Happy New Year Blog Readers!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful and happy day and is looking forward to much love, joy, good health and wealth in 2010! It sounds good doesn't it???
This year is Ed's second year as a brain tumor patient/survivor. He has survived one year and a month and half since the discovery of his GBM (glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor). His doctors predicted he would live about six months. He has doubled that time and working on more!
We hope this year will bring him an improvement in his quality of life. Yes, his life has been extended through and by the miracles of modern science and medicine, but he is weak, unable to speak, and pretty much dependent on others for a lot of his day to day life experiences.
Praise God, he is still able to get himself to the bathroom (be it ever so slowly!), wash himself, dress himself, feed and himself.
But he has fallen a couple of times, he falls asleep easily, he has great difficulty in expressing himself as most of his speech is completely gone. But it is evident he still has his mental capacities otherwise.
He still gives me directions to get places (by pointing), enjoys t.v., reads his Bible, and tries his best to participate in conversations, even if it is only with yes, no's, nods and hand gestures. He loves to watch westerns and don't think for a minute he can't still have an 'argument' with my Mom!
Our prayers for you, readers, is to have a Wonderful Life in 2010! Please pray we do too!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful and happy day and is looking forward to much love, joy, good health and wealth in 2010! It sounds good doesn't it???
This year is Ed's second year as a brain tumor patient/survivor. He has survived one year and a month and half since the discovery of his GBM (glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor). His doctors predicted he would live about six months. He has doubled that time and working on more!
We hope this year will bring him an improvement in his quality of life. Yes, his life has been extended through and by the miracles of modern science and medicine, but he is weak, unable to speak, and pretty much dependent on others for a lot of his day to day life experiences.
Praise God, he is still able to get himself to the bathroom (be it ever so slowly!), wash himself, dress himself, feed and himself.
But he has fallen a couple of times, he falls asleep easily, he has great difficulty in expressing himself as most of his speech is completely gone. But it is evident he still has his mental capacities otherwise.
He still gives me directions to get places (by pointing), enjoys t.v., reads his Bible, and tries his best to participate in conversations, even if it is only with yes, no's, nods and hand gestures. He loves to watch westerns and don't think for a minute he can't still have an 'argument' with my Mom!
Our prayers for you, readers, is to have a Wonderful Life in 2010! Please pray we do too!
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