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Anna ( mike's 2 yr old ) called me at 7 am yesterday morning wanting to know Grandma? Yes,Anna Grandma, Does God wear sunglasses? Mike had the best answer for her, he said he thought so because there were no clouds in heaven. I told her I thought not only did he have sun glasses but that I thought they were the pretty kind like grandma's green reading glasses with the pink flowers on them The pastor, who uses esword ( online bible study program) said he didnt remember seeing sunglasses as a search word but that he would look again. We are still soliciting opinions on this theological debate. click COMMENTS to add yours

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Radiation is almost over! Yea! One more hurdle! It ended up being 14 treatments instead of 10 and there was the ice !!!! so things stretched out... But tomorrow is the last day and we are glad!. Aside from feeling like he was flying at high altitude or had water in his ears and the fatigue that radiation causes the symptoms havent been awful.. the headaches have lessened and the other problems... dizziness, arm weakness etc have pretty much gone away. We are praising God for that! Orin is being slowly tapered off of the steroids that he was placed on initially to prevent seizures from the brain tumors. We see Dr Matthews, our oncologist a week from tomorrow and will talk with him then about what to do next. Most likely Orin will choose to try the next chemo combination. Much will depend on how he feels by then I think. He has had a lot of fatique and weakness but it is difficult to know how much is from the radiation and how much is from the cancer itself. One benefit of the s

Repeating Psalms 56:3 " What time I am afraid I will trust in thee" I waited today while they radiated Orin's brain entirely from all directions. We understand that the tumors will cause problems we don't even want to think about if they dont do the treatments , still, the radiation is frightening to us after the problems we experienced in the past. But we got through it and then I treated Orin to a surprise... we got a new Puppy! Our little Maltese got killed several months ago and Orin has been missing her more than I realized. I found a six month old shih zhu yorkie mix and she is just right for us. She has been on Orins lap ever since we got home. We really are doing ok. We decided it was time to have a family portrait. We had been kind of waiting until Lily got a little older. But she is eight months now even though she is still pretty bald Orin is going to be that way soon so we decided it might be time! We'll post it on the web when we get it

We've had a wonderful few months of just enjoying life and the kids. Orin has been taking chemo but as promised is hasnt been so bad. We had a great Christmas and rejoice that we were able to celebrate together the birth of our blessed Savior. Just recently however Orin had begun experiencing some symptoms that lead the Dr to do a CT scan of his head and they have discovered three brain tumors. This was in addition to the news we received just days ago that the chemo drugs that they have been using have apparently stopped working ( this happens when the cancer finally builds up an immunity to them) so that there was tumor growth in the lung as well as metastasis to the adrenal gland during the last round of treatment. The brain tumors were discovered in a scan done at 2:30 pm on Friday Jan 5th and by 4:00 pm the Dr had already called us saying they had ordered a steroid drug he was to start immediately because they feared he would start having seizures. He is to start Radia