Good Monday Morning

Hello all! Hope you all had a great weekend. Ours started off with a little excitment on Friday. You all know Jaque has been under the weather since we returned home from Haworth. From stomach sickness to a swollen leg, she has had a wide range of symtoms. In fact, they still are not sure what she has going on.

On Friday, after another long night, I decided that enough was enough, and we went to see the nurse. She told us to prop the leg (doing that) and take tylenol (doing that). So she finally got a doctor to come up and see Jaque. He was much more concerned with ruling out the bad possiblities. They did an EKG and it came out ok. Then he decided that they needed to do blood work. He wanted to make sure that she did not have a blood clot, or anything else for that matter, going on in her lungs. They drew blood, of course Jaque cried because she is so afraid of needles now. And off the nurse went. We then went down stairs to see another doctor. When he came in and read the results of the blood work, he looked at Jaque in wonder. He told the nurse that the results could not be right. The nurse said that she had two other technicians look at the blood and it was consistant with the color of arterial blood. She told the doctor that she ran it twice. He told her he did not care, to draw the blood again.

He looked at me and said that if these were correct, we would be going straight to the hospital. Jaques eyes got big. I told her that it would be ok. That to have faith that it was only vein blood, and that the second test would be ok. I told her no matter what, we could deal with it, as long as we found out what it was. About that time Chris called and was coming up. I caught him outside and had him come in for the second drawing of blood. Yes, she still cried, but held his hand and did better. MAN that was a HUGE NEEDLE! They compared the two tubes of blood, and they were the same color.

Well, the doctor came back in and said that it was much better. Said that it was a false alarm. Ain't God great? Ain't he? So he changed the antibiotics that she was one, and hopefully that will do. As of this morning, the leg is still swollen, but not as big as before. She is still sickly, but better than last week.

No turkey hunting. Guess God was not ready for her to shoot a gun yet. Next time he could just send a text message, right? Lots of rest, and TV. It rained Sat and Sun. Last night was the first she peaked her head out of the apartment since lunch on Friday. We drove up to Stone Mountain, it was getting dark so with any luck we can make our way back this coming weekend.

SO thank you for your prayers for Jaque, as you can see, they are working. It is when we are at our best that the devil tries to attack. She had a great high on Thursday, and he tried to take her glory. One thing I am learning is that the devil can only take your glory if you are willing to give it to him.

We are not, are you? I know that if you are reading this -- you are not!! It is easy to have faith when all is going well. It is hard to keep faith when you lose patience. We serve an awesome God. He will restore health unto Jaque and heal her wounds. JER 30:17. We must have the patience for his work to be done right, and faith that once he started with her, he will finish.

Hope all of you at Haworth are getting ready for prom. Thanks Coach for keeping Jaque up to speed on everything at school. You and her teammates mean a lot to her. To everyone in Elk City, Burns Flat, Dill City, and Springhill -- we love you all. We have such a great family.

Love you all and miss you all.
Carol (Jaque and Chris)

P.S. Please pray for Aunt Carolyn and Jaque's Viper Teammate Ashley Johnson's best friends mom.