing a good job or they are worried that he will do something to me. I am not worried for myself. He says things to me that 15 minutes later he doesn't remember, and sometimes he doesn't recognize me as his wife, and then he wants to drive or walk about 15 miles to where we used to live because he thinks that is where his wife is. That is the reason he is in the Behavioral Hospital in the first place—because he went down on the Highway and started to walk up the highway and I had to call 911, several others called too.

Please remember us both in your prayers. He has gone through so much. He really doesn't care to live anymore, (that is what he says, that he just wishes God would take him on). I know that he has hurt so long and I understand why he wants God to bring him home. But I will not help him do anything to himself. Just, Please, pray for him. I know that God still performs miracles and can take care of all this. I am just not sure how his Miracle will work out and when.

Racine

I know I am sort of rambling, but have been working on this for about 3 days. Sorry.

Racine: Update on James. (02/28/07)

Please put James on the special prayer list, that he will either get better or if it is his time, that God will call him home. It is especially hard for my daughter to deal with her father's deteriorating condition. I know I am better able to than she, because I have seen James hurt for so long and it would be extremely selfish of me if I wanted him to stay longer than God has for him to stay. I have heard him pray so many nights for God to take him home, so I couldn't be that selfish.

Thanks for listening and thanks for being there.
Love and God Bless,
Racine

(Note: Racine's husband James has apparently suffered a mild stroke and has been moved into a nursing care facility. Racine and James along with the family need the earnest prayer support of our prayer warriors lifting them up to God and His great love and mercy. Look to the Personal Prayer Archives page and click on Racine and James to revisit their prayer needs. —Hank

Racine. Update on James and prayer request for Dawn. (4/15/07)

Hi Hank,

James, is getting along much better. They had to teach him to walk all over again and he is doing fine. That is good and bad because now that he can walk and his memory has gotten remarkably better, I now am going to have to decide if it would be better to bring him home.

I'll have to explain the following email from Dawn. I bought some Tupperware glasses that are the older type and you can hardly find them anymore but they are the only ones by Tupperware that James likes and will drink out of and they are harder to break than the glass ones. I bought them and had asked when they would be mailed out. Dawn, emailed me saying she has 3 children now and expects another in 8 weeks, her husband is in the Army, just getting back from Iraq, so she is kinda on her own. She said that her son has very high unexplained fevers and swollen lymph nodes. The doctor's haven't been able to find the reason for the fevers. New blood work was ordered and some of the culture won't be back for another week. So, I know she is thinking the worst. Please pray for all of them. Thanks and Love, Racine

Dawn's email to Racine. Hello, I apologize that there has been a few days delay in mailing your glasses. My son was diagnosed with a heart valve infection and has been receiving treatment over the past week. It's a bit of a drive over a hour away for his treatment and I have been struggling to keep up with eBay. I apologize for this delay and your item is shipping out today, you should have it shortly.

Sincerely, Dawn

Racine. Update on Dawn's son. (04/20/07)

Hi Hank,

Just wanted to let you see what Dawn had to say today after taking her son to the Doctor and after all of the prayers that went up for her family. It is amazing how things do work out in God's own way.

Thanks,

Racine

Hello RACINE!,

I am so glad that you received the glasses, since we have last talked prayers have been answered! My son's heart problems, the murmur, etc. were the cause of a very rare form of strep called strep "G." It's a very weird thing for a kid to contract and I guess not much is known about it, but left untreated it starts to make one very ill, high fevers swollen lymph nodes, as well as kidney failure, etc. They now have him on very strong antibiotics and he will be retested on the 26th to see if he still has it or if it's gone. I can't say enough how much it has touched my heart that you don't even know me and yet you took the time to pray for my son and (pass it on). You, yourself have so much on your plate ... I really believe in my heart that the Lord never gives us what we can't handle, but I sure am glad he also puts people in our path to remind us that we are all in this together with love, support and prayer, without it, well ... it's really no life at all. It's so true that at times things happen not at the time we want or seemingly without purpose. But everything has its' season—including an explanation. What a beautiful, caring, warm person you are, Racine, and I will not soon forget all the kindness you have shown me. If you go to the auction page with the glasses you won next to my name silverspringsvintage is about me. Click on that and you can see a few snapshots of our family.

I hope God continues to bless you always. Take good care ...

Dawn

Racine. Update on James. (04/24/07)

Hi Hank,

I need prayers again. James is doing really well, but I'm taking him to the Psychiatrist on Friday for an evaluation to see if the Psychiatrist thinks James is able to come home again. Or for him to give me some advice on whether he thinks James might be able to come home sometime. I need prayers to know what I should do. I don't want to bring James home too early. But I would like to bring him home for whatever time that we can have him at home. I just need to know what I should do. I know there may not be a definite yes or no from the Psychiatrist, but I would like to know which way I should go. I am so afraid that I will do the wrong thing. I know you understand what I mean.

Thanks. Love,

Racine