As Carol was flipping through the television channel’s one Sunday morning she came across a PBS special about the Dreamweaver Foundation and realized that maybe her prayers were being answered. Carol asked her hospice nurse to “find these people and see if they can help me get to Arizona to see my parents.”
Carol has a condition called Graph vs Host disease which is a side effect of having a stem cell transplant. She is 62 years old and on hospice. Her parents are 92 and live in an assisted living facility in Phoenix. When I met with Carol the first time, she told me she had been praying for months that God would lead her to someone who could help her get to her parents for a final visit.
The Dreamweaver Foundation kicked into full gear and began making arrangements to help make the visit a dream come true.
Within 90 days, flights were booked on US Airways and reservations were made at the Sheridan Crescent in Phoenix near the facility where her parents live. Carol and her caregiver LaLani, left on a sunny Thursday afternoon loaded with bags and treats and ready to travel west. Board members and volunteers were there with hugs, goodies for the trip and best wishes for safe travels.
Both ladies were astounded by how accommodating everyone was and how they were treated like royalty every step of the
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On Friday night, the family had a special birthday party for both Carol and her 92 year old father. LaLani, Carol’s caregiver, decorated the private dining room and the Dreamweaver Foundation sent gifts for everyone. Interestingly enough, dad’s gift was a Dreamweaver Money Clip and that was exactly what he needed! As for Carol she had been wishing for months that she could have a snuggly fleece blanket but, felt that the luxury was one she couldn’t afford. Guess what her gift was, a beautiful blue Dreamweaver fleece
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One of the substance abuse interventions I recently led, resulted in a very public miraculous healing. I was contacted by the McCracken family early in 2015 to lead a last chance intervention for their son Jeff. Jeff McCracken was barely alive when we got him to treatment. Once he arrived at the facility we had in place, they immediately sent Jeff to the hospital. His medical condition was dire, he was given two months to live and sent to Hospice. In Hospice, Jeff’s parents requested our team to pray over him. Within days of that event, Jeff had an incredible turn around and was released from Hospice and entered a program. I sponsored Jeff throughout the recovery process. God has utterly transformed his life. Dubbed a modern day “Lazarus,”
All of us have dreams but not everyone has the means of making their dreams come true. The Dreamweaver Foundation brings together generous donors, loving volunteers and terminally ill seniors with unfulfilled end-of-life dreams. When woven together, we create the gift of love and lasting memories.
I can hear the children making a ruckus in the backyard, and the wind whistling through the trees. On this hot, summer, Sunday afternoon and John Jr. and Loretta are playing with all of their toys, while their father sits on the porch and enjoys his snuff. My eyes peer across the room to see him, my husband, through the windows as I walk to take my seat next to him on the porch where I will finish today’s stitching. Loretta is turning six next month, so I am making her a cross stitch pattern on a special blanket John Thomas bought her last week when he was in the city. The surprise must be well reserved, so I hide it when she comes near. “Mama!” calls John Jr. “When’s Granmama comin’? I’m already gettin’ hungry.”
On Wednesday November 4th, we were visited by two hospice workers, Jacqueline Rasmussen and Paula McMenamin. They were both San Diego State Alumni who had found themselves working for The Elizabeth Hospice.They were certainly more happy than you’d expect most hospice workers to be. Most people have problems with hospice, they see it as a place people go to die.
After finding out about her disease, Kirby prayed and asked everyone she knew to check and see if they were a match. In one month times over 15 family members and friends had checked to see if they were a match however, every one of the reports came back negative. Over two month’s had past and still no match had been found, they spread Kirby’s story on social media, they even put posters out around town to find a match but no match was found. Finally, after five months in the hospital and multiple dialysis treatments Roger Gardner, a classmate that
Clara took her most prized item, her precious necklace that had been passed down to her by her mother, to a pawn shop to sell it. Her father had bought it for her mother in Vietnam, and gave it to her when he got back from the war. The necklace had given her $200, even though the chain on it was broken, and by the end of November, she had saved enough money that when she added it to the money from the necklace, she had enough for the quilt.
While completing the volunteer hours, I have chosen to work at a home health care service in Baton Rouge, LA. The care service is called Heavenly Haven. I was assigned to work with a client named Rachael Selders. Racheal is twenty-seven years old. Racheal also has a disability, but she is a very intelligent and very independent.
At age 34 while five months pregnant she was told that she had pulmonary hypertension (very high blood pressure). For a while, she felt fine but a few weeks after her son was born she found everyday tasks a challenge. From then on she was constantly in and out of hospitals, she had to travel with portable oxygen and found that even walking a few steps was difficult. Soon after she developed severe heart failure and her kidneys began to shut down. She was told she needed a lung transplant but this was impossible if she went on dialysis for her kidney failure as well as not being strong enough for the operation. Her only other option was ECMO, ECMO helpt provide heart and lung support to strengthen her so that she could receive the lung transplant. With pure determination and desire to raise her three children, Nichele received the lung transplant survived. She can now do normal things and it is all thanks to
Her great granddaughter, Kate, made her a wooden jewelry box with as much glitter glue as she could at the age of six. As time went on, the small child with eyes as blue as the sea never knew about her great grandmother’s journey. When Kate reached the age of 15, she found again the jewelry box that she had made as a child. Opening the top of the glitter-covered lid, under small items, she found a key. When she observed the key, only then did she realize that there was a note left at the bottom of the cheap wooden box. In a cursive writing, the entire note read: