I'm back!!!!

Well I'm so happy to be back!!!  I cannot even wrap my head around all the good news we've received! We are just too excited! We are so thankful for God's provision. We can't even imagine who we'd without Him!

I'm feeling very well. I really don't think I could feel any better! I get pretty tired at night but have to be careful not to nap because then I can't sleep. I'm super annoyed with all the steroids, feel like my face is blowing up like a ballon! Oh well, guess we will just roll with it. I have my share of annoying side effects but they will go away eventually!

So whenever you are ready to schedule your next appointment with me I am ready! I'm excited to get back at it!

Love,
Jess

It Worked!!!!!  Thank you to everyone who said even the tiniest prayer. I think the prayers of children are the loudest. I know the Lord heard you because we asked for the pathology to be downgraded and to have no need for chemo.  Guess what, when you ask God for something he not only delivers, but delivers in abundance.  For now there will be no treatment whatsoever, and she can drive soon.  Apparently, there is some new information the scientists have discovered about how these things work.  Remember the 1P19Q chromosome thing, well there are two new things they look for.  She has both of them in the good way.  The Neurologist said that's a double positive.  We didn't even know we wanted that, HA!!!Pretty much anything that concerned her was alleviated today.  Hallelujah!  They said to come back in two months for an MRI and see what happens.  If nothing shows up then, they will move the MRI to every three months.  For now, she will go to bed without knowing she will feel like trash tomorrow from the treatment.  And with that every day is a blessing.  Mike

You can't keep her down.

How does she do it? The day we got home from Cleveland Jessie wanted to be wherever Luke was. Usually that is all over the place. He wanted to show us everything he'd done while we were gone. She followed him outside, then into his room, then back outside. I finally told her to sit down because she was making me nervous.  God must have personally fed her strength. A couple days later she went for a nice little walk of about four miles. She told me today she thought she could probably go back to work, but came to the conclusion that maybe she better not push it. I'm not sure most people have that kind of ambition without having gone through brain surgery. If we can learn anything from this situation its this, don't wait to live your life fully and joyously, the way the Lord intended you to. I've seen more genuine smiles and heard more real laughter from her these last two weeks than you can imagine. Why do healthy people spend so much energy worrying about things that really don't matter. Stop complaining and start spreading His joy instead. This world is a better place because of people like Jessie. We return to Cleveland on the eighth to get the stitches out and to determine the next form of treatment. Pray for the pathology to be good and that she won't need chemo again. .