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Posted by: Big Blue Barry at 10:18PM EST on August 30, 2007
I talked to him earlier this afternoon. He's still in quite a bit of
pain but he's able to sit up in his chair now so he's not relegated to
staying in the bed all day. Just wanted to say thanks for every ones prayers so far and for your continued prayers.
Until next time...
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Wednesday August 29, 2007
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Posted by: Big Blue Barry at 1:55PM EST on August 29, 2007
For those of you that don't know, my dad has a very bad back condition.
He was born with an extra vertebrae in his spine which has no cartilage
around it and for several years it's been up against a pinched nerve.
Though he's disabled in the technical sense of the word, he is able to
move around and walk on his own. However, most of the time he is living
in a state of high to severe discomfort. Anyone who has ever
experienced back problems knows exactly what I'm talking about.
I just got off the phone with my mom who was calling to let me know
that earlier today while my dad and brother were on their way home from
the store, as dad began to back up the van, his back went out on him.
Mom said it scared my brother to death as he has never really seen my
dad screaming in pain. My brother was able to help him get over to the
other side of the van and then make it home.
Mom said they were barely able to get him up the 3 or 4 stairs on the
front deck but they did. He's currently in the bed right now trying to
ease the pain.
It's been awhile since I talked to him about his specific condition but
the last thing I remember hearing him say was that the doctors can't
operate, or won't operate, on his back because of the location of the
pinched nerve. They said that the risk of him being paralyzed for life
is greater than the chances of a successful operation. So basically, he
has to live with the pain.
My entire family as well as several of their friends have prayed for
healing for his back for as long as I can remember. I truly believe God
can heal him. Why He hasn't I don't know. Are my parents perfect
people? Nope. Is anyone? Not hardly. But I can't think of anyone who
has more of a servant's heart and that tries to emulate the life of
Christ more than my dad. Just knowing the condition he's in and not
being able to do anything about it (other than pray) is tearing me up
right now.
Please keep him in your prayers!
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Posted by: Big Blue Barry at 12:05PM EST on May 15, 2007
I got an e-mail from an old college friend earlier today requesting
prayer as she faces the possibility that she may have cancer.
"Please
pray for me as I am going through a very tough time right now. I went
to the dr last week with what they thought was pneumonia and were
treating me for that. I went in yesterday to have another visit and
they informed me there was a cyst on my lung. She is thinking it is
benign but can not rule out it isn't benign. She is sending me to a
lung specialist in a few weeks for a possible biopsy. I'm scared to
death that i'm facing this. I know the odds are in my favor since I
don't smoke. However Cancer does run very strong in my family and that
is why she is pretty worried. Please pray that God will give me
strength to overcome this and that the news will be good when we go to
the specialist."
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Posted by: Big Blue Barry at 7:29PM EST on May 11, 2007
I had a few moments of spare time this morning, something that I haven't had much of over the last month, so I thought I'd post an update. Turns out that this post will be my 100th post in this blog (actually I'm referring to my blog at blogger.com but since I'm copying those posts over in to this site I thought I'd clarify). I suppose that's some kind of milestone. Maybe not, but with my love for sports and numbers I'm going to say that it is.
The main reason for my lack of blogging over the last month or so has been my job. We've been working on a redesign for one of our web sites for several months. Well, on Monday we went live with the new site. I'm very excited about this site and think that it's probably the best overall site I've ever been apart of. My basic routine for the last 2 weeks has been get up at 5:30am, get to the office by 7:30am, leave about 8pm, get home around 9pm, get something to eat, go to be around 11pm, and then repeat this process. It's been very tiring but in the end it was all worth it. But it's not a process that I want to repeat.
My wife has been helping out with adding content to the site. She really enjoys doing that, plus she gets to work from home so that's a nice bonus. She was very glad that the site finally launched because it meant she could slow down some. The last couple of weeks have been just as hectic for her as well.
Other news... I'll be performing with Judah First on Saturday, April 21st at 3rd and Lindsley for a GMA Showcase. The showcase is from 11am-4pm, we go on around 3pm. I haven't had much of a chance to practice over the last month due to my work schedule. Last night was the first time I've played in a while so I was anxious to see how rusty I was going to be. There was some rust, for sure, but it wasn't as much as I was expecting. I'll be hitting the skins again each night this week so that on Saturday we can bring the Heavy Metal Thunder!
If anyone out there reading this thinks about it, say a prayer for my family, in particular my papaw. He's in the nursing home with Parkinson's disease. The doctors haven't given any definite numbers, but they said it doesn't look very good for him to make it much longer, but that could mean 6 hours, days, weeks, or months. I'm planning to go up and see him one last time after the Showcase. We weren't as close as my other grandfather but he's the only papaw I've got left.
The only big basketball news is that the new UK coach, Billy Gillispie, hired his first two assistant coaches this week. One of them has some very close ties to the Lucas family, that would be John and not George, who has a son, Jai, that is looking at UK. If we can get him and the Patterson kid from WV then we'll be alright next year.
Until next time...
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