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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)

9.21.2009

Mike's Paracentesis procedure went through as planned this afternoon, and now he's added a third drainage tube to his collection.  He is feeling so much better!  Isn't God wonderful?!  Mike is such a fighter and God is so good! Please pray with us that the tube will stay safely in place so Mike can continue to feel relief from this fluid build up, and that he will also stay infection free.

Mike's bedsores are on the mend.  They don't appear as painful as they have been and the air flotation cushion has been a miracle relief for him.  We are still trying to take small walks in our driveway outside to try and build up Mike's strength and to make him more mobile.

Biliary tubes are under control, no presence of infection there.  No jaundice.  PRAISE!!!!
No signs of ammonia build up.  PRAISE!!!!
Bedsores healing.  PRAISE!!!

Mike does have a nasty cough, that sounds worse than he says it feels, but as I have said before, the Home Health nurses keep reassuring us his lungs are clear. I'd really appreciate your prayers joining ours, that this is nothing serious, and that his weakened immune system is just fighting harder to get over something simple.

We're working on a better appetite.  Gaining weight and strength.  And getting Mike to where he can play with his grandbabies...which is his hearts greatest desire.  Those two little boys mean everything to Mike.

I'm still fighting a flare up with my health, but I'm so grateful this is the first (lengthy) setback I've had in two years.   I'm mobile, but I am in more pain than usual, and have some side effects that are troublesome.  I would appreciate your prayers covering me, so I can continue to care for Mike. 

Mike and I want all of you to know how deeply we appreciate your prayers and your thoughtfulness.  The kindnesses you are showing...we are just extremely blessed!  This has been the most painful thing we've ever had to go through...but it has also been the most amazing example of brotherly, unconditional love imaginable.  You are not just a sea of names, in Mike's and my mind, when we reflect on God's goodness through all of you.  Each one of you have left an imprint on our hearts by your gifts of love to us.
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