I posted this in the Religion & Philosophy forum, but as things are rather dire at the moment, I thought it might get more viewing here... hope I am not out-of-bounds in posting this here...

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