Get Well Maxine!

(Photo courtesy of itsosuruh's Flick'r site.)

This is Maxine a year ago at her 19th birthday.

She does not know me, but I know her namesake: Dad and Bro Max Bravo. Father to our DeMolay brother and father of Maxine, Dave Allan (DAZB)

She's twenty now and is suffering from seizures brought about by a viral infection.

The doctors are doing their job to cure her and we can only pray for her and her family for strength and guidance. Pray that she will recover from this illness, that her family and friends be blessed for keeping her in their prayers. Most of all, for their support to keep Maxine well.

We know prayers work:

My grandson, Jaylen, who suffered from leukemia two years ago and is well now.

Another friend of ours, Eric, suffered from aneurism, been comatose, put under induced coma and now can walk and talk a bit. He is still in the hospital, but this is a great improvement from coma and aneurism. We just visited him the other night and he can even recognised us and communicate by hand signals.

We hope and pray that God give His grace and blessings to Maxine as well.

Phases of Life 4: Wake Up Eric!

Eric is just 45 years old and is in an induced coma. He was, since Monday when he suffered aneurism at work and was rushed to Westmead Hospital. He regained conciousness the next day, was promptly operated on and was put in an induced coma to stabilize his condition. He is still in ICU at Westmead.

We are praying for him at this stage, as science has done its job. His wife and children misses him. His brothers here in Australia and parents in the Philippines and countless relatives and friends in both countries are praying for him.

Praying that Eric will survive and surmount this "test" and the will of God; whatever that may be, "Be Done". It is not wishful thinking, but a cry for help, for strenght and guidance.

Our healing prayers for Eric. For Chona and their children and for Bubot and Sonny and their parents; our prayers for strenght in this very difficult time.

This April 2008, as the month is drawing to a close, Eric's "slice of life" - a phase in any one's life managed to just pipped in. I was only planning for three stories: a child celebrating his second bithday, a mother celebrating her 100th birthday and a friend who just died of cancer. Now, Eric, another friend - a fourth phase of life, hanging on to dear life.

(Just in case you're wondering what the picture is all about, it is stripped copper wires that we recycle. Eric and I are both into electronics, and that is the connection. Life, like these copper wires are inter-connected and inter-mingled - and like life we are recycled to that great beyond!)