Joel's Journey: micah's party !!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

micah's party !!

I told you Micah has several deer cameras at a food plot he has set up out in the pasture, so that is where his theme came from, a "Deer Feeder Party!!!! I made the feeder out of a coffee can and used some hunting things we already had around here. I filled 3 feeder pans with "human feed." Micah is addicted to sunflower seeds, one was peanuts and the other was camouflage popcorn! Of course Dave had to "dress up!!" You can all guess what the meal was.....hamburgers, chips and carbonated drinks :) For his dessert he wanted "hot fudge brownie and ice-cream sundaes and his Aunt Tami blessed him with "Blue Bell!!" We had to get some VB in as well!!! It was a fun time and now Dave and Kate are here and having major land/truck discussions!!!!

3 comments:

John-Clay said...: Fun party and...Mav is crazily hilarious!!; September 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Maureen said...: Seeing Dave in the birthday pictures reminded me of "Where's Waldo." You guys really know how to have fun ;-)

Maureen; September 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Meredith Ramer said...: Thank you so much for your comments on my blog. They lift me up so much sometimes when I really need them. I hate that we have something in common, but God puts people in our lives for a special purpose. Thank you very much Cindy. May God continue to bless you and others through you.; September 2, 2009 at 3:57 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.