FROM CAITLIN’S CARING BRIDGE SITE
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The good news is that Caitlin seems a bit better today. She still has a nasty cough, expecially when trying to rest, and a touch of a fever, but is in much better spirits today. She hasn’t thrown up again since early this morning. We are still working on eating and drinking, but she managed to have something in the early evening. Naturally, she still has her colon and gas pains, but they seem to be a little bit less frequent which is good.
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I would also like to request prayers for a family whose daughter earned her wings on Friday. We had the honor of getting to spend a good deal of time with Wendy and her beautiful daughter Madisyn at Sloan. The most disturbing part of the whole thing is that it was not Madi’s cancer, but a bacterial infection that ultimately claimed Madi’s short life here on Earth. Unfathomable. Please lift this family up in prayer.
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[JR: My observations: (1) Caitlin’s far from out of the woods as evidenced by her little friend succumbing. (2) While in hell’s handbasket, our fellow alum asks for prayers. Not for herself. But, for another family in distress. That’s a Jasper. (3) How lucky are we to have what I’d call “minor problems” in comparison. IMHO.]
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