brought tears to my eyes.
The relatives I'm asking for prayers for are my first cousins or more closely related, almost all the family I'm closest to. I'm not married, never had kids, and my parents are gone. I have one healthy sister-in-law, and my brother who's married to her needs a heart procedure in a couple of weeks, but he found a good specialist in another city, so he's actually the relative with health problems I'm least worried about because the odds are pretty good the procedure will solve the problem and he'll make a full recovery (and, as I said, his wife is healthy, unlike my other relatives in caregiver roles while dealing with their own health problems). I got news last night about another close relative having more tests done for what might be a very serious health problem, something he admitted was "a scare" and he won't get the results from his concerned doctors till next week. I told a friend here in email last night that some days I feel like screaming. There have been a number of times in the last year and a half when two of those relatives have been hospitalized at the same time.
I appreciate your concern for me, and I am trying to take care of myself. I discovered health food stores and books on nutrition when I first lived in NYC years ago, and I've been able to avoid the health problems my relatives are dealing with, including the heart problems that run in the family, and I found ways to cope with back problems from an injury decades ago, unless I do something stupid that aggravates it. But I've been losing so much sleep lately that I sometimes fall asleep sitting up, and last night I wondered if I might be getting an ulcer (have never had one, and the stomach pain is gone today).
So I decided I should ask for prayers/vibes for my family. I believe that positive energy from caring always helps, that you've benefited all of them. And me.
And I appreciate that more than I can say.
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