Update you all on Diane - she's doing quite well. She had the oxygen removed around 12:00 today and did some hall walking to prove she didn't need the oxygen. She said after taking out the fluid she felt hungry again and she also had a much better sleep last night. Dr. Parker is on ER until 4 and she's hoping that she'll get more fluid removed after that. She's thinking that she'll maybe come home tomorrow. Forgot to mention that the fluid they took out was all in her lung. Thanks for all your prayers.

Diane's sis here: Saw her at the hospital today. She's finding it easier to breath with oxygen. They drained 3 L of fluid from her and will do more tomorrow. She's hoping to go home after that.

call # 1 no more waiting for # 2 "new"

off to hosp. P la P for now anyway, stay overnight they'll keep me comfy and filled with oxygen then tomorro surgery, maybe P la P depends things may change or be in HSC, i'll be in for a couple days i'm told. thanks for praying, will post when i get home, no access to computer or internet there. d

so i got the call from my Dr. Harding at Cancer care HSC and he is sending me back to my surgeon doc Tan in wpg., so now i'm waiting for a call from him to get an apt. to come in to remove fluid, ( not sure if around lung is what i'm thinking as my body is so full it hurts) from there we'll see what next step will be. I told Dr. i needed an apt. A.S.A.P. i'm sure he'll be pushing for it, he's good at getting things going.
So thankfull the two docs on emerg in P la P didn't do anything as with their thinking who knows what could have happend. They do their best, but are just not specialized in cancer no doubt, and a CT scan will show much better the true pic.
So much to be thankfull for, now to get in and then back on the road to recovery. So please continue to pray. thanks

pray also for my cousin Mari, she is starting to make a bit of recovery with her tumor now not growing and in the process of shrinking, pray it will continue to shrink and she can come home soon to be with her family.
i'll just add onto this email if i hear today yet of surgeon apt. so you may need to re read at least a bit. thanks, diane

I just couldn't resist putting in this cartoon of Maxine i'd received quite a while ago it makes me chuckle, yet can be so true.

CT scan

hi! i'm back from wpg. oh, what a long day, well while your in wpg one tends to make a day of it so my Mom had an apt. then i have my CT which we were an hr. early for and got on right away !! yahoo!! then my sis had doc apt. of course her doc was late (at HSC) so all in a day, but for me that was just so hard, and yes we did get back the wheel chair, as someone would have had to carry me, and well i'm not a feather so it'd be plop, oops, gotcha, ah.... plop, ooops lol!!. Oh i hope and pray that the docs will go over scan and call tomorro, this breathing thing is just not working too well, you'd think half a lung, half the air, right.... dead wrong, more like less than an 1/8 what fall breathing was like, i think this is worse, just pray, pray and continue to pray.
I thought of Matt as we were in HSC wondered if his family were there eating while i had a bowl of soup after CT but didn't think i wanted to go ask everyone and knew i wouldn't be allowed up to see him, but our thoughts and prayers went up your way. Continue to pray for Matt as hopefully tomoorro the bone marrow transplant can be performed successfully.
My cousin Lil B. emailed me her Grandma Klassen passed away this morning, pray for the Klassen family (Marge W, Susan B, Jake & families)
My sis emailed me today, she did leave me chuckling even though she was serious, but i hope she doesn't mind i share a piece, she emailed me about anointing a person with oil which it speaks about in the bible, "Get hubby to anoint you with oil and get Janae to pray for you - if you let Janae annoint you with oil, you may have the whole container, unless that is what God says to do" another quote "Pray in faith and don't doubt, just listen to God and see what he says and wait. God didn't heal everyone on the porch at Bethsaida - God healed a man who didn't even know who Jesus was. When some had no faith, Jesus used his own. When someone came to Jesus, He never said, "I'm tired or too busy...maybe another day if you catch me in time." God says we need to ask and keep knocking. God has a purpose and a plan - All things are possible with God..." i thank her so much for writing this to me, as yes one does have days of doubt, especially when days like this week when things have been tough, extremely tough, its like when is God going to help me and when i'm waiting trying to be patient but at times that's pretty difficult, we tend to want our healing and our prayers answered right away, when things get extremely difficult it sure is hard to just lay them at his feet when we want to be still in charge, because i want to live and its just taking way to long to get better.
" Psalms 103:1,2, 5 " Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the Lord, Oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits... who satisfied your desires wtih good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Any verse with eagles are fav's of mine too. I don't know if i should say this but i decided if i am to die i want a bald eagle engraved on metal of a bald eagle, with a verse that says " On the wings of an Eagle's i will fly " anyway, sorry,no more sad stuff today

here's the pic of the double geranium from Linda that just started blooming, absolutely gorgeous.

update

well news one doesn't want to hear, but at least we now know, the reason i'd been feeling so winded and blah. well my left lung is totally collapsed so my right lung is trying its hardest to make up, and i find myself breathing with my stomache so hense the feeling of yuck, so zip, toatally zip is on the agenda until it is fixed.
I called this morn to check if my doc was in and yeppers, so took no chance, we went in, hubby explained situation to nurse and we were in, doc checked out my lungs, sent me for blood work then x-rays, and the girl doing the x-rays read it right away and gave Dr. Parker a call immediately, so we were schuffled off to emerg. where my doc made arrangement with doc on duty to do a more complete check, so anyway, ultra sound was the way, and there was no fluid left in my left lung so anyway, since i am off to wpg. tomorro for CT scan they pushed it onto wpg. docs so i gave my nurses in wpg. a heads up and we'll stop by and probably get to see my wpg. doc after the CT, hope they do something soon, as yipes, one needs to breath. Of course when i come home i find a message my June 2nd. apt was cancelled and June 9th. was put in place, so i called the nurse to say NO GO, i'm not waiting two more weeks to try and breath. so hopefully a verdict can be made tomorro.
Please continue to pray for us, one just doesn't realize how important two lungs really are until one is not working, i think i'll need my wheel chair back, will have to phone and see if its still avail. thanks, diane
p.s. sorry no pic today, i'm bushed and will have me a rest before little girl comes home from school