Joel's Journey: DVD Reviews

Saturday, January 12, 2008

DVD Reviews

Happy Saturday!!!!!!! This is the first Saturday we have ALL been home in awhile!!!! Alot of work is going on around here. A major "eye sore" has been our chicken yard! The guys are building a new one....YEAH!!!!!! Those little mama's are going to be strutting big when they get out of their house.

If you have had the opportunity to watch Joel's Journey DVD, we would like to ask you to take a minute and give a review at the CBD. (Christian Book Distributor) This will help them determine how they might market the DVD and it might effect how many they order. Thank you for taking the time as it is our desire that the message of 'life' continue. It is very encouraging to see Joel's story go forth. Please CLICK HERE to write a review.

Josiah had a small injury on Friday. He was sittting on the edge of one of the chairs and he lost his balance, fell off and met the bricks with the top right of his forehead......screaming first then seeing blood (as head wounds bleed so horrible) we then compressed it to control the bleeding and he calmed down for us to take a look. A nice litttle gash, but after examining it I thought we could glue him back up. We let the bleeding slow and applied some super glue and a butterfly and he was good to go. It was sore yesterday but he's doing fine today. Let's see.... 8-10 head injuries over all, butterflies, stitches to staples. I think that is enough. Thank the Lord he has watched over all these "little" injuries.

May the Lord bless you day of Rest and Worship tomorrow!

Cindy

1 comment:

LJR said...: I am so glad Josiah is ok, God is really watching over your family. We have had lots of head bumps at our house too. I must say that Josiah sure is getting big, he looks so grown up in the face now. Such an adorable little guy.

I left a review for the video, I am glad its been such a success for you guys. It is such a wonderful story, and I have told everyone I know about it.

Lori (Emma's Mom); January 14, 2008 at 1:59 PM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.