Michelina

My continued prayers.

Wow, I haven't been here in forever. I hop on tonight and first thing I see is this thread and my heart dropped. Michelina was such a gracious presence on these forums, I learned so much from her. She will be in the prayers of my family and I.

Offering up Mass today for Michelina.

Let me first say that it is a joy to see so many of you that I have not seen in some time. It's a shame that you should be seen in these circumstances, and not in happier ones.

On Saturday I saw Michelina in the ICU. There is a mixture of good and bad news.

First, it would seem that in the language of comas, she has passed from a vegetative state to a minimally conscious state. This is good news. She recognizes her sister and her nephew, will squeeze hands, and her eyes when she is not sleeping are wide open and occasionally will focus on particular individuals. Additionally, she has really good color.

However, she has contracted pneumonia, and she has for several decades already had a compromised respiratory system due to a lack of cilia in the lungs. So this is a fragile moment as she receives massive amounts of antibiotics to counter the infection. Her ventilator when I checked was giving her an upped amount of oxygen to counter the effect of fluid in her lungs.

The doctors are in a difficult place, because the process to clear her lungs of fluids is stressful to the heart. When they began to clear the lungs, her blood pressure plummeted. So both the heart and the lungs are half taken care of, as it were. Medically it's a balancing act.

On the whole I would say that Michelina is stable and the mental aspect is encouraging, but she still has a long way to go, and a lot can go wrong.

Michelina has smiled and also shown signs of pain when she coughs.

When I saw her, I prayed Daytime Prayer with her and used the miraculous oil from the St. Anne de Beaupré Shrine on her. A sister visits her with relics as well. She has also received Anointing from a Priest.

I told her that all of us here were praying for her, some of you by name as you requested me to do.

Please kindly also pray for Michelina's family as you remember her.

I don't think I will be up her way again in a bit (I've used four days off already to go up her way), but I will continue to receive word from the family and I will keep you all updated.

God Bless you!

Thank you for the update David. I have been praying for Michelina daily since I found out about her condition, and will continue to do so. Our Lord is asking a great cross, but I can only imagine how many souls she is obtaining the grace of conversion for.

Davide

Thank you so very much for the update. And for mentioning us to Michelina.

My prayers continue for her, as well as for her family, and all her loved ones and friends.

We will await your further news as to how she (and they) are doing.

Wow. I just now learned about Michelina. How sad. I hope and pray that she continues to get better. Please let her know that I am praying for her. Mention that Ave Maria is praying for her. If she doesn't recognize that name, say that Holly is praying for her. She may not remember me at all but I definitely do remember her.

I've been remembering our Sister daily-- she was in my prayers yesterday at Mass. I'll be saying a special Rosary for her today, that our Blessed Mother may pray for her healing and strength.

Thank you so much for the update!

I'm going to Adoration again tomorrow. I will take this to the Lord.

Any updates?
Praying for good news asap.

Lord have mercy

WarriorAngel said:

Any updates?
Praying for good news asap.

Lord have mercy

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Did you see this?

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Thanks for linking that for Angel, Michie!

Michie said:

Did you see this?

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O i missed that..thank you.

Encouraging.
She is going through something similar to what my mom went thru 2 years ago.

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Thanks for linking that for Angel, Michie!

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Thanks for the update!!

Warrior,

Did your Mom get better?

Yes.
She collapsed Christmas Eve - got out of the Hospital [and skilled facility] shortly after Easter.
She was on a vent and with her gillian berret that was tricky [she could have lost ability to use her lungs]. They forced her into a coma...
Had surgery too.

Well that makes me happy to hear.

In general I think Michelina is getting better but as I said it is still precarious.

I can't go up again this week but I will be getting updates still.

Sorry to be made aware of this. I pray that she'll be okay.

She was on my mind not too long ago. That always happens, someone pops in my head and later I hear something about them. Weird.