Joel's Journey: mercy too !!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

mercy too !!

For the pictures of Josiah yesterday, I had to do little bribing!!!!! Mercy caught on and wanted to "do" pictures too!!! So we did, but not without a "prize" coming her way!! We did not have the sun shinning through the windows like with Siah, so they all did not turn out. I get few pictures and she gets a "prize!!!"

The tracking info says we are suppose to receive the music CD's today!!! It's getting late so we'll see! I'll let you know if they get here later and tomorrow we'll be shipping the pre-orders that have been requested. If you have not ordered yours......get with it!!!!

Poor thing, we are taking one of our steers to the butcher tomorrow morning but yummy for us, real meat soon to fill up the freezer!!! I know we are only a few days into winter but I am ready for Spring!!!! I LOVE summer!!! So I am looking forward to Spring happenings on our farm, baby goats, we'll be ordering our meat chickens, garden 2010, which now the area wraps around very close to our backyard. I might be able to swing the french doors open and grab some lettuce or spinach!!!!

Tonight I get to hold baby "Mavie." Dave and Kate are bringing dinner over here!!! Dave's special is on the menu! Anna is whipping up some dessert, and we'll get the new coffee pot going and snuggle up together!

Last night we played the board game, "Are you smarter than a 5the grader?" Well.....sad to say some of the teams had to say,"I am not smarter than a 5th grader!!!" Its ridiculous, don't buy it!!!! I am glad we played it by ourselves, it could have been embarrassing!!!!

4 comments:

Teena said...: We have that game too and it is crazy! I think "WOW, a first grader is suppose to know that?" Lol

Mercy is precious!

Hugs & thinking of you. Know you are pressing on...and I am praying!

Teena; December 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
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LJR said...: She is such a little princess. What a beautiful little blessing!; December 30, 2009 at 12:03 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.