Can I ask you to pray for my step-mum (#2), Mayada? She has to have another heart operation this week, and this one is an unexpected nasty surprise. This will be her third heart op: her first six or seven years ago was an emergency from which she was very very lucky to survive; her second was a planned op this Summer to fix a weakness in her heart (which I think caused the first episode) by inserting a plastic sleeve into one of the chambers; this one coming up is needed because the plastic has begun to come away from it's anchoring points, a bad thing.
Each of these ops has been tough on her, and has knocked her confidence and vitality. Now with the news of another op, she is in true despair - she seems to have lost all hope, and can only think of negative outcomes. She is physically weak because she's not been feeling right since Summer's op, and hasn't been eating properly, so her body will have a harder time recovering from this third go at somewhere most of us never have to have operated on.
Please pray for peace in her soul, so that she can be positive going in to the op (which will be this Thursday). Pray for a fighting spirit to come forth, so she pushes through recovery rather than giving up. Pray for my Dad, who is holding things together for now. Pray for their children too.
Cheers,
Mark
