Sheepdog 🇺🇲

Former LEO, Patriot.
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Single dad of a daughter with brain cancer.

[Sheepdog 🇺🇲 @sheepdog_AF]

Find us on GoFundme: https://t.co/4TFouSxSaL

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@Saeren_ You would think. I've actually complained before but nothing happened.

I'm pretty sure they just grease their pockets a little and the issue goes away.

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I pay $85 a month for 1g/1g from my ISP.

This is almost every night during 'peak' hours.
But it's a small town ISP, has a monopoly. Starlink maybe?

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@TheKVictor I've got one on order.

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@Koorbandallas No it's a local ISP that runs a monopoly on the entire area. Phone, internet, cable.

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I do want to be honest with you all: our journey is not over, and neither are the bills. As a single father, the medical costs we are still facing are significant. If you have given, thank you from the bottom of my heart. If you feel led to give or to keep giving, it makes a real difference for my girls, and your prayers and shares help just as much. https://t.co/V3eXqXTiEK

He has been my rock. I have poured my heart out to Him so many times. He knows me. He knows my heart and my weaknesses. He lifts me up and encourages me to continue on. He has seen us through several very dangerous surgeries. He was with us during radiation, and He is with us now.

One more thing, and it is the most important thing I will say. If you have read this far, I want you to know that the same God who carried us through all of this loves you too. Jesus died on the cross for your sins and rose again so that you could be forgiven and have eternal life. All He asks is that you believe in Him and put your trust in Him. If our story shows anything, it is that God is faithful even in the darkest valley. Whatever you are facing, you can trust Him with it. And if you want to know more about following Jesus, send me a message. I would love nothing more than to tell you about Him.

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This last week of donations has been amazing. Seeing many people care about our family has truly overwhelmed me, in the best way. I want to thank everyone who has helped us through what is without question the hardest thing I have ever been through. But more than that, I want to tell you about God's love and provision for our family, because that is the real story here.

My faith has never been tested so much in my entire life.

Lauren's medical journey started with sudden, intense mood changes. My baby girl went from a sweet, loving child to someone I barely recognized. There were stretches where she was okay once we got her stable on her medicine, but there were so many more times it felt like something had taken hold of my child and refused to let go.

So many times of holding her so she wouldn't hurt herself. Sitting on her so she couldn't move, because she could not keep herself from injuring herself or her sister. Many things in our house were broken during that time.

Then came the headaches. Not the kind you typically imagine, lasting hours or even days, but sudden flashes of excruciating pain where all she could do was tense up until it passed.

In trying to find out what was causing those headaches, we got the news.

Cancer.

My 9-year-old child has cancer.

"She has a mass in her brain," the doctors told me at the children's hospital in Plano. She would be transferred to Dallas because she needed emergency surgery.

We spent the next year in and out of the hospital. Multiple surgeries, chemo, and finally 6.5 weeks of radiation. Through every one of those dangerous surgeries, God's hand was on my little girl.

The start of radiation was the worst part. Lauren had to lie perfectly still on the table for the machine to work. What was supposed to take 20 minutes would often take hours. We had to show up early just so she could take anxiety medicine and be calm during the procedure.

Then, about two and a half weeks in, things began to change. She no longer needed the anxiety medicine to be still. The procedure was getting done in 30 to 40 minutes. Her episodes started to fade. I don't believe that was a coincidence. I believe God was answering prayers, mine and yours.

During this same season, my marriage of 15 years came to an end, and I became a single dad to two little girls, on top of everything Lauren was going through medically.

I also want to say how hard this has been on Chloe, Lauren's little sister. She has endured so much through all of this. She lived through the worst of Lauren's mood disorder right alongside us, and when Lauren and I had to be in Dallas, Chloe couldn't come with us because she had to stay in school. She spent so much time with Grammy and Nana during that season. I am so thankful God gave us family who loved on her when I couldn't be in two places at once. Chloe, you are so strong, and Daddy is so proud of you.

During this time I would pray, "Lord, can you hear me?" I have to make it through this. For Lauren. For Chloe. I put my trust in Him. And He never let go of me.

For many years I have also lived with chronic, debilitating back pain. But God provided for that too, with a job where I can work from home. That is not luck. That is provision.

And He provided through you. Your prayers, your uplifting words, your financial help, your presence with my family. I see God's hands and feet at work in His people. Thank you for letting Him use you to carry us.

So today, our family looks very different. But look at what God has done.

Lauren is doing so well now. Her mood disorder is all but gone, and we're almost finished with the last of her psych medicine. Her tumor is shrinking, her balance is better, her double vision is gone, and her hair is growing back in.

We still have the complication of central adrenal insufficiency, but I have faith that we will endure this as well. Through God, all things are possible... Read more

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@TheShawnHendrix Just another day flying @Ryanair

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@SupergirlPatri1 @JamesCarne49587 This isn't biblical.

Death is final. The condition of your heart when you die determines where you go.
There are no do-overs.

You either have a relationship with Jesus and make him Lord if your life, or you don't.

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@NeminiParco_ @farzyness I thought the same. The sideways seat is odd. Forward and rear facing would maximize room and comfort.

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@Darkmdd Of course we will. Nobody cares about the pain patients. We suffer in silence.

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We can't get voter ID, but we can require it to use AI?

Come on.

First, stop infringing on our rights and second, PASS VOTER ID.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Hawley's GUARD Act just passed committee 22-0. Every American would have to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to use an AI chatbot. Even for asking for algebra help or fixing a billing issue. The framing is child safety but the result is a national ID system for talking to a computer.

https://t.co/z5jI8qASrZ

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@CMerandi @joerogan The fact that he is trying to say the 70k deaths were due to fentanyl AND oxycodone is completely ridiculous. Where is your proof?

People are not dying from doctor prescribed opiates.

They are dying from unregulated street drugs.

Regulatation works. Prohibition does not.

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I'm not normally afraid of spiders, but I just had one crawl down my arm while in bed.

I got up, turned on the overhead light, checked my clothing, checked the bed, and I can't find it.

It may be time to move.

Makes me think of this guy
https://t.co/hlbn0wOWmY

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@Catherine_in_Va @Faithful2Pray https://t.co/lGuODuXQb7

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Thank you to everyone who prayed for this family. Tiffany went home to be with the Lord last night. Prayers for her family are needed.

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A friend of mine has a daughter (39) who is in critical condition with liver and kidney failure. She has children.

Would you please lift up Tiffany and her family in prayer with me? Thanks.

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Thank you to everyone who prayed for this family. Tiffany went home to be with the Lord last night. Prayers for her family are needed.

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As a father, seeing these types of reports hit me at my core. I am saddened and full of righteous fury. I long for the day that Jesus returns and sin is no more.

The man who did this burns in hell today and forever.

https://t.co/xZYTQ1wDnw

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Next week, we get to see if my daughter's brain tumor is reacting to the radiation or not.

When she got a CT the other week, they noted a small bit of shrinkage, so that's promising.

Finances are still tough. If you feel led to help, the link is on my bio.

Thanks 🙏

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Thank you to everyone who prayed for Tiffany and those who continue to pray.

She's still in critical condition and they haven't gotten any good news lately.

Please continue to lift her and her family up in prayer. 🙏

[Sheepdog 🇺🇲 @sheepdog_AF]

A friend of mine has a daughter (39) who is in critical condition with liver and kidney failure. She has children.

Would you please lift up Tiffany and her family in prayer with me? Thanks.

[Sheepdog 🇺🇲 @sheepdog_AF]

I wouldn't make a very good astronaut.

While the others are doing scientific studies and tests, I'd be the first man to ever take a dump on the far side of the moon. Put that in the history books. 🤣

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@superfastjeff @rushicrypto They get to write off the remainder on their taxes. It's a win win. You pay it all, they make huge profit.

You pay part of it, they write off the rest as a loss. They profit.