Joel's Journey: Its Hot!!!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Its Hot!!!

Its hot!!!!! Next week temps are lookin to be over 100 many days!!! Ok, here's the scoop......I guess somehow things got confusing as far as what we are doing! Monday is the big day for the school job that we have waited on for so long. Our whole family is NOT moving! Terry and the guys are renting a house about 5 minutes from the job site, they will stay there during the week and come home on the weekend. So I am having to get things for that house so they can have somewhat of a set up to cook, and sleep. The job site is quite a ways from our house, too far to drive every night. Bethany and Anna will travel over once a week and clean and do laundry for them!!! Hope that clears up the confusion. Things are coming together pretty well, some things can not be done til last minute. On Monday us girls will go over there and help set up the house and fix some dinner and then we will come back. I have been so busy with all this and our internet is absolutely "sick" that its hard to post and do pictures, loose connections and all that!

Yesterday was shopping day which was interesting.....the van had to be in the shop and so Terry being so thoughtful rented a little car for me to zoom around in and I had to make two trips of shopping, Thurs. eve and then on Friday. Nice while it lasted :)

All one wants to do because of the heat is get into water! The littles have had fun in the small pool, but at least it cools them off!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! Hamburgers tonight!!!

3 comments:

Janet said...: My word Cindy! You guys are really busy! I have read your post with interest and love, never knowing that the horrible disease would hit me. I am struggling with my Mum at the moment, and can almost understand your pain, but not the same being my Mum against your child! I think about you often and find strength in your strength. Thank you for your inspiration and for helping me keep strong. I keep thinking about how lucky I am,and thank God for people like you who keep me going! I hope this makes sense ... I feel so out of control! What a lovely family you have. Bless you! With much love from South Africa!; July 31, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Aww the pictures are the cutest, Mrs. Morris!!

Pray that no one gets OVERHEATED!!! Especially the men on the job!!!! BE CAREFUL GUYS!!!!!! Please!

Nice about the rental car! :D

Tell Bill Hitch hey 4 me!!! :D <3

Sarah; July 31, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Abigail said...: Sounds like things are coming together. Ditto what Sarah said - the guys need to be REALLY careful not to get overheated!!! We all were working cutting up a huge red oak today and it was quite warm!

Very cute pictures, Anna! And cute kids, too! :-)

~Abigail~; July 31, 2010 at 6:59 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.