Joel's Journey: texas job!!!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

texas job!!!

Thought you might wanna see what the guys are up to!!! They are in Texas building another school out of the insulated concrete forms!! They are coming along but still have about a month left. Coming home on the weekends, makes it hard for them to accomplish much on their own houses here. I would say after hours they are not hurting for entertainment. They have hit Six Flags, a Texas Ranger baseball game, checked out the "cow town" area and also have had the opportunity to eat with one of Terry's college friends so that gave them a break from the restaurants that is their diner for lunches and dinners!! Hope they appreciate home cooked when they do come home!!!

Oh, guess what???? I sold the buffet I had pictured on the previous post!! Very glad for that!! Now I can buy a vegetable sink for the new cabinet area expected to be done in under two weeks hopefully!!!

It has been so nice here, sunny and in the 80's!! The closer it can get to 90 degrees will make me one happy gal!

Happy Thursday!!

2 comments:

Sarah Victoria said...: What town are they working in?; April 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM
The Morris Family said...: Sarah,
they are in Grandview!!!; April 7, 2011 at 9:12 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.