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My Dear Adland Pro Friends,
Anne posted this request for prayers for her husband Robert in
another thread here but I decided I would re-post it so I could
send it to all my friends. Kindly read her post and pray for Robert. Prayers do work miracles.
God Bless!
Marion
Here is her post:
My husband, Robert, and I have been practising Christians for
many years and, in the past,Robert worked for AOG Home Missions, later
assisting the Pastor with a developing church fellowship in Lancashire,
England before moving back to his home in Wales, UK.
Unfortunately, my husband, Robert, became ill on 16th June 2008 and
was admitted to hospital where he stayed for just over 2 weeks. During
this time he had a number of tests and was finally diagnosed with
advanced metastatic prostate cancer, with secondaries spread throughout
numerous lymph glands, throughout his pelvic area and throughout most
of the lymph glands in the right side of his body from his neck to his
groin.
As a result of the enlarged lymph glands in his groin area which are
wrapped around a blood vein, his right leg is permanently swollen due
to the blood being prevented from flowing freely. The direct result of
this is the high incidence of a thrombo-embolism developing. Towards
the end of June he also had a tumour the size of a tennis ball removed
from the left side of his neck. This was also malignant, showing the
cancer is now spreading to the left side of his body. As the result of
a recent bone scan a small lesion has also shown up in the bone at the
back of one of his ribs.
The cancer is so widespread and advanced that it is incurable and
the prognosis is poor - the Consultant Oncologist has given him between
4 and 5 years with hormone treatment, and just 6 - 12 months if his
body does not respond to the hormone therapy.
As you can probably guess, he is extremely tired and, even though he wants to get on with things, his stamina is limited.
I had to take unpaid leave from my job to look after him [I have to
give him daily injections of Clexane to prevent thrombosis developing].
I have recently returned to work in an attempt to keep the various
household bills up to date although I would much prefer to be at home,
sharing the limited time we have together.
We do have a number of churches praying for him and, following ongoing
prayer from so many people, the reslts of my husband's latest blood
test was encouraging. His PSA levels[a measure indicating testosterone
levels on which the cancer grows] have reduced from 396 to just 6.3.
The normal for his age should be around 3.0.
This does not indicate a cure, simply that it gives my husband a little
more time, prolonging his life - as we all know, God is great and both
myself and Robert has witnessed many miracles over the years. We are
now asking God to hear our prayers and gracefully bless Robert's life
for many more years. Many thanks to all. God Bless, Anne
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