Can you please pray for me?

Question

My father is in the hospital for 2 weeks now in the ICU because he has pancreaitis. He is on a feeding tube and they put a hole through his trachea because he can barely breathe. (tracheostomy). Well my question is

while he is sedated..can he hear me at all...what is it like...i dont know..i see him blinking with a closed eye when i cry to him, hold his hand and tell him i lov him... I want to know if he can hear me...its such a horrible sight to see my dad, gasping for air provided by a machine...

im telling everyone now....appreciate what you have...because anything can happen...it takes only 30 seconds of a disease to ruin your life...plz pray for me....i need it....

i cant concentrate in school at all and this is my senior year...i dont know why this happened to my family...i dont know why

Answer 1

i'm so sorry. i don't know why this is happening either, but i know that God can help ya through it. i'll pray for both you, your dad, and your family and i'll have my church pray as well.
i don't know if your dad can hear you, but i have heard that most people can. so go ahead and tell him those things you need to say. God can make a way for him to hear your words.
if you want, i can post this on my prayer website. just contact me if you would like it on there. it's completely anonymous, but lots of people see it.
"dear God, please be with this young man. You see the needs of his heart, and the grief he is having to bear. Give him the strength he needs. I pray that he would rely on you through this time. Please touch his father. Give him Your healing touch. And please be with the others in his family. Comfort and strengthen them through this difficult time. i pray that they would be surrounded by Your love.
this i ask in Jesus' name,
Amen"
i'll be praying.

Answer 2

I'm so sorry to read this. My heart breaks for you, your dad, and your family. My precious precious father died unexpectedly and suddenly a few months ago. Do talk to him, do hold him and tell him you love him. He hears you. We know people in comas hear.

You may have to skip your senior year or take lower grades. Take it easy on yourself. This is a terrible, terrible trauma and you must be eas on yourself. My niece actually lost part of her scholarship and had to take incompletes and then summer school because she just couldn't function so well when my precious precious father, her poppop, died. You just pick yourself up and go on.

There are tried and true methods for not thinking about things when we don't want to - First thing - set an appt with yourself to think about him and keep it. Seriously, sit in a chair and do nothing but think about him for half and hour. Set a timer and move on when you're time is up. Thereafter, each time in a day when you find yourself thinking about him, you tell yourself - i have an appt to do this later and push the thoughts away - even if you have to start saying a nursery rhyme or other thing you plan in advance to shift your attention. In this case, because others are sharing your pain, you might have the appt be with someone you can talk to about your dad.

The second commonly used method is WORK. Hard physical work. Garden, help parents clean out the garage, scrub some bathrooms.
A third method is creativity. Start making something, creating something. Try art revering him!

You only want to use these techniques now to give you a little break so you can keep your strength up.

Based on my experiences, I would say spend every single minute with your dad that your family will allow. When you can't be with him, journal your thoughts/feelings/fears. I hope he will recover, and in the meantime, review what you might have regrets about if he doesn't, and try to address those things.

There is no good reason this is happening to your family - but I recognize the question. I still ask it and I still find it so strange that our perfectly wonderful lives were so disrupted. It seems like everything has changed and all sorts of things can go wrong now. For the first week, I would go in the shower and just shriek. I didn't try to, didn't think to, I would just find myself shrieking. This is territory no one can prepare you for.

I have to tell you that recent research has shown that praying for heart patients actually made them do less well than those not prayed for, so I would suggest you'll do better if people don't pray for you.

Answer 3

You are prayed for and may your sorrow be lightened.
Talk to your Dad just like you would if he was awake. He hears you. Tell him about your day at school or just talk to him like you would at dinner. Tell him that you need and respect him. Try to be uplifting in your speech and try not to focus on the negative. Tell him anything from your heart that you feel that you should. Most importantly, let him know that you will be with him when you can after school and that you love him. He knows and wants you to be the young woman that he raised to be responsible and caring and wise.

Answer 4

Whoa, Have you ever heard of "Be nonetheless and recognize that I am God. Ps. forty six:10. Jesus will go back whilst it's time. There is not anything guy can do to velocity it up. There is figure to be performed, like getting the gospel out to the arena and that's going down.Sorry to disagree with you, learn the booklet of Revelation whilst Jesus returns,no longer the rapture, however to pass judgement on the arena this international will probably be modified. As terrible as it's to listen to approximately baby abuse and all of the different horrible matters on this international we have to realize that that is the fallen situation we are living in. It is our accountability to aid the ones in affliction, no longer blame God. Save your breathe and give up yelling at God for the rotten international we are living in, move aid anybody much less lucky and ask God to aid you.

Answer 5

The peace of God be with you in this travail of pain.
As a pastor, I want to assure you that my personal and professional experience is people feel and hear until the very end of their life walk. Your dad knows of your love.
I will hold you in my prayers - drop me a note if you want to talk more. Please do so when you know more.
It would be helpful if you told your teachers what is going on in your life. They will understand your pain.
The why is another and longer answer, cyberfriend. Right now, concentrate on the hurt, let it sting, grow through it by the power of your love.

Answer 6

Appreciate what you have is very good advice, life is too short and you never know what will happen and when. I am very sorry your dad is going through this and I will include him and your family in my prayers I hope all turns out well in the end and good luck with your senior year :)

Answer 7

my grandma just died a while ago, and i too had to go through seeing her connected to a tube giving her air she once could get on her own. I will definitley have you, your dad, and your family in my prayers, ;listen keep your head held up high unfortunatley my grandma didnt survive, and oh god how i miss her, but your dad maybe lucky, miracles happen all the time just have faith, because Faith sees the invincible believes the incredible and creates the impossible, i know this is hard, so if you need moral support you are welcome to email me anytime, just to talk cuz i know sometimes you just need someone to listen.

Answer 8

I accidentally ran across your question while browsing tonight.
I am very sorry for the tragedy of your fathers illness. The first thing I did was pray for your father and you.
Since your father is sedated his mind is foggy, but he hears you and knows when you are near.
Pray is the greatest power we have! Have faith and be strong.

Answer 9

my uncle was in the hospital like that and when his family would come in the room and talk to him he would smile and they ask him questions like can you hear me they would tell him to squeeze there hand if he heard them and he squeezed their hand. i think he can hear you. just keep telling him you love him. i know it is hard for you right now . when i read your question i said a prayer for you and your dad. just keep looking up.everything happen for a reason some time things happen to bring a family closer together and sometime things happen to make you pray more. just know this the Lord don't make any mistake

Answer 10

I would like to share a prayer that my parents pray over me and my siblings every night:

"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen."

The source of this blessing is actually a verse in the Bible, I pray this for you tonight, my brother. Many great men in the Bible have, "cried out to God." This verse is for you:

In my distress I called to the LORD;
I called out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came to his ears.


I wish I knew your name, so that I could pray for you BY name tonight. But God will know who I'm talking about =)

Many, many prayers for strength in a time of sorrow.

Sister in Christ, H.L.R.


P.S. Won't this be an awesome testimony once you've gotten through it?