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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)

7.30.2008

Current Update from Amber

Today was a very difficult day...and in saying that I'm holding back a bit. Today was incredibly rough. My father's surgery was long and complicated because in the doctor's words "they don't usually make it this long." They being people with stints in their livers due to cancer. So my father is breaking new ground in the fact that he's beating the cancer and the doctors didn't expect him to. So they placed tubes in his liver to keep it functioning properly. They aren't connected to any bags, but they are simply capped off. It is my understanding they will be there for at least two weeks until the doctors figure out how to handle this situation because they can't keep repairing the stints.

After surgery, my father was not doing well. To be honest, we weren't sure he was going to make it. They almost moved him to ICU because his blood pressure was dangerously low and they weren't sure if he was bleeding internally. But it has recovered now and he is in the Critical Care Unit at Baptist. They hope to release him tomorrow if he is doing better.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some details I wanted to share with you this evening, but I do want to ask for continued prayer for my dad. Please pray for his strength and complete healing and for wisdom for the doctors as they decide what steps to take next.
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