End Of The Week

Thank you all for your many kind words about the loss of Maggie May.  It is clear that there are many of you who out there who care about Maggie and her family as much as you do about Rebekah and us.  We ask that you continue to pray for all of us.

This week has been a very positive week with Rebekah.  She has, in many ways, come back to be our little girl for the first time since radiation.  Yesterday evening she brought her own Dora cup and all by herself crawled up on daddy’s lap on the couch and put her head against my chest.  A little bit later she crawled off my lap and was sitting next to me on the couch and reached behind me to try and put her arm around me like I always do her.  It was very heartwarming to us and made me cry.

It’s the first time since radiation that she has almost “recovered” from the chemo therapy effects before the next round.  Unfortunately, each round takes its toll more and more and she has only gotten to this point days before we start again on Monday.  

Today we have a work day with the crew from the Helping Hands Ministry from Our Place Christian Church.  It is supposed to be as much of an outside day as inside, but the weather is not being real cooperative.  We will see how much actually gets done.  While we were in the hospital last week, Helping Hands held a bake sale and fall festival in honor of Rebekah and one other family.  They raised nearly $500.00 for Rebekah and brought us that and the left over bakeries the day we got home.  Having eaten nearly all of the cookies in a week we KNOW why they raised so much money!!!  Thank you Helping Hands!

Please pray for us as we head off again to the hospital for what will be a 6-8 day difficult stay at a minimum.  We are not looking forward to it again, but at least this time we knew it was coming.