My dad's in the hospital!! Please pray for him!!

i hope things turn out well truly.  That is a emotionaly devestating event to all involved and i am sincerly sorry that you and your family have to go through that.  you father will need lots of love and support, he may need psychological treatment afterwards, as may your family, be strong, loving and unified. Everything should work out. once again i am so sorry.  i dont pray often but ill stop in the chapel and say somrthing to god for you, him and your family. 

peace be with you

Jesse D.

sorry to hear about your dad, he'll be in my prayers. please let us know how he is, thanks.

Very best wishes to you and all your family at this dreadful time.

WE are all with you..

clearly it was god's will to have him shot in the heart with a nail gun. your father must have known that when he shot himself. who am i to pray against god's will? i'll save my prayers for others.

I am truely sorry for what has happened.  Your father will be in my prayers and you and your family.  May god be with you and your family and help to keep you all strong. 

God bless you,

D. Boyer

I hope he makes it, and I hope you can help him realize that if you have people who love you, you always have a reason to keep living.

I'm with you and I'm asking God for him and your family.

May god bless him, of course my family and I will pray for him.

Wow, this is a much bigger response than I was expecting.  Thank you all so much!!  I've often said that this is the best online community, and this proves it!!

Regarding the Christian World and People of Islam groups, thank you very much, Greg and Jon, for offering to re-post this thread in your groups.  Christians and Muslims are cousins (both come from Grandpa Abraham) so I appreciate the prayers of both groups.  I also appreciate the well wishes of all those whose beliefs are quite different from my own.  Thank you all for your support.

I wish I had some news, but he is still heavily sedated and restrained in ICU.  At this point, since we're basically waiting for him to heal, and hoping nothing ruptures, I suppose that "no news" is "good news."  It's just very scarey to think that at any given moment I could get the phone call that he's gone.  That's the part I'm still kinda in denial about.  I know how real the possibility is, but my brain just doesn't want to accept it.

Regarding the darkness surrounding him, I think it has a lot to do with the medication he's on.  He's got so many conditions that the doctors have him on a zillion different meds.  This one to counteract the side effects of that one.  Then they drop him off of this one, and put him on that one, or increase the dosage of this one, and/or decrease the doseage of that one.  With all the constant experimenting they're doing on him to find the right balance (and when they do, he starts to build up a system toxicity from being on the same things for too long) that it's no wonder his head is all screwed up.

He tried suicide a few times before, but it's been over a decade since the last time (so we really thought we had gotten him over that), and it was always with sleeping pills before.  We found him, pumped his stomach, and that was that.  He's never tried something this severe before.  I used to get angry at him for being so selfish and ignoring the reality that so many people cared about him.  Now I genuinely feel sorry for him, and I wish there was something more that I could do.

Thank you Everyone for all your posts, prayers, and thoughts.  I can't tell you how much they mean to me.

Back Row: me, my mom, my dad, my sister

Front Row: my daughter, my grandma, my nephew

 I dont think he will survive so something to talk because it is necessary and social .Bhagwan unki aatma ko shanti de. It means god give peace to his soul. I never liked violence.

I'll cross my fingers Billium, hang in there bro!

Best of luck to your dad, physically and mentally.  To you too, it must be rough.

Sorry to hear about your dad, we pray for a speedy recovery! Prayers can be powerful. Jesus will take good care of with with all our prayers!

I'm praying for your Dad's recovery and his attitude. I believe that God hears our prayers and answers in miraculous events and changed lives.

hi billium248, times like these are hard, when your waiting you feel so helpless, but your doing your best just by being there for him. I really feel for you buddy and hope your dads condition takes a turn for the better soon. Try to stay positive, my thoughts are with you, your dad and your family.xxx

As much as I wish good things for all the other people on the planet that I don't know I also hope that your dad will get well.

That said I really must protest against the religious zealotry in this thread, the propaganda goes largely unchallenged as most of those who would normally speak up against the idea of prayers are afraid to hurt peoples feelings, and the rest of us will be dismissed as unsensitive and lacking respect.

 Are you for real, eBusiness? You really must protest? A few people saying they'll pray for someone does not equal "religious zealotry" or "propaganda".

"those who would normally speak up against the idea of prayers"... time and place, sir, time and place. Pick your battles. Sheesh.

You come across a thread on chess.com that mentions prayers and you cannot resist but instead feel the need to let the internet know that you "protest" and "challenge" the idea?

Yes, you will be "dismissed as unsensitive and lacking respect." Because you are. This isn't the place to debate such things. How can that be difficult to see?

It boggles the mind. Does it make you so uncomfortable? Nevermind. Just leave Billium his thread.

/"Gee what a great opportunity to let everyone know my opinion on prayer!"... is that what is really happening in your mind? Lol.

If I was religous, I would have prayed for him.