From the monthly archives:
Two Mondays ago, Ian was supposed to go over to Abbott to get set up for his radiation simulation. He had spiked a really high fever in the night and was still shaking and shuddering so badly that he couldn’t lay still enough for the MRI. They wheeled him back over, saying “Well, we’ll try [...]
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I wish I wasn’t so tired, there’s so much I want to explain… Soon. Maybe. Hopefully. No, yeah, soon. Our van is packed, and our plan is to head out in the early am! To go to Indiana! To become Hoosiers! No, wait, that’s not it, but every time I read the name of the [...]
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That was the question. Towards the end of last week, Ian began having some swelling on the back of his head, at his incision site. He was also having an increase in his pain from nasty headaches. One of the neurosurgery team checked the site, “tapped” him (drew fluid off with a syringe), and drew [...]
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How Firm a Foundation How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled? In every condition, in sickness, in health; In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth; [...]
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There is way too much going on right now. Really. Way too much. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for [...]
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Keeping 6 other children cared for and occupied while I’ve been at the hospital with Ian and my sweet Baby Faith has been a challenge, but we’re all hanging in there… My younger sisters, who both live nearby (we’re SO blessed to have family so close!), have been so gracious, and pretty brave. I mean, [...]
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Our dishwasher broke well over a year ago. We’re a family of 10, and even with only 9 of us actually eating solid foods from actual plates (Baby Faith is still exclusively breast-fed), we go through a small mountain of dishes each day. Throw in some baking, and maybe an extra snack, and it’s more [...]
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2 yr old Joseph, hanging out, literally, at the foot of Ian’s hospital bed. Lumbar Puncture this morning, to check for cancer cells in Ian’s cerebral-spinal fluid. He’ll be sedated, with yet another kind of medicine that he’s never had before- praying for no adverse affects, especially as this will take place in a “procedure [...]
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