This is a prayer request for a Christian friend who is not expected to live--Crissy McMahon. Please prayer for her and her family. See below:

I cannot begin to tell you how much each of you bless me every time I read your posts on caring bridge, face book, text messages and emails. Your heartfelt need to do something tangible to help our family is so appreciated and though I know you all want to do more than just pray for me please let me tell you how much you have already blessed me.

Some of you know and value prayer as much as I do and go with confidence to the Lord on my behalf and know that He listens to you. Some of you will pray because that’s what I asked for and not feel that you are really making a difference. You know what? You make a difference. I’ve read your emails and posts and I know that for some of you prayer isn’t tangible enough to you to feel you are doing something but please hear me, God really does listen. He never goes away. He’s with me right now. And although this is not the path I would have chosen for myself, I know that I will never slip under His radar. He is here, He is present and He cares beyond what you can imagine. Not just for me and what I’m going through but for you….He cares for you! He cares about what you are going through in your own life and he listens and cares about what you pray for in mine. He is all knowing, all loving, my healer and my provider. Without a doubt your prayers have blessed me. He laid me down in peaceful slumber last night and woke me up with energy and purpose this morning. With how aggressive this Leukemia has come back I am grateful to be able to sit here at this computer in my own family room and write this to you. He listens to your prayers. I am still here today.

Thursday night was such a dark evening for us. We had to tell the kids what was happening to me and watching my husband and boys break down brought more pain to me than anything I’ve yet to experience physically. But here’s something I am grateful for. God could have taken me quickly without benefit of telling them how much I love them and am proud of them, what I wish for them, what I pray for them and to remind them of how much God loves them. He has given me the opportunity to kiss and hold each of them until I felt certain they knew that they are valued and more important than many of the unimportant things I’ve let distract me. Regardless of how hard this is, God still blesses me with gifts. Right now he is blessing me with time. I’m very grateful for every minute. He has given the doctors time to work together and come up with a plan. I have been given a drug that is like chemo to put me into remission. They transfused that yesterday and in another two weeks they’ll transfuse more. If this drug works I’ll go into remission, than Stanford can consider me for a second transplant. The Stanford team will discuss my case next week. If they agree to take me on a second time then we look for a donor match from either my family or a donor pool. My oncologist warned me that my heritage would be my biggest obstacle. There aren’t a lot of Pacific Islanders in the donor pool. I’m not going to worry about that. I’m going to give that and leave that with God. If Stanford takes me on and if we find a donor match the process that I just went through will start all over again but this time will come with rejection issues and even in a best case scenario I will be sick much longer. I’ll need a lot of prayer then as well. This is the game plan that I was given and although there are a lot of “if’s” there is HOPE.

I don’t’ want to grieve my time away. I want to be thankful for every moment. I want to wake up with a thankful heart and say “you know what Lord, I don’t get this but I thank you that you woke me up, that I have an appetite that I can walk on my own two feet”.

I want always to remember to be grateful for my family and friends who call me/write/text/fb me to say how much they love, care and pray for me.” Whether you know it or not, you make a difference. God is good. I have a blessed life. He gave His son for me, He gave me a great family who rally strong in prayer, in support and in presence no matter what they have going on in their life, he gave me brothers and sisters in Christ who are on their knees lifting me up to the Lord and he has blessed me in abundance with friends who are always looking for tangible ways ease my load, ways to put action to behind their love and support. I have been asked time and time again, besides prayer, what you can do to help me. I confess that I’m not sure what to ask for. Maybe when you are praying for me you can ask for God’s direction on that. In the mean time, your continued prayers, visits, messages……all those things bless me and I thank you so very much for them.

Here are things that I’m praying for my family. This gift of time has also brought to head the important family matters we need to take care of on Tuesday. We need to make inquiries about qualification for early medical retirement versus disability and what the future brings for my family if I’m not in it. Prayer for guidance on this would be really appreciated. Please pray for Tim, he was laid off months ago and will need a permanent job soon. Of course, please pray for my husband and kids, that that they successfully achieve their academic, athletic and life goals and draw on Him every step of the way.

[Remember the word and promise to your servant,in which you have caused him to hope.This is our confort and consolation in our affliction:that your word has revived and given us life'.Psalms 119:49-50]