A real blessing for us was the fact that Carol came in Thursday for a visit. She was able to take care of Julie so Jan could stay with me at the hospital. She wrote the most wonderful e-mail this morning that I wanted to share with everyone. I copied the text below:
Good morning
dear ones.
What a
difficult week it has been for so many across this country. As I sit here and
think about all the pain and brokenness the only words that come to mind are
"Come swiftly Lord, Jesus"! Come to bring ultimate healing and
restoration to these people and this land. A good friend of mine sent a
powerful Bible verse to our family yesterday. I want to share it with you and
pray that it brings you hope and peace as it does to me. Jesus is talking to
his disciples right before he is taken to be crucified. He knew their world was
about to be turned upside down and that they would need to exercise great faith
in the coming days and years. He says, "I have said these things to
you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation.
But take heart, I have overcome the world." (John 16:33) The enemy was
defeated on the cross and has no power over those who have transferred the
leadership of their lives to Jesus. Even though this world is still broken, we
can have peace because He has overcome.
God has given
us great faith and peace in this crazy last 24 hours! Dad is still at the
hospital and is about to go in to have an ERCP procedure to take a look at,
clean out, and possibly reinforce the stent he had put in back in October.
This stent is what is keeping his bile duct operational and they suspect
it may be what is causing the potential infection. Last night
when I was with dad, I asked him what he thought about the procedure (it is not
the most fun process). He said that whatever the Lord willed would be fine with
him. :) He is exercising the faith God has given Him and has such peace in it
all. He looks really good and definitely still has his sense of humor!
Mom stayed up
there with him last night, which left Julie and I to have a sister slumber
party at the house! She did great! She slept most of the night and didn't have
any big seizures!! Such a HUGE praise as seizures are no fun to deal with by
yourself.
One cool
"love letter" from God I want to share with you. Last night when the
nurses were changing shifts for the night shift, the new nurse came in and
introduced herself to us. Her name was Mercy. It felt really good to leave last
night knowing that Mercy was watching over that hospital room. Such
a precious reminder...
I am grateful for
each of you. I cannot say it enough, thank you thank you thank you for walking
this adventure with us. You are a blessing to us and we love you!! I hope to
send an update later today to let you guys know how the procedure goes and
hopefully we will know more about how long they want him to stay at the
hospital.
-C
Now
it is time to catch everyone up on the events of the past few weeks. My high
school friend Ralph came down for a visit a couple weekends ago. It was
awesome. It was like no time had passed since we were
last together. It was a fun time catching up and talking about past
adventures. It was hard for Ralph to
leave Dallas, not because I am such a good friend but because American Airlines
could not get his plane off the ground.
He finally started back to Iowa after a terminal change and I think a
plane exchange due to mechanical problems.
He took off from DFW at the time he was supposed to have arrived in Iowa.
My
youngest daughter, Catherine, came in for a weekend visit after Ralph’s
visit. It was a fun weekend without any
crisis adventures. The weather was
gorgeous and we took full advantage of it.
Catherine and I had some special time together going to The Village
Church for Sunday service. It was a
great service and wonderful message. We
then went to the church service at Silverado (the place where Jan’s mom lives). It was great having the whole family (we
missed Carol) visiting Meme and worshiping the Lord.
I
was supposed to have my fourth round of the second protocol Monday the 15th
of April. We showed up at the Oncologist
but once again my labs prevented me from proceeding with the course. The infusion was rescheduled for this coming
Monday. That may be delayed as well if I
am still in the hospital. Prayers for discharge Sunday and good labs Monday
morning are in order. I have experienced
God’s love for me throughout this Adventure and will continue to desire His
perfect timing for the next steps going forward.
If
you were to review the blog from the beginning it is awesome to see how God has
orchestrated the Adventure so far. It is
neat to have this record to remind one’s self of how gloriously God has walked
with me and my family during this Adventure.
Your prayers have had much to do with that provision.
Thank you,
Price
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