Monday, December 8, 2014

How can you help?


Many of you have been asking how you can help us out. People have been asking to bring meals, but Steve has a strict diet. 

Steve has to drink this broth every day, all day long. We need lots of it made. Here is the recipe:


Alkaline Cleansing Broth

1 gallon water
4 carrots, cut in 2 chunks
4 radishes
A large handful of fresh green beans
1 leek quartered (no tops; wash well)
2 inches of burdock root
1/2 head of green cabbage
2 green onions
3 cloves of garlic
2 TBS of extra virgin Coconut oil
2 small handfuls of himalaya Sea Salt
4 stalks of celery
1 beet quartered
A large handful of fresh Italian parsley
4 okra, split in half
3 red skinned potatoes quartered
3 1inch chunks of peeled ginger root
2 cucumbers, cut in chunks
2 cloves
2 tsp raw apple cider vinegar
2 dashes of cayenne pepper
1 cup of red wine (optional)
A few shakes of turmeric powder or turmeric root

*Place the veggies in a slow cooker and turn it on low for 8-24 hrs. (Or, just cook it in a pan after boil for a while on simmer)
*Strain out veggies and keep broth

If you don't have all the ingredients, just use what you have. Free range chicken can be added if you would like as well.
Organic if you can. If not, then wash all veggies in baking soda water.

Besides the broth we could also use Almond Milk

*Steve's blood is changing rapidly everyday and Robbin needs as little distraction as possible so we are asking you to drop off the broth at Aubrey's (their daughter)  house: 6378 Iris Ct. Arvada, Co 80004. Call before you stop by 720-937-8423

Thanks so much for all your love and help and especially your prayers ;)

Here we go again....what now God?


Wednesday, December 3  Steve went in for his weekly blood check and received the bad news that his body has in fact rejected the last inhibitor drug that he has been on since the last hospital incident. Meaning that this drug only lasted less then three months for him! He never hit remission on this drug so there is nothing left conventionally for him to do accept heavy chemo, which he does NOT want to do.  We are frantically working on lining up alternative treatment for him.  Stay tuned...

Here are the fb posts of the last week:



Getting ready this morning to go for a regular blood check on Steve, when we received a phone call that my dad was rushed to ER for possible stroke. When we got there we did learn that he had a stroke. My family was there and very concerned as we were. We stayed a little while and left to check on Steve's blood. When we received the results on his blood we were heart broken how fast his blood count changed in just one week! Steve started to feel little things happening, especially his eye. So we started to make fast plans when we went to the eye doctor and discovered that his retina has a partial detachment. So we will go see a retina specialist tomorrow. We need your prayers again! We have been planning treatment continually and now we are in a crisis again. God, please give us wisdom and opened doors! Please heal my dad and bring him back to good health. Thank you everyone for your prayers again. Love Robbin

PLEASE PRAY!!!! Dad's blood levels are through the roof. And they are the bad blast cells. This means the last drug inhibitor has stopped working and we have yet to start new treatment. Don't know what we're going to do next. He's still at the doctors. We will keep you all updated via Facebook.  pass it on please!!!


Dad also had an eye appointment today because he was experiencing pressure behind his eyes. This happened the last time his cells went crazy. But this time they discovered that his retina is partially detached and he needs to see a specialist right away or he could possibly go blind. One more thing to add to the list. 
Lift us up in prayer. Dad's cancer doctor said these are his last days. So without any other treatment or a miracle we could be looking at death. PRAY PRAY PRAY!!!

Today Steve is up and making breakfast, even though his left eye and left side of his lung has pain. We are working continually to get things rolling. We will do a treatment today to see if it will help slow his cancer cells down and build healthy cells up. We are working very very hard on treatments that will be continuous. Please pray for all the doors to open! Please pray for safe travel. Please pray that Steve will be healed!!! As far as my precious father, he is not talking or swallowing. Decisions will have to be made. Please pray for a good out come through everything he is going through and family to come closer to God and not farther from God. God loves us all very much. Just because these days are days we would rather not experience at all. His love still remains with answers, everlasting LIFE and eternal HOPE.


Today, again has been very busy with a certain type of treatment and making contacts for treatments to come. We are held captive in trying to get information, and treatments to be available for Steve as soon as possible. I sometimes cannot believe that we are in this position again already. We were already trying so hard to line up help for Steve but doors kept shutting. We don't understand why it was so difficult to get this all going, and now we are in a crisis for his life again. We have had some new leads and I hope and pray an answer within these few leads and places will come through. We are in a time bomb time frame! We need these doors to open and open wide for us. Please pray with us for this to come now. We are anxious, we are desperate. If we have not answered the phone or answered you on other ways of communication please, please bare with us during this very hard time in our lives. We are probably on the phone or the computer or busy moving around to places of treatment, blood tests, eye doctor, or trying to get some kind of sleep. Steve is holding but more and more pains are occurring which can mean the leukemia blast is causing this pain. We are so grateful for the encouragement we can read on FB and other things said and by cards and the love and prayers you all have been sharing. Thank you. We are so blessed by all of you. I am so tearfully overwhelmed by such love and friendship! Keep praying, keep fighting for Steve and keep hoping that the answer is coming and the door will open wide for Steve to get treatments that will silence this terrible sickness. Love to all Robbin


Wednesday, October 22, 2014

?Clinic?

Tuesday night:

Steve's blood has climbed enough so we can travel. We are leaving early in the morning. The kids will be here to keep things going. 
We need prayer after researching this treatment center, to see if this could be an answer. 
Please pray for wisdom, clarity, and God's guiding hand to make the decision to go this way or not. 
We also wanted to thank all of you who have been committed to our needs and our pain. We really don't know how we could do any of this without you all. 

Thank you so very much. 

Robbin and Steve

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Furnace Installation Day

                  Some Brothers in Christ helped us install a new furnace today! So thankful!

                                                                    Out with the old....


in with the new!


How many men can you fit in a boiler room?


Steve couldn't help with installation (too much dust), but he can still make a mean breakfast!


Thanks again friends for giving up your Saturday morning to help us!


Forever Grateful!!

"I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds." ~Psalm 9:1

    We have just finished going through our finances and options with a very smart friend who traveled out here to help us. Thank you so much. We have some of you that have brought wonderful meals and someone who decorated my front porch, and a very special friend who is changing out our furnace, another who put in a new faucet that had been giving us trouble, and some have given money. We are so very grateful to all of you and to the ones I didn't mention. Thank you all so very very much. 
     Steve is responding well right now to his third inhibitor to keep his CML under control. Of course we don't know how long this will last. We are researching a place for possible treatments, and we might go there to personally talk with them. Steve's last pay check is this next one then over three months we will have no income. We will have to pay our own insurance, and we loose a few other benefits. Please pray with us for answers and money. So many of you have been there for us. We are so blessed, thank you. We have a blood test today. Hope it is even better! 

Please pray for concrete answers we might not have long.

 Love to you all, 

Robbin

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12 ESV)

Isn't it funny how the Lord speaks in times of need? We have the Christian radio on every morning and listen to Charles Stanley, John MacArthur, and Dr. David Jeremiah. Every single sermon has been about not worrying, the Lord will take care of all your needs, our hope is in Him and not of this world! Much needed reminders, yet it is still hard to make it through each day without worrying. We have some huge decisions coming up. Decisions with my dad's work, with how we are going to fight this ever growing disease, planning for the 'just in case' situations. Its not fun, and its not easy, and it is certainly easy to forget His promises. Besides trying not to stress over the decisions of life, one of the hardest things to do in a time of need is to ask for help. We have had so many people help us already and I know will still be faithful and will be there through every valley headed our way, yet we will need more help in the upcoming months. If you are one that would be willing to help us out, stay tuned, we will let you know how in upcoming posts. Thanks!

<3 Cherise

Monday, October 6, 2014

Hospital Pics


Great Grandparents


Eh.....New Englanders


Parents



AW...



Happy Great Aunt



much needed moments



The Brothers (aka Dr. Dave)



Siblings



Kisses from the grand babies!!



4 Generations



See! The infection is healing!!!



Mammy had to find out if the Dr. was single