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Thursday November 26, 2009

Call For Help Stories

  • CAN''T HELP IT

    Monday, August 11, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    HEY AALL YOU PRAYER WARRIORS OUT THERE. I AM STILL SMOKING. CAN'T HELP IT. THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH MY LIFE, WHICH HAS BEEN VERY TRYING.NEED ALL THE PRAYERS I CAN GET. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING, AND HATE THE CIGARETTES. HOWEVER I DON'T THINK GOD WANTS IT THAT WAY. I BELIEVE HE WANTS ME TO GIVE THEM UP STILL LIKING THEM. AND MAN I  HAVE TO TELL YOU ITS BEEN M...

    1 Recommendation

    14 Comments

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  • just let me die

    Friday, August 29, 2008

    If my life continues this way please God just let me die. I cant take much more.

    2 Recommendations

    12 Comments

  • Brittney is missing

    Sunday, September 21, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    How do i start this.  Most of u know i couldnt find britt, well, i finally got ahold of the girls mother & she said they called me & said it was ok for maria to spend the night.  She dropped them off at where she thought we lived.  Britt told her the directions.   Well, they never called me & she dropped them off at a house w 3 boys outside.  Britt said t...

    1 Recommendation

    15 Comments

  • Trying so hard

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I am getting my life back. I have been given a 2nd chance & I am not going to blow it. I have been taking care of everyone else & stressing about what if this happens. I have learned a hard but good lesson. I have to take care of myself. It feels so good. I have hope again & feel so much stronger. I really do have a good life & I will have bad times but I will survive esp if I tak...

    1 Recommendation

    7 Comments

  • depression

    Sunday, February 8, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    all i want to  do is fall asleep and never wake up..there is so much  going  throw my head .. its scary...my husbands has been a  a asshole mood for weeks still playing wow.......,,iam still healing from my surgery.dealing with my dads death ....... and know my sister has collon cancer............how can i  be a good  parent to my  kids when all i want  to&...

    1 Recommendation

    5 Comments

  • I can't beleive this is happening

    Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    my Dr thinks I abused the meds she gave me for pain. She wrote on 2 referrals that it was a substance abuse problem. Why??? She knows I had stuff show up on xrays & mri for back had a allerigic reaction & hurt my knee. My PT still feels it may be bruised bone or torn menicus. Its still swollen after 4 weeks . Maybe tomm I will stop pain meds see if gets much worse. I know i told her last ...

    1 Recommendation

    2 Comments

  • I can't live this way but I will have to live in pain

    Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I would rather live in excreciating pain then have people think I abuse drugs. I swear on my parents graves I have never done that with the exception when I was suicidal. I am no longer suicidai but having this label put on me will destroy me, my family, my carreer & my life. I have been through hell for a long time with my own physcial issues, my mothers slow, painful death from ovarian...

    1 Recommendation

    7 Comments

  • i don't know if I can do this much longer

    Sunday, August 16, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I am so depressed. Its not stopping & its the longest its ever gone on. I am waiting for my MRI results but afraid. What if nothing shows up. My knee is sttill swollen after 6 weeks. I live in pain. If I stay real still sometimes it will stop for a little while. I wake up everyday day wishing I was dead. I refuse to take any pain med. I can't take advil due to 3 ulcers & am working on...

    1 Recommendation

    5 Comments

  • I give up

    Saturday, November 14, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I cant do it anymore.We are in danger of losing our house. I am forced into retirement on Dec 1. I will have to un retire as soon as possible. We cant survive on that income. I have borrowed on my husband life insurance to pay the mortgage. It will buy me some time.We wont be able to celebrate my birthday nextt week or christmas. There is no money. Between my husbands cancer last year & my he...

    1 Recommendation

    6 Comments

  • what is the point of going on?

    Monday, November 23, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    if all my life is going to be pain levels of 10 a few times a day. I try to do everything right. I ice it 24/7, ace wrap, brace. As you prob already now I am facing the loss of my house cause I cant return to work esp if I wind up with a knee replacement. Today I was in such unbearable pain I really wanted to die. Now that the pain is manageable I am more rational. I don't like the person the...

    1 Recommendation

    4 Comments


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