Joel's Journey: mavie has a secret to tell you!!!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

mavie has a secret to tell you!!!

Mavie has something she wants to tell you!!!!!

she has a new brother!!!!!!!

Keith Allen

born this morning at 6am

7# 10 oz

He is precious!! We love him!!!

funny thing is they came to our Christmas party and

went home and about 11:30 started having

contractions and BOOM a baby boy at 6am!!!!

Kate is looking and doing great and Dave

well, ummmm......he looks alright too!! haha!!

Keith Allen!!!!!

Lilian still needs her mommy too!!

Well, we are praising God for his protection tonight!! Daniel was driving Anna's car and totaled it tonight or at least that is our observation, will know for sure tomorrow from the insurance adjuster!! He ran into the back of a vehicle that was stopped at a red light. His airbag came out so that tells ya he hit pretty hard! The other people in the two vehicles that were involved are all fine too!! We are grateful tonight! Pray all goes well with figuring out what to do because we were suppose to travel to Florida on Thursday and we were taking Anna's car and the Expedition sooooooo I dont know what the plan will be now!!!

I hope to post the Christmas party pictures in the morning sometime. So stay tuned!!!! It was a fun party!!!

Cindy

1 comment:

The Ahlgren Family said...: Haha, we love that picture of Lilian! So so funny!
Thank you all so much... for having a great party to help get labor going (hahaha) and for coming over to welcome little Keith Allen! We love you all and are thankful to have you around the welcome our little boy!; December 24, 2011 at 5:40 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.