Friday, January 29, 2010

Count Your Blessings

Here are mine:

1. Ryan and Aubrey

2. My parents, Sandy, Diana, and Shannon for selflessly watching Aubrey so much this week.

3. The staff at CTC for their support of us. We are incredibly grateful to whomever gave the money to cover our lack of insurance costs! We are thankful that Ryan can have a computer to use to keep in touch with his students. We are thankful that we had such a great time scratching off lottery tickets tonight - we only did half of them, but we won $25 so far!

4. Everybody who emailed me and offered to help, I will get back to you when I know what I need.

5. A doctor who is real enough to be able to say that God is truly the Great Physician and pray for us.

6. Ryan's body responding to the chemo so quickly, white count is down to 12,000 today and there are no blasts (that's something that signals cancer, but I don't know really what they are) in his blood today.

7. Dr. Marinella removed some of his antibiotics so Ryan doesn't have so much stuff hanging on his IV pump.

8. Clean dishes, clean laundry, a warm house, and comfortable bed.

God is good, all the time.
-A

4 comments:

  1. well put. thinking and praying for you often.

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  2. I admire your strength, April. Praying that God continues to send you and Ryan everything you need to beat this!

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  3. #5 - that is great...they're all great...but in today's world, that is especially great.

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  4. We are keeping you, and everyone in our prayers. If you need anything, let us know. Jay has Ryan on his mind all the time. Gary and Denise Heitkamp

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