Recent content by Rafaela

I have recently entered the world of chronic pain myself. Am hoping that something will stop it eventually. I am going to a Pain Clinic.

I feel your pain. I could not get through it at all. Not sure why.

Anglicanism to Judaism to Orthodoxy. My pedigree!! (Is that the right word?)

Prayers for a safe journey! What a wonderful thing you are doing.

Praying for you and your mom. My mom has a depressive disorder (it just happened; did not appear to be caused by anything). She finally went to a hospital. That did help her, but it was a rough go of it for awhile. Sorry for my earlier post on her coming to help you. I had not read this...

Praying for you.

Happy name day! Many years!

I'm glad your blood test was negative. I had several surgeries for endometriosis. If you would like some details of the laparascopy parts of it for me, PM me. The biggest thing is not overdoing it (which of course, I did). You think, "Well, I only have these 3 tiny incisions, so it should...

Thanks to all!!

Amen, and Memory Eternal.

I was accepted as a catechumen on June 17th. St. Mary of Egypt is my Patron Saint. Thanks to members of this forum for helping me make this journey.

The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was the "Monster Dolls." They creep me out and I wonder what Father Seraphim would have thought of them. Talk about genetic fusion--Barbie doll and zombie? Saw them in Target recently and wondered, "What on earth now?" I also thought...

Many prayers for you. I had one of those cysts once and it did hurt! It also just went away by itself.

Memory eternal for him and prayers for his family.

Lord have mercy!