"Break Every Chain..."

Thanks for your prayers!

My mom was able to go to Living Proof Live with Beth Moore this weekend. It was such an amazing time of worship and a reminder that we're not alone in this fight! God is in control and He can break every chain!!!! Here are the lyrics to this powerful song:

"Break Every Chain"

There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus

To break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus

To break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

To break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

All sufficient sacrifice
So freely given
Such a price
Bought our redemption
Heaven's gates swing wide

There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

There's an army rising up
There's an army rising up
There's an army rising up

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

There's an army rising up
There's an army rising up
There's an army rising up

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

To Break every chain
Break every chain
Break every chain

Hospital Week

As some of you have seen posts from my mom on facebook, and may know, It has been a week full of hospital visits. My dad was doing so well on the new protocol for his cancer. We were seeing results with his blood and he was feeling awesome. So awesome in fact, that he was talking smack at the Applewood Mens softball game! It was nice to see him back as himself, even as short lived as it was. 

On the fourth of July the family went and watched fireworks and my dad began to feel sick. That night he developed a fever and my mom kept a close eye on him. Because of his leukemia we were told that if he ever reached a fever of 101 or higher to take him into the hospital right away. Saturday afternoon my mom brought him into ER because he had a fever of 102! His blood work looked good which was a praise, but they gave him a prescription to treat pneumonia and he was released. 

Monday night my niece Shay (only 21/2 weeks old) was rushed by ambulance to the hospital because she stopped breathing! She ended up being ok, but she had to stay 24hrs for observation. My mom left my dad sick at home and spent many hours at the hospital with her granddaughter.

My dad had a fever continually for a week. My mom tried everything and his temperature would go down for an hour or two and then would spike back up to the 101-102 degree range again! My dad went back to ER on Thursday. After hours of waiting and tests, they finally admitted him. He stayed for two nights. They never gave a complete diagnosis, but they believe it was some sort of virus with an underlaying pneumonia. His chest was heavy, he couldn't talk without having coughing spasms,  he couldn't hold anything down and really didn't want to eat anything, he was on oxygen for lack of breath, his skin coloring was not normal (a hint of yellow ) , and he was so exhausted but had trouble sleeping. 

Saturday he was released! It was like night and day from when I left Dad Friday night to go home, to when I came to see him Saturday morning. His cough was nearly gone, his coloring was normal, he was eating and holding everything down. All his tests were checking out, they didn't find anything besides symptoms of the virus he caught! 

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!" Psalm 103:1

Through everything that happened this week we couldn't miss the blessings that God provided and poured down on us all! The first praise is that my Dad and Shay are both ok! All tests checked out with nothing new to fear. The way we were surrounded by family and friends through visits, phone calls, texts, facebook messages, cards, etc. reminded us that we are not fighting this alone.  And little things, like the hospital room my dad was in, it had the best view of the city and mountains! My dad could watch fireworks, lightning storms, and even the super moon from where he was laying! The staff was very good an thorough as well. 

My dad still needs prayer of course, especially as he has another blood test this week, but I ask you to really lift up my mom! Pray that she'll sleep. That she'll let go of stress. That she'll focus and get everything done that is pressing her. Pray that she'll feel Gods presence. Thank you all! I don't know what we would do without the body of Christ. <3

~Cherise

"May the God of hope fill you with ALL JOY and peace as you trust IN HIM." Romans 15:13

posted on FB yesterday...

Today started off as a sick and depressing day for Steve and I. Yesterday, Steve felt sick, threw up his lunch and all the new stuff he is taking to fight this Leukemia. This can happen with this stuff. But when he didn't swing back, and felt sicker as the day progressed into the night, I got extremely concered. We were up several times, finally brought the fever down once. Later into this mid morning and early afternoon, I couldn't bring down the fever. We have always been told by the Doc if he reaches 101.? , when he is neutropenia( a part in his white blood that fights infection, but has a hard time when it's too low) to go straight to the ER. So that is what we did. Because his last blood test showed low platelets and neutrophils. While they hooked him up to an IV and took blood, urine, chest X-ray etc. We all saw that his neutrophils and his platelets were beautiful and his white and red blood counts are normal. The X-Ray looked clear and so far they did not see anything majorly wrong. So that means Steve can fight this fever normally.This is such great news that I practically skipped out to the car and almost left Steve in the ER. Steve must of caught something going around. ER did give us a prescription just in-case he doesn't feel better some time tomorrow or the next day. But we'll save that to wait and see if he'll swing this. 

My whole point to this update is something is working! God has shown us a way to help Steve's terrible cancer. We do not believe that he is cancer free but he sure looks good. This protocol is costing around 2000 a month plus other things that have come up like today,going to the ER. We can not do this alone! That's why I am thankful to God first and to all of you, our friends and family. With all of you, Steve just might have a few more years than what we were told. Thank you with the biggest tears rolling down my puffed up cheeks. Steve and I are honored and so so grateful to have such caring and awesome people in our lives!!! Sincerely from my joyful heart ,

 Robbin