Thursday AM, March 30, 2007s
Greetings to all!
May the presence, peace, power, love, and grace of the Triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – be with you and acknowledged by you now and always.
I am really sorry and ask your forgiveness that it has been three weeks since I have added to the blog. The bottom line is that it has been a very busy time and for most of it Marty has not been feeling very well. I will not give you all the details, but I will try to catch you up a little.
First, an item of possible good news! Praise the Lord! Marty had the second caudal block on May 2nd and it did not seem to help the discomfort in her back and hip. So, when we returned to the doctor on the 21st he started checking some of the muscles in her leg and found them to be very tender. Bottom line is, we are going to try some PT at Huntington Hospital. Actually we have had one appointment and Marty is doing about 9 exercises here at home two times a day. She was to start massage therapy yesterday but that has been postponed until next week. We are sure hoping and praying that this will help that discomfort which we thought was all nerve related, but maybe muscle related as well, do to the changes in her back –her spine is 2 inches off center. God is good – all the time. All the time – God is good!
Now, since the 14th of May, Marty has really been feeling bad: very tired and weak, headaches, stomach aches, loss of appetite, low grade temp, aches, and just plain feeling bad all the way around. Of course, being an RN she was trying to figure it all out as to why she felt so bad and to fix it. We were being told that her blood counts were good for her, and she was getting shots to try and bring the red blood cell count up, but it was still going down slowly as were the others. To make the long, difficult story short, after a trip to ER last Saturday, I got her into Dr. Lee yesterday. (We were not to see him for three more weeks.) He believes that all of the activity the last two and a half weeks has to do with the bone marrow and the MDS/AML. So, today she is to get two units of blood (the first she has had since January) and tomorrow Dr. Lee will do another bone marrow biopsy in his office in Indianapolis, to see exactly what is going on there. If we find that he is right about the MDS/AML then we will have to make some treatment decisions much sooner than expected. The original estimated time table was that we would probably not be to this point until Fall. In the mean time, it is hoped that the blood today will help her to feel better - Praise the Lord! - but in the mean time we have had a real experience of what MDS/AML can be like and do to a person.
What a servant and child of God Marty is! Through all of the past few weeks she has remained a “Martha”. Praise the Lord! She has not missed worship and sang in the choir until last week, when she just didn’t have the energy. She is on the Session and has attended the monthly meetings and has had a couple meetings of her Team. She is trying to get the Team work done before Fall when she figured she may not be able to do it. She has fixed some food to share with others and kept my stomach plenty full. She has her flower garden and tomato patch all planted and waters them about every other day. (When God doesn’t do it for her!) With God’s help she just keeps going, and going, and going! Praise the Lord! I don’t know how she does it. But, she has been doing it for years. Thank you God!
I praise and thank God that as of Saturday, June 2nd Marty and I will have been married for 40 years. Praise the Lord! What a blessing it has been to spend that much time with such a wonderful child of God’s, wife, mother, friend and co-laborer in the Lord’s work. I really feel blessed and thankful. A number of times over the years I have been asked if I realize how lucky I am to have a wife like Marty. And of course, I have answered that no one knows better than me, just how blessed I have been and will continue to be. Praise the Lord! I have no doubt that God brought us together and has been a very important part of our lives and our marriage. God has gotten us through some real difficult challenges over the years, to be glorified in the end, and God will do it again now. Praise the Lord! God is good – all the time. All the time – God is good!
Now that we have some information and direction I will try to keep you informed a little better and a little more often. We certainly do appreciate your support and prayers – thank you all so much.
Have a positive day and God bless.
Marty and Jack
John 3:16
Greetings to all!
May the presence, peace, power, love, and grace of the Triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – be with you and acknowledged by you now and always.
I am really sorry and ask your forgiveness that it has been three weeks since I have added to the blog. The bottom line is that it has been a very busy time and for most of it Marty has not been feeling very well. I will not give you all the details, but I will try to catch you up a little.
First, an item of possible good news! Praise the Lord! Marty had the second caudal block on May 2nd and it did not seem to help the discomfort in her back and hip. So, when we returned to the doctor on the 21st he started checking some of the muscles in her leg and found them to be very tender. Bottom line is, we are going to try some PT at Huntington Hospital. Actually we have had one appointment and Marty is doing about 9 exercises here at home two times a day. She was to start massage therapy yesterday but that has been postponed until next week. We are sure hoping and praying that this will help that discomfort which we thought was all nerve related, but maybe muscle related as well, do to the changes in her back –her spine is 2 inches off center. God is good – all the time. All the time – God is good!
Now, since the 14th of May, Marty has really been feeling bad: very tired and weak, headaches, stomach aches, loss of appetite, low grade temp, aches, and just plain feeling bad all the way around. Of course, being an RN she was trying to figure it all out as to why she felt so bad and to fix it. We were being told that her blood counts were good for her, and she was getting shots to try and bring the red blood cell count up, but it was still going down slowly as were the others. To make the long, difficult story short, after a trip to ER last Saturday, I got her into Dr. Lee yesterday. (We were not to see him for three more weeks.) He believes that all of the activity the last two and a half weeks has to do with the bone marrow and the MDS/AML. So, today she is to get two units of blood (the first she has had since January) and tomorrow Dr. Lee will do another bone marrow biopsy in his office in Indianapolis, to see exactly what is going on there. If we find that he is right about the MDS/AML then we will have to make some treatment decisions much sooner than expected. The original estimated time table was that we would probably not be to this point until Fall. In the mean time, it is hoped that the blood today will help her to feel better - Praise the Lord! - but in the mean time we have had a real experience of what MDS/AML can be like and do to a person.
What a servant and child of God Marty is! Through all of the past few weeks she has remained a “Martha”. Praise the Lord! She has not missed worship and sang in the choir until last week, when she just didn’t have the energy. She is on the Session and has attended the monthly meetings and has had a couple meetings of her Team. She is trying to get the Team work done before Fall when she figured she may not be able to do it. She has fixed some food to share with others and kept my stomach plenty full. She has her flower garden and tomato patch all planted and waters them about every other day. (When God doesn’t do it for her!) With God’s help she just keeps going, and going, and going! Praise the Lord! I don’t know how she does it. But, she has been doing it for years. Thank you God!
I praise and thank God that as of Saturday, June 2nd Marty and I will have been married for 40 years. Praise the Lord! What a blessing it has been to spend that much time with such a wonderful child of God’s, wife, mother, friend and co-laborer in the Lord’s work. I really feel blessed and thankful. A number of times over the years I have been asked if I realize how lucky I am to have a wife like Marty. And of course, I have answered that no one knows better than me, just how blessed I have been and will continue to be. Praise the Lord! I have no doubt that God brought us together and has been a very important part of our lives and our marriage. God has gotten us through some real difficult challenges over the years, to be glorified in the end, and God will do it again now. Praise the Lord! God is good – all the time. All the time – God is good!
Now that we have some information and direction I will try to keep you informed a little better and a little more often. We certainly do appreciate your support and prayers – thank you all so much.
Have a positive day and God bless.
Marty and Jack
John 3:16
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