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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)

9.06.2008

The Journey

Mike will be having the heart catherization procedure done Monday morning at 5:30 a.m., at Herman Hospital's Vascular and Heart Center. They will be going in to try and unblock the upper valve in his heart, which is about 60-70% closed, and may have been damaged due to past cancer treatments. This needs to be done in order for us to proceed with Mike's liver surgery and bile duct reconstruction surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center. We won't know until after this procedure is done, if we'll be able to have the other surgery done this Tuesday, Sep. 9th, or if it will have to wait until next Tuesday, Sep. 16th.

I'm sure it goes without saying, Mike and I really need this procedure to be successful and to go smoothly. We have such a limited amount of time to solve this issue so that conditions will be optimum for removing the tumor. Mike has been off chemotherapy now since July 2, and our planned stay keeps changing and growing longer. Everything just becomes a little more complicated as time drags on and delays keep happening.

Please pray for Mike's health to be protected, for this procedure to go smoothly, and for it to be successful. Please pray for peace as I wait to know how Mike is doing. And please pray for peace over our home, and our children, as they wait as well, back home. The past few weeks, especially, have been incredibly stressful for everyone, and we just need an extra touch of mercy and grace to keep going.

We are so grateful for all the help we're receiving, and we know we're in the best possible hands. It's just that the journey has been long and we're growing a little weary from the walk. Thank you for remembering us in your thoughts and prayers. We love all of you!

"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength." Isaiah 40:29
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