Joel's Journey: home at last!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

home at last!!!!!!!!!!!!

We made it home .......but not without an "adventure!!!" We lost power in the van about 1 1/2 hours away!!! We were able to coast to the side and be under a bridge for shade on Interstate 40. After Elijah evaluated it, there was no way the van was moving......sooooooo....... a call to our rescue "squad" Terry and Dave! They drove two vehicles to come pick us up. We had to of course wait an hour and twenty minutes for the pick up but finally arrived, loaded all the stuff and people and we are home safely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really, that van just needs to stay on the side of the road!!!! LOL!!!! But I guess it will be towed in once again.............and NO I am NOT asking for money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now we are headed to take Terry out to eat and do some BD partying!!!!!! Yippeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully I can get Anna to help with some pics, a ton of them so check back late tonight!!!!!!!!!!!

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( : The Mavericks : ) said...: Glad you're back!!!!! We missed you!!!!!; June 23, 2010 at 11:47 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.