Joel's Journey: saturday scoop!

Saturday, August 22, 2009

saturday scoop!

You still have some more time to get your ideas in for "name that chicken!" (see post below) We'll announce the winner this evening at 6pm central time.

Yesterday the guys had a small job in town and the Lord has really provided some work in the days ahead. I know many of you have prayed for us on this end and thank you! Later Elijah and Dave and I think Micah, Andrew and Daniel went to pick up a John Deere tractor that Dave bought and has plans to possibly re-build the engine in it. Elijah finally convinced Dave to "go green!!" Kate hung around with us and we had dinner, played VB and then sat around outside and tried to figure out "life!"

This morning,Terry Hosie and Josiah went to Farmers Market, Dave and most all the big guys went to a farm auction and Kate is here and we are getting some chores done, thinking about left overs for lunch and fixing dinner for tonight and possibly a rodeo, we'll see!! Tomorrow we have to travel for home church and after church we are trying to get with a family for our children and their children to practice as they are all going to play at this families church in Sept. on a Sunday evening, so all that to say, tomorrow will be a loooonnngggg day!!!

So stay tuned for the winner this evening..........

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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.