Tuesday, June 16, 2009

What a great day! The song, "Because He Lives", has a whole new meaning to us. As the song says, "Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, because He lives, all fear is gone". This could have been a very bad week for us especially when Michael's heart rate was off the monitor for a period of time on Saturday night, but God calmed our fears and gave us the Drs. and Medical Staff we needed to get through this critical time. I have never seen a heart rate that was so fast that it could not be measured on the heart monitor. Prayer by those who knew about it and by a very concerned medical team and the best cancer hospital in the world gave us what we needed to overcome it and a peace that we were where we were suppose to be. I will guarantee you one thing, the next time Michael's temperature gets 101.1 or greater he is going to the emergency room, no stop lights holding us back. We thought the temperature had gone down to where we didn't have to make a trip to the emergency room, but it sure shot up in a few minutes......The throat swelling is gone and Michael is able to eat some mashed potatoes today for the first time for anything except liquids since last Thursday. I am not certain how much more weight he has lost, but I am sure some. He told me today that this was a lesson he has learned and a hard one at that. I betcha he won't have mouth sores any more from slacking on his mouthwash. It was a hard lesson to learn for him. Now he asks me if it isn't time for is meds. I saw the plane that Air Tractor is sending to Paris for the Air show and have showed everyone we know the pictures and told them "this is built in our hometown". Guess I will close, need to make some calls. Talk to you real soon.....Love, Terri and Michael