Joel's Journey: #themostwonderfultimeofyear

Friday, November 16, 2012

#themostwonderfultimeofyear

Its starting to look alot like Christmas around here!!! Making some stuff!!! Of all the candy I make, I love the Mocha Truffles!! You can google Taste of Home Mocha Truffles and i think the recipe will be easy to get!!

Im soooooo mad at my Blogger App on my phone!!! i have been using it for a long time. I noticed the app said to update it, so I did and now I cant access my account from my phone!!!!! I have tried to sign in many times on my phone but it just wont work!!!! Grrrrrrr!!!! Now I am back to using the computer to make a post!!!!! Its so much more trouble!!!! Any geniuses out there???? I have tried to sign in( on my phone) and the password says its wrong and its just sick!! Oh well.....guess I will have to live with it!!

Have a great weekend!!!! Hoping Terry gets the ceiling tiles up Saturday!!! Yay!!

2 comments:

Sarah said...: The mocha truffles from taste of home??? My family makes those every Christmas too!! Oh man, SO good!!; November 16, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Marie said...: What beautiful candies!!! Can't wat to see the ceiling tiles....have a great weekend!; November 17, 2012 at 6:15 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.