It has been a long 17 days since surgery. We praise God that the surgeon was able to get everything and we praise God for the rapid healing that Julie experienced through the point of being discharged 10 days ago. However, we have had some setbacks since getting home. She developed a UTI and was… Read More
Julie continued to stay ahead of schedule on her recovery of the surgery so she was discharged this afternoon and we are home at her cousin’s in Jacksonville. She is scheduled to return next Friday (13th) to have the staples removed as well as to receive some immunizations required now that she doesn’t have a… Read More
Throughout the day of surgery and the first couple of days afterwards I was posting updates on Facebook, but I realized today that the Facebook prioritization system caused many of you to miss some of the updates. Therefore, so everybody is up to date I will provide a total summary here from the day of… Read More
One of the hardest things I have ever faced in life is watching those that I love the most suffer. It is human nature to try to understand it, but it is so often not understandable. Sometimes we may get a glimpse of some of the reasons in the future, but often we never know.… Read More
This morning is when we were scheduled to have the PET scan and I know many of you are waiting on a report of the results. Late yesterday afternoon, after discussion with the Oncologist, we decided to postpone the PET scan from today to August 8th and postpone the port placement from 7/25 to 8/3.… Read More
Julie had her first treatment of Chemotherapy Friday morning as scheduled. Her body has responded well to it so far — we have no way of knowing yet how the cancer itself is responding yet. She has not experienced any major side effects yet, but Sunday is supposed to be the worse day. As of… Read More
After 18 hours on airplanes over a 26 hour period, we were all very glad to arrive in Jacksonville International Airport Last night at 9:17pm. Me, Julie, Zach, and Leighanne were ready to be home and sleep in our own beds, drink pure water, eat familiar foods, and see Austin and Jordan for the first… Read More
Praise the Lord we are home with our two new American Citizens! Ben
We are sitting at our gate in Hong Kong waiting to board our flight to Detroit any minute. For anyone who is interested…. our final leg of the flight is Delta Flight 735 from Atlanta to Jacksonville arriving in Jacksonville at 8:44pm. Ben
We arrived in Hong Kong this afternoon. We will eat an early breakfast in the morning, check out, and head across the parking lot to the airport for a 9:45am flight to Detroit. In just 12 hours we will be sitting on an airplane waiting for it to take off for our first of 3… Read More
