Holiday Greetings

Hope all of you had a very merry Christmas. Ours was nice and quiet. We stayed here in Cincinnati and just enjoyed the day. We had a Christmas Eve service at church that was very nice.

Morgan & her brothers opened all their gifts on Christmas Eve. I think Morgan & Jonathan went to bed about 4:00 am!!! They stayed up playing Xbox "Call of Duty". It's a WW2 game and it connects to the Internet so you can play other people. Morgan & Jonathan are addicted.

Morgan is doing very well. Her energy level has returned to normal and she seems to be feeling great. Her hair is beginning to make a come-back. Her head is covered with blonde peach fuzz again. Even her eyelashes are starting to grow in!!

Back home

Morgan's surgery went great. They actually started on her at 1:20 and were finished by 2:45. She was only in recovery for about 1 1/2 hrs. She did great. Today she is a little sore but actually feels pretty good. We may even do a little Christmas shopping this afternoon. Thanks for all the prayers.

Luke 2:16

So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.

Surgery tomorrow

Hello Friends,

Just a note to let you all know that Morgan will be having surgery tomorrow at 2:30 to remove her mediport. She is very excited about getting it taken out. We requested to have it removed by the same surgeon that put it in. She did a wonderful job and even removed some old scarring from the previous mediport site.

Morgan has been feeling well. Although, today she seems to have dark circles around her eyes. I sure hope her hemoglobin hasn't dropped. If it has, surgery will have to be rescheduled and I know that would be very disappointing for her.

She spends most of her time doing school work and she is just about to get caught up-----. I begged her to let me take a photo of her since it has been months since she allowed me to take one. So, this is what I got........

Good News!!

Morgan saw her oncologist today and he informed us that her scan was nice and clean. This is truly an answer to prayer. The very small "ditzle", as her doctor calls it, is still sitting there. He feels that if it were tumor it would be gone or growing and since it is doing neither he is of the mindset that it was never tumor. He is planning to rescan again in 8 weeks. Dr. Wagner also gave Morgan the option of removing her mediport within the next week or two or wait until after the next scan. Morgan has decided that she would like to have the mediport removed as soon as possible.

Morgan has come a long way since June 16 of this year, lots of highs and lows for sure. But at the end of the day what really matters is our faith. Faith in our Savior, faith in one another, and faith that no matter what tomorrow brings we can get through it.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.