| I feel a little odd posting this as I haven't been a member of this forum very long, but I feel any and all prayers are worth asking for. My best friend is 31 and has colon cancer. She's back in the hospital with a blockage, and we're just worried sick about her. Chris learned that she had colon cancer two years ago, just a couple of months before her mother died of the same disease. Her mother died April 12 - a year and a day after Chris' 35 year old brother died. Her other brother also has cancer. This woman is SO amazing - despite all of her troubles, multiple surgeries, 2 rounds of chemo and radiation, she has persisted with a cheerful attitude and has been working as a psychology resident at the Medical University of South Carolina, working in the oncology department, counseling cancer patients! And working on her doctoral dissertation in the meantime. She wrote me a couple of weeks ago that she was having a little trouble staying awake at work because of the morphine. MORPHINE!! I have trouble going to work with a cold... She's just so amazing, and I am so afraid for her. They don't know the cause of her current problem, but she has some kind of blockage and hasn't been able to eat for over a week. She's 5'9 and now weighs 111 pounds. (Still she joked that she could "be a supermodel now, since so many starve themselves to look that way.") She's undergoing tests & we are just praying, praying, praying. Both Chris and I are Catholic, but I believe a prayer is a prayer, and God hears us, regardless of what Name we call Him by. If you are Hindu, Buddist, Muslim, Wiccan - whatever, we all pray, don't we? Please, if you would, pray for Chris! She needs all the prayers we can send her way! Thank you so much, Namaste, Echo
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