Linked in from 3DGameMan.com forums, where I am a member. I'm also linking this thread to Lanageddon.com, where I am an active member.

I am not the religious type but I do wish you all the best and will keep you and your wife in my thoughts.

Brian's paypal address is Brian_Smith@cmicro.com

I want to thank all of you and the websites from which you came to show support. Sometimes our community really comes together and makes me proud.

I hope things will turn out well, my thought's are with you and your family. And i have done my own little praying, wishing you good things..

Regards,

Jakob

:(

Hey Brian I heard about this over at Overclockers forums as well, so on behalf of the staff there and the staff for Overclockedgamerz I wish you wife a full and speedy recovery and would also like to say she is in my prayers. I don't know if you are into country at all but this reminds me eerily of Tim McGraws - Don't take the girl :(

Our thoughts are with you and yours Brian may you stay strong for your wife and your children, if ever you need a shoulder mine as well as I am sure many others, is available no matter what.

J :cool:

Ahh pH posted the linkage already in here, I will get something ont he front page tongiht for ya.


But yes the outpouring of wishes and support is really quite amazing. I thank everyone for pitching in when a fellow geek is having a something like this go on!

Ive posted this on the front page of MWL, and have personally thanked a couple webmasters who have posted this on their sites also. THANKS!

I am here from OC forums as well...
I'm really sorry to hear about the complications...you are in my prayers. Hope things pick up soon.

I'm amazed I hadn't read this thread yet. My sympathies are with you Brian. You seem to be holding out stoically, given the situation.

My thoughts are with you and your wife.

Linked in from 3DGameman too... remember, we are all with you on this, and wishing, hoping, praying for a recovery. Whatever happens, people are here for you. Always.

You all will be in my thoughts.

It never even crossed my mind that you were looking for charity, and that's not what this is. Sending a little something to you is a way we can reach out across the miles and give you a pat on the back, just like we would do if you were standing right beside us. Prayers are great, and your getting a lot sent your way, but cold hard cash can take you and your kids out to dinner and provide some needed distraction. ;)

Brian, you have my deepest sympathies.

What you are going through is a terrible way to realise how much you love someone. Know that God does have a plan for every event, even though sometimes it feels otherwise.

I am 30 years old. Last July I was diagnosed with acute heart valve failure; for unknown reasons, my mitral valve had almost completely seperated from the cordae tendonae (the cordlike tissues that hold the valve closed when the heart beats), and I was living on (and had been for some time) less than 20% blood flow. There is no sign of heart disease or any degenerative illness in me, and my family history of heart problems does not go beyond mild valve prolapse (a condition which can cause a murmur but generally causes no health problems at all). I had open heart surgery to remove my damaged valve and implant an artificial valve in August. I am still recovering from this, and have recently lost my job as a result of too much time off (unfortunately, FMLA does not cover you unless you have been employed for one year or more, and I had started a new job only 2 months before being diagnosed).

In October, exactly 2 months after my surgery, my third child (first daughter) was born by emergency C-Section. Fortunately, all went well there. However, due of course to the nature of C-Sections, my wife and I were now both not working.

I have chosen to take these events in our collective life as an opportunity to grow spiritually. I have been given a second life, as it were, where some others are not. It is therefore my responsibility to channel my efforts to aid whenever and where ever I can. I have nothing monetary I can give you, but I can pray.

My children, and my wife and I will pray for both you and your wife today, and whenever we have opportunity. I will not pray for your wife's recovery, because that may not be God's will. I will instead pray that God's plan for you and your wife be exectued in the most merciful fashion, that His will grants you the strength to hold on to your family in this time of trouble, that His will saves your wife from any unnecessary suffering and gives her peace, no matter the outcome.

I do not know what your religious beliefs are, and I hope you are not offended by mine. I am Roman Catholic, as is my entire family. I will be contacting my Grandmother, who belongs to a prayer group, to organize a novena (9 days of the Holy Rosary) to be prayed for you and your wife.

My prayers and best hopes to you.

Nick McDermott

Brian,

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

-Eddie

Brian, you will see a little something in your Ppal acct. Like someone said, you can use it to go out to dinner during all of this. Or the thought I had was to start a college fund for little Deborah Elease. That way you feel good about accepting it. And you can tell Deborah the whole story about how her college fund got started.

Just a thought.

Either way, we're all here for you in our hearts and prayers.

I followed the link at 3dgameman.com forums and read this thread.

You and your family are in my prayers and I hope that everything does turn out well for your wife.

I usually try really hard to think positive, so I'm gonna congratulate you on a newborn first,
and, hope that your wife will get better soon. Just be there for her.

Keep the spirit as much as you can, hope that all of these posts can give you some too.

I wish you two (or better, six) all the best and to be together again very very soon.

I am linking in from Overclockers.com. I am really sorry to hear about your wife's condition.

I have personally just started drinking Noni juice and have heard of many different uses that it has been successful put into. I hope you can check out the 2 sites as follow:

1) http://www.incc.org/sfs/testimonials/category_63.htm

2) http://www.tahitiannoni.com/us/us_index.htm

The first site lists some testimonials from stroke patients while the second shows the best product in this category.

I am not trying to sell you anything, just offering a suggestion...

I have not been monitoring the thread at all until today. I am very sorry to hear of your situation Brian, it is impossible to understand what you are going through except to imagine I was in your shoes, not easy. At all.
Warmest congratulations for the birth of your daughter, hoping sincerely her mother makes a (full) recovery.

Jonathan Walford

Brian,

My congradulations on your new child, and my deepest wishes that your wife has a complete and speedy recovery.

Jay

Thoughts & prayers
 

Linked over from Overclockers.com and thought I'd join in to say my thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife. May GOD richly bless and strengthen you. Ihope you don't mind references to the Bible. Isaiah 53 (the whole chapter), Phillipians 4:13.

Man, I been gone for a while and didn't pickup on this. Sorry to hear about the wife. If the mother of my daughter had problems it would be difficult, not sure what I would do. I hope things work out for the better for you, your daughter, and your wife. Good luck and keep positive!

eire1274, I think you hit my beliefs fairly well. I have no idea what will come, but I believe in the eventual good that God will bring.

I don't know anything about you other than what I read in this
thread. I was linked from a site I really enjoy(Overclockers.com)
and they had an article about your family. you guys are in my prayers
and I'll monitor this thread for the outcome. Maybe this will help:
Mark 10:46-52. God Bless you and yours!

Hello Brian, just linked from OC. I admire the coolness with which you wrote your messages. What's happening here leaves me speechless. Congratulation for your new daughter. My positive thoughts and prayers for a fast and complete recovery for your wife.

I just got the kids put down and I got a chance to read some of this stuff, and I'm still feeling overwhelmed at the response of all you fellow geeks out there.

I got Heather transferred to a rehabilitation center today called RIO (Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon) which is supposed to be good (anyone know how to do comparison shopping on rehab centers?). It is supposed to be an intense rehab course with 7 days a week of about 5 hours of therapy per day (which is probably pushing Heather to the max, since she is asleep so much during the day).

She fell asleep during the admittance interview, but the nurse says that happens a lot with stroke patients since the brain is trying to shut down and heal itself. I think she is doing very well with the physical side of recovery (she can walk with assistance!), but she's not progressing as well with other stuff (her saying that a nurse was her mother-in-law, for instance, was a big warning flag for the admit nurse). Right now, I'm most worried that she doesn't seem to have any emotions/initiative/personality. Hopefully that will come back as well.

So, thank you all for your help and prayers! I'm trying to spend as much time as possible with her rehab sessions and then back home with the kids. Work has been amazingly understanding with my wish to be with my wife as much as possible, and your help has really made it easier.

God bless you all for helping.

Nope. Don't mind. This thread probably made it clear that I'm a Christian. :D But, I hope that this thread doesn't get side-tracked by people who want to debate differing religious views, though. I like a good debate, since an honest debate usually leads both sides to more understanding. But, I don't have the time right now to moderate out the stupid flames that inevitably result. Besides, it probably belongs in this thread, not here.

Brian
................................... I dont have the words

If you need ANYTHING, you know how to reach me.

Aardil

Brian - I'm over here from the OC Forums after hearing about what happened. Just wanted to let you know that I can't get your situation out of my head for some reason, and that I'm praying for you.

Psalm 23, as cliche as it is at times, always helps me fall asleep. :)

-Eric

I’m sure the Doctors do a great job. But I would check if they give here some "brain fat" EPA and DHA. Since the brain consists to a large part of those fats, it seams logical that it would be a good thing to give the brain a good supply of those building blocks. A good brand is EYEQ, there have been many studies lately involving giving four parts EPA and one part DHA, it helps the brains of mentally ill to recover and it helps the brain of ADHA children, reducing their symptoms. (all showed in serious studies carried out by medics)

Ask the doctors, right now there is a school testing it, http://www.durhamtrial.org/, check the results they have had so far, there is a boy with dyslexia improving his writing enormously… check this before and after picture out.


http://www.ketsugo.se/joe1.gif

After 3 months..
http://www.ketsugo.se/joe2.gif

I believe in this stuff, I take it for my depressions (just started) and perhaps it would help your wife.

;Edit those fats, are called OMEGA-3, what's new is the 4 EPA 1 DHA ratio, and that they have done some serious studies on it, proving this old fish-oil treatment very healthy.

My wife and I have added you to my mother's "prayer circle". We hope she recovers and will be back home soon.

The baby looks beautiful and healthy. Congrats!

Brian,

My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family. This has hit home with me also as I have 2 beautiful boys, one 15 weeks old, and the other 28 months old. If something was to happen to my wife, I would not know how to handle it, but you seem to be handling this situation very well.

To end on a positive note: Congratulations with your new addition. She will be bring much joy to your life. :D

Read about his on the front page of HardOCP.

I wish you and your wife the best. I have been married for nearly 3 months now, and last night I accidentily broke my wifes nose, and I am distraught, I hate seeing her in pain, especially when there is nothing I can do about it. I don't know how I could ever handle what you are going through. I know she means the world to me, and I know yours means the same.

All our prayers are with you and your wife.