Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.
Everything is uncovered and laid bare
before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Hebrews 4:13 (NIV)
Todd Lee said Mr. Buster Lee has been found to not have a blood clot and is doing well. Thank you for your continued prayers for Mr. Lee and his family.
Carl Wayne Stevens will be seeing doctors today to set up a treatment plan. Pray for the family today. It doesn’t hurt to have several doctors in the family who know how to ask the right questions.
Ronald Putman is doing much better. He may be about to come home in about three months. Pray for his family during this long hospital stay.
David Gullota is doing a little better this week. Pray this continues.
Update on Don Denton:
Let it Snow……
Today reminded Joshua and I of being up at Mayo. The most beautiful snow came today. About 5pm this evening I looked at Joshua and said. Lets go play. We put our layers on and took our sleds out, shovels and trucks. We played till it turned dark.
I want to thank Nancy B. who has suggested the Concert of Prayer for our family. Please see the previous posting for date and time. I believe in the power of prayer and we need it. Don continues to improve physically. His dizziness does not improve. He actually is working in physical therapy with his physical therapist trying to push through the most difficult exercises to do with balance.
WE have a praise as well. Don took his first steps walking between the balance bars in PT on his own. He was able to walk a few feet without the help of any support. It is a difficult thing to have to learn how to walk again.
Don has more doctor appointments this week and next week. He will have another “lumbar puncture” at Cox South on Tuesday Feb. 3rd. He will be there all day. If all goes well he will get to come home that afternoon late.
He has set goals to start going into the office a few hours a day a few days a week. We have to get new glasses for him as his vision has changed and he still has double vision in the peripheral range of view. With the double vision getting better, we have discovered that his eye sight has gotten a little worse. He has a tough time reading. The good thing is that it can be corrected.
Please pray for the following:
- Don’s test go well this next Tuesday.
- His dizziness improves.
- Pray that Josh can begin to sleep through the night. He still is waking up in tears and fearful every night.
- This is very insignificant, but pray that our dishwasher will be fixed soon, because of the smoke and small fire, the company has decided to replace it, but it will take longer.
- It would be wonderful if I could just get one good nights sleep.
I wish I could name every name of every person who has touched our lives. I would shout it from the mountain top for all to know how precious you all are to us. God continues to show us His amazing love for us through you all. Your words spoken to us are a healing balm to our souls. I find myself holding onto your words of hope and going back to reread them. Your acts of kindness have been a model of who Christ is to His people when one is hurting, and our son Joshua witnesses this as well.
One thing I have not really shared with you all is that Don’s employer, his peers, the staff, co-workers and students continue to bless us. They continue to reach out to us and pray for us. I have worked in the secular world myself. For me to witness what a christian employer does different from the secular employer is awesome.
The precious students at SBU have ministered to us and reached out to us and continue to pray for us. WE truly have seen God’s amazing love through this very difficult time in our life. The acts of kindness toward us and understanding and support from the University has been overwhelming and we experience Gods love and power through them. We are so blessed to be a part of SBU. The leadership, the wisdom, the grace and care we have received from them has helped me not to worry about how we are going to get through this. We can see a light at the end of the tunnel. Our goal is for Don to get back to the classroom. I invision him doing that and I can invision a time were we as a family can thank SBU as well.
Please continue to pray for my sister in law – Lynn. She is currently being treated for her 4th bout with cancer. Pray that the drugs they are using will do what the doctors want them to.
We will know in the next several weeks whether the steroids Don is taking is working as well. I will update you all on any changes.
Bless you our family and friends. God be with you!
Diane
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