Joel's Journey: guys...

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

guys...

Wanna see what the guys have been "up" to lately?!?! About 25 feet!!! They have finished up a school gym in McCloud Oklahoma! Twenty concrete trucks of concrete in those walls! It will also be a safe room for the whole school!! Good job men!! This is the job Caleb and Kyle came down to help on!! Lord willing Terry has three commercial jobs lined up!! One will be an hour and half away, so a bit of travel! Thankful for work and how the Lord continues to provide over these almost 5 years of self employed construction business!

Would you pray for a very special friend? I am praying this verse, would you pray this verse over my friend? Thank you!!!

"Behold God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song he also is become my salvation. Is 12:2"

Wednesday..... cleaning day!! basically I clean everyday but this day like the bathrooms, vacuuming, dusting and stuff like that gets done! A good feeling at the end of the day!

I am doing a rigorous workout with an iPhone app and a little man voice tells me what to do on the treadmill, he about killed me yesterday!! Hahah!! I have been walking in the treadmill for about a month, I go in spurts!! But I was ready for more of a challenge!! I am working my way up to running 5k!! I am not to optimistic but we will see what happens!! I am just doing it for myself.... and the "old" body!!! Hahah!!! I hope I can endure!!!!

Hope you all have a great Wednesday!!!

1 comment:

Jen said...: Would love to know what app you're using? Is it the C25K app or another one?? Good for you!

I have used that before and I like it because I can listen to books on tape, etc. and his voice will break in regardless of what I'm doing!; February 8, 2012 at 11:16 AM

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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.