I feel that me and my immediate family haven't gotten a fair shake at this life.

My mother, brother, and self dealt with an emotionally and occasionally physically abusive alcoholic through our entire adolescent life. I was hit by a car on my bicycle two years ago, my brother has been laid off three times in the past twelve months, my mother lost a job and benefits due to a business shift, my father lost his pension (that he worked 33 years for), health care benefits, and to begin to mention the strange and overwhelming financial situations that seem to keep us gasping for air... among many, many other items.

My dad went in for hip replacement surgery Friday morning. He has a deteriorated disk in his spine, combined with the bad hip has given him severe pain for the past several years. With his insurance running out at the end of this year he made the decision to not put it off further and get it done.

The doctors removed the wrong hip. The doctor, my dad, and the anesthesiologist signed the leg/thigh of the correct leg and a sock was placed on the foot of that leg. The surgeon managed to cut into him and cut out the ball of his joint before realizing the mistake. It was at a point of no return, but he went out and asked my mother if he could continue and if the other (the bad) hip should be done at this time. She said yes, thinking he would be irate to wake up in severe pain from a surgery and a still bad hip. My dad lost a good hip for no good reason. I watched him suffer through physical therapy today. He couldn't even stand up, let alone barely scoot his legs across the bed. He will now be off of work longer as he's trying to walk all over again. At least with the originally planned surgery he would have one good leg to stand on, now he has nothing.

I'm struggling through my senior year in college. I work three jobs, one of which is an unpaid internship, while there are two other classmates at the same venue that get paid for the same work and same hours. I now have to take time off of class and my paid job to help my dad through this. We will surely be dealing with lawyers and a legal process of trying to get compensation for this mistake.

I'm overwhelmed and life has taken its toll on me.

My faith in the lord is not shaken. I know the lord doesn't give us more than we can handle, but that doesn't make this any easier to work with.

I, and my family, need any and all prayers. I thank any and all of you for taking the time to read this and considering us in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you.

My prayers to you, HG, that Jesus shall keep you in his bosom.

HG..Your post brought me to tears..I won't preach but thank you for helping your Father. What a great testimony and it won't pass by the Lord unnoticed. I pray the Lord send refeshment AND compensation. There is absolutly no excuss for this kind of error in hospitals.

Aren't you glad this life isn't it! My Dad was an alcoholic too. But in the end he found saving grace. I pray that for your Dad too...That what he only see's in part now will be fully realized as the page of life is turned...In Jesus name...

May the Lord be with your whole family. +

PS: I hope you are suing this incompetent surgeon, the hospital, and everyone involve in that horrendously muffed surgical procedure.

My family has a history of alcoholism and the Lord told me that there was a generational curse that needed to be broken. I prayed, fasted and the Spirit has lifted this curse from me and my son. I was into alcohol until a month before the tsunami. The Lord ripped me out of that lifestyle and removed the curse. I am completely separated on the other side of the country now from the people in my family who choose to live that way.

I will pray for you. This has everything to do with the alcohol.

But how merciful our Lord and Savior is...He died for our weaknesses. California...thank God you have been freed from this devil!

HGFireHazard, do you happen to have a FREEMASON (or a Eastern Star, Shriner, etc.) member in your family? If so, they will bring curses down to the 3rd and 4th generation. You need to have this curse removed.

I like to watch Larry Huch. He is a deliverer. He sometimes can be seen on tbn. I believe he has a website as well.

May God guide you and your family to your delivery and your subsequent blessings!

HG,
Christ is the only truth that there is. Galatians 3:13-14 says: "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree;--in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abrahom might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." If you have made a conscious decision to accept Christ into your life, you have the Spirit and all the promises connected with that. When the Holy Spirit resides within you, no curse can come on you. So it is important that you begin to call on God for the rest of the family to be covered by God's Holy Spirit so that no curse can stay. This being said, the road to wholeness will not be easy but trust that God will never be away from those who belong to him.
Believe that who have said that they will pray, and I am one of them, will builld a wall around you and your family that no evil can penitrate. Jesus Christ is also the healing God.
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