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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.

I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.

At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett

"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)

2.19.2008

Good Lab Report

Today Mike needed to have routine lab work done to check his blood counts. Everything was fine.

While waiting though to have the test, Mike mentioned to me he was concerned about his bilirubin count again, because he began feeling itchy like he did last month. My heart dropped, knowing that if they were elevated, that would mean the stents were no longer functioning correctly, and we would be heading back to LR for tubes to be reinserted. It turns out his bilirubin level is also fine. PTL

It was just a reminder to me how quickly we take things for granted, and how important it is, to daily ask God for His protection over Mike. It's so important to have these stents doing their job. For Mike, it's a quality of life. With stents, he can feel as normal as possible. He can lift his grandbabies without concern. He can give the children and I hugs we need so much right now. He can roll over and sleep on his side or stomach. He can drive to work, or do the kind of things a man likes to do around the house, to care for his family. It's too easy to forget, how quickly normal, can turn into difficult. So please continue to pray with me, that God will keep these stents functioning properly to drain Mike's liver. Maybe one day, God will answer our prayers with a miracle, not needing the stents at all.


"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us" Ephesians 3:20
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