@saibh @raincloud. I sent light and angels to surround and protect your friend's boy so he can stay where he is in the U.S. As I read the story you posted, I could only think that the mother was unable to reach the right people in Immigration.
I wondered if she had reached out to her congressional representatives (in her district). They often intervene for their constituents in federal affairs.
- 1st district: Frank J. Mrvan (D) (since 2021)
- 2nd district: Rudy Yakym (R) (since 2022)
- 3rd district: Jim Banks (R) (since 2017)
- 4th district: Jim Baird (R) (since 2019)
- 5th district: Victoria Spartz (R) (since 2021)
- 6th district: Greg Pence (R) (since 2019)
- 7th district: André Carson (D) (since 2008)
- 8th district: Larry Bucshon (R) (since 2011)
- 9th district: Erin Houchin (R) (since 2023)
@jeanne-mayell She has an army calling a whole list of people daily, nearly 2000 people are sharing her updates on Facebook, she's heard back from people in Indiana legislature. The timing, with the holidays, has really made it hard for communication and anything happening, so she turned to media hard-core a few weeks ago. The story has been picked up and shared - she and Jonas were on CNN this morning - just hoping it will get heard by the right people in time. With three days left, two of which being a Sunday and a holiday, she's incredibly stressed right now. An angel heard the story and promised to fund an immigration lawyer, and there is a Go Fund Me to help, but we are all hoping and praying it doesn't come to Jonas getting deported and Rebekah having to fight for him IN Haiti. All of his paperwork and forms were lost in the earthquake, and the likelihood of Haiti being able to help make things legal is slim.
Good snowy day everyone. It’s my second snow day in a row and I’ve made good use of the quiet time.
I wanted to give everyone an update on my journey. For those of you who have come to us recently, I’m a living donor for my wife’s cousin. A few years back when he first got his diagnosis and learned that he may one day need a new liver, I had a powerful message from the Universe that he would, in fact, need the transplant, and that it would be my liver that he would receive. We had to wait until he had exhausted immediate and extended family members as I’m not a blood relative and it wasn’t until late July of 2023 that he exhausted his last option. I got tested quickly and was determined that I’m a match. Interestingly, while I’ve struggled with my weight my entire life, I reached a tipping point (no pun with scales intended) in May and had decided that when the school year ended I’d recommit to losing weight. At my appointments with the transplant center in August I had already lost about 30 pounds but was told I needed to lose 50 more. In September they officially named me his donor pending weight loss. I set a goal for myself of February 2024. I’m nearly there.
I also reached out and bothered Jeanne asking for any immediate thoughts that jumped to her mind. She spread it out to several in the Circle of Light community and several things were almost universally acknowledged by everyone who read the situation. I would be approved to be his donor. Check. We’d go through the surgery. Not check yet but coming. I’d lose the weight but have to train my mind and body like an athlete. Check and check. Since June 8th my total weight loss has hit over 70 pounds. I have about 6 to go to meet the 50 pound requirement set by the transplant team. My read on the situation tells me I’ll hit the final amount within the next two weeks. I’ve done this by continually confusing my body. I fast each week. I feast on Fridays. I do Keto between Saturday and the first day of my fast. I exercise daily. Treadmill. Spin. Weights. Kickboxing. Dance. HIIT. Core. Pilates. If Apple Fitness + has it, I’ve earned badges for it. (Except rowing. I don’t have a row machine and it just looks god awful)
My personal goal is to add an extra 20 in the mix. I probably have 40 total that I should still lose but my biggest concentration has been on getting where I need to go so that “K” (as I’ve been referring to him here) can get what he needs to live. I lost my father young. K’s kids played with mine growing up. K himself was like a brother to my wife. I can’t let his daughters not have a dad walk them down the aisle, meet his grandkids, etc. It’s been a powerful motivator.
I get up every morning nearly two hours before I used to. I recognize there is both a physical AND mental health component to what I need to do here. I use Apple Fitness + and go through at least two workouts in the morning. I stepped it up to include afternoon workouts during the holidays and for the first time in my life I actually woke up January 1st 10 pounds LIGHTER than I was Thanksgiving morning. (Normally I gain 10-20 pounds over the holidays and factored that in to my goal and timeline - but it didn’t happen!). I’ve used the additional time in the morning to pleasure read before going to work after my daughters get on the bus and my wife leaves for school. I meditate in my office at lunch. I’ve changed in many important ways, thus fufilling another vision the group had for me that this would change both K and myself in ways we hadn’t determined yet. (I now get moody if I don’t get a workout in every day, and if I don’t get my reading time I just don’t feel decompressed)
On February 8th I’ll be returning to the transplant center for one final test. They’ll weigh me, and they’ll do one final ultrasound on my liver to make sure it’s still healthy. There was enough fat tissue there in September that this weight loss will give them a clearer picture, though what they saw in September indicated I’m likely good to go.
My ask: If anyone has any light to send to help me get that final weight off to be at their goal for me by Feb 8th, I’ll take it. If you’d prefer to focus on my liver still being healthy enough, I’ll take it. If you want to contribute energy to my goal of losing an additional 20 pounds by the April goal date for surgery I’ll take it. If you want to send energy for all of the above, I’ll take it.
Basically if you have any good energy to share to get me the final few steps, I’ll take it.
This has been a life changing event for me this year in a year full of life changing events for me (Won a competitive dance competition for charity, graduated grad school with the degree just under a PhD, and now this!). And while it’s kept me from posting here as I used to quite frequently (among many other things) @Jeanne-Mayell and others have continually checked in with me on this journey and I’ve continued to feel connected to all of you. I appreciate every ounce of energy you’ve sent me to get me this far. And in advance, I appreciate every ounce of energy you might spare for me over the next few months. I’m almost there.
Light and love, Friends. Light and love.
@dannyboy Sending and surrounding you with light so that all may come to pass for the highest good for all involved. You have done the work and then some and experienced a major transformation. Well done and all the best for making it over the finish line!
Whoo hoo! You are inspiring in the extreme. Check, to all of of the potential landing spots of your ask!
@dannyboy What an inspiration you are. Congratulations on achieving all that you have done in the not so distant past!!! Sending you light, love, good vibes to reach all of your goals.
@dannyboy Wonderful to hear your update! You go! You are focused and determined and seeing those results. All good light, energy and forward momentum to reach your next set of goals.
@dannyboy, congratulations! What a wonderful journey. But, I'll be honest about what I saw as I read your post. I felt a weight gain after surgery for you. Nothing major, but it felt like you weren't prepared for this, even mentally knowing your activities would be curtailed for a while after the surgery. It felt like if you were forewarned of this, you'd accept what came your way, and then when your body was recovered, it could be addressed. What I saw as I read your post felt familiar, and if you are prepared for the bump that is coming (which I wasn't-hence I let the weight gain after outpatient surgery derail me), you'll handle it with a "so what", and once your body is healed, you see K recovering, you'll have the proper perspective to master the setback instead of letting it make you lose your grip. You've got this, and we've got your back.
First of all - everyone - thank you for the energy. I greatly appreciate it and began to feel it come in last night. I'll add that after talking with K his MELD score has increased from 12 to 15 so it's becoming more urgent. Let's add the unwritten request up there and say keep him stable at 15 from now until the surgery.
@cindy 100% accurate. It's one reason I'm trying to lose an additional 15-20 pounds before the surgery because I know it's going to happen. I have one of those bodies where if I eat a processed carbohydrate it may weigh 4 ounces, but the next day I'll be 6 pounds heavier. Most of it is water. When the surgery is over I'll be eating what the hospital tells me to eat while in the hospital. That in addition to iv fluids and the like I'm expecting a weight gain after but when I'm able to get back into the routines I've established here I feel confident I'll go down again. My gut (lol!) says I'll gain 15-20 after the surgery but will be able to start working that off slowly in June/July/August. Right after though my activity levels will be much, much, much lower. I harbor no illusion that I'll be up at 4:30 a.m. doing 3-4 workouts for quite some time after. I can adapt in other ways for now. Long story short, I will not allow myself to get back to where I started this journey but am aware that right after I'll bump up a bit.
Thank you all! Let's keep K at a 15 MELD score from now until April :-)
@dannyboy I will send Reiki and prayers to assist both you and K to achieve a successful operation. I’ll maintain this intention until your healthy recovery. Love and best wishes to you both.
@saibh I wanted to update people on the situation you asked prayers for in late December - - the Haitian boy who'd been adopted by an Indiana family, but because his adoption papers had been destroyed in 2010 during the Haitian earthquake, his American status was never completed. In early December, the U.S. Immigration Service had sent them a notice he'd be deported the first week of January. The boy is both vision impaired, autistic, had undergone a health setback where he lost the ability to speak.
I just checked the news and saw that at the last minute, in a four hour miracle deliberation, his status was approved and he is now an American citizen who can remain in the U.S.
@Raincloud had posted back when his status seemed hopeless that the public outcry from the publicity the family had achieved would help. "Miracles," quoted Raincloud, "are nature in action. "
Yes, indeed!
@jeanne-mayell Thank you for this ... I was planning to pop in and share the update.
Rebekah was literally on a zoom interview with a journalist from an ABC affiliate in DC when she got the news from the immigration lawyer who has been a rock star for them. The journalist asked for exclusive rights due to the fact that they had an in-the-moment reaction shot, so Rebekah was unable to share that Jonas's citizenship was granted for 24 hours, until ABC got the air date for the segment. (Last I heard, Rebekah thought it would be last night or tonight.)
She updated Facebook yesterday ... https://www.facebook.com/536283620/videos/360382169937320/
Thank you to all who sent up their light and energy for Jonas. Rebekah is still fired up to testify in front of Congress, on behalf of all the adoptive parents whose children will possibly go through this.
I am emotionally exhausted but I am at a crossroads and must make big decisions. All paths look perilous and full of loss. If any of you could spare a quick jolt of guidance and energy, I would be deeply grateful. I ask for wisdom in choosing the next best steps. A dark character (non-violent but brilliant and exploitative), not-of-my-choosing has a lot of sway in my life over those I love most and the stakes are high.
It's wonderful to hear about your new routines. My old neighbor referred to them as " Patterns of Comfort. " I have no doubt that you will hit your goals. You are right on time with everything.
I am sending you prayers for divine guidance. It sounds like such a hard and challenging situation. I`m hoping that whatever pathway you choose will hold something helpful and healing.
@raincloud Sending as much light as I can muster to chase the shadows away and give you the strength you need!
@raincloud May gentle guidance... or even in your face insight provide the assistance you need... love, best wishes and powerful Reiki and prayers are heading your way.