tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post7423880776203467247..comments2024-03-27T20:54:52.544-07:00Comments on Rural Revolution: A love story: "We are a team."Patrice Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06012022335047974670noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-88651207188154233812015-06-23T21:04:30.284-07:002015-06-23T21:04:30.284-07:00Patrice
You do not have to post this, I believe he...Patrice<br />You do not have to post this, I believe he has Melioidosis Burkholderia Pseudomonas. I recognize the symptoms from my husband who was misdiagnosed more times than I wish to count. He also served in Vietnam, and this lives in the body up to 62 years. If you wish to read the small article I wrote you and they can find it on MD Creekmore site 'the survivalistblog.net'. I hope this helps this couple, it breaks my heart to see a veteran who served and is suffering from a long term injury. I know what they are going through.A Collectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04280196199301393336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-31055574612538585512015-06-23T20:03:03.426-07:002015-06-23T20:03:03.426-07:00God Bless you and yours, Richard! We need more ex...God Bless you and yours, Richard! We need more examples around like the two of you.....NatokadnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-892748311472777232015-06-23T19:58:35.796-07:002015-06-23T19:58:35.796-07:00Both my mother and my mother in law would be in nu...Both my mother and my mother in law would be in nursing homes if not for my father and father in law - the men each of them married nearly 60 years ago. Instead, each lives in her own home and is looked after and cared for by the men who have their own health issues to deal with. All are 82 to 86 years old.<br /><br />Just because it does not make the news doesn't mean it does not happen.....NatokadnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-55283707133600469822015-06-23T10:56:39.806-07:002015-06-23T10:56:39.806-07:00Wow.Wow.small farm girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01485314092236803411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-67501000546656127342015-06-23T05:36:19.942-07:002015-06-23T05:36:19.942-07:00**PLEASE don't worry about me. I will not sto...**PLEASE don't worry about me. I will not stop fighting until breath leaves my body. Sometimes I get really, really tired, but I have a good man standing beside me. This is a war that we WILL win.**<br /><br />My husband, God bless him, DOES have my back. I can't count the number of times that sainted man has had to face people that matter telling him that his wife is worthless and useless, or that he's blind, a cuckold, or a fool.<br /><br />Living with and loving me hasn't been an easy proposition. It has to be hard to love a woman who spends eight months too heavily medicated to cook or clean or find her way to the grocery store (let alone plant, harvest, and preserve or quartermaster a preparedness program for a family of five). It has to be hard to love a woman who's going through that and despises herself too much to see that she's allowed herself to become the victim of medical malfeasance. <br /><br />It has to be even harder when people you love tell you you're a fool for sticking around when "for better" turns to "for worse." Yet he's still here. <br /><br />Were the shoe on the other foot, I'd be a good woman for standing by him. My grandfather had many of the same struggles that I do (only to a much greater degree, having battled high-functioning autism and OCD at the height of the American eugenics program, a PTSD-worthy feat if ever there was one). I remember him as a man who ate a lot of Xanax and still held the whole family in thrall to his very fragile nerves-- and I wasn't around for the worst of it. <br /><br />My grandmother was widely held to be simultaneously a saint and doing no more than her duty for putting up with him. <br /><br />Why does my husband have to endure being called a "pussy-whipped fool" for standing by me?? How is that fair to the women who struggle...<br /><br />...or to the men who show enough of the character of Jesus to love us when we've fallen and can't get up??<br /><br />I'm not asking for feminism. Far from it. As far as I can tell, feminism demands for women the right to take to themselves all of the worst of what our fallen society smiles upon in men. Feminism seems to me to have it decidedly bass-ackwards, calling for more of what is bad in the world and even less of what is strong and right and good. That's not how you fix a problem. <br /><br />I don't know how to verbalize what I'm asking for. But I know we'd better find it NOW, while things are still so soft that we can do something as foolish as agitate in favor of the worse nature of the human race. MCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-78848715992370419432015-06-22T21:48:20.267-07:002015-06-22T21:48:20.267-07:00Your comment made me so sad. All people fall shor...Your comment made me so sad. All people fall short of perfect and the Bible contains goals for all of us, I never think of them as demands because I know God is aware that I cannot live up to the goal, I can only try. <br />I do not know why you have been treated poorly and from the sound of it you have. It is not always like that, I married a lovely man and we support each other as we have both gone through physical and mental downtimes, we are partners. May I suggest that you look for a support group (I suggest a church) and find others who are struggling with the same issues, they will be much more understanding, I hope you find some peace, praying for you,Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209722078916803400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-14147278087807429382015-06-22T20:30:08.748-07:002015-06-22T20:30:08.748-07:00remember to also pray for the surgical team and ot...remember to also pray for the surgical team and others serving in the hospital.deb harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05110992898072146282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-83858057046663688752015-06-22T20:09:38.748-07:002015-06-22T20:09:38.748-07:00I can not possibly answer why. However, I have wit...I can not possibly answer why. However, I have witnessed the opposite of what you have experienced. A loving husband who cared for his wife with a debilitating stroke following an aneurysm and many other aliments. She has not fully recovered yet. He also cares for his aged mother who probably will need full time nursing care soon. Tell me please that this is NOT a good husband, son, man. <br /><br />I don't know why your are experiencing your pain or your condition, but know this. There is a God who does understand if you release it to Him. Please do! I will pray that you do! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-90985369147769039212015-06-22T13:58:21.157-07:002015-06-22T13:58:21.157-07:00So much hope, faith, prayers for Richard and his f...So much hope, faith, prayers for Richard and his family. <br />Prayers for MC, may you find peace.<br />AnnieMouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-42641464568461277032015-06-22T13:27:43.787-07:002015-06-22T13:27:43.787-07:00Thank you, Richard, and all the best for your surg...Thank you, Richard, and all the best for your surgery!<br />I have been married for 15 years and would not give up my husband for anything in the world, but we have not been tested as you and your wife have been - I hope if such a test comes we will be able to do as you do and keep fighting and stick it out as a team.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-81450892810897148242015-06-22T12:50:57.486-07:002015-06-22T12:50:57.486-07:00I wonder, would we be singing the same song if the...I wonder, would we be singing the same song if the woman were the one disabled and in need of care? Every time I have battled depression, I've been called "selfish bitch" and worse. Every time I have struggled with a social skill, I have been told that I must not care for the people around me. <br /><br />Can someone please explain why, when a man struggles, life is hard and a woman should support him; however, when a woman visibly struggles, she is weak and bad and needs to be publicly upbraided (or better still, discarded)??<br /><br />This is not a rhetorical question. I accept it as my lot in life as a female who falls short of God's demands for Woman. I just don't understand WHY.MCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-63624522684857211922015-06-22T11:09:33.892-07:002015-06-22T11:09:33.892-07:00Thank you, Richard, for sharing you story, and th...Thank you, Richard, for sharing you story, and thank you, Patrice, for sharing it with us. <br />The media and institutions of "higher" learning have convinced the masses that marriage is antiquated and does not work. Richard's testimony and your testimony proves otherwise. <br />Again, thank you both.<br />May God hold you and keep you, Richard. You and your family are in my prayers.<br />sidetracksusie Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-90351154010962186232015-06-22T08:28:10.062-07:002015-06-22T08:28:10.062-07:00What a beautiful witness of true marriage. Faithf...What a beautiful witness of true marriage. Faithfulness and commitment shine through your story. Thank you for sharing. <br />I prayed for you. Rachel and Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330180136504703687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-17004347985940506052015-06-22T08:08:31.953-07:002015-06-22T08:08:31.953-07:00A tissue indeed... more than one! This is the ex...A tissue indeed... more than one! This is the example I wish more marriages exemplified.... True Agape Love! Richard is now on my prayer list for some more years with his family if the Lord may be so gracious. ,,,,,, '''''''Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-27524813642961656302015-06-22T07:34:17.121-07:002015-06-22T07:34:17.121-07:00Thank you, Richard, for sharing your deeply inspir...Thank you, Richard, for sharing your deeply inspirational story with us. I wish you every success, especially with your surgery. You set the kind of example that makes a person admire your courage and character. May you and your sweet wife be blessed.<br />Thank you for the opportunity to lift you up in prayer. <br />Please let us know how you do.<br /><br />A. McSpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-63426914411926189762015-06-22T06:46:40.230-07:002015-06-22T06:46:40.230-07:00All I can say is God Bless them.
Carl in the UPAll I can say is God Bless them.<br /><br />Carl in the UPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-82566595127520393182015-06-22T06:37:04.666-07:002015-06-22T06:37:04.666-07:00All I can say is, "wow." I'm prayin...All I can say is, "wow." I'm praying that you will make it through on Friday. If not, you are prepared which most of us are not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-80607020369228730902015-06-22T06:02:41.279-07:002015-06-22T06:02:41.279-07:00What a sad but wonderful letter. Until it was men...What a sad but wonderful letter. Until it was mentioned I had never thought about how fathers are being portrayed but you are both correct. The fact that my wife and I are still married after 45 years is not normal anymore but it is the way it is meant to be.stevenoreply@blogger.com