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- Subject: fw : special prayer request
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- from : celestedeo @ aol . com
- sent : tuesday , april 11 , 2000 1 : 21 pm
- subject : special prayer request
- hi ,
- i am coming to you with a very special prayer request . we have some good
- friends here in nashville , mark and melanie burress and their one year old
- baby gracie , who have recently received some devastating news . mark was
- diagnosed in december with leukemia . his is normally a very slow spreading
- form of the disease but unfortunately his is spreading extremely fast . he
- also has a rare dna type and only about 12 people on the bone marrow donor
- list ( out of 4 . 5 million ) were possible matches and all have since been
- elimnated . we held a bone marrow drive in his behalf at church this past
- weekend and over 1200 people came to donate . this amazed the people running
- the drive because they said they normally get a few hundred at the most .
- if a donor is not found by june his chances are very , very slim to live to
- july . he has chosen to have his bone marrow transplant in houston at the
- anderson hospital so i am asking if there is anyone in houston who knows of
- a
- strong , supportive congregation near the hospital that they may attend ( when
- possible ) while they are there , that would be greatly appreciated . if a
- donor is located , they say the transplant procedure is very difficult and he
- won ' t be able to have any contact with his baby for several months due to
- his
- immune system being weakened . as you can imagine , this would put his wife
- in
- a severe state of limbo , having to be primary caregiver to someone who is
- incapacitated and a baby without the two being able to be together .
- it is difficult to watch someone with so much to give and so much to live
- for
- to be facing such a hard fight . please keep his family in your prayers and
- i
- know if there is a miracle with marks ' name on it , god will provide it .
- if you could please pass this on to the chi sigs / regina list , every little
- prayer they get will be appreciated .
- thank you !
- celeste ( sasser ) ortega
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