follow up

My daughter took her daughter to the DR on Monday for more testing and follow up from the testing on Friday. The Friday testing revealed markers for leukemia.

The DR told my daughter, "I don't know what we saw on Friday, but there is nothing here today."

Her potassium is still low, but vitamins or bananas will fix that.

We are ecstatic over here. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes and positive thoughts.

prayer request

I haven't been faithful to the blogging thing, doing more posting on facebook. I am finding myself these days more of the voyeur and less of the exhibitionist. What I share with y'all today is more of a prayer request than a post, but a post nonetheless. If you are a praying sort, I am asking for those prayers. If you are not, send whatever positive thoughts or energy you can muster in our direction.

My daughter, Audrey has a 7 year old daughter. Kyleigh is a bright energetic replica of her mom. She had blood work done today pursuant to some recurring headaches. The blood work came back showing high lymphocyte levels in her white blood cells, high creatine levels in her kidneys, and low potassium. The Dr's told her to bring Kyleigh back in on Monday for more testing, but are leaning toward leukemia. It is not a confirmed diagnosis. It is just where they are starting to look. However, as you can no doubt imagine, Audrey is extremely fearful.

I would appreciate your prayers. I know that the God we serve is a healer. I know the power of life and death, health and sickness are in His hands. As you pray this weekend, and as you pray at church this weekend, please include Kyleigh and Audrey and Adam in your prayers.

Thanking you in Christ,

Ron

Kyleigh with her Halloween pumpkin last year ..

A Journey

How do you measure a journey

Is it in the time captured

Is it in the number of steps

Both carefully measured

And haplessly carefree

Do you count it in the years

Or the months, or the weeks

Is it in the details of the day

Or in the broad strokes of time

Viewed and reviewed

Is it measured

In the seeds that are planted

Or in the crops that are harvested

Is it in the lasting effect

Or the immediate response

How do we know

When the journey is too short

Or tell when it is too long

For the journey is, simply,

From a beginning to an ending

When and where it began

Can be definitely pinpointed

But the end of the journey

Is never really known

As long as someone recalls

As long as the stories are told

As long as the memory holds

As long as the yearbook is read

And the bold signing beheld

The journey continues on

We will take you to a place of rest

We will sadly recall the past

We will recount the good times

We will measure them against the future

And some will think the journey has ended

We will know

It is far too soon to measure this journey

For while one may count the seeds in an apple

We will scarcely know the apples in a seed

And the journey continues

Ron Simpson, Jr.

October 14, 2009

For Allen Terry

February 20, 1988 - October 11, 2009