I Need Your Prayers...desperately
Lounge By clever_cakes311 Updated 29 Oct 2006 , 6:15am by ckkerber
Hello CC members...
I know a lot of you don't know me from Adam, but I'm a cake decorator and on this site all the time. I've noticed a lot of support here, and not just always on cake decorating.
I have been suffering from a medical condition for a long time. It's called interstitial cystitis, and if you don't have any idea what it is, I suggest you read about it. It's not very common and isn't life threatening, but my case is so bad that I will need a pacemaker installed in my bladder. I just found this out last week.
Well my boss fired me..said he didn't need someone who was sick. I called an attorney, but GA is a no-fault state and there is nothing I can do. My husband and I are about to lose everything, as I cannot work full time anymore due to my medical appts and physical therapy. Our future isn't looking too bright at all, so please, please pray for us. We need a miracle!
Thanks everyone,
Amy
I'm so sorry to hear about your illness and your job. Prayers will definitely be sent up for you.
Although you say you are in a no-fault state, have you tried contacting the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)? They have a different take on things, and there are plenty of rules through this organization.
I wish there was more we could do to help.
Hugs,
Michele
Amy, my heart and prayers go out to you and your husband, we are all praying for a miracle just around the corner for you.
I agree with contacting the EEOC. If you have been working money has been taken out of your check every week for disability insurance. I know this isn't going to solve all your problems but it's a step in the right direction. Please keep us posted on your health and physical therapy as we are here for you.
Best,
Sams
I will add you and your DH to my list of prayers. Please know that with HIS help anything is possible.
Thanks for all the support...I thought about contacting the EEOC, but I thought they handled only government employees? It's sure worth looking into and I'll get on that first thing in the morning. Sometimes it's so hard to understand WHY God does the things He does, but I'm trying to accept it as God's will. It's difficult when you get late notices and foreclosure letters in the mail. Keep on praying for us, please. I'm so scared out of my mind right now 
hello Amy,
I am sorry to hear about your condition, physical and financial. everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for us all. I know as long as your faith is strong in what you want and need you will receive.
friends from CC lets put our voices together for our friend amy and her DH....
Dear Lord,
we have come together in one voice to ask that you help our friend Amy and her family with all of their needs. they need your touch Lord. we know when more than one raises their voice to you in the same prayer, in your name, it will be done. so Lord we are asking you in Jesus' name to reach your mighty hand down and touch our friend's life and help her to get her life back on track. Lord according to her faith your work will be done. Lord in your name we pray, Amen.
I wish the best for you and your family Amy. May God bless you.
Carla
Amy,
I'm with Carla and the rest of the CC'ers; we're all praying for you and your family.
Trying to be helpful in a different way, I did a quick search and came up with this website, which I hope will be useful:
http://www.ichelp.org/Disability/welcome.html
I know how it feels to be sick and have so much of your life out of your control. Is there any way you could apply for unemployment to help out with the expenses. I wish there was some way I could help. You are in my thoughts and prayers. God Bless.
Amy, I'll put you and your DH in my prayers. I hope everything will be ok and that you'll find someone to help you with legal action. You deserve a nice working place, and not worry about finances. Good luck and I'm sending you big hugs, and He will help you!!!
You are definitely in my prayers. I know how it is to be in your position.
On the legal side I would research the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. Neither may make a difference in the long run but in the short term they are laws that may give you a breathing space.
I know how it feels to be deatly ill. Literally--I've been there. I had an operation to lose weight in 1995. I almost died four times from complications due to the surgery.
I literally DID die one other time, and was brought back.
At the time, the surgery was new in the US, and not much was widely known about it. I traveled alone, from Knoxville to Atlanta to have the surgery. My husband stayed at home and took care of our two boys. At the time, they were 7 and 2.
We had just put money down on a new home, and I was extremely healthy. I was just fat, and I wanted (like everything else in my life) the "quick fix." The surgeon who did the operation told me I'd be up on my feet and back to work within six weeks. Yeah right.
We came within HOURS of losing our home to the bank. We had to file bankruptcy. Our house was very old, and in such bad repair that it was literally condemnable. When it rained outside, it rained inside. I was always grateful that my kids were sleeping on the "dry" side of the house at night. We had to pump out the waste water from underneath the house every single day, because we couldn't afford a plumber to fix it, and we didn't know anyone who could help.
All of that time, my husband worked two and sometimes three shifts every day for months at a time without a day off. Both of our cars gave out on us, and we borrowed a truck from a good friend for about 3 months.
During that time, I was in so much pain every minute of every day. I would lay in the bed about 16 hours a day. Most of that time was spent either crying or throwing up. If I wasn't in the bed or the shower (scalding hot) to try to alleviate the pain--I was in the hospital. My hair fell completely out 5 different times. I was so weak I couldn't lift my own legs to climb up a simple step, most days.
During the ten years from 1995 to 2004, I was hospitalized over 70 times. The insurance from the dep't never gave out, though--thank goodness. I slowly but surely weaned myself off all the medicines I was taking, and began to recover near the end of 2003.
All of those days, and all of those nights, I asked God to bring me home so many times, I thought He never heard me. I literally would lay in the bed and talk to Him OUT LOUD. Begging to be "released" from the pain I was in and the sickness I had to bear. Obviously, the prayers didn't exactly work.
I'm not sure to this day why I'm still here. But I am, and my life today is more than I could have ever hoped for back then. Newer home, nice cars, good career, the most amazing and integrity-filled man ever to be put on Earth, and my wonderful boys. I have my life back, and there's not a day that goes by without my pure joy at the simple sight of a bird or the sunshine in the sky. I noticed those things before, but not in the same way.
This has been far too long of a post, I know.
But, I just want you to know--you CAN get through this, and you WILL get through this. Your husband is your best friend, and your children are your anchor.
I send you my best thoughts and energy,
--Knox--
Oh man, you are definitely in my thoughts and prayers! I'm so sorry about your physical and financial situation, I hope that something works out for you.
You're also in the ATL area, definitely check out the EEOC - that's just crap about your former employer! How anyone could sleep at night after doing something like that is amazing. The EEOC building I believe is downtown but you can find their site and number online. It's definitely not just for government employees.
Good luck and keep us posted on whether or not you speak with them!
Seriously, even if you call local news or someone like Paul Howard, they should not be allowed to get away with this.
Well I decided to contact the EEOC. I'm giving them a call tomorrow. I just hate being this way, but if my boss didn't have the decency to fire me in a respectful way then I don't have any other choice. I got my belongings shipped back to me. They were carelessly tossed about in a small box and taped up. I've been praying every night for a miracle and you all are so wonderful for praying too. Cake decorators are the greatest people on earth! I'll let you all know what they say tomorrow.
Blessings to you all,
Amy
Hi Amy. I found these for you:
http://www.eeoc.gov/types/ada.html
http://www.aclu.com/
I hope these help and know I will be thinking of you and your family.
Update on this situation...I have formally filed a complaint with the EEOC, and so far it looks like I have a case. I hate doing this, it just kills me inside to be mean but my husband reminds me that it's justice, not mean-ness. I'm still trucking along taking it day by day. I sell cakes when I can, and I have started the process for disability. I have lost my car and we have to file bankruptcy, which is the hardest thing of all this. Thanks for your continued support and I'll keep you posted.
Your hubby is right . . . it IS justice. You're not being mean. You have to stand up for yourself and not be taken advantage of. I am so sorry to hear about the struggles you have been through. I'll be praying for you. As tough as things seem now, you will be looking back someday as a much stronger person for having been through all of this. With your hubby by your side, you can get through this. Good luck and lots of love to you!
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