Thank you LORD. June 6, 2010, marked three years since my surgery! I forgot to post on the blog - I was so busy graduating Anya, (we are over the hump now - 4 down, "only" 3 to go!!) and planning her grad party which we combined with July 4th, one of her favorite holidays. I am thankful for each kid's birthday, graduation, wedding or adoption anniversary, and each holiday and season that I get to enjoy, savoring each one as a "bonus"! All of them are things I felt I might not ever see when I looked forward three years ago. I know that all my days are in His hands, and I might not stay cancer free forever. But, maybe I will! :-) Either way, He is God!
And here is a miracle - we finally got the settlement from the truck accident!!!!! FIVE YEARS afterward, and much less than our losses from the accident, but at least it is OVER. Our new lawyer, Dennis Abrams, was great. A godly man, with integrity, which we appreciated so very much after the terrible treatment we got from our prior attorney who handled the case so badly. Anyway, we are through that valley now, and God sustained us. It was a hard, hard road, but, we did not lose our home, business or health insurance.... we had enough to eat although often not until the day we needed it! We have paid many creditors back and can breathe a bit now and begin to climb back the rest of the way! We are THANKFUL. Hopefully we have learned the lessons that God had for us, and are stronger as a result of the trials we have been through the last five years.
Thank you each so MUCH for standing with us through the storms of life! I am SO grateful for your concern for me and my family. Life here continues to be C R A Z Y - with 5 kids at home, aged 20, 19, 17, 14, and 12 that keep us BUSY - so please keep praying as we come to mind. We need it! :-)
Next scans end of August....... I will post in early September!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
GREAT NEWS AGAIN!
I am so thankful, once again, for the blessing of another set of clear scans this week! It will be 3 years in June since my diagnosis. I am so grateful for each day that I have had, and am actually starting to allow myself to believe that I might stay cancer free forever! I am hesitant to get my hopes up, but the doctors say that the longer I go with clear scans, the better and better my chances are of remaining cancer free. Even if it does eventually come back, the fact that it is taking a long time to do so means it would likely be slow growing and more easily treated again.
So, back to our crazy lives with 5 kids at home in various stages of "tween / teen / still basically a teen" (ages 12, 14, 16, 19, 20). Please pray for our parenting as there have been some challenging days lately with a kid or two. :-) Our grown up daughters and sons-in-law are doing well and we get to see them often.
Our business is still struggling in this economy, and the truck accident settlement is STILL held up in red tape. Please pray that the reimbursement we need would be released SOON. Last news is that the judge is required to sign off in the next 21 days, and then we should be 30 days away, but we have heard this stuff many times before. So we will believe it when we see it. Meanwhile the Lord is sustaining us little by little, day by day, like the manna in the wilderness. But we are so TIRED of the stress. We really do appreciate your prayers for us in this "waiting room" we are in. We are working as hard as we can to keep the business moving forward, but it is tough with the accident losses weighing us down and the economy struggling too.
Dear Dona Dean went to be with the Lord in November, from the same cancer I had. She was such an example of faith and trust in the Lord through each day of her life. Please pray for her husband and children. Her adult daughter Kelly has much on her plate, as she lives at her parents' home with 2 small children of her own and is helping to fill Dona's shoes now, in caring for her young twin sisters too.
If you are reading this blog after all this time, and still praying for me, thank you SO MUCH. I know some of you have asked me or my family how I am doing and I am very grateful for each of you caring so much about us.
Thank you!
So, back to our crazy lives with 5 kids at home in various stages of "tween / teen / still basically a teen" (ages 12, 14, 16, 19, 20). Please pray for our parenting as there have been some challenging days lately with a kid or two. :-) Our grown up daughters and sons-in-law are doing well and we get to see them often.
Our business is still struggling in this economy, and the truck accident settlement is STILL held up in red tape. Please pray that the reimbursement we need would be released SOON. Last news is that the judge is required to sign off in the next 21 days, and then we should be 30 days away, but we have heard this stuff many times before. So we will believe it when we see it. Meanwhile the Lord is sustaining us little by little, day by day, like the manna in the wilderness. But we are so TIRED of the stress. We really do appreciate your prayers for us in this "waiting room" we are in. We are working as hard as we can to keep the business moving forward, but it is tough with the accident losses weighing us down and the economy struggling too.
Dear Dona Dean went to be with the Lord in November, from the same cancer I had. She was such an example of faith and trust in the Lord through each day of her life. Please pray for her husband and children. Her adult daughter Kelly has much on her plate, as she lives at her parents' home with 2 small children of her own and is helping to fill Dona's shoes now, in caring for her young twin sisters too.
If you are reading this blog after all this time, and still praying for me, thank you SO MUCH. I know some of you have asked me or my family how I am doing and I am very grateful for each of you caring so much about us.
Thank you!
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