Author: jimvanhook

Well, it’s almost the end of the line. On Tuesday Pam will have her port removed. This is a surgical procedure and Pam isn’t looking forward to it AND is asking for prayer ahead of time. But, this is an

Well now. When last year ended who would have thought what we might face in 2018. At the beginning of the year, I had in mind that I needed to pay attention each day. I took a picture of something

It has often struck me as peculiar that we have a day set aside for giving thanks. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it is the case that biblically we are encouraged, commanded, and reminded to be thankful

Here’s a quick and much delayed catch up on Pam’s situation. After her surgery in mid-September and the good news that all the cancer cells were dead, we had radiation standing in front of us as the next step in

I was hoping that September would be the last month where we needed meals. But it looks like we might need some for a while longer. And several of you have offered to continue to bring meals. Thanks for that.

A short time ago we heard from our nurse navigator with the results from the pathologist’s examination of the tissue removed from Pam’s breast last week. No cancer cells alive. Not one. Yahoo! We are praising God for his goodness

This is the third day of recovery from Pam’s surgery. All seems to be proceeding normally. It’s slow, but proceeding. That means Pam is still pretty sore, not moving much, and sleeping a fair amount. Not much to report.

We’ve just arrived home, so I thought I’d get the word out. Surgery is finished. Everything looked good. Minimal amount of tissue removed. Hooray! Pam’s a little loopy right now, and we don’t know what the pathologist might yet discover,