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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)

8.25.2008

We got a lot accomplished today so I'm feeling we should have everything ready to go by Thursday. Mike has been teasing me, because I have had piles of clothes ready to pack for days now, and I would no sooner get everything laid out on the bed to decide how I wanted to pack, when he would decide he needed to lay down or go to bed, and I would have to move everything all over again. In his mind, I've been packing for days, and probably spinning my wheels.

Anyway, we pretty much have decided that the first five days we're gone, we will spend at a hotel we have been to the last three times we've headed to Houston. They offer a MD Anderson discount which has been helpful. Then when Mike has his surgery and is in a regular room, I will stay with him. They have a chair that makes out into a bed and all rooms are private. That helps save a little money. When Mike is released from the hospital, but needs to stay in Houston, we have reservations to stay at a hotel that connects to the hospital. That way we're close by if need be, and we don't have to fight traffic or shuttles.

Mike is doing well today. He had a call from the doctor who placed the tubes in this last time, telling him about the doctor in Dallas we thought we might need, whose answer was to insert tubes inside of Mike's biliary system by going through his esophagus. Mike explained to him we had already been to MD Anderson again, and found a better solution. Dr. Allen seemed thrilled and asked Mike to call him when we return, just to let him know how he was doing.

Thank you for continuing to pray for everything to fall into place for us, preparation wise, and for Mike to remain healthy. Please continue to pray that God would quiet our hearts and leave us His perfect peace.

"Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10

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