As you all may have noticed, I have not participated very much lately in the discussions about the cave and etchings and felt it best to advise everyone the reason behind this! First, I had spent way too much time in a short period reading and replying to posts as well as transfering pics of the etchings over the Photobucket, editing them (to try to enhance the etchings on the dried mud wall), copying and pasting them back to my' PC and then posting them here in this Thread which had me burnt out on what I was seeing in the etchings. And second, my' mind has been elsewhere as my' middle sister, Frances who is 70 years old, is dying from congestive heart failure and renal failure. She has had a lot of health problems ever since having the Flu last Winter and then coming down with Pneumonia this Spring. After being released from the hospital in May, she fell and fractured a disk in her' spine and was in a lot of pain. Although she was seeing a Doctor every week, they failed to find the spinal fracture and my sister's pain got worse and worse. As a result she became very inactive, staying in bed much of the time which caused excess fluid to build up in her' body and especially around her' heart. She was again taken to the hospital, where after a little over two weeks, they were finally able to get the excessive fluids out of her' body her' and her' kidneys working again but she had suffered quite a bit of heart damage. While in the hospital, the Doctors operated on her' spine to fuse the fractured spinal disk but we can't understand why since they apparently knew that she was going to die! She came home about a week ago and within 4 days, she was back in congestive heart failure and renal failure again but this time, they are worse than before with no way to reverse them. She began the death rattle this morning and after an appoinment with my' Doctor this morning, I spent most of the day with her and family members at her' home. While she is still holding on, there is nothing that can be done and will likely pass in the next day or so. I hate to ask but if you can, please pray for her that she will pass with ease and that she will soon be with our Lord, our' parents and our older sister, Shirley, who passed in 2011.
Once we have had time to grieve and things have gotten a little more back to normal, I am sure that you will find me posting many, many more times on the forums here. In the meantime, I will check back from time to time and post if I can.
Thank you in advance for your understanding, your thoughts and your prayers!
Frank
P.S. I have posted this here and in another Thread since I have participated quite often in both!
