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Hogs & Quiches & Prayers Round-up:  Prayers Needed For Utahfarmgirl Patricia and Stuie  |
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
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Katie
Illinois
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 12:22:06 PM
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Sp glad to hear of the improvement in Stu. May it continue!
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Farmgirl Sister # 31
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 12:41:28 PM
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MJ, leave it to you to cover all your bases! Blue for healing, white for protection and pink for love. Bless you, and bless everybody for your help.
love,
P
Proud Farmgirl Sister #19
Rusty Chicks Chapter
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 03:29:52 AM
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| WE NEED TO CONTINUE OUR FARMGIRL PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS FOR STU AND PATRICIA. SHE TOOK HIM TO THE ER YESTERDAY AND THEY KEPT HIM AT THE HOSPITAL. |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
1553 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 06:43:02 AM
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Uh oh, I am so sorry to hear that Stu had to be admitted. Hopefully, he will be checked out thoroughly at the hospital and they will both be back hom with him on the mend soon.
Jo
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Meg
Moderator/Farmgirl True
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Meg
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 08:09:54 AM
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Aunt Patty, you and Stu are in our hearts. Stella is sending our love your way. She carried little Josephine around all day yesterday, wouldn't have anything to do with her other dollies. Except to let them play with Josephine.
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
megan@maryjanesfarm.org |
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Corinnelouise
True Blue Farmgirl
957 Posts
Corinne
France
957 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 09:13:56 AM
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Sorry to hear this so late, sending all my love and prayers to you and you DH Patricia.
Corinne
Sister # 101 |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 10:24:46 AM
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I am sure praying for you guys and keeping you in my thoughts today...take care!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
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Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 12:40:58 PM
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your in my prayers and thoughts
Shirley |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 6:01:56 PM
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Patricia called me this afternoon and Stu is not any better. They still don't have a permanent room for him so he's in a room in the ER. They are hoping to get him in a room today. Patricia will only be able to see him about 2 hours a day. But the doctor that they talked to today said that she feels she can help him. I feel so sorry for both of them. Poor Patricia is just worn out as she has been taking him back and forth to the ER and doctors for the last month. She sounded very tired and frazzled on the phone today. We'll all just keep praying for them!
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PROUD FARMGIRL SISTER #100 |
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lea
TN
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 11:17:06 PM
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I talked to Patricia tonight. She said that Stu is at Oregon Health Sciences University in a private room. There isn't much change and all this will take time. But she did tell me to send everyone her love. She said that Farmgirl prayers are all that has kept her going.
Handmade Olive Oil Soap, Lotion Bars, and Prim Treasures - My New Web Shoppe http://www.therusticcottageprims.com
The Rustic Cottage Blog http://therusticcottage.blogspot.com
I'm A Rusty Chick!!!
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2008 : 11:55:39 PM
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Feel so bad for her and Stu. Tell her many prayers are being said for them. What is the diagnosis now?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2008 : 11:16:41 AM
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My dear sisters, I don't know how to thank you any more than I have, but thank you again anyway. Stu was transferred to OHSU's psychiatric ward last night for an unknown time. At this point, I believe the diagnosis is severe depression but his regular psyciatrist won't be there until Monday so I will know more then.
This is a place where there are no handles on the doors and locks everywhere on everything. There is no light switches on the walls. My purse is confiscated when I arrive and given back when I leave. I find it interesting that the walls in Stuie's room are painted blue.
Stuie just wants to die. He has terrible guilt and feels he is a burden to me and I would be better off without him. He feels worthless and that the situation will never change. Left to himself, he said he would swallow every pill in our sizable collection. I'm telling you all this because I know you're probably curious about what goes on in the psych ward and that you're interested in what is happening with Stuie. 50 years ago I probably wouldn't have uttered a word and pretended he had something physical but times have changed and mental illness is no longer viewed as a personal failing. What I have been researching tells me it is a result of brain chemistry mis-firing and precipitated by Stu's past.
Suffice it to say that his parents offered no love at all and told him constantly that "anything less than perfection is nothing". Lucky he had a genius mind - or unlucky for him because genius is a hair away from madness. He never learned how to love until he met me. He says I am the only person he has every connected with on that level and I believe him.
Add to this the fact that he was closed up in Adademia (he calls it his "ivory tower" and his "escae from reality") at Cambridge for 25 years and you have the basis of a big problem. At Cambridge he didin't have to do anything for himself - he had people to do everything. Ten years ago when his mother died and he came back to California, he was suddenly thrust into the real world and had no idea how to deal with it. He spent every penny he had (and he had a lot of pennies) trying to keep his mother alive and when she died, he realized he should have saved something for himself. Good thing I was there at that point.
From that point to today, he was a failure at just about everything he tried. He sabitoged (sp) every job opportunity he got until he was fired by all three of them (three jobs in 9 years) and his self-worth got lower and lower until he just bottomed out.
So that's the story.Visiting hours are 2-8 weekends and 4-8 on weekdays. Stu says he feel like he is in prison.
Quite frankly, I don't see how they're going to get him out of this big deep hole he's in. I've been blue-lighting and "faith not fear" ing like crazy but right now I'm kinda low on hope. And pysically, I'm having a very tough time.
It's good to know you guys got my back.
So that's the latest Challenge report.
Much love,
Patricia
Proud Farmgirl Sister #19
Rusty Chicks Chapter
check out my etsy site http://ThePlayfulFarmgirl.etsy.com
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Corinnelouise
True Blue Farmgirl
957 Posts
Corinne
France
957 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2008 : 11:34:17 AM
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Oh Patricia, do not give up. I am sure it is very tough on you especially knowing about what you do and how deeply you connect to others. Please try the BACH REMEDY RESCUE, it does wonder. Use it for you and for him. Try to find a little place where you are safe and can heal. If you get the chance to go to a health store where they sell them all, look up to MUSTARD as well, it is recommended for depression. Would love to be close enough to hold you tight and give you a big hugs. Will go to France very soon and will send more Holly water to you.
Love, Corinne
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2008 : 11:53:16 AM
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Patricia, don't despair. There are many things that can help, some medicinal and some not.
Wrapping you in rose light and sending you strength. Mental illness is not a crime nor is it a failing, it is an illness like any other. Help is on the way. And he is in the right place for the moment. You need to take care of your self and try to do things for you and not worry your self ragged hon, ok?
Hugs
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 08 2008 : 11:55:23 AM
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Patricia, I know what you are facing seems to be so without hope. But, please believe me there is hope. This could actually save his life and give him a life that he has always wanted and you have wanted for him. When life hits bottom so hard like it has for you and Stuie, it is hard sometimes to see an answer, I have had family members who have been through this. and I myself lived for many years of my life struggling with depression and incapacitating anxiety. I never had to be hospitalized, but my Aunt did. She was so ill I really didn't think that she would ever be well. She was in a totally unresponsive state and pulling imaginary spiders out of the air. She tried to cut her own throat. It was horrible. She was in the hospital for about a month.Same type as Stuie.It was an eerie feeling when the doors closed and locked.Stuie is right it was a prison. One to protect the patients from themselves.Funny,the Dr.'s felt that her problems stemed from problems very similar to your husbands. She was in intense physcotherapy and they found the right combination of drugs for her. When she got out she still had a lot of therapy to go through and her meds to take. But, she was 100% better than when she went in. That was almost 40 years a go. So imagine how much more they can do now to help today! I am so glad that you wanted to tell all of us the truth of what is going on. Believe me it will help you to talk about your fears and feelings. Nowadays people aren't as judgemental as they once were. It is an illness like cancer or diabetes or any other,no one would be ashamed of them and should't be about mental illness either. If you do encounter people who react like that, just know in your heart that they are to be pitied,they are the ones who truly do have a problem. By all of us being honest I really feel it helps us and everyone else to know that someone else has been through these things and there is a light at the end. I will pray for you and Stuie everyday. Please let us know his progress and how you both are doing. May God Bless you both,
Love and prayers for healing, Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
950 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2008 : 7:20:09 PM
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Sweetheart! I have no words other than those of support from my heart to yours, you are both in my thoughts and prayers many times a day. I wish I could be closer to be of some physical assisitance but I am sending you all the mental and emotional assistance I can! Take care of yourself!
http://ruby--slippers.blogspot.com/
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Mar 08 2008 : 7:29:21 PM
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Oh Patricia...it has to be so draining for you both!! I will keep you both in my daily prayers and thoughts too..that you will be able to be strong and that Stuie will be able to climb out of the depression. I wish I were there to help..or just sit with you!!! (((((hugs from me and Mona)))))
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
1553 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 06:57:47 AM
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Patricia -
I'm sending hugs and prayers your way...here's hoping that the doctors will find the right combination of therapy and meds to bring Stu out of that black hole. Depression is so very hard on the loved ones as well, and I hope that you will continue gaining strength from all our thoughts and prayers.
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date, and let Stu know that we are pulling for him!
Jo
"Wish I had time to work with herbs all day!" |
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Meg
Moderator/Farmgirl True
974 Posts
Meg
Idaho
USA
974 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2008 : 08:04:05 AM
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Aunt Patty, thanks for sharing some of your details...sending you and Stu so much love.
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
megan@maryjanesfarm.org |
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Hogs & Quiches & Prayers Round-up: Prayers Needed For Utahfarmgirl Patricia and Stuie |
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Prayers Needed For Utahfarmgirl Patricia and Stuie
