I don't know where to start with this posting, but I knew the title right away. Mike is doing so WELL! I am so encouraged. I just want to post the very real things going on right now and I hope that you can match them to our prayer requests over the past weeks:
1. Mike is no longer spitting phlegm up
2. Mike ate a jar of baby food yesterday - the whole jar. He has eaten another one today and wants to eat another jar with dinner.
3. Mike's blood count has held at 10.3 for 8 days now. That hasn't happened since we started keeping track of it back in October.
4. Mike's White Blood Count is back in the normal range
5. Mike has more energy. He walked the entire 4th floor
6. Mike has slept in a reclining position at night for 2 nights now. He hasn't slept in a reclining position since late September.
7. Mike has not taken extra oral pain medication in days now. The patches he is wearing seem to completely control the pain.
8. Mike's swelling in his legs is gone. That probably has to do with the sleeping position, but it is good.
9. Mike is drinking more - He still needs to drink more, but he is drinking more than he used to.
These are all real, tangible miracles. It is always a day at a time, but praise God that He is giving us this visible signs of His known presence with us in this journey.
Mike has started to lose his hair in clumps and it is thinning. We will probably break out the shaver sometime soon. It doesn't bother either of us. We will post a picture once he is bald!
I want to ask, actually to call on everyone to continue to pray for Mike even more. I have been praying for a Christmas miracle and by the list above, I feel that He is already answering our prayers. Please pray that we can be home for Christmas!
Prayer requests:
Home for Christmas
God to remove the Cancer from Mike's body
Health for Elizabeth and I
To serve God more fervently
Patience with Doctors and their pace
God to build on the improvements that we see in Mike
Mike to Drink and Eat more - nutrition for mind, body and soul
A Miraculous Christmas Healing!
6 comments:
I was thinking about and praying for you all earlier today. I am so glad to come here and read such encouraging news! It is really good to hear that Mike is more comfortable in eating, sleeping, and basic living.
Elizabeth's photo is so beautiful. What a lovely young lady she's becoming!
Continuing to pray...
-Lisa
Such GREAT news!!!! Very encouraging! Thank you for sharing all along the way. The times you have mentioned how much God loves Mike has encouraged me to remember how much God loves me and all His children. God is using you. Thank YOU!
Donna Jordan
Glory to God! What great news! Thank you for such a wonderful Christmas present. We'll keep praying! We love you all!
Doug & Dena
Only an hour until midnight and Christmas eve will begin here in the UK -- right now we're praying for your Christmas miracle and that the morning brings you GOOD NEWS about being home for Christmas. Thanking God for His son and your witness for Him.
Kathleen
PS We love seeing Elizabeth smiling on your post every day when I check it -- what a GORGEOUS girl Elizabeth has become -- beautiful inside and out -- thanks for posting that lovely picture of your own little angel!
PRAISE GOD!!! So full of joy to hear all this good news, Deanna. Our prayers are with you, and may God bless you all exceedingly abundantly above all you could ever ask or think...for His glory, in Jesus' name. Amen. Love, Lynnette
We are rejoicing with you!! Love, the Armes
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