Bro Duncan PBGV expects to have his stitches out on Friday and is very relieved that They are not allowing any photographs of him in undignified poses in tee shirts and silk scarves, which he is having to wear at present along with the hated Comfy Cone bonnet. He is not going to take any selfies until his bald patches are fully re-furred.
Digitalnun is home but very, very tired (that is monastic code for tired AND cantankerous). Thanks to the skill of the surgeons, she is able to walk with the help of two sticks but she needs to be very careful until the wound heals. Three areas of disease were removed but it will be a couple of weeks before we get the histology report and know whether the lymph nodes are affected. It will be even longer before we know for certain whether the suspected secondaries in the lung are cancer or ‘just’ sarcoidosis. We pray very much they will prove to be the latter. Fortunately, she is usually very cheerful and positive.
Once the wound has healed, Digitalnun will undergo radiotherapy which will also prove tiring for her. So, as her Gaoler, I mean carer, I am banning her from the Mac for the time being. She will not be on Twitter or Facebook until she feels well enough to cope. Both she and I (and our hairy brother) are very grateful for your prayers, messages and cards, and all the practical help we have received and will continue to receive. I know that she prays for you all unremittingly, and I join my prayers with hers. You will understand why we can’t reply to emails and messages at the moment. We are, first and foremost, nuns and need to concentrate on that.
Quietnun







Sending our prayers, blessings and love to all – Bro Duncan PBGV, Digital Nun and you, o caring Quiet Nun!
Thank you for the news. Prayers continue!
Wonderful that Digitalnun is home – heal better when you are with loved ones. happy BroDuncan PBGV is recovered enough to be vain. Sending you, Quietnun, my best wishes & patience energy & healing energy & prayers for your patients xxx
Thank you for the update. A cup of tea and a sense of humour is a sanity saver!
Prayers San x
Thank you for the update on Digital Nun, which sounds hopeful. Please assure her of our continuing prayers.
Thanks for the update Quietnun, we are all relieved to hear the news.
Blessings to you all for strength and good health.
All prayers for you,
Sue
Sending love, prayers and support to you all – patients and carers alike xxxxx
God bless you, dear Sisters and Bro Duncan!
Prayers for healing will continue, of course.
D Lucy, thank you so much for the news. My prayers will continue for all three of you. Of course we don’t expect any of you to be worrying about posting on the internet at a time like this. You try to take care of yourself as well as your two patients.
I pray for Sr Catherine every day and for her dog too! May God bless and keep all of you! We are in communion through and in Him!
Blessings
Thank you for the update. Holding you all in my prayers and thanking you for yours.
Blessings and prayers from me too, xx
Thank you so much for this update. We had both been wondering how it was all going.
Thank you for the update – Blessings and prayers π
Thank you so much for this update. I am praying, praying, praying. Sending much love (and solidarity in the tired-and-cantankerous state!)
Tanya x
Thank you for the update on Dame Catherine and Bro Duncan.
Sending my love and prayers to her and to Bro Duncan, who seems to be taking it harder than Dame Catherine, albeit for different reasons (dignity and PBGV Attitude in the main).
Thank you for the update,thinking of all of you.
Thank you so much for the update. I have been praying for you all, and, like others, wondering how things were going. I will continue the prayers.
Excellent news she’s home.
Prayers continue for all.
Blessings ..
Thank you for this update. Praying for all of you( Quietnun included) π
Prayers especially for Digital Nun. I can empathise with her. Having had rapid-growing cancer diagnosed less than 4 weeks ago, I’ve already had surgery and initial radiotherapy; and yesterday I started what may be up to 18 weeks of chemotherapy to deal with secondaries in my lungs.
May God grant her rest and healing from the surgery; may the histology results be positive; may the radiotherapy be as mild as possible; and may there be no secondary malignancies.
Thanks for update Quietnun. Praying for the best possible outcome for Digitalnun. X
Thank you for having taken the time to write this update – I had been hoping for one. You are continously in my prayers.
Thank you for the update.
You are all in prayers and thoughts.
Dear Quietnun – Thank you so much for the update. I’m so so glad that Digitalnun is well enough to be back home. I can identify with the tired and cantankerous bit (am there myself), but would have gone stir crazy without the computer. However I am also aware that quite a lot of rest is required in order to heal.
I did not know that Bro Duncan was also going under the knife, bless him. I want him to know that a ‘selfie’ would have provoked a huge outbreak of sympathy…and he is not on his own in wearing outlandish clothing at the moment.
Will keep you all (especially re the histology results) in my prayers. God bless!
maryclare π
Thanks for the information Prayers and more prayers for you all with love and best wishes.
So good to hear news of you both dear Sisters. Please be assured of prayers and good wishes on your respective journeys.
Many thanks for letting us have this news. May God bless all three of you.
Prayers said for a full and safe recovery. God bless.
Love and prayers to you all.
“By His stripes we are healed”. God bless all.
Mike
Prayers as always for you all to keep cheery especially in the most tiring moments.
Thank you for the update. We will keep you both in our prayers, as well as all who post here, some of whom I read are dealing with health issues themselves.
Thank you Quietnun for your update. Special prayers for you in your wonderful role as gaoler/carer – not an easy task to care for the four paws in a crash hat and the two cantankerous legs with sticks!
Also special prayers for Digitalnun and Brother Duncan as they regain their strength, their health and their humour.
God bless you all.
Thank you for the update, Quietnun. I join my prayers to yours and everyone else’s for Digitalnun and I send her energy. I had radiation therapy as well. It was very tiring for me, but also a time of prayer and closeness to God…
May you all feel carried by God in these testing times.
With all my love.
A link to this post came to me quite by chance – I had not heard about Sr Catherine’s condition. Please pass her my love and prayers for a complete recovery, and accept a big hug for yourself, Lucy!
God Bless you all and grant you Grace, peace and the strength that is made perfect in weakness.
You are daily in my prayers.
Much love,
Rosy