It's been a long week...

So if none of this makes sense, you'll know why. We, our entire family have been spending day and night at the ICU waiting room.

My mom, the crazy woman that I sometimes write about here is very sick. For the last couple of weeks she had been sick off and on.
Last week I took her to the ER, then she was sent over to the hospital where surgery was done at 12:51am. What they found was a tumor that had been causing blockage in her intestines.
Early Monday morning of this week to many things came together to cause trouble for mom.

1) ARDS Adult Respiratory Disorder Syndrome
2)Sepsis-Sepsis is a serious medical condition characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state (called a systemic inflammatory response syndrome or SIRS) caused by infection.[1][2] The body may develop this inflammatory response to microbes or their toxins in the blood or tissues. The related layman's term is blood poisoning.
3)The tumor they found is cancerous. Don't ask me what kind, all I know its a very rapid cancer.

Even if Mom were to get through the ARDS the Onocologist only gave her 6 months.
In other words...Mom needs a miracle.

I know without a shadow of a doubt that God can deliver her from ALL of this. I am praying that it is His will is to do that, but I don't know his will. I also know that you can't make deals with God. But your mind always goes in that direction.

All of this hasn't just affected me. Mom has many cousins who have sat with us in the waiting room, helped out by staying the night so that we could go home and get some sleep, brought food, snacks, candy or whatever we needed or wanted. For that, we will be forever grateful!

This is the first time that my sisters and I have actually been together in the same vicinity since our big blow up. So far one of them will not look me in the eye. I am trying to show her the love of God and I believe she may have seen that when our church family came up there and stayed until 3:30-4:00am in the morning with us.

I pray that God will heal Mom and somehow use this to bring our family closer together. Because if Mom leaves us then all we have is each other.

Big Day for Little Girl

It's not the first day of school instead it's the first day of a 2 day church camp. My little girl is staying at a camp with some of her little girl friends. Thank goodness it's only about 10 minutes from the house in case we get a call in the middle of the night!

This is the first time she has stayed away at a camp without her parents. I'm praying that things will go good for her. Remember this camp only last until Saturday around noon.

Please Lord, don't let her fall off the top bunk!!! She's hard headed but it's a tall bunk bed!!!

I'm not sure who's more nervous...Amanda or me.

I finally found some time to post some pictures from our family vacation! We had a fantastic time! And we didn't miss the Shamu show!! It's nice to get away from all of the hustle and bustle and stress but it's always good to come back home.

The rest of our pictures are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11736765@N00 if you want to check them out.

It's taken me days to be able to do this. Mike has worked from home and he takes up TOO much bandwidth!!