December 4, 2009

Blessings to all our wonderful friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. We can’t begin to tell you how touched we were by the prayer service for Tim on Wednesday night. It was very humbling and encouraging. We know that God is hearing those prayers as we aren’t fearful, concerned yes, but for me not to be fearful is a very big thing so I know it is God and all of you praying for us.

We had a full day at UT Southwestern in Dallas today. Everything that happened was so beyond our expectations. One of the top neurosurgeons in the country has agreed to do the surgery – if the tumor is still there (keep praying that it will be gone) and his next best surgeon will also be involved to do the computer imaging. They both felt it is too risky to remove the full tumor as the chance for permanent paralysis of his right side is to great. They had already set up an appointment with a neuro oncologist at UT and she will be doing a scan with a high tech MRI (only 3 in the US) that will assist them in surgery and then follow up with chemo and radiation. God opened the doors for us to have the best of the best in both fields at a premier hospital. We had a chance to pray for 3 of them today and to share how blessed we are to have so many people praying for us. They agreed, as Debbie Roberts said, “they are the glove but God is the hand!” We are not sure yet if surgery will be next week but they are getting it scheduled as soon as possible.

Our daughters, Amy and Stacy, were able to be with us at the meetings and they were encouraged too by the quality of the doctors. Skip Jones blessed us as a chauffer-he was great!!!

Please pray too for Tim’s blood sugar and blood pressure to come down. Both are very high due to the steroids they have put him on and we think that is what is causing his vision problems etc.

Several other families at church are also dealing with very serious issues so pray that God will be doing some great healing works!!!

Trusting in Him and loving you all,

Janice and Tim