This was one of Elizabeth Edward's Favorite Poems - I love the message - HOPE

roseann4 said:

Oh, thank you.
Two years ago my older son, Rob, was admitted to intensive care with kidney and heart failure. It didn't look good. He was only 34 years old. He had been a Type 1 diabetic for over 24 years and was experiencing some of the worst of the diseases potential complications. It looked like he would need both a kidney and heart transplant. In our darkest moments, I prayed for hope because the doctors weren't giving us any. I am a spiritual but not a religious person. However, there was a chapel off the lobby I would go to to pray every day to get strength. We had been given very bad news one morning and I said out loud "I just need some hope". Just then there was a message on the intercom that a church service was being offered in the chapel. I decided to go. No one else was there except the minister and me. She wore a name badge...Hope. I asked her, "Your name isn't hope is it?" She said, "Yes it is." She held my hands and we prayed together. Later that day, my son was having his first dialysis treatment. I stayed with him. We looked out the window and there was a beam hanging for a new addition to the hospital. Painted on the beam in large brightly colored letters was the statement, "Hope is coming." That's when I knew...everything would work out. That night the heart specialist said that Rob's heart was healing so he would not need a heart transplant. He would need a kidney transplant but that was a much less serious surgery. They told him he could have a new type of home dialysis which would allow him to go back to work full time. It has been 2 years and we are hopeful that a kidney match will become available soon. In the meantime, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. With all my fear during my diagnosis and treatment the one thing I knew for sure is that there is hope.
Let's hang onto hope today and always!

Roseann

Moopy23 said:

Roseann
I have been trying not to cry, but the story of your son and how you found hope(or maybe hope found you, too) is so powerful. Thank you for sharing this personal crisis with all of us. Thank you for helping me to keep hope. I wish your Rob a long and happy life, and a kidney match very soon.

roseann4 said:

Oh, thank you.
Two years ago my older son, Rob, was admitted to intensive care with kidney and heart failure. It didn't look good. He was only 34 years old. He had been a Type 1 diabetic for over 24 years and was experiencing some of the worst of the diseases potential complications. It looked like he would need both a kidney and heart transplant. In our darkest moments, I prayed for hope because the doctors weren't giving us any. I am a spiritual but not a religious person. However, there was a chapel off the lobby I would go to to pray every day to get strength. We had been given very bad news one morning and I said out loud "I just need some hope". Just then there was a message on the intercom that a church service was being offered in the chapel. I decided to go. No one else was there except the minister and me. She wore a name badge...Hope. I asked her, "Your name isn't hope is it?" She said, "Yes it is." She held my hands and we prayed together. Later that day, my son was having his first dialysis treatment. I stayed with him. We looked out the window and there was a beam hanging for a new addition to the hospital. Painted on the beam in large brightly colored letters was the statement, "Hope is coming." That's when I knew...everything would work out. That night the heart specialist said that Rob's heart was healing so he would not need a heart transplant. He would need a kidney transplant but that was a much less serious surgery. They told him he could have a new type of home dialysis which would allow him to go back to work full time. It has been 2 years and we are hopeful that a kidney match will become available soon. In the meantime, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. With all my fear during my diagnosis and treatment the one thing I knew for sure is that there is hope.
Let's hang onto hope today and always!

Roseann

roseann4 said:

Oh, thank you.
Two years ago my older son, Rob, was admitted to intensive care with kidney and heart failure. It didn't look good. He was only 34 years old. He had been a Type 1 diabetic for over 24 years and was experiencing some of the worst of the diseases potential complications. It looked like he would need both a kidney and heart transplant. In our darkest moments, I prayed for hope because the doctors weren't giving us any. I am a spiritual but not a religious person. However, there was a chapel off the lobby I would go to to pray every day to get strength. We had been given very bad news one morning and I said out loud "I just need some hope". Just then there was a message on the intercom that a church service was being offered in the chapel. I decided to go. No one else was there except the minister and me. She wore a name badge...Hope. I asked her, "Your name isn't hope is it?" She said, "Yes it is." She held my hands and we prayed together. Later that day, my son was having his first dialysis treatment. I stayed with him. We looked out the window and there was a beam hanging for a new addition to the hospital. Painted on the beam in large brightly colored letters was the statement, "Hope is coming." That's when I knew...everything would work out. That night the heart specialist said that Rob's heart was healing so he would not need a heart transplant. He would need a kidney transplant but that was a much less serious surgery. They told him he could have a new type of home dialysis which would allow him to go back to work full time. It has been 2 years and we are hopeful that a kidney match will become available soon. In the meantime, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. With all my fear during my diagnosis and treatment the one thing I knew for sure is that there is hope.
Let's hang onto hope today and always!

Roseann

aysemari said:

Never faltering hope
Sue,

thank you so much for sharing this beautiful poem.
It was just on time for me.... I have weathered my storm
and hope is starting to fill in the spaces where anxiety used
to reside.

Thanks again.

Ayse

roseann4 said:

Oh, thank you.
Two years ago my older son, Rob, was admitted to intensive care with kidney and heart failure. It didn't look good. He was only 34 years old. He had been a Type 1 diabetic for over 24 years and was experiencing some of the worst of the diseases potential complications. It looked like he would need both a kidney and heart transplant. In our darkest moments, I prayed for hope because the doctors weren't giving us any. I am a spiritual but not a religious person. However, there was a chapel off the lobby I would go to to pray every day to get strength. We had been given very bad news one morning and I said out loud "I just need some hope". Just then there was a message on the intercom that a church service was being offered in the chapel. I decided to go. No one else was there except the minister and me. She wore a name badge...Hope. I asked her, "Your name isn't hope is it?" She said, "Yes it is." She held my hands and we prayed together. Later that day, my son was having his first dialysis treatment. I stayed with him. We looked out the window and there was a beam hanging for a new addition to the hospital. Painted on the beam in large brightly colored letters was the statement, "Hope is coming." That's when I knew...everything would work out. That night the heart specialist said that Rob's heart was healing so he would not need a heart transplant. He would need a kidney transplant but that was a much less serious surgery. They told him he could have a new type of home dialysis which would allow him to go back to work full time. It has been 2 years and we are hopeful that a kidney match will become available soon. In the meantime, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. With all my fear during my diagnosis and treatment the one thing I knew for sure is that there is hope.
Let's hang onto hope today and always!

Roseann