Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Greetings from the Big O. Hope everyone had a blessed Christmas and ready to start a New Year. We certainly are ready to end this year and start another one. . . . . hopefully won't be on such a roller coaster as 2009 has been. God has blessed Michael and I in so many ways this year. If it had not been for the trials in our lives, God would not have grown us into the people He has molded us to be. There have been times during the past year that I thought God had turned loose, but you know, we look back on the past year and realize God has never turned loose, it was us that had turned loose of His loving hands. I thank God that He was never too far from us for us to take His hand and hold on again.

Christmas didn't come around to our household with all the decorating and such that it usually gets. But you know, I think this is the kind of Christmas that Christ intended. It's not all about decorations and finding that perfect gift. We have been given so many gifts this year (some material) but most of all the gift of blessings throughout 2009. You cannot purchase the gifts that have become real to us this year in a store. We have seen the gift of love, life, good news, gift of prayers from our friends and family, and the gifts of comfort to a mother who has just been told her only son has an aggressive cancer growing in his body, and then the gift of miracles (healing). We have seen the power of prayer in Michael's life. We serve an AWESOME GOD. We have prayed for our doctor at MD Anderson to seek God in his life and we were told at our last visit that he and his family had attended church the week before. Praise God. . . . . . and that is an answered prayer in itself. Keep praying for Michael as this battle is won, but the fight is not over. We love each and every one of your. May God bless you and yours in 2010.

Michael is a patient at United Regional Hospital in Wichita Falls as I type. He is undergoing this week of chemo as a inpatient since the weather was so unpredictable and will be coming home on Friday. We saw our new doctor, Dr. Reddy at the Texoma Cancer Center on Monday, and since they were going to be closed on New Years day, he felt it would be in Michael's best interest to do the chemo at the hospital. This was to keep from missing a day on Friday. We will be going to Wichita Falls for 1 hour a day chemo beginning next Monday for 5 days. and then back to Houston in a couple of weeks after chemo is completed for our next PET Scan and Chest X-Ray.