Finally some good news!

Angela and I took my mom to the doctor today and we got some good news. We met with the nurse practitioner, who was wonderful, she answered all of our questions and really showed some compassion for mom. It made us feel very good.

The good news was:

• The biopsy came back negative for cancer
• Mom is feeling better already since she finished her 2 antibiotics Monday.
• She can get back on a regular diet.
• She only has to take 1 pill a day for her acid reflux, and 1 for regularity
• We ate at the Nutcracker in Pataskala for dinner and she ate very good. (By the way, the food there was very good, it is decorated like a 50's diner, very cool)
• Lower the bed back down to level (see below why this is a good thing)

She asked me to thank everyone who had been praying for her, she feel like she has turned the corner.

Tuesday she has an appointment with an orthopedic doctor to look at her shoulder. We are taking her to the same doctor who treated my ankle and Brandon's shoulder.

Going through this reminds me of the whole parent child relationship. When kids are little the parents take care of them, help them understand things and make sure things work out. As you get older, the roles reverse. I can see that through this time. It makes my glad we moved back from TN for things like this.

There were a couple of funny moments in this whole ordeal. The Doctor told my parents to raise the head of mom's bed by 6 inches to help with the acid reflux. Well the first night she slept in the raised bed, she slid off the foot of the bed!! Too high, so they lowered it a little.

Other funny thing was that when she would take a shower, my dad had to sit on the toilet with 3 towels for her. She has lost a lot of weight and wanted the towels right away because she was so cold!!

Union University Video

We used to live about a mile from here. God was with them all that night!

Valentines Day

Well today is the Great Day! My mom calls it Valentimes Day, but it is a day where we show our love for our spouses.

Angela got me a card that says,

"When you've been married as long as we have, you learn to accept the other person's faults."

Open it up and you see, "You'll understand this if I develop some." Ha! Ha!

I also got my favorite candy from the Goumas family candy store, Rocky Road! It is 3 large marshmellows, placed next to each other, round part facing up, with pecans on top, covered with chocolate! That is 1 piece of candy, so I got 4 of those! And she even had to wait outside in line to get in!

I am very "Lucky" and blessed to married to this wonderful woman.

Which is a running joke between us. Several years ago, someone in the choir told me I had a new nickname which was "Lucky", because I was "Lucky" to be married to the piano player, Angela.

So, I found the perfect card for Angela. She loves the late great Barry White, so I found a card that when you open it, it has recording of Barry singing, "I Can't get enough of your love baby!"

BIG HIT, went over very well, I was the hero.

We are celebrating tonight with a pizza from Bruno's where we ate on our wedding night! It was one of our favorite places when we were dating.

But I am very lucky to have a wife that loves me, is a great mother to her sons, a great aunt to her nieces and nephews, and a great person.

Her love for her family amazes me, she is always willing to watch this one or feed that one, and misses them when they are not around. So on this special day I just wanted to give this special person a special message:

I LOVE YOU!

crazy weather

In case you have been under a rock the weather outside of Ohio has been really crazy the last 2 days.

It started with tornadoes in Memphis, TN where Tyler lives. He is fine but there is much damage to parts of Memphis we used to visit when we lived in TN.

When the boys were smaller, we used to visit the Hickory Ridge Mall. It had a large carousel in the middle that they liked to ride. It was damaged severly by a tornado, with lots of damage in the area around it. Tyler is Ok and his school actually was in session today.

Just east of there is Jackson, TN where we lived for 10 years. Our house was very close to Union University where a tornado hit and damaged the dorms. They said about 1,800 students were homeless as a result, but the local churches were stepping in with food and shelter. Union is a SBC College and Southern Baptists take care of their own.

Also talked to some freinds who live in Jackson and they have been without power since the storm hit, with no idea when it will be restored. I called Tennalum where I used to work, and they had no damage, but a few of the peope I used to work with had minor injuries. They were coming out of a resturant next to Union right when the storm hit. Their cars had major damage but they had minor injuries.

As I write this, I am in Chicago and they have had over a foot of snow today and it is still snowing. Expected to get up to 6 more inches tonight. I made it back to the hotel, but it took about 2 hours to go 10 miles. Not sure if the meetings tomorrow will happen because others were flying in from Columbus and Canada, so it will be interesting to see if they make it to Chicago. Angela said it still warm and rainy in Newark.

So, please PRAY for all those affected by the tornadoes, some lost their lives, others were injuried, so pray that God will comfort the families of those suffering.

PRAY for safety for those trying to get home tonight in Chicago.

PRAY for the Kenya team if they left today, sounds like things are not getting better in Kenya, but God will protect His Children!!!

PRAY for my mom, she continues to get weaker and has lost 30 pounds in about a month, still waiting for test results.