December 21st

REMISSION!   Praise the Lord!  That's what I was told today, that my cancer had responded very well to the radiation and I was in Remission.  God is so good, God is so faithful!  Praise the Lord!

So, we'll go to the hospital in the morning for my last treatment then head home for Christmas, we're so ready to be home.  It was hard today telling our nurses & therapists, "see you later" as one of them said.  We've made some lasting friendships here & will remember all of them with warm thoughts and loving memories.  God certainly sent us to a wonderful healing place and we're both so grateful!

We'll have to come back in February for a check-up with my Radiology Oncologist, hopefully the weather will cooperate, winter can be tough up here.

I'll make this short as I need to start packing everything up (that means this computer too)!  I didn't get my Christmas cards ready to mail so this is our Christmas wish for all of you.  That Christmas will bring families together & lots of joy in your hearts while you share time together and reflect on the birth of our Lord.  And that 2011 will bring blessings to you & yours!

Pray for a safe trip home and I'll still be posting, just not as often.  Thanks so much for the prayer covering that you've had over us.  I KNOW that is why my treatments have went so well.  I love you all!

Blessings............. Leon & Joyce

December 11th

WOW.................. things have really changed up here.  It's gotten so cold that our diesel truck wouldn't start so we decided that Leon would take the truck & trailer home since it's going to get below 0 this weekend and it's a good thing that we did because the water tanks were frozen when he tried to drain them before he left.  We're praying that nothing busts in the trailer when it starts to thaw out.  So, we're staying in the hospital's hotel that is really nice & we were able to get a room that we could keep Chloe with us, Praise the Lord!  I was sure sad to think that I would have to send her home.  He was only gone for about 36 hours and its a 14 hour trip one way, he said that he felt like he was trailer trucking again! 

I brought a  little Christmas tree with us so it's set up on the dresser so it looks a little like Christmas in our room.  But we've had about 5 inches of snow so far & they're expecting a lot more tonite!  YEAH!  We'll be out driving around to see the beautiful scenery..

We went on an outing that the hospital provided last weekend to Bethel College.  It was their annual Christmas concert, it was spectacular and honored our Lord in music & song!  Then they took all of us to a wonderful restaurant for dinner.  We are so blessed to be at such a wonderful facility that cares about the whole person and family.  They treat us like royality.

We're planning on going to a Christmas program at a local church tomorrow night providing we don't get snowed in.  What a wonderful time of year to hear all the good news about our Lord's birth!

I've had 7 treatments this trip, only 8 more to go!  We're counting the days until we can go home for good! Jody is going to have surgery on the 17th, we're SOOOOOO sad that we won't be there for her but we know that she is under our Father's care and trust that the doctor's hands are guided by our Lord!

We should be headed home on the 22nd, just in time for Christmas.

Praises:
***Leon was able to make it safely home & back to me
***Wonderful celebrations of Christmas
***treatments are easy so far
***NO ITCHING now!

Prayer Requests:
***Protection & healing for Jody as she goes thru this surgery & recovery
***my treatments will go on as scheduled so we can head home
***that God will be glorified thru all of this