February 17, 2008

We are home!

Sarah spent one night on the Oncology pediatric floor and was sent home. As soon as her lung x-ray came back clear, and the pain was under control with an oral medication, they said she was clear to be going home! Praise God! We are grateful to be home. The older three kiddos are still staying and "Ma and Pa's house" (Jen's parents...who have been great in taking care of the older kids), so that we can spend the night with just Sarah. As I type, Sarah is laying down on her mom in our bed. Being home is great medicine.

As we have said many, many times...thank you for your prayers! We feel them in very real ways as we fight for faith in our great Savior. As you pray, please lift up the little girl who was in the room next to us. Her name is MacKenzie. She was the sweet heart who made the crafts and pictures for our little Sarah. (see the pix) This was her second go around with a brain tumor. Her parents were a great support for us, and Jen and I have been praying for MacKenzie.




We will be back in out-patient pediatric oncology on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But for now, we are receiving being at home as a gift from God!
You can pray in the following ways for Sarah:
- The her Ataxic symptoms would dissipate. Although the doctors say this is unlikely, this is still our prayer. Sarah is still unable to walk, crawl, and even sit up on her own. Please pray that these abilities return.
- She would sleep and eat well, and regain strength before doing more tests next week.
- For McKenzie's healing

10 comments:

Briana Almengor said...

WOW!! Amazed and grateful that you all are home! Kids (we have found anyway) heal and do so much better at home. We will pray with you for all the things you mentioned as well as for McKenzie. Isn't it amazing to receive care from people in the hospital who seem to be so much worse off than you? I remember so distinctly receiving this kind of care the first time we walked through Hopkins' doors, and I have prayed that you would know this care as well; it was to me and I'm sure to you, a sign of GOd's nearness and ultimately of HIS care.
Will be praying for a very long, sweet night's rest for all of you tonight. Thanks again for taking time to keep us updated; I can imagine how exhausted you all are.

Jessica said...

Continuing to uphold you all in prayer...

I'm Kristen said...

We are praying, praying, praying and are so happy that you get to be home :) What a blessing!

Anonymous said...

so glad you guys can be at home we
continue to pray for you and Sarah!

Anonymous said...

Praying for your little girl...

Unknown said...

It was so good to be with you all yesterday. And it was SO wonderful to look into Sarah's beautiful eyes again. We will diligently pray for all of those abilities to return. How awesome it is that because we serve an awesome God, we can pray those awesome prayers. We will pray in faith on Sarah's behalf in the name of Christ. We are so glad that you are home now with her and that she will be able to be surrounded constantly by people who love her so much. But above all, she always has Jesus, who loves her the most of all and who is always with her...

Lisa @ Eat.Pray.Run. said...

So glad to know that you're in the comfort of your own home tonight. We'll continue to pray for Sarah, and now for McKenzie as well. Hope you'll all receive some much needed rest tonight.

DC said...

Praise God!

The Murphys said...

There's no place like home, and there's no one like Dad and Mom! We're continuing to pray.

Amy said...

So happy to hear your home. We've been praying, and so appreciate you taking the time to update.

Praying for healing that will astound the doctors!

the Fedelis