Joel's Journey: progress report #5

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

progress report #5

They did not quite get to the decking today. For sure tomorrow!!! They tied it in to the existing roof with perfection!!! Tonight.....pizza and Bluebell to celebrate our new addition!!!!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

And.....don't forget the "Giveaway" in the post below, leave a comment of thanks and your name will go in the basket

5 comments:

Teena said...: WOW! You're getting so much done! How wonderful!

Does it bother you for all the work going on...on Thanksgiving with the cooking and all?

We live on 5 acres in a mobile home. We added on twice.It gives us so much more room!!

Hugs; November 25, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Teena said...: WOW! You're getting so much done! How wonderful!

Does it bother you for all the work going on...on Thanksgiving with the cooking and all?

We live on 5 acres in a mobile home. We added on twice.It gives us so much more room!!

Hugs; November 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Malissa P. said...: Looks fantastic. How blessed you are with skilled men.
Question...what is Bluebell?; November 25, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Gottjoy! said...: Wow, your guys are fast! What a beautiful addition. We live in a 1700 sq foot home and have prayed about what we should do. We are debt free so have no desire to go back in debt.However, we are thinking if we choose to adopt in the future our state law requires sq footage per child, so we may look into adding on. I'll be watching your post to see it all come together...Have a blessed Thanksgiving!; November 26, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Katie said...: Looks great, Cindy. Happy Thanksgiving to you. You are precious.; November 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM

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.