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Daddy just left on a trip to Lousiana. He has to have an order there by 12pm tomorrow, and is going to drive all night. If you get a chance please say an extra prayer for him.
I hate these longs trips he sometimes has to take. It just bothers me. As soon as he was pulling out of the driveway and we were telling him bye, I just started crying. Used to it bothered me, but not as much as now. I'm more worried about him now, especially after his colon cancer. He still won't go to the doctor to have himself re-examined, and he is occasionally getting weak again, tired, etc, but won't tell us his exact problems because he knows he needs to go and doesn't want to worry us with his problems, since he won't go. I just hate him being alone on long trips. He'll call and update us along the way, and I keep my cell with me 24/7 so he can call night or day and get me, but I can't help but worry.

Sarah has a good friend in LA, about 15 minutes from his dropoff location, that would probably be willing to let him stay there if he needs to. She knows her off another board, and the lady would give you the shirt off here back. She's always helping people out.
Even if Daddy wanted to just park in her driveway for some sleep I'm sure she'd let him.

Anyways, thanks so much for any extra prayers!

Prayers coming. What part of LA is he going? Hopefully northern.

Thanks!:) It's near the New Orleans area.

Of course I'll pray for your daddy, youngun. I've got one of those special daddies too and this old world wouldn't be the same without he and your dad in it, now would it?
Don't worry too much.

I will also pray that he will not be there past late sunday with that new hurricane moving in.

Prayers for your Dad Sharon!

Thanks everyone!

Youngun', your right, it wouldn't be the same. He called to tell us goodnight, and he loved us and said things were going well. He was getting close to Atlanta. Which this was about an hour or so ago.

Kendra,
If all goes well he should leave tomorrow and be home late tomorrow evening or early early Saturday morning.

Thanks so much!

Update:

Dad is on his way home now. He took a 30 minute nap in his van and was back on the rode again. When I talked to him around 3:45pm this evening he was passing through Montgomery,Alabama, and would hit Atlanta,GA right at 5pm, around rush hour. Not good! But, he is pretty used to the traffic, so he has to make the best of it.
He's been up since about 7am yesterday morning and said he is definately getting tired, but he'd rather drive during the day, then at night so he can keep himself more awake.
I told him to call me if he needed to talk to keep himself going. If one of us goes with him on a trip like this, we can sometimes talk to him to help keep him awake. He'll typically keep himself awake as it is if he is alone, but it gets a little more complicated when he's alone.

I'll try to update once he gets home, or we hear something else from him. It will probably be around 10 or 11 before he gets home, and then he's going to bed.
Thanks again for all the prayers! I greatly appreciate it!

yup prayers going your way

My brother and sis-in-law along with their 3 year old daughter live around the Atlanta, GA area.

Let us know when he makes it home!

He made it home safe, though as soon as he got here and in, Mom started saying something bad toward him. Oh bother. We were so glad he got him safe, yet Mom was TO'ed at something else, so just started in on something else that was bothering her with what Dad did. We were just glad he was safe and sound and home. Gotta love it when the parents can be more immature then the kids sometimes. Honestly, I feel like we have silent Jerry Springer show here sometimes. They argue with each other through the kids. Love 'em both to death, but honestly it makes me wonder.
Oh well!


I'm so grateful that he made it home safe, and thank you all for the prayers!
He is very very exhausted, and I can tell it's taking a while for things to register kinda, but he's in bed now and going to sleep, so he can rest up.
On top of him being tired, his headlights started going in and out on him about an 1hr and a half from home, so he was fighting to keep them going. I guess maybe though it was the Lord's way of keeping him awake or something. I don't know, but I do know that everything happens for a reason.

Thanks again to all of you!

Good to hear!
Sharon, my mom and dad were the same way. They would bicker about the dumbest things, or at least my sister and I thought it was the dumbest things.
It took me years to realize that's just the way they got along with each other. After 54 years and right up until mom passed away they were still bickering.
And I love the Jerry Springer reference.