Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player

Subject: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 08:30 PM

A banjo playing friend was felled by an aneurysm Sunday night and is hanging on but the prognosis isn't good. He's in ICU in a Seattle hospital, was medi-vacced down there. So far he has survived the surgery to release pressure on his brain and the brain surgery to repair and clean up inside. At this point, he's still not responding but he has opened an eye twice.

This is a wonderful guy, whole-hearted, supportive, gentle, talented... It's true he plays the banjo but he's one of those who never step on a melody line, a great ear, a sensitive player, if you will. One of those you're almost embarrassed to harass about banjos.

When you have a minute, please send a prayer aloft for him and his family. Thank you.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 08:37 PM

Ebbie, may we have his first name or nickname? It helps to visualise. This place has worked miracles for others who've been taken aback in similar ways. If you get a chance check out any threads that BSEEDCharlesKratz started about his musician friend, Sally. Really inspiring.

I am giving thanks for your friend's health and well-being and holding him in the Light. We need good banjo players to stick around!

Blessed Be,

kat

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Áine
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 08:41 PM

Dear Ebbie,

Sending up some prayers for your friend and his family from down here in Texas. Stay positive and hold on to a good thought.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 08:50 PM

Ebbie, miracles do happen, and that open eye is a great sign. Holding your friend in my thoughts.

--seed (another banjo player who's not ashamed to admit it, and who feels that the world needs all of us it has and can get)

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 08:57 PM

Hi Ebbie.......What little I have is all yours and I am sending my best thoughts your way. Seed's friend Sally made it back from a long ways off and we'll all hold those same thoughts for your friend.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 09:23 PM

Whew!! Instant tears! Thank you.

His name is George, 57 years old, birthday coming up in October. A husband and grandpa and friend. He and I played in the same dance band for 6 years. He now has a bluegrass band and his best friend plays mando in it. They'd been friends for a year before they discovered they had the same birthday.

I'm sending him as much light and strength as I can manage but my own grief and fear gets in the way. So many, many thanks for the help.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:01 PM

Banjo players are sexier than guitarists. It's a known fact! I will keep George close tonight. Make sure his family is speaking to him even if he seems not to hear. He's there.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Melani
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:08 PM

Good luck and good health to him!

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:15 PM

Just got an email- He opened an eye 5 times today in evident response to his wife and daughters talking to him. (They said his other eye is still swollen from the surgery.)

And yes, Sinsull, they talk to him constantly and include him in their conversations.

You know, I've read many other 'Catter's awed thanks many times in these threads but now I know what they mean. I swear I feel the actual warmth from you. Bless you.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: bbelle
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 11:12 PM

Ebbie ... I've never done this, so I'm just getting the "hang" of it, but I do believe in miracles, because I've seen them. I will keep George in my thoughts and conversations with g-d.

moonjen

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 11:35 PM

Good signs he will recover.. Keep talking and smiling at him.. Yours, Aye. Dave (sending a prayer his way)

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:36 AM

That is good to hear, Ebbie, those eyes opening. Hearing is the last faculty we have when any kind of situation like this comes about. Good for you, Sinsull, for reminding us of that. Our voices and those of our loved ones, as well as the music we love, are so important during times of stress and fear.

Charles (Bseed) told us many times of how much Sally responded to music. Hopefully, George's family can share some CD's or tapes with George, too.

My own mother was in the hospital, operated on for removal of a tumour. She had had cancer before, so it was scary. Before surgery, we had her concentrate on her favourite Mozart pieces, instead of the fear and pain. She experienced a miracle. When the docs opened her up the tumour, which had very plainly been there, was gone.The doctors had no explanation.

Let's see George recovered and healthy, playing his banjo with his band and give thanks for this or something better for the highest good of all concerned.

Hang in there, Ebbie. You are a good friend to George and he benefits from that, a great deal.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:33 PM

I'm told that there are other signs of progress. He's off the ventilator now.

I love the image of prayer- prayerful light? lightsome prayer?- sheathing Mother Earth. Thank you.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 01:12 PM

Here is part of a meditation I wrote for Thanksgiving 1989. YOur comment about the light and Mother Earth reminded me of it, Ebbie:

Writing to my fmaily and friends "Once I have seen us join in the circle, I come back to my house and begin to see it filled with Light. I visualize a giant can filled with Light being poured out over the roof of my house, coating it as a painter coats a wall. I see this Light become a river flowing from my house to include the whole neighborhood, then the town, then the state and then the continent, spreading, spreading Light to every corner, leaving no trace of the darkness of anger, fear and hatred, the whole of our planet becomes encircled with Light, until I also see another giant can upended over our Mother Earth, spilling its contents labeled Love, Joy, and, Peace into every house, hovel, building, cave, tree, rock, stream, grass, four-legged animal, winged creature and water being of our beloved home planet; dispelling all strife, disharmony, fear. and anger; bringing Peace Profound to all it touches; being spread by all it touches, just as a flowing river overflows its banks, linking all it touches with its cool, damp, life-giving force. I travel out into the Universe, light as a bird, a ball of Light energy, moving with ease, with no visible distance or time, viewing Earth from above, an Earth encircled and bathed in a bright, healing Light; truly a global village of Light beings, radiating Peace and Goodwill to the entire Universe. So Mote It Be!

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Morticia
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 01:14 PM

sending lots of good thoughts for you and your friend and his family,Ebbie, be strong....
love
Terri

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 02:37 PM

Holding George and his family and you in the Light...

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Catrin
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 03:10 PM

I wish your friend and his family all the best Ebbie. My thoughts are with you all.

Catrin

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 04:52 PM

Your friend is in my prayers too.

Jon

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Banjer
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 05:12 PM

Many good thoughts also from this banjo player. May all good come to George and his family.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 06:16 PM

Us banjo players are bonded Ebbie, when one of us are down, the others start playing more. It is a form of prayer for us banjo brothers & sisters.
So Ebbie, you tell your friend George that we are twanging up a storm for him. And if you let me know when his birthday is in October, why I will play George the finest drop thumb version of Happy Birthday he will have ever heard!

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 06:20 PM

Little Neo, his birthday is on the 25th. I don't suppose he'll be home or online but somewhere inside him, he'll know!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Jimmy C
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 09:21 PM

Ebie, Will do, prayer is a very powerful weapon. As a banjo player myself, just released from Hospital on Thursday after the third fairly major operation in the past 4 years, my thoughts and prayers are with him straight from the heart. Will pray also for his famiy and friends, Stay positive, miracles are commonplace.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 09:29 PM

Bless you, Jimmy C!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 01:41 PM

Yesterday was not a good day for George. Hoping for a better one today.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 03:25 PM

Still praying Ebbie.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 05:11 PM

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Bud Savoie
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 07:38 PM

Ebbie, I'm playing and praying too. Where does he live? When (not if) he recovers, I'd like to jam and swap licks with him.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ely
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 11:58 PM

Holding him in the Light . . .

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 12:17 AM

Bud S, he lives in southeast Alaska. Where are you? He goes to a number of bluegrass festivals a year, notably to Kentucky and the last couple of years outside Manzanita on the Oregon coast. And he loves to jam. I remember one night the group started about 6:30 in the evening and kept going until almost 4:30 the next morning. As he was packing away his banjo, he said, Now that was just about the right amount of time- could've gone a little longer but it was just about right.

He plays 3-finger banjo and has impeccable timing. Loves to sing- has a nice, mellow baritone. Just a prince of a fellow.

As a friend told me on the phone tonight: God, I hope he makes it.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 12:34 AM

Ebbie,prayers and positive energy going out to you and to George.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 11:27 AM

Prayers and eenrgy sent from one banjo player to another, and to his friends and all those who care about him. JU Lee wrote me earlier this year, (see other thread) "but us banjo players are too stupid to know when to quit" and from other thread, he is cancer-free and WELL, which is wonderful news. May your news be as good! Banjo plyers ARE too stopid to know when to give up.

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: GUEST,Sailor Dan at work
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 02:05 PM

Ebbie;

I play around with a banjo, but dont consider myself a banjo player, but I will keep George in my prayers for a full recovery for him and for his family. Besides, banjo players are what makes the world go around.

Sailor DAn

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 02:46 PM

Praying.... more, specifically, tomorrow.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 04:30 PM

Thanks to all- please keep on. I remember at a crisis in my life I was aware of a sparkly cascade over me that I always identified as prayer from many people. I was aware too of when it stopped a number of days later. Thanks for that cascade over George.

Nothing new to report except that morphine brings down his BP and pulse which indicates to them that he is in more pain than they supposed. His temp, however, hovers at 102 degrees.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Rasta
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 02:52 AM

to Ebbie-Im sending my best vibes and hopeful spirits to your banjo buddy, hoping he pulls thru --steady as ya go -"Rastaaa

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Jock Morris
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 09:05 AM

An anuarism took my mother from me; your friend George is in my thoughts.

Scott

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 11:35 AM

Ebbie, I tucked this matter under my heart and the sense has continued, very strong, that I got from your first post. It is that your knowledge and sight of this man are such that you have the strength and accuracy to pray most powerfully in this. And so to strengthen your own effort further seems the best prayer and help I can offer, and I do offer it with all my own strength.

Of course it isn't really our strength that matters, but the strength of our participation does matter.

The BEST approach I have ever seen is descibed in brief at this link to THE HEALING LIGHT by Agnes Sanford:

http://www.spiritsite.com/writing/agnsan/index.htm

And this is a Christian approach that throws the doors WIDE OPEN for non-Christian participation. Please, 'Cateers, if you are not a Christian, but engage in healing via what you call the Light, please go see this. I think you may be surprised, and I think it will strengthen your efforts as well.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 03:15 PM

Whoaaaaaa Praise, that's powerful stuff and I've ordered two copies of the book,the second one for a gift. Why have I never heard of Agnes Sanford?? She had clarity and vision and was way ahead of what I think of as her time.

Maybe the reason the world gets into such binds is because people who care are not aware of what powers they have in their midst. It's wonderful to think that the computer age may help.

George is in pretty much the same shape as he's been in the last two days but according to the nurses, given the problems that can occur, that is a positive sign. He does have a bit of pneumonia going now, though.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 03:22 PM

Ebbie, the coma stuff is very funny and often progress is not observable. In many cases, no change is a positive change. I speak from some unwanted experience in this area.............

We're all still here as you can see and Karen and I both continue to think of George and send our best thoughts your way.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 04:54 PM

Does he have a favorite dessert or food? Smell can trigger some wonderful thoughts. Keep him feeling safe. Just a thought. Mary

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 05:17 PM

Ebbie,

Yes, and that's not even her best book. I have her biography and highly recommend it. There is a pile of stuff out of print I want to order and the bank of Mom has approved my request for funding but I keep forgetting to send her the list of what to obtain! But it if comes, I'll be talking about it!

Agnes is daid now BTW. But she promised to pray for us from "up there" too. Her book on depression--- wow!!!!!

(Pssst!!! Non-Christians: Hear me now!!!! Agnes was way wacky, for a Christian! Go see! (There is much more in her biography!) Get over your squeamishness about being preyed upon by them bad proseletyzing Christian busybodies and go see a tool we have that is freely available to all!)

Keep in touch Ebbie. PM as needed.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: GUEST,Kristi
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 05:39 PM

WE almost lost our banjo player a few months ago, but he is now in full remission and banging away again on that banjo. Another friends son was in a car accident last sprign and in a coma for 2 weeks before coming out of it. They are both doing fine and the spirit of communiyt healing made a big difference to both of them. My thought are with George and all of you supporting him during this time. Kristi

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 06:18 PM

Praise and Ebbie and anyone else who might be interested, first, I apologise for the length of this.

A great deal of what I know about healing and metaphysics came from the teachings of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore who started the Unity School of Christianity back in the 1880's after Myrtle had an awesome healing due to prayer work.

Unity is the org. which publishes the "Daily Word", which is a little monthly booklet of a Bible quote per day with a little message of positive thought which goes with it. Any hospital usually has plenty of these around, as well as other public institutions where someone may need some inspiration.

Today's statement in the "Daily Word" is, "As God's creation, I am within a circle of ever-renewing life." The affirmation for today is, "God, I do believe in Your power and Your wisdom. Your glory is far greater than I could ever envision, and I am thankful to be within the circle of Your ever-renewing life."

It includes a couple of paragraphs of metaphysical analogy, similar to Agnes' iron and electricity, as well as an inspirational article and poems. I get special offers on subscribing to this all of the time, so if either of you would like to have a subscription, please let me know and I would be happy to send a gift one in for you for the first year's sub. (That goes for anyone else, too.) When I was in my car a lot, due to work, I'd have this clipped to my dashboard, so I would see it first thing and it would be going into my subconscious everyday...all those positive thoughts.

One does not have to be a Christian to appreciate the Universal message contained in the metaphysical teachings of the Fillmores and Unity. I have made it a point to collect all of the early Unity library, books they wrote and other of their early teachers, all published from before the 1930's. These books are so pure and simple, so profound and so practical, for that is what they call it "practical Christianity."

Anyway, just wanted to let you know about them and their works which it sounds like go along with what Agnes wrote, too. If you are interested, you can find more about them and the books at Unity World Hdqs.

Still giving thanks for George's complete recovery, Ebbie. Praise is right, you have a strength which comes shining through and can have a profound effect on those around you, esp. those you care about so much.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 07:05 PM

Thanks, Praise and kat/laughing, but I feel pretty vulnerable- part of my problem is that I just don't want any more grief for awhile. Selfish but true.

Spaw, if you're not comfortable answering this, I will understand, but do you remember any part of when you were in a coma?

My niece at the age of 19 was in an auto wreck and in a coma for 31 days. The first time I saw her in that state in the hospital it felt like a blow to my belly. She was so obviously not there.

She did survive but came back with about 5 years of her life gone. She giggled for days at the idea that she'd had her own car. She is now 32 and in full charge of her life. Some things didn't change- she never did plan to get married- no way was she going to hand over control of her life to someone else, and she still feels that way. She owns her own house and dogs (3 Rottweilers, one mini-Pinscher; told you she was different!) But if truth be told, she is still a little young 'for her age' and her mother rails at how stubborn she is. But she might have been that way anyway. We'll never know.

So, Spaw, as our resident coma-pro, did you find any changes in yourself? How difficult was it to come back? I sound flippant but I'm not feeling that way.

And again, don't answer this if you're not comfortable or if I've gone beyond the bounds. I'm sure you can let me know in your own inimitable way!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 04 Oct 00 - 09:31 AM

just wanted you to know that I'm still thinking about George and praying for him and for you and all his other caretakers

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Oct 00 - 01:20 PM

Not much change but two or three slight improvements. We're told that he is in a critical phase with a couple of difficult days forecast.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Oct 00 - 02:09 PM

Ebbie,

Sometimes Jesus weeps out tears for us, sometimes we weep His.

Sometimes I weep my own and sometimes I weep others'.

I would weep yours anytime. If you want me to, just ask Jesus to send them on over. It's gotten so I don't worry about whose they are, or how it helps them for me to shed them-- but sometimes I just know they are not mine and i am always glad to yield to this kind of tears. I gain a lot from this, and tears do bring gain, but if bearing grief right now is holding you back from the power of prayer you could otherwise be praying, ship it on over. Maybe this particular time, the lessons tears bring are not the ones He means you to have.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 04:00 PM

Hi, Ebbie, just wondering if there is any news. Still sending good thoughts and well wishes...

kat

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 04:28 PM

Thanks for asking, kat. He's still alive, so there is still hope.

There are minor fluctuations- the key word is 'minor'. Still running a temp- but it's lower, has some vasospasms- but not severe, still unconscious...

They are playing bluegrass cd's for him. I said they ought to play some bluegrass errors- so that down deep where he is, he'll hear and think, Hey! I can do it better than that! and will start to come back.

Thank you, you blessed people.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Recovery and Health for Banjo Player
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 10:13 AM

still hoping and praying for him and for all who care about him. To quote from one of John D. Macdonald's stories "I was afraid I'd be going down to that drugstore and saying Yep, it's been seven months now. Gimme another tube of that stuff for bedsores."