Joel's Journey: snow pictures

Saturday, January 30, 2010

snow pictures

You can see we have had a bit of snow around here! It is a powdery snow, it is beautiful!

* makin' dinner, lasagna and yummy buttery rolls and I think a salad
*Terry made the sauce for me
*the guys are building Bethany a Nubian goat nursery, kidding season very soon!!!
*Andrew is making "hoops" in the basketball goal
*Elijah is busy with tractor pulling Terry and I out of precarious predicaments from our Wal Mart trip in the van
*no church tomorrow
*coffee later

Have a blessed Lord's Day!

Please be in prayer for the Haitian children and the Vision Forum team and Doug Phillips as they are over there seeking to minister to the great needs of these children/orphans. You can keep up with Mr. Phillips with information he is giving as he is on the ground in Hatti http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/blogs/dwp/

1 comment:

-stephanie- said...: beautiful pictures and a sweet little girl with her dog. Such fun.; January 31, 2010 at 10:29 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.