Joel's Journey: caption winner !!!!!!!

Friday, April 9, 2010

caption winner !!!!!!!

Caption Contest Winner
is

Erin B.

Josiah: "I don't think this thing will ever
run again!!
Mercy: "no problem, we'll just give it to Dave for
his birthday!

Erin, e-mail me at 13blessings@sbcglobal.net
and give me your address
and we will get you
cheery
wind chimes
in the mail!

There were soooooo many funny ones, thank you all for participating!!! I enjoy doing things for you all, its not much, but a little that says a great BIG thank you for keeping up with our family!!!! We are blessed to have you on our journey of life!

Heading to Dave and Kate's, just down the road a bit. I am sooooo glad the guys, (Caleb and Daniel's) land is so close to home and they probably will be too when they do get married, so they can eat with us...LOL!!!!!

1 comment:

Teena said...: Hi! Just wanting you to know our computer crashed on Thursday. I am reading... but can not comment!! :(

I am reading daily....

Hugs,
Teena

I can get email and read on my phone. :); April 11, 2010 at 4:55 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.