Thank to all and/or any of you who have said Steve's prayer for my sister, Barbara. The latest is that she will be placed, yes all of the arrangements have been made, for her to go to a really nice, Christian, (or for you that are Catholic) there are a lot of Catholic men and women there), anyway, it is an assisted living home! She will be there until she cannot do anything for herself! It is called Ashley Place and she will 24 hour nursing care to make sure she doesn't fall and can't get up, etc, and also make sure that she takes the medicine she is supposed to take!! It is really such a relief for everyone including her!!! She is pretty happy about the whole thing! Said she feels that it the answer to all the prayers that she and everyone have been saying for her! She will be moving in out there on Thursday the
11th! She has her apt. here for a couple of months paid for so will allow her girls and the rest of the family to get rid of all her things, etc. Thank you all!
Now Steve, when your Grandmother was expecting me right after World War I, the whole U.S. had a terrible flu thing that was killing people off like flies!! It was especially bad for any pregnant woman! My Mother was living at the time in Klamath Falls Or. with my father when some of out family my Grandma, Grandpa and two or three of my Aunts lived in Couer d' Alene, Idaho and so she came up there to see if she could help out. Well, she caught the flu! She told me she had such a high fever, and was so sick and in those days she could lay on the bed that they had put up for her in the Parlor and watch wagons go by in the "road" in front of the house piled high with caskets on their way to the Cemetaries! It was truly, if anyone has read about it, a real plague!!! In her illness she went into unconsciousness and her Dr. told the folks that she wouldn't last till morning! Someone called the Priest and he brought a "relic" of St. Gerard and my Aunts put it on my grandmother. In the morning, her eyes were open and she was on the mend!!! The Dr. told the family, I don't know what happened but she is going to be alright! After that your Grandmother, Steve, had great Devotion to St. Gerard, who was called even at that time, the Saint of Mothers to be!!! And since you have read up on him you know the rest of the story about him! So before you were born I had had a couple of miscarriages and so Mother told me to start praying to St. Gerard and told me what had happened to her!!! You were the healthiest, and strongest of all my boys and of course then after you I had a little girl, who was a 9 mos. miscarriage! In fact she died during childbirth! I just got to thinking about this after a visit by Steve to see his Aunt Barbara!! Thanks so much Steve for the prayer put on my blog and yours for Barbara. I printed it out and will give it to Barbara when I go over after awhile. Bye for now!!!
