Joel's Journey: Today...

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Today...

What we did today.....

* Terry, Bethany and Anna left the house around 5:30 am going to visit Danielle in MO. and will be returning tomorrow Lord willing!

* Caleb, Daniel, Elijah, Micah and Andrew went to church and did not arrive home until 2:00 pm and ate lunch.

* I stayed here and fixed lunch, easier on me than corralling the littles without Terry.

* I worked on Joshua's Creative Memory book and got around 75 pictures in, bringing it up to date.

* Sat outside and watched Mercy and Hosanna play, while Josiah and Jeremiah were on an adventure in the pasture.

* Caleb and Daniel went to our good friend David's house to download some of the Pendragon movie, as they are writing the music for parts of it, but the adventure to that included hauling our desk top computer over there only to find out when they got there that it does not have an internet chip inside of it, sooooo they proceed to haul the whole computer system up into David's attic in a 2x2 foot opening and of course its dark!!!! They are desperate, time is of the essence. They are quite the guys for "get it done."

* Made cookies at 9:00 pm, sat out by a campfire and drank coffee with the children and listened to Mercy tell us stories about how she fell off the moon, hurt her back, she is not a baby but a tiger (she is trying to say toddler ) riding bulls, how she hurt her back again and that her name is Mercy!!!!!!!!

* Now its time for bed and I am ready!!!!

* Good Night

Cindy

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Busy busy! But it sounds like fun!!! Caleb and Daniel's attic adventure sounds..... interesting! I bet pictures from that would be good! Hehe!
It's so fun hearing about all that's going on with ya'll! I really enjoy learing about how others live and imagining.....
I'll be praying Caleb and Daniel can get the music done and "make it happen!" They are very gifted at that!!!
( : I pray you have a belssed and sweet day!
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? : ); September 15, 2008 at 4:00 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.