We should pray for her that she would be strengthened and try to think about her too. Do I think leaving was right? NO for better or worse, in sickness and HEALTH, is very important part of the vows to me, trust me, I am so glad that my husband hasn't given up on me because of my illnesses, but some people think, it will all be okay, I can live with his illness, but they don't realize just how BAD it can get, and it is too much for them because they are not strong enough.

I am sure she didn't make this decision easily or lightly, especially because she left her children behind. There has to be more about this than what little was in the article, because it is not easy to leave when children are involved, but to leave them with him… that is the hardest thing ever.

You can get it that way, but you can just be a carrier, or like Dede, you can get it through the unsanitary conditions where you live, and it can affect your entire life and affect your family. I just never believed to this caliber. We protect our daughters with the HPV vaccine through our Dr.s, but little did we know, we should be careful not to get it through other means as well.

This was an amazing story and very important, thank you for sharing this with us. My heart and prayers go out for Dede. And I have seen him since his treatments with the good Dr., but they weren't able to remove everything, he still has a lot of the warts and his hands are still covered, even though they were able to remove the barklike ones from his hands and feet. His story was on Dr. Oz last week, he had an amazing update about Dede.

You will receive your punishment from God in eternity, God doesn't take his time messing with you and your mind while you are here on earth, before you are His child.

You have bad things happen to you, I have bad things that happen to me, as a child of God, whether I am walking with God or "being wayward" as you put it, but it doesn't mean God is doing it. Things happen when you are walking closely with God too, it isn't just when you are running away from Him. There are a lot of forces out there you don't see, and sometimes things happen to us by our own free will and decisions we make for ourselves. We never know a reason why, until God reveals it to you someday. But God doesn't make people sick, just be making them sick. He isn't like that, and when you are not His child, you will face that in the Judgment, not here.

God can heal him tomorrow if He was asked to, but it is all according to the purpose of his illness. We don't know why it happened, but we know that "all things work together for good," and God did not cause this, but He can use this to bring him closer to God, bring his family to God, or even bring the world closer to God once again, by showing His miracles and His Healing Powers, if that's the purpose of his illness, who are we to be blaming God?

God has to be invited and brought into the situation, that is why everyone is praying for Dede. We are all praying that God will reach down and heal him, that God will touch his life, and even restore his family if that is what Dede wants. God can do anything He desires, but God doesn't make people sick, just to be making them sick. That would not be a sovereign or loving God at all.

God made him that way in the first place, he is the last thing the poor guy should be looking at for salvation.