Rick and Brenda

**beepbeep** · 05-02-2012, 06:14 PM

This is from Rick, regarding Brenda, who was put back into the hospital earlier this week with a collapsed lung. Most of you who go to BRG have met Rick and Brenda and know them. They need some prayers and encouragement right now.

brenda is not doing good at all! ready to give up,its 1 thing after another.after almost 3 1/2 years she is tired!! i will get her back up,but this is the worst pain she has had so far,and it wont let up.this is bad to see her giveing up!need all the prayers she can get,got to get her bad ass up again,never seen her like this before.please help,pray hard.this is bad!!!my mom just passed 2 days ago and im looseing it.we will beat this help!,pray.love rick

She also had to undergo a second talc procedure to absorb some of the fluid around her lung, which she has said isn't very pleasant. If you have a moment, please send a card or a flower or BETTER YET, call...she is currently in the Moses Cone hospital in Greensboro, NC in room 3313. She has her cell with her, but my understanding is, she hasn't been answering it. Rick should be in the room if you try to call and I know both of them would love to feel the love and support of our community. Chris and I are gonna try and go see them on Friday (he has chemo tomorrow) and will be happy to take along any messages.

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**j2k4** · 05-02-2012, 06:48 PM

Don't know them, Vicki, but they're worth my prayers.

My best.

**HilbillyHomeboy** · 05-02-2012, 07:17 PM

Damn. I thought everything was going pretty well for them. *sigh* Definitely in my prayers. Fight it, girl.

Jeremy

**beepbeep** · 05-02-2012, 07:48 PM

Thanks guys. They are great folks. Brenda has been so positive about her whole cancer treatment this entire time. I know all the setbacks and how they can wear you down. Any thoughts or prayers for them are deeply appreciated.

**beepbeep** · 05-02-2012, 07:51 PM

Paul just posted this in the BRG thread:

Originally Posted by green-lantern

Just got off the phone with Brenda and Rick. Brenda answered the phone and sounded pretty good but if you know Brenda she is the most up beat person you will ever meet. When she says "it was not fun" it means mere mortals would have died with the shit I just put up with. She did sound good though and said she had a reaction to one of the procedures the doctors did with her lungs. She wanted me to tell people she is doing much better today than the last few. Rick is worn out and worried but was in pretty good spirit when I talked to him. He lost his mom and very worried about the love of his life. Doesn't seem fair to such great people.

Anyway, Brenda wanted me to say that she is doing much better than yesterday. I want to say please pray for our friends. Even if you aren't religious it won't hurt to ask they get a break.

**green-lantern** · 05-02-2012, 08:24 PM

Thanks Vicki, for those that don't know them they are my original OP's in the 3s world. I had bought my green 95 3000GT Base after I changed jobs. We (wife and I) lost our 2nd child not too long before that from Muscular Dystrophy and sort of empty nesting I guess you could say. 3sx had their Charlotte meet up on their website so we decided to go. I didn't even know about 3si at the time. Anyway Rick and Brenda were staying next to us in the hotel. We got to be friends real quick and hung out much of the time. 1st time I went to BRG I met Sean Johnson and he was hanging out with Rick and Brenda. Pretty cool because I'd talked to Sean on the phone a few times but the 1st people I ran into years later was Rick and Brenda at BRG. They have been good friends ever since and I couldn't imagine BRG without them. I just hope they get a break, if anybody deserves it they do.

**onebadmollafolla** · 05-02-2012, 11:32 PM

I have never met them but they are in my thoughts. Get well.

**beepbeep** · 05-03-2012, 09:39 AM

I spoke with them both last night. Brenda said it is the worst pain she's ever been through (this second talcing procedure) and Rick is just exhausted. Spirits are back up, though, and for that I am grateful. Brenda is just so infectiously optimistic and upbeat, so imagining her wanting to call it quits it just too difficult to accept. But pain can do that to you and she has had a lot. Thanks for all of the prayers, guys. These are two very enthusiastic Stealth owners and always have a kind word for everyone.