Tragedy seems to find my wife's family (plea for prayers)

My wife (who has posted here once or twice as Zsaji, 1980s-era Marvel comics geeks will get the reference) and I have spent most of each of the last four days at the hospital. With her father and sister (and a LOT of friends and other family), we have been sitting at her mother's bedside.

My mother-in-law is a five-foot tall Japanese woman, born and raised in Tokyo. And her grand presence has towered over our lives and the lives of many others. She is her family's main presence, its matriarch in every way. A decade ago, my wife's brother died in a plane crash when his single-engine plane went down in New Mexico (he was flying back to his Midwest flight school after a visit to L.A.). And my mother-in-law, while also paying heed to her own religious belief that she would see her son again, held the rest of the family together through sheer force of will.

Now, she is in a hospital bed, her brain deteriorating by the day due to the effects of a major cerebral aneurysm. She always had high blood pressure, but was quite healthy and active in every other way; the proverbial 67-year-old who could pass for being in her 40s. But Tuesday afternoon, her high blood pressure, a family trait, caught up with her. The talk now is of DNR requests, notifying her relatives back in Japan, and of how this family, which has already had a major tragedy in the last decade, will endure and continue when this is over.

There is also talk of miracles, but that has faded as the days have gone on. Still . . . .

If anyone has some good will to send to the West Coast, we'd appreciate it. Any thoughts and prayers would help.

Thanks for listening.

 

Good thoughts from the Rockies, Piotr.

I'm so sorry for you and your wife.

 

Damn, best of luck Piotr. Very tough situation.

 

So sorry to read that, Piotr, and I know how awful it is to see a loved one go downhill so quickly and to come to the realization that miracles, at least in this case, are for other people. My thoughts are with you.

 

I am on the West Coast and sending some thoughts your way.

 

All my best to you and yours, Piotr.

 

PR - good thoughts coming down from Oregon. Hang tight man. We're with you and your family.

 

Thoughts and prayers from Kansas to the Coast.

 

Our best to you and yours, Piotr.

 

Thoughts and prayers to you and your family, Piotr.

 

My thoughts are with you, your wife and her family.

 

I don't have any idea what faith tradition -- if any -- your mother-in-law follows, but I'm partial to the Shinto prayer for peace in this situation.


Although the people living across the ocean surrounding us, I believe, are all our brothers and sisters, why are there constant troubles in this world?
Why do the winds and waves rise in the ocean surrounding us?
I only earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away all the clouds which are hanging all over the tops of the mountains.

Be well.