Update on Ron

Today I had to have my Avastan and while I was getting it, one of the nurses ask us how he was doing. We hadn't really heard. Barry went up to see him and he was being put on life support. He said there was so much activity in that room, as you can imagine. Apparently one of his lungs collapsed and because of his condition they decided to put him on life support. Carolyn is a mess, who wouldn't be? They have been going through this for 3 years now. I don't believe it has been this severe, as far as life support.

While I was sitting getting the medicine, Ron's sister walked in my room. She is exhausted with the whole thing too. She is the one that gave him the bone marrow transplant. They are also going to put him on dialysis when he is able.

She looked at me today and said I can't do this again. I lost my sister, my brother and my dad because of sugar and dialysis. Please pray for her too, if you don't mind.

If you would like to send them a word of encouragement please email me and I will give you their address. realbusygranny@yahoo.com Please put in the subject line: Ron or address in case I don't know who you are.

Thank you all so much for caring. God bless. Love you!

Love and appreciate you so very, very much.

"Little" Miracles - Is There Any Such Thing?

I guess we have to figure that out for ourselves. For me, EVERYTHING is huge. I had been looking for a book called Healed of Cancer by Dodie Osteen. It is out of print and even when I called Lakewood, they didn't have it.

When we went to dinner with Mary Ann and George, she had breast cancer, I believe it was 9 years ago now. She is completely cancer free. Thank you, Jesus. Anyway, we discussed the book and she said that she used that book constantly. She thought she might have one somewhere.

Monday around noon or so, I was sitting at the table eating and it was bright and sunny outside. Had all of the blinds up and the front door open. I saw Pazzetta coming up my walk way. I was expecting her. She was very surprised that I knew she was coming. I was so not surprised. She lost my phone number and didn't really know exactly where we lived. She had been here a few times but just was unsure where we lived.

Anyway, guess what she brought me? Healed of Cancer by Dodie Osteen. I opened the bag and started crying. I told her that this is a miracle...and explained the story to her. She said she had never heard of the book before but felt in her Spirit to pick it up. Isn't God so good to me?

As soon as she left I read the entire little book and it has helped me SO much!

Thank you Pazzetta for listening and thank you Holy Spirit for speaking!

The "T" Man

Gracie

Bella

The "T" Man

Bear has been working 12 hours a day for the last little while. He wanted to go to breakfast when he got off today at 11. We started going to breakfast and he said you want to pick up "T" man today? I said sure. Kate was with her dad's family this weekend.


When Bear called Am, T was so happy to go. Sure I'm hungry he said. We picked him up and he was just the best. We had such a good time with him. He told his gramps that he wanted to come home with us but Bear told him that he had to go to bed cause he had to get up for work by 6 pm. It was near 1:00 by then.


He then asked me if he could stay with me and I told him I thought I might go shopping, however, I wore out before we got home.


We took him to the drug store with us and they had remote cars there. He was happy to go show his dad what he got. He is such a doll!


After we took him home, our niece Danielle, came to get him and Bella, along with Gracie to go to the park. It was a beautiful day today.


Anyway, apparently at the park some girls were making fun of Gracie. These little ones were about 5 and had NO parents with them.


Tristin is such a protector...like his dad...remember him and Gracie are both only 3. Doesn't that seem young to be a protector like that? Tristin apparently picked up a tree branch and started chasing the girls with it. He was pretty mad I guess.

Breakfast Yesterday!

Yesterday, one of Bear's cousins called and we decided to go out to breakfast. She and her husband and daughter and son-in-law were all going to join us. Bear has one aunt and uncle that has 5 kids and now their kids have kids and so on. It is a wonderful family and I am so glad that I am part of it.

Anyway when we got there all of the older kids were there. It was such a nice surprise I could hardly believe it. We all love each other so much but just don't hardly get together. Everyone has their own family and grandchildren and when we all did get together the last time there were well over 100 of us. We had to rent a hall.

We decided that we will do this breakfast once a month. It could definitely grow with each month. What a fun time we had. We laughed alot and just had a great time. Thank you Lord for a great family!

Update Again!

I didn't really mention much in the blog yesterday about the problem accessing my port. They just couldn't get ANY blood to come out. It has never happened before and so they gave me two different viles of medicine. It is call TPA to dissolve any blood clots or any sheeting around the port. They told me if I didn't have a blood flow today that I would have to have a test to see what was going on with the port, and most likely they would have to take the port out and put a new one in. Thank God the blood return was great today. I didn't have to have any other thing except the anti-body. Isn't God good?

When we got there one of the ladies came and told us that Ronnie was in total renal failure (kidney) and that it wasn't looking good for him. Bear went up to pray for him while I took the medicine. There was a doctor up there and so Bear told them he would come back. He went back in a little while and our Dr. had been there. Apparently another doctor had been over medicating him. Our Dr. took him right off of it. Bear said Ronnie was much better today. Thank the Lord.

Barry had decided that he needed to know about their salvation so he ask both Ron and Carolyn about their souls. They said that they had made their peace with God and all was well with their souls. Bear told him he wouldn't be a very good friend if he didn't ask. They seemed grateful.

Please keep them in prayer, they have been through so much...we want and expect life for him too!

Good News!

Once again, I am so amazed at the love of God in my life.

Today I had to go to the cancer center to have my last radiation treatment. There were 15 total. When I got there, they said you won't ever have to wear this mask again...good thing..the steroids were making it very tight. When I got up off of the table they presented me with certificate that said go and have some fun now that you don't have to be here everyday. You know, sometimes its the little things that count so much.

Then I had to have my blood tested so that tomorrow I can get the anti-body again. One of the most special ladies at the Cancer Center came to me to tell me that our friend, Ron, was back in the hospital. She really wasn't supposed to but she knows we are good friends with them. Immediately Barry wanted to go pray. We aren't sure of this man's soul. He grew up in church, but we're not sure about his salvation. He is having a very hard time breathing.

They had a hard time getting a blood return on me, and as yet, still haven't gotten it through the port, so one of the nurses told me to go up to see him if we wanted to.

When we got up there, the nurses were all friendly asking us just what we were doing and we told them we were going to visit Ronnie. When we got in his room, we told him and his wife that we would not be staying there long. We just came to pray and encourage them. We prayed and Carolyn said that she felt so much better. She needed it.

We told her that we would leave now and she asked us if we had seen Dr. Momin. We said no. She said he just left their room. When we got to the nurses station we could hear his voice. He seemed shocked for just a minute, then he said to me...I had forgotten how good you could look. Then he looked at Barry and said, see, didn't I tell you she was gonna be alright?

Talk about encouraging words! He could have easily said nothing or something negative.

Then, I think I have said this before on my blog, but if not, here goes. God help us to do something today that will impact eternity.

Talking with Dr. Momin, was my very favorite nurse Katie. I also think I mentioned that she is 26 and our daughter, Amber, is 26 too. Both of them are very sweet and always smiling, so Katie kind of became like "a second daughter" to me.

The last time I was in the hospital Katie and her mom are both Oncology Nurses, but her Mom doesn't practice at Oakwood where I go, just Katie. Anyway, Katie came to me one day and said that her Mom was going for a breast biopsy and Katie was naturally worried. Barry and I asked her if we could pray for her and her Mom. She was thrilled. Apparently we were the only ones that asked her that question. She reached her sweet hands out and we prayed. The biopsy seemed to take forever to come back and by the time it did, I had been released from the hospital. I didn't think to give Katie my number or get hers, but I did plenty of praying and was very concerned.

Last week when I had to go to get my anti-body who was my nurse but Katie. Now I have never seen Katie anywhere but the 5th floor, so it was a great surprise and then she turned out to be my nurse. She told us the biopsy had turned out fine and thanked us many times for the prayer.

Today, however, for whatever reason...just a God thing, as Dr. Momin and Katie were at the nurses desk, Katie looked kind of surprised to see us there and then all of the sudden, she introduced us to her Mom. Her Mom got tears in her eyes and said thank you so much for praying for me. We believe we did impact eternity today...Dr. Momin was all smiles. He seemed happy that we had prayed and of course Katie and her Mom were ecstatic, as were we.

God always gives us opportunities to do something for Him if we will just look.

This morning I wanted blackberry pancakes and so we went to Cracker Barrel. We were sitting at our table by the window and I looked at Barry and said that little old man looks so lost. Barry said with tears running down his face, I have been praying for him. Now if you know Bear, you will know that he has such a tender heart that it is easy for him to cry..it's God coming out of him.

This morning I was putting on my make up and my phone rang. It was a friend that we haven't seen or heard from probably in at least 8 months. I answered and she asked if we would like to go to dinner. We accepted and had a wonderful time and she topped it off by giving us a loaf of Amish bread that she made this morning.

God is so good to us. I will ALWAYS be amazed at his goodness!

I Thessalonians 1:11 - 12 - Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Dinner Last Night

We were invited to dinner by our friends, Mary Ann and George last night. It was such a wonderful dinner. If you know Mary Ann, she laughs all of the time and it was great medicine for me. I came home telling Barry I need to laugh more. God is so good to me.

The food was very good but the Company was much better. I am so thankful for the variety of friends and family that care so much. It has been totally overwhelming.

Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family.

Proverbs 18:24 (The Message Bible)

Thank you Lord for so many friends!

He's Able

I just got a phone call from one of our former inmate ladies. She's been out of prison for probably 4 years now.

She said that "Papa" had put me on her mind and she wanted to know how I was doing. I told her that they have given me a death sentence, but that Jesus is still the Healer of my body. I told her that there is no need to give her any details because that would not glorify God. She agreed with me.

Then she started singing the song that the Lord put on her heart for me.

He's able. He's able. I know my Lord is able. I know my Lord is able to carry me through.
He's able. He's able. I know my Lord is able. I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

For He has healed the brokenhearted and He set the captive free. He made the lame to walk again and He caused the blind to see.

He's able. He's able. I know my Lord is able. I know my Lord is able to carry me through.
He's able. He's able. I know my Lord is able. I know my Lord is able to carry me through.


What a wonderful surprise that God would lay me on someone's heart that I haven't heard from in probably about a year. God is so full of surprises. I am so blessed!

It's Time!

1. It's time to thank the Lord for all He has done and is doing for me.
2. It's time to thank you for praying for our family throughout this crisis time.
3. It's time for us to know that God is really doing something so very special in our lives and get excited about it.
4. It's time to connect with old friends.
5. It's time for us to go gather the Harvest of Souls that are out there waiting for us.
6. It's time for us to minister the healing of Jesus Christ to people that are suffering.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; surely he bore our sorrows and joys and by his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 - and the words to the song.

Yesterday I had to get my blood tested and found out today that everything looked good. I went in today to get the chemo treatment and found out that I didn't have to have chemo for at least one month. Isn't that exciting? I have to have radiation until next Wednesday and believe that will be over at that time. God has been so good to me that I can hardly believe it! I am so thankful.

If you are one of the people that have brought food or had us over to your house for dinner, we thank you so much. It has been such a blessing to us. We appreciate it more than you could possibly know.

We are going to attempt to get my strength back a little now too and I am going to try to start cooking a little and working around the house. What a blessing that is. I am still not as strong as I want to be, but I will be there!

Hudsyn

Am just called and Hudsyn's cultures came back negative. Thank you Jesus and thank you all for your prayers!

Hudsyn Again

Am called last night and said that the cultures still wouldn't be back until around 6pm tonight. She threw up one more time and that kind of concerned the medical staff. Otherwise she is doing great.

We will update as soon as we know something else.

STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!

Love you all!

Hudsyn's 2nd update

Am called a little bit ago and told us that Hudsyn is now eating very good. She is taking 4 ounces every 3 hours. She is resting well. They are waiting for the cultures regarding meningitis to come back which should be about 6 pm tomorrow. Apparently they were checking for several different things.

They said it could just be a virus. We are believing for it to be nothing! God is good. STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!

Hudsyn's latest update

Chad and Am just called and they have to leave her at the hospital for 48 hours from 7:00 pm tonight. They would not even let either of them stay with her. They did a spinal tap and are rehydrating her. They did say that it could be something simple. We are standing on God's Word for complete healing for her and believe God will bring it to pass soon. Will update little blubs like this as soon as we know more.

Alao, we have another prayer request if you don't mind. One of our former church families moved to Atlanta a few months back. We got a call today that Ray had a terrible heart attack. The doctor told Marcie that he needs a miracle. He is in a coma and not responding to anyone or anything. Please ask God for that miracle for this family too. Thank you all again.

Hudsyn Again!

We need to have prayer for Hudsyn. They just called and have taken her to children's hospital downtown Detroit. They say she is dehydrated and are going to check for spinal meningitis. Please pray for her and the rest of our family. We are SO sick of all of this. BY HIS STRIPES!!!!!!!! Indeed!

This Weekend

After radiation on Friday Barry and I took off for parts unknown. We like doing that, but it has been a long time since I was able to, so it felt so good. He had four days off and it was the 1st time we could coordinate that and me not being in the hospital and feeling strong enough to go somewhere.

We were just gonna go to some Apple Orchards out toward Romeo, but when we got there, there just wasn't much there. We went to one of the parks out there and I have to say it was really hot and disappointing.

From there we decided to see how far it was to Port Huron to the Blue Water Bridge, we had never been there. It was so blue and so beautiful. If you are unfamiliar with this Bridge it separates America from Canada. We also have one in Detroit that separates the two countries.

We were getting ready to leave there when Barry's brother called and asked what we were doing. We told him and he told us to take a trip around the Thumb and since we weren't far, we did that too. Lots of lake property. Although we love looking at it, we wouldn't want to live on the water that much.

There were NO bathrooms anywhere, no little towns with Mickey D's or anything else. It was getting to be about 6:30 and we were getting hungry and tired.

We finally come to this town called Port Austin and our friend, Roberta, calls and knew just where we were. She told us about this little place to eat called "The Bank". Apparently it had been a bank at one time and they turned it into a restaurant. Just one of those little bonuses God gives us along the way. It was so quaint and it had excellent food.

At that point, I was hoping we could find a hotel, even though it wasn't in our plans to stay. We wound up having to buy stuff for the evening and next day. We stayed in Bad Axe. It was just a Holiday Inn Express, but oh, so comfortable. It was about 17 miles from the restaurant. Didn't take too long, just unfamiliar territory, but that was ok.

Saturday we decided that we weren't that far from Frankenmuth and went over there. We didn't do much shopping but I felt like going to a Yankee Candle shop and they had a lot of buy 1 get 1 free stuff, so Barry bought me an Am a little fall scene that holds candles and of course makes your house smell so good. Am and I both love fall things. He then proceeded to buy her a Harvest Candle. Nothing like it in the fall with the weather being 90 degrees...oh my!

Then we went down to buy Hudsyn her Christmas stocking at Bronner's. It is SO cute. She's so tiny!

Ok, Something's Been Bugging Me!

Tell me if I am out of line or acting ridiculous or what....

Last week we got a phone call from a friend that said her aunt died. She had brain cancer. According to her, this aunt and I were doing pretty much the same things with chemo and so on.

When I called her to give my sympathies, I asked what happened, maybe my ignorance, but she proceeded to tell me every little detail up to how she turned dark before dying. Hospice said...........and it was....not the Word says.

I have already talked to one of you about this and you said that I must not be with her. I can't afford for my spirit to get upset over this, but now it seems to keep happening. Should I have Barry talk to her???

Am I missing something here or would you expect these things to "weigh" on me.

Yesterday morning she called to tell Barry that another lady had passed from cancer that we knew pretty well.

Don't get me wrong, I feel really bad that these ladies passed. I would so much rather they were healed and I believed for healing for them.

I guess that I am just asking for some sensitivity to this whole mess here. I am standing strong, but I am still human.

Can anyone weigh in here on what you think.

Still make sure that you read my next post. God is doing some awesome things in MY life! Praise His Holy Name!

Radiation and some GOOD News!

I feel like Spider Man in that mask....only for a few minutes though.

I have now had 5 radiation treaments and so far, bless the Lord, I am doing fine. Today the Radiologist met with Bear and me and asked me a few questions, like how are you feeling, any side effects, etc. No pain.

He said to us that there are 3 tumors on my brain and he expects the smallest one to completely shrink. He only knows what he can know. I believe they will all be gone.

Friday night the Oncologist met with us (I just got out of the hospital yesterday after 2 weeks) and he told us when he sent me for the ultrasound of the tumors in my belly that the Euro-gynecologist actually had a panic attack when he saw the size of the tumors. I asked Bear did he think he was kidding when he said that. Bear didn't think he was kidding either. The Euro-G said that I needed to call another doctor in immediately to have surgery. My doctor said no surgery.

That is why he put me right in the hospital 2 1/2 weeks ago and gave me a constant infusion of chemo for 46 hours. That was tough. I was sick but the tumors did shrink and I am not in any pain.

Tomorrow after radiation at 10:15 I have to have another round of anti-body. I believe I will be home somewhere around 2:00 PM...HOPEFULLY! A lot of times it's the waiting game and it gets frustrating.

Anyway my understanding of all of this is that I have way outlived what they expected.

Whether or not you like him, I have been listening to some healing tapes during the night from Pastor Rod Parsley. They are called At The Cross. He takes me back go the Garden of Eden and how there was never supposed to be sickness in this world. It was a perfect world when God created it and then of course...Adam and Eve or it could have been Bear & Arlene...that would be a tough one to have hanging over you for eternity.

Anyway, these messages have been so simple, just the plain gospel. They have ministered over and over to me. I told Bear I will never be the same.

Pastor Parsley said why do you want to wait until you go to Heaven to be healed...there's no sickness there anyway? Makes sense to me. He also said don't get in the middle of this fight and give up...I'm on the brink of a miracle! I can't give up now! God is so good to me.

Bear and I were sitting at dinner tonight and my phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number and sometimes I don't answer those until I get a message. I just picked it up and could not believe who was on the other end of the phone. It was a Bible College Student from Pastor Parsley's. He said he was just calling to thank us for the support and asked if I had any prayer requests.

I told him that I had been diagnosed with cancer (I never say I have cancer, it doesn't own me). I told him how I had been listening and so very blessed by what Pastor Parsley had to say...just the simple Gospel and how much it means to me. He prayed for me...I gave him a few good tidbits from the doctor and he said he was writing them down as we spoke. When he was finished he didn't ask for a donation or anything just prayed, wrote and hung up.

I have to say we have supported Pastor Parsley for a good while now and NEVER have I had them call me just to pray. This was the perfect day.

I wanted to update and am finally able to work my fingers again pretty good.

The physical therapist was so pleased with how I was walking up and down the stairs that she said she doesn't need to see me anymore.

I am looking for all of the good news that can possibly come out of this thing yet. I know that God has a work for us to do together and I'm not about to give up or in to the devil.

I told the College Student that I am beginning to put the testimony together of everything God is and has done and I would email it to them as the progression keeps getting better. He said please do.

We feel that this is something people need to hear...it's not just something we need to or can keep to ourselves. I do believe if I kept this to myself, God would not be happy with me. He's done so much for me, how could or why would I want to keep it? People need to know that God is MY healer!

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your prayers. I am very strong MOST of the time, but there are times, I just need to know someone is praying. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for all of the cards, flowers, dinners, gifts and emails. You could never, ever know how much they mean to me.

I have begun to make a list of everyone that I know is praying for me and pray for you too. I am sure I am so consumed with what is going on here that sometimes I don't pray for you like I should.

We have some friends at "The River" in North Carolina and we were listening to their streaming faith video and they ministered tremendously to us also. We are so blessed to be living in this day and age.

Looking forward to blogging with you for many, many years to come, Healed, Whole and Proclaiming Jesus to the World!

New Baby

Gramps (Bear) & Hudsyn
L to R - Tristin, Dad, Bella, Kaitlynne, Hudsyn & Amber
Hudsyn & Granny (Me)

I had asked Pat to kind of update you guys on what is going on with us. Life has changed and our family has enlarged. I am so blessed to be able to be here for this very important milestone. Hudsyn LaRen Fultz arrived here on Friday evening @ 10:14 pm. She weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz. She is precious, of course.

Since I was already in the hospital, I asked the doctor to write out orders that I could be at the delivery..he did. It was only 5 hours from beginning to end.

The previous Monday I got out of the hospital and I began experiencing weakness in my left leg, so that I would have to pick it up to go down my steps. Barry called the doctor and sent me in through ER. They discovered brain tumors...not exactly what you want to hear. They said multiple. Perhaps I am the eternal optimist but when I hear multiple, I was thinking lots and lots. Of course, one is too many! There were only 3. I was put right back in the hospital and radiation began on Thursday. The tumors have already begun to shrink in the brain. I will have another 11 radiation treatments to the brain but he expects them to shrink especially with the other medicine that he is giving me. I, on the other hand, expect them to shrink and be completely gone. He can only know what he knows. He sees from the medical perspective, where I am looking through God's perspective.

There is much more to say, but it takes me a long time to type right now. I have to get the dexterity back in my hand. The Physical Therapist met with me today and said that my foot is doing so well that she won't need to meet with me anymore. Thank the Lord!

Remember: BY HIS STRIPES!!!!

Thank you all for your prayers. We surely can't pay for them and only Eternity will tell the tale. God bless. Love you all!