Joel's Journey: Title Lost !!!!!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Title Lost !!!!!

Andrew

I just had to report this......Terry has lost his title in ping-pong, he was defeated! The victor is Caleb! We had a double elimination tournament, Terry won the tournament but he did lose one of the games in the finals!!! There was sooo much screaming, it made your head hurt! Terry is very good at ping-pong and he plays heartily, in previous games he won many of them only by the skin of his teeth!!! The children are getting in some extra practice that he is not:)

The game of the night goes to Andrew!!!! He was playing Elijah, who was at game point and Andrew was 11....Andrew came back and beat him!!!!!! Way to play ANDREW!!! The score was 24\25 or 25\26, it was so loud and confusing we lost track !!!!!!

This was a Fun Friday Family Night!!! Thank the Lord for good fellowship one with another!

Saturday stuff....the guys have been building a new goat pen and shelter for all the new babies expected in about 2 weeks....a goat nursery!!

Cindy

1 comment:

LJR said...: Sounds like a wonderful friday night. Your family sounds so fun. I hope all goes well with the new goats that should be there soon. Thanks for sharing the pics, I love seeing pictures of your beautiful family.

Lori; February 2, 2008 at 7:05 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.