Happy New Year - 2012!

Good morning to all of you!

I know it's time for me to get on my blog. A new goal for 2012! I will be on once a month. I have wanted to write every week. December was full of Jud and Melissa's wedding, all our kids came home for it, of course and then Christmas came 2 days later. It was wonderful to have our house filled with "home."

My health has been up and down. New Year's Eve I was not feeling well. I could not talk. Calvin took me to the hospital. I was there almost 3 days. A great way to bring in the New Year. My nasty tumor, I have given the name "Charlie", had my brain inflamed everywhere and was causing it to bleed. My doctor in town was on call. He came up to the hospital, very concerned. He wanted to put us a helicopter and have brain surgury the next morning in SEATTLE. Calvin explained that we were doing some other treatments that was most likly causing my problems. He wasn't a fan of all this but that's alright. He wanted all the details. Calvin told him that it was not approved by the FDA. I told him that when you are fighting for your life you have to hit all the options. I don't think the medical doctors are use to or happy with people making their own decisions. They gave me 6 weeks. I just hit my 2 and half years last Wednesday.......thanks to our Heavenly Father. He has continued to bless and answer all our prayers.

Calvin and I went to Seattle to talk to Dr. Rockhill. He is the specialists over Radiation, Chemo. and my Gamma Knife. Dr. Chamberlin is the brain surgene. (I know all my spelling is not right, but this takes a while for me to type.) Dr. Chamberlin told me that he thought I was doing pretty good and no surgery now anyway. It would most likly give me a stroke or take away my speech and reading paths. They do the surgury while you are awake so you can answer their questions on what places they are cutting out are responding. We left Seattle happy and blessed to know it all well as good as expected. I am not a fan of steriods but see how they help. I was on a big dose for 11 days, down to 3 for 3 days and now on 2 a day. I will most likly stay on them off and on evey 2 weeks until the sweeling and bleeding in the scans are better. When they showed us the scans on Wednesday, I could not believe how clear my brain looked! It has very little white tumurs everywhere. I wanted to cry! It you do that, the doctors think you are in depression! Some days I am! Don"t go back for 2 months!!!!

No snow in Wenatchee. We need some! I have decided to keep my Christmas decorations up all year! They are alot of works for me to put up...expecially alone. They make me happy and fill my house up. What will everyone say now? I have very little company out here anyway so I think the noution of my craziness will not matter.

Time to get some laundry going. I thank you for all your cards, prayers that I continue to feel in my brain and heart. Also from those of you who deliver my oxygen water. Also my beautiful qoutes you leave in my living room with your visits. You are loved!

Oh, May My Soul Commune with Thee - Hymn

Oh, may my soul commune with thee
And find thy holy peace;
From worldly care and pain of fear,
Please bring me sweet release.

Oh, bless me when I worship thee
To keep my heart in tune,
That I may hear thy still, small voice,
And, thy sweet spirit find.

Lord, grant me thy abiding Love
And make my turmoil cease.
Oh, may my soul commune with thee
And find thy holy peace.

HAVE A WONDERFUL MONTH!