updates from week

i just got updates from Sharon & Matt, Matt is now in wpg. being prepared for his bone marrow tansplant which they have booked for May 27th. from what i understand during these next few weeks they will be making his white blood count drop all the way down to zero so they can use his sister Karla's bone marrow and insert it into his and wait for it to grow in him, it is quite a process, but wonderful to know that we have doctors and nurses with such knowledge given by our lord to come up with help like this. Pray for his family as they wait, for safety as they travel and esp. for Matt as he will be in quarentine for quite some time.
I talked to Sharon today, they had just gotten back from London, ON, she is still waiting for a liver transplant, and met up with a couple surgeon's she hadn't met who needed to meet with her before the surgery. They came to the conclusion that the best way for her is to receive a cadaber liver donor (which is someone who's passed away that has donated their liver as a donor to someone who needs it) she is still on the list for a liver transplant by using her son Josh's liver, but at this time her body is so filled with fluid that they are not able to go that route unless she can lose more fluid. It is very difficult to do when she is on pills for taking away excess fluids but they seem to be building up faster than she can get rid of them at this time, she is starting an exercise program to hopefully help with that, but is so incredibly tired that getting out and exercising is very difficult when your body is filled with fluid. Pray for her & her family that there will be a donor liver for her very very shortly and or she can lose some of her excess fluid enough to get the liver transplant from Josh. These to are important things we as people need to remember to do, it is important to sign our donor card to help those who are in need,( don't worry you won't be needing it anyway) also important for those who can to give blood for those who need blood transfusions, sometimes we think there's nothing we can do physically for a person, but by doing small things like this helps many many people. Thank you to those who have helped.
Also remember Serena who has on her second round of chemo and as the family waits to hear the results from her x-rays.
Remember to keep my cousin Mari in your prayers as she leaves today for i believe its Spring Valley for treatments on her liver cancer.

any other updates just let me know



can't remember if i added this pic, pic of my garden for 2008, this year it'll definately be looking a lot more spacious, but still with lots of tomatoes, so everyone tells me, that's the most important, and easy fall toasted tomato sandwiches sounds great to me.

Love

This morning i went for a much needed massage, now i'm bushed, but i'm sure my muscles will thank me soon, so much going on they just haven't had much time to relax lately, i really need to make myself rest, but its like how can i rest when there's so much to do, lawn needs mowing, and i can't even keep up to it, garden will need to go in soon, too tired to even think about how i'll manage that. And of course we decided to have garage sale at my folks this weekend so trying to look for things that we never use or just don't need, still bringing the man lunches and suppers on the field, although today i sent it with one of the trucks his lunch at least, that gives me a bit more time to acually accomplish a bit at home, so i baked and did a load of laundry after lunch.
I also managed to get an apt. with the lymph node drainage nurse so i'll head into the city mon. for that, she's booked me in all week if i need it, but we'll go one day at a time, if i only need one day that's great, if not i've got week booked off for more treatments.
yesterday when i went along with hubby i said we really need to downsize and move to a smaller place as i just can't keep up, well he wasn't too interested and well most places are bigger than ours around anyway, so its put more responsability on the kids at home, we don't charge rent so they can help out a bit more, i know they're tired when they come home from work too, but hopefully by next year i can be back on track, doing what i love, yep the thing is its really hard to give up mowing, give up doing things in the house and giving up on the garden end. I have decided to down size garden so a lot of the plants i started at going up for garage sale. I did have to chuckle at hubby as he was saying the kids will have to help out even more now over the summer, he then was telling me about an idea he had with setting the boy up on a date, with a girl who's he's Loved for many years, just not ready to ask her out, anyway i said wait, don't do anything drastic yet, remember we need him to do lots of things around home first before he runs off with a girl. I think he has way too much time thinkin' on that tractor, but it kinda reminded me of i think i was 12 or maybe 13 ish, when Will's sister who i had't met before but met at VBS came up to me on program evening and informed me her brother (pointed me out to him) and said "my brother's going to marry you" well, at that time its like you have got to be kidding, well, he did win my heart years later, and he is the Love of my life, so thankfull to have such a wonderful, loving, caring hubby. The unrau's do have a tendancy to pick someone and that's who they end of marrying, and yipes one of Will's cousins even asked the girl to marry him on the second date, she said yes, and not sure how many months later they were and still are married, so you can see why i wasn't quite too keen on helping the boy with a girl at this time, it could be a couple months and he'd be off married lol!! anyway...
There are so many people who need our prayers, i was over at my cousin Mari's last night and she'll be going to the US tomorro for a new treatment on her liver cancer, so pray for her, that they can find healing and a cure for her, for her family back home who will miss her once again for those weeks she'll be gone.
Pray for Blaine & Tamara, i talked to Tamera yesterday and Blaine didn't have his treatment as his pain was too intense and he couldn't lie still long enough to have the treatment (from what i understand for this new lazer radiation treatment laying perfectly still for up to half and hr. for the treatment, hard enough for someone without pain or discomfort, let alone someone with, she said the doc was sending Blaine now to the pain clinic so pray for the docs and for Blaine & Tamara that they can find something to help his cancer
i also talked to Darlene this morning her mom had half a treatment for her uterin cancer last week as she got an allergic reaction or reaction to the treatment, so doc's will have to figure out what the next step will be for her.
Pray for my cousin Murray & Paula & family as they are ready to go on their missions trip to PNG with NTM, but their visa's arent' ready yet. Pray for wisdom, patience.

continue to pray for those around you who need you
here's a really neat idea my neighbor shared many years ago which i will always remember, it just made me feel so good, and so loved to know that she cared enough to drive by and pray for me and my family. she said as she was driving by houses she would send up a prayer for them, even if she didn't know them, who knows what their needs are and we can help by praying for them.


pic i took up at the lake last summer, it was so neat with the lake and clouds, so look forward to a relaxing summer down at the lake once again at least when we can.

Be not anxious

I debated about adding something about the kids can cope weekend, but i think i will anyway, i enjoyed it very much as did Janae, but there was a piece of me that just felt like something or someone's missing, for me i would say, do a wonderful program like the equestrian program with either kids and or adults, but what's missing?? Christ was missing that whole weekend, i believe that a program like that with the hope in Christ is a far better hope to have, i think if kids were shown in the bible true hope and memorized a few verses how God gives us hope, that they could take home with them and remember every time they're going through a rough time, they have God to find hope in and trust in Him, and hope for eternal salvation, and hope in Him, that fills up that empty spot missing out of a program like that, i'm sure not everyone felt that way, as not everyone knows who or what they are missing in their lives. I have talked to so many people who either have gone through a difficult time in their life, a difficult health issue, a life and death situation, and each and every one of them searched. Doesn't matter wether your a christian or never heard of Christ, people and kids are searching, sometimes for what they do not know. For myself i found myself searching into my heart, asking and checking in to see what kind of person am i, am i the person that God will say child your a good and faithfull servant, i am sending you, i need to still work on that part of accepting him sending me and being his servant. I tended to be a person who'd shy back from a lot of things,lets just say everything, well hey!! i am an extremely shy person, but with having cancer, i am slowly coming up out of my shell, and hoping i can help and be an encouragement to others who are struggling. Talking about encouragement, yesterday i had my doc apt. and went to the store for my meds and bumped into Will's aunt & uncle, Aunt Agatha is this year 20 years cancer free, and as we chatted i was encouraged and uplifted by how much from now to 20 years ago when she had cancer we both had similar struggles and how they found encouragement and positiveness and the bubbliness to how they shared, lifted up my spirits once again. Thanks Aunt Agatha & uncle Pete.
These last couple weeks and well for another week, hubby will be busy on the field seeding, so i bring him out lunches and supper, right now he's on the up north fields and so it takes a good half hour (one way)to drive up there and do delivery service, and well since i'm up there i go along for the ride, well, its kinda quiet for him, but after i get there, hm... not so much, we seem to find all sorts to chat about, and sometimes its ok, gonna go home after this round, but as the round gets closer its na just one more, gotta finish a topic so this sometimes goes on for ..... anyway, i'm sure it breaks up his day, for me too, but i find myself, not accomplishing a thing at home, and yep, look where i'm on today lol!! so i may just need to make him a lunch to take along so things can get done here.
ok, so your wondering back and doc and ?? well we talked about the hyperbaric oxygen therapy and he wasn't really sure what to say, as there's not a whole lot of real solid evedence of its workings, but he will still keep it on the burner to do more research if i feel i want to go that route. I also asked him to look into the lazer knife, a lazer surgery done for patients who can't have regular surgeries due to whatever curcumstances so he'll check that out. I'm back on the inhaler as my breathing has slowly been going down hill,( but i will need to get back into a routine with that as i'm absolutely terrible to sticking with meds) so we'll see if that makes a difference, i got a prescription for a lymph node drainage, so i will call the nurse today and see when i can get in, as mine are acting up again, so might as well get at them before they get too out of control. Other than that, more blood work for next month, and this last blood work wasn't back yet, so i guess that'll have to wait. Two more weeks till a CT scan and three more till i find what the doc's think next step will be, at times i get anxious about it, but i keep reminding myself, "Be not anxious for nothing but by prayer and suplication make your requests be known to Him." i know there's many people who continue to pray and we thank you for that, it is what makes a huge difference.
Well anyway think i've chatted off your ears enough for today please remember to pray for the people around you.

Pray for Blaine & Tamara as Blaine goes for lazer radiation on his spine
Pray for Agabus & Mari as she is fighting as hard as she can to fight cancer
Pray for Bev C who found out she's got MS and as she waits for more detailed results on which type, pray for her dad Jim R & Elsie who cut his thumb last week, as he heals
so many others from past blogs, please keep me updated

p.s. pic i took last summer up at my sis' cabin, we were on the boat fishing when we saw this bear on a mission along the banks, hoping to catch a fish, so hubby drove as close as we dared to get a good pic, so glad i had my camera along.