"NO NEWS DAY..."

.....at least that's what the Dr.'s said today! But it was a great news day! We practically had church here! We started out yesterday with my Dad and ended with a Saturday service last night with the Cates and B-Rod and Steve!  So great to see them! I tell ya-it just does the soul good to be surrounded with family and friends in this environment. Then today the room was bursting with friends-Matt's partner and his family came from College Station.  The Parks brought us PeiWei(and Lauren came with her bag of goodies for Jake), Joel Williams, the Fultz came by for the 2nd time, Katie Hooper and Travis (yay, he's back), faithful friends, Melissa and Ben, Paul and Brenda Rizzotto and of course, last but not least the entertainment of the day-B-Rod and Steve. You will never know what a blessing you are to our family. You helped us make it through the day today. It was very hard not being where we always are on this the Lord's Day, but we didn't skip a beat today with the precious fellowship and prayers that we enjoyed with each one of you. Thank you for continuing to walk this rocky path with us. We love you!

The biggest change I saw today in the "no news day" was Jake's energy level. He is getting more and more energy everyday. Praise God!  He will know this hospital backwards and forwards as we have walked the entire building! They lowered his bp medicine again today, so I feel like that is really helping him be less tired. Lately that has been his biggest complaint. He has also gone 3 nights without fever which also help. The next 2 days will be "big news day" because hopefully tomorrow will be the last blood culture for a while and we should get to see Dr. Morales after his LOOONG Christmas vacation. I mean how dare him! I look forward to seeing him and believe me I have a list of questions for him.  Tuesday is the MRI, so I ask that you pray that the fluid around the sternum is completely gone and they see NOTHING abnormal. They will also do another echocardiogram.... So the next 2 days are important and could be very exciting as we maybe see the light at the end of the tunnel to the road HOME!

We do covet your prayers for our family and haven't stopped feeling so covered in this journey. Never did I dream I would be journaling this long, but for those of you who are our faithful readers, thank you for reading-it's been very therapeutic. Even if there are no readers-it's been therapeutic.

Psalm 118:1, "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, his love endures forever."