An Update & An Open Letter of Gratitude re: My Father, ph

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Dear Beautiful & much Loved Family & Friends,My profound apologies for being rather absent of late on this group - though I have been watching the posts for healing and prayer requests to ensure all were added immediately to the official Humanity Healing Grid...which works for prayers as well. I am attaching below the "Open Letter of Gratitude" and an update on my father's condition which will be posted here and on MySpace. I love you all and thank you for your patience and understanding for those whom have called and I have not yet been able to get back to! :: deep bow of apology, respect and honor ::Namaste. Much Metta.~Ali~

An Open Letter of Gratitude

It is

with a heart that is overwhelmed and overflowing with complete humility,

gratitude, awe, respect and joy that I write this small but meaningful missive

to each one of you who responded to the collective voices asking for help on

behalf of my family. :: deep bow of profound respect ::

M father,

ph, and mother, Carol, and I wish to thank each and every one of you for

all the love, the prayers, kind thoughts, beautiful notes and wonderful healing

energies you have sent to us in our time of challenge regarding my father's

illness. We are profoundly touched and

grateful. If we could hug each one of

you we would!

The

update on my father: He

is still very ill but makes the best of each day; he is an amazing soul indeed. We have struggled to find more natural means

to help him but there are state laws to abide by in terms of the antibiotics

required to be ingested. So, given that,

we have gone as much the way of the organic as possible, continue energetic

treatments and prayers, laugh often, and live wholly as we can as a family

unit.

It is

important to us to thank those who offered warm and helpful suggestions of more

natural approaches to help him heal but to also share that, due to the other

types of medications he is on, he is unable to take many of the alternative

options for most of the herbs – save those for nausea – have been

counter-indicated and would have adverse effects rather than positive

ones. Still, it is so very imperative

that I tell you how much we all love that you would care enough to suggest

alternative ways to deal with his illness and their side-effects. :: deep bow of respect and honor ::

My

father was recently told that the antibiotic trio he is forced to take lasts

not only the 6 months as previously shared, but that it is very much the same

as receiving chemo treatments. What that

means is that he is experiencing the same intensity of chemo with similar side

effects; extreme nausea, some uncontrollable twitching and spasms in his large

muscle masses and digits, coldness coming from within and not without, energy

drain and what is often referred to as "chemo brain" (which simply means there are

occasional bouts where he suffers slight mental confusion or memory

impairment).

All in

all we are doing quite well and remain positive and hopeful.

With

much Love, Light, Joy, Gratitude, Respect and Honor to each one of you Beautiful

Souls,

~Ali~ aka "Eternlly a Seeker"