Joel's Journey: Pray for baby Remy!!

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Pray for baby Remy!!

Remember the little baby I mentioned a few posts back, Remy (about 4mo. old) She had the CAT scan and they still cannot determine alot about the tumor behind the eye. They are going to do surgery Thursday, 7th at 7:ooa.m. to get a biopsy. They will take it to the lab while she is sedated and if cancer they will try to remove it. If they are not able to get to the tumor whether cancerous or not the other option will be raditation. Please pray for this sweet young couple as they face the unknown. They have two other little boys and the oldest around 5 is very sad and concerned about his baby sister as he remembers Joel and his cancer. Thank you for taking these in Christ before the throne of our great God!!!!!

Cindy

1 comment:

LJR said...: We will be praying for Remy, please let her family know she has a whole bunch of people praying for her and try to keep us updated if you can. I truly hope all goes well for the little angel.

Lori; February 1, 2008 at 12:50 AM

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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.