Happy Wednesday night Prayer Warriors. Today has been a good day! I want to start tonight by just saying that you. The amazing support you have shown us in you kind comments, messages, calls and texts has been overwhelming and wonderful. You cannot know how much we rely on your prayers. God is so good to encourage us through all of you.
Our last St. Jude doctor visit today was just to touch base with the neurosurgeon group at St. Jude. Thankfully, we do not need their services right now, we just wanted to make sure we knew them and knew how to call if we have an emergency arise. I’m discovering the neuro community is fairly small. Our neurosurgeon today is friends with our neurosurgeon in Miami – how cool is that?
Once we finished up we jumped in the car and headed home. Some wonderful people planned a fundraiser for Kayleigh tonight at Texas Roadhouse and we were so excited to be able to attend. We were greeted by a huge group of her softball buddies in uniform, coaches, friends, family and even Anna & Elsa made the trip in. Kayleigh had a wonderful time and so did the rest of us. The support she continues to receive never ceases to amaze us!
After our wonderful party we finally made it home. Just the five of us under one roof is a blessing I don’t take for granted now. I wish I could say that we are all now safely tucked in bed but I can’t… The kids and I are all tucked in but Tim has driven himself to the emergency room to get the barb of a fishing lure removed from his shin. All I can do is laugh. If I wasn’t living this story I would probably think it was made up!
Our wonderful neighbor, who is a nurse, did come over to try and remove it. Unfortunately, when I cut the lure it did not leave a great deal of metal sticking out. Now, in my defense, the lure was sticking out of the mesh of a fishing bag – so I was cutting it loose, upside down, with an entire fishing bag in the way. I’m pretty sure Tim’s lucky I only cut the lure. Anyway, the stubby lure now protruding from Tim’s shin is too short to push back through but in to deep to just yank out. Or at least Tim says that’s not a good idea. I did offer to give it a good yank but he declined my services. So, he is on his way to Decatur to have a professional get the thing out and hopefully give him a tetanus shot – because the last thing we need is him to contract something from a fishing lure!!
Now, enough comic relief at Tim’s expense, back to Kayleigh. On the phase 2 front we are still waiting. Packets have been sent off to the trials we are interested in and should be arriving to their destinations by Tomorrow or Friday. Once those places have had the opportunity to look at her scans they will let us know if Kayleigh is a candidate.
Please pray with us that God will make his path clear and that we will make good decisions for Kayleigh. Some of the options are quite a bit more risky than others but certainly offer the potential for greater rewards. Our prayer is that she is eligible and that God will clear the path for her to enroll and that God will use that to heal her. But as we all know, God rarely answers our prayers as we anticipate, so I am going to do my best to wait patiently for whatever God has in store for us.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
Until tomorrow my friends,
‘Carrow💜
