Joel's Journey: how's your Monday?

Monday, April 30, 2012

how's your Monday?

Monday's..... always a day of lotsa laundry, getting back in the swing of things!!! Recovering from the weekend!!

We have a few more weeks of school, then away with summer we go!! The calendar is basically full!! Hard to believe!! Lots of fun things going on!!

Have a great week!!

P.S. if the "anonymous" person that reads Kristen's blog reads our blog, can you find something else to do or if you have a "beef" with our family, feel free to email me, 13blessings@sbcglobal.net!!! You definitely need some help!!

1 comment:

Unknown said...: I and my daughter, Jade, read Kristen's blog but I usually don't pay much attention to the comments. I confess to going back and reading after your comment here.
What is wrong with people in this world? Your boys' playing is spectacular. And I have to chuckle a little at the written tongue lashing anonymous got.; April 30, 2012 at 9:50 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.