Joel's Journey: HOT !!!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

HOT !!!

When its HOT, you find water......and.....we did!!!!! The big town of Cushing Ok, Aquatic swimming pool!! The little children LOVED it!!! Daniel even tagged along with us!! In the evenings its only $1.75 for 7 and up and Mercy was only $1.25!! Thats my kind of cheap fun! They area already begging to go back. Mercy loved the frog slide!

Bethany made it to Illinois safely. Texting has many advantages!!! Just a quick "are you there" puts a moms heart at ease. How did we operate without it....we did! But now its nice!

Cleaning day today. I think most everyone has already done their chores and Andrew did a miracle on the garage!!! Hosanna, Jeremiah, Josh, and Siah are still doing school work on Monday and Tuesdays just so they wont forget stuff and I really needed them to finish their books. Dont know if that will happen but at least they will be farther along when we do start back up.

Grocery day this week, I really need to make a menu this time. Just going to the store and getting things is not optimal. Like I have meat from last shopping day but no noodles and stuff like that to actually make a meal. I have become so lax in food prep......terrible I know. I dont eat much and I guess I expect everyone else to do as I but that is a big NOT!! I vcan just eat some watermelon for my meal but that does not go over to well with hungry, growling construction workers!! :)

Hope you all are enjoying the "lazy" days of summer! I am!!! The "lazy" especially!! But remember not to be lazy with the Lord, He never sleeps nor slumbers!! Thankful for that.

1 comment:

erinstwo said...: Just wanted to drop in and say I love seeing a post from you on my 'dashboard!' I love to read about your family. I hear you on the needing a meal plan before going to the grocery store! I've been trying to throw things together here too. Happy Summer!; June 15, 2011 at 9:16 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.