What We Have Been Waiting For

DRUM ROLL PLEASE .....................................

Gary is finally coming home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He should be home by 3 PM Thursday afternoon. We are overjoyed and super excited! Jax talked about it all afternoon. He claps and jumps up and down and yells Daddy's coming home! Daddy's coming home!!

I went to the hospital today and gave Gary his final hospital shower and removed the hundreds of cards and posters that adorned Room 828. Todd and I got everything packed up and only a few vases and a basket and his going home clothes remain in his room.

It is hard to believe that he really is coming home! The doctors are pleased with his progress with pain management and we hope that the decreasing pain is a combination of the right drugs, the nerve block and the cancer dying out!

My friend Sam came to see me today and she brought her Bible and we discussed the story in Mark about the paralytic who was lowered down from the rafters by his friends just to see Jesus.
In many ways Gary is the paralytic man and everyone who has prayed for him and placed him at the threshhold of the Lord has truly lowered him through the roof just as it is told in Mark. You continue to gather around him and around our family and lift us up in your prayers and love us through this time. How blessed we are to have friends and family like all of you! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

All 3 boys are down & out. Nate got sick tonight and Jax is the only one who has eaten anything. Our poor boys. It is awful to feel yucky!

Little League Opening Day is Saturday and our snack bar is almost ready. So many people put in grueling hours to make sure everything is as perfect as it can be for our community. It is amazing what a small army of people can do who share the same goal. We are excited for Opening Day and even more excited that Gary will be there - wheelchair and all!

I have to get back to computer work so I must go.
Besides, I missed an episode of Millionaire Matchmaker and I need to catch up.

Pray that Gary comes home with no complications.
Pray that he is relaxed and ready for us to care for him.
Pray that the drugs stop making him jittery and tense and that his speech improves (he is stuttering a little from the methadone). Heavy duty pain meds are really awful drugs.
Pray that the boys feels better NOW!
Zach has a fever, vomiting, strep and scarlett fever and a double ear infection.
Nate has a high fever and nothing else - yet!
Jax has a high fever and is just not eating very much.

What is next I ask myself??? I pray that they don't vomit in the middle of the night! I do not do throw up!

Good Night and Sweet Dreams and Praise God Gary is coming home!
Lisa