Comments on: Divine Intervention Part II http://www.bashful-dan.com/2008/08/14/divine-intervention-part-ii/ Knows Sandpoint Idaho! Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:14:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Jack Douglas, Boundary County Prosecuting Attorney http://www.bashful-dan.com/2008/08/14/divine-intervention-part-ii/#comment-749 Jack Douglas, Boundary County Prosecuting Attorney Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:30:59 +0000 http://www.bashful-dan.com/2008/08/14/divine-intervention-part-ii/#comment-749 God bless you Dan, for championing April's cause. Most folks don't know how much Dan does for the communities in the three northern counties. Up here in Bonners Ferry, Dan has always been willing to attend events and be a part of them ... all for no charge. As past President of the Bonners Ferry CHamber of Commerce three years running, I knew I could always count on Dan for advice and assistance. I don't know of a finer friend. Now April is fighting the fight of her (our) life and we are desperately trying to get her well. This is something I have assisted her with as much as I could, but April lined up help from Blue Cross, the Mayo Clinic and Angel Med Flight on her own. God bless them all. I believe in God and I believe He sees and knows full well what we do and what we fail to do. My belief is that God has helped April and has carried both of us through some dark valleys of pain. It can be a life of despair for the sick spouse, but also for the spouse trying to support her (or him as the case may be) and it has often felt like my own siege battle to the finish, though April has by far paid the harshest price and the heaviest price. God bless her. As far as I view it, this is our personal "Battle of Stalingrad" and it has to be a fight to the finish. Dan, April and I love you and Christine, Anna, Betsy and Ray and all of the others who care so much. You're a better man than I am, Dan. We love you all. We also respect you. One of the blessings that has come from six years of "hell," has been the many true spirits and loyal friends we have made. God's angels seem to be everywhere. There are genuine heroes and heroines out there, folks ... people who actually care what happens to others. To you I tip my hat in praise. If I have spared April some of the blows by helping her, then I am honored to have been chosen for the task. Now I would like her to get her health back. She misses out on life too much. Thank God for Jeremy Freer of Angel Med Flight. In a world dominated by greed and selfishness, they restore one's faith. April is what I would call "stoic" most of the time. She often does not tell me when she is hurting or she waits a day or more until the pain is way out of control and she is literally crying and rocking back and forth in bed, and then we have to rush her to the hospital ER once again. There are at least five hospitals I am intimately familiar with in north Idaho and eastern Washington because of this. I feel very bad that my wife suffers so. I urge people to check out the information on Dan's site and also Ruralnorthwest.com, wherein it talks about the "prosecutor's wife" which April surely is. I am also gratified that people have rallied to support April with kind words, many devoted prayers and some even with money. Going to the Mayo Clinic and having to be there for possibly weeks or months will no doubt be expensive and we are not rich. Cards of prayer and/or support can always reach April at P.O. Box 3136, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805. I have been very humbled by all of this concern for her. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Dan, to you we owe a lot. You have championed April and you have been a true and loyal friend. God bless you. To all of the people who have stopped me on the streets of Bonners Ferry or in stores, thank you for caring. I can see the concern in your eyes. Your love is a blessing to us. It truly is. Thank you one and all. Your Friend, Jack Douglas Boundary County Prosecuting Attorney God bless you Dan, for championing April’s cause. Most folks don’t know how much Dan does for the communities in the three northern counties. Up here in Bonners Ferry, Dan has always been willing to attend events and be a part of them … all for no charge. As past President of the Bonners Ferry CHamber of Commerce three years running, I knew I could always count on Dan for advice and assistance. I don’t know of a finer friend.

Now April is fighting the fight of her (our) life and we are desperately trying to get her well. This is something I have assisted her with as much as I could, but April lined up help from Blue Cross, the Mayo Clinic and Angel Med Flight on her own. God bless them all. I believe in God and I believe He sees and knows full well what we do and what we fail to do. My belief is that God has helped April and has carried both of us through some dark valleys of pain. It can be a life of despair for the sick spouse, but also for the spouse trying to support her (or him as the case may be) and it has often felt like my own siege battle to the finish, though April has by far paid the harshest price and the heaviest price. God bless her. As far as I view it, this is our personal “Battle of Stalingrad” and it has to be a fight to the finish.

Dan, April and I love you and Christine, Anna, Betsy and Ray and all of the others who care so much. You’re a better man than I am, Dan. We love you all. We also respect you.

One of the blessings that has come from six years of “hell,” has been the many true spirits and loyal friends we have made. God’s angels seem to be everywhere. There are genuine heroes and heroines out there, folks … people who actually care what happens to others. To you I tip my hat in praise.

If I have spared April some of the blows by helping her, then I am honored to have been chosen for the task. Now I would like her to get her health back. She misses out on life too much. Thank God for Jeremy Freer of Angel Med Flight. In a world dominated by greed and selfishness, they restore one’s faith.

April is what I would call “stoic” most of the time. She often does not tell me when she is hurting or she waits a day or more until the pain is way out of control and she is literally crying and rocking back and forth in bed, and then we have to rush her to the hospital ER once again. There are at least five hospitals I am intimately familiar with in north Idaho and eastern Washington because of this. I feel very bad that my wife suffers so.

I urge people to check out the information on Dan’s site and also Ruralnorthwest.com, wherein it talks about the “prosecutor’s wife” which April surely is.

I am also gratified that people have rallied to support April with kind words, many devoted prayers and some even with money. Going to the Mayo Clinic and having to be there for possibly weeks or months will no doubt be expensive and we are not rich. Cards of prayer and/or support can always reach April at P.O. Box 3136, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805.

I have been very humbled by all of this concern for her. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Dan, to you we owe a lot. You have championed April and you have been a true and loyal friend. God bless you.

To all of the people who have stopped me on the streets of Bonners Ferry or in stores, thank you for caring. I can see the concern in your eyes. Your love is a blessing to us. It truly is.

Thank you one and all.

Your Friend,

Jack Douglas
Boundary County Prosecuting Attorney

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