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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)

8.08.2008

Grateful

Mike woke up feeling good once again this morning. As the day passes, he tends to begin feeling worse. He also tends to run a fever in the evenings which always concerns me. I'm obviously not a nurse, and I'm way out of my comfort zone trying to care for these tubes. I don't want to ever cause Mike any harm, so please pray for Mike's protection from any infections.

We have applied for the Corporate Angel Flight program, which a friend of ours suggested. We won't know until a week before our appointment, if a flight will become available. But...the biggest hurdle will be getting Mike weaned off the oxygen to be able to go that route, or really fly down at all. Please be praying with us, for Mike's right lower lung to be healed, so that oxygen can be eliminated.

Several times today, Mike tried to take off the oxygen and do without it. He was able to tolerate it well when he didn't overexert himself. So he plans to continue exercising his lungs this way and maybe we will reach that goal to be without oxygen support by the time we head to Houston.

We have a praise to celebrate. Goody's called Mike this morning to ask if he would hang around as a Goody employee for another month or possibly two, to be a contact person, as the conveyor system is being taken out of the distribution center. That means a couple of days a week, Mike will go down to the center to check on it's progress, and he would report back to corporate in Knoxville, TN. By doing this we'll recieve an extra few weeks without needing to pay COBRA insurance payments, which is a blessing. God continues to take care of us.

So many friends from our church and our family are preparing meals for us and helping in so many different ways. Mike and I are overwhelmingly grateful. Thank you for continuing to pray and lift us up throughout all of this.

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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