Prayer Request
This will seem a little strange to some of you but because I am the grandmother of twin preemie girls who are not 4yrs old, I feel that I can ask you other moms for prayer for my daughter. No she is not sick...not in the physical sense, but she has not accepted the fact that she is a single mom of twin girls who were preemies and have developed problems because of it through out their years. My daughter is 33yrs old and I can honestly say that even for me, all of this has been very emotional. I know god pulls us through the roughest of situations. I am hoping that he will do so in this one. You see my grandaughters were in the hospital NICU Chicago for 3 months. They were born at 26weeks. They had every ailment possible related to prematurity. Anyway to make a story short, since that time....now that they are 4yrs old....the bigger baby 2lbs has been diagnosed with Autism. The smaller baby with PDD. Between the Autism and the PDD, we hardly have enought time to breath. She is a single mom with no support the the childrens father. I work at a Campus Police Station and during the nights. My shift is not hard work, its just hard on me being 50yrs old. I am the only person working because for some reason, my daughter is unable to find employment that allows her to pay for a baby sitter for both the twins and support herself and them. Most of the money goes on childcare. This is a real shame but unavoidable. She had to leave 2 jobs already because of this and I am about at my wits end. I wonder if she will ever be able to hold down a full time job that pays enought to support herself and twin girls.
I feel bad for her. I have been on my job for 25yrs and even thought I had her, times were different then....old school people like me had a different way of looking at life. Once the mistake was made and you were a single parent, you went out of your way to correct the problem by improving beyond a shadow of a doubt. Young people however in this day and age don,t seem to see things that way. I have never been sorry I had my daughter, but believe me, she and I are cut from two different cloths. I wish I could say more, but the basic problem is that the twins are important to her....just not more important than her saddness, depression and sorrow about her life. I have talked to I am blue, but nothing gets through. She and I are roommates. I moved in with her if you could believe that to remove them all from a bad neighborhood into a nice one. Things are not real bad, but I have never seen sadness like this. This has not improved in the 4.50yrs the twins have been living. Please pray for her that she will become a responsible mother and learns to accept the developmental problems the children face. She thinks its unfair that her daughter is Autistic and the other PDD, however if you saw them, you would love them as I do. I kiss them everyday and thank god that they are here....although I do kinda realize that I am at work a lot and have not had the experience of staying in the house with children day in and day out. When I was young, my mom did not work and she helped me out a lot. These days....a lot of grand parents work and things are just not the same. Anyway please pray for her.
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Noah Samuel
