(Dave’s Turn)

Looking into life’s great pool of reflection, what do I now see?

I see that my wife has ‘passed’ from a sentence of death ……   to a new life.

In exchange for ‘nothing’, a remarkable young man stepped forward last August and gave his very life blood (specifically for Kay), so that my precious wife (of 40 years) and mother of 5 could live beyond year 2022.

In so doing,
Fear, pain and sorrow have flown away and left in their place
Healing, Faith and Joy  …….
Just as if she had actually been raised from the dead,
for all of us that know and love her deeply.

In retrospect, on June 2, 2022 as we met at the MDA cancer clinic in Houston, her magnificent champion of a doctor (Dr. Richard Champlin — look him up) pronounced the death sentence on her physical life, and then promptly provided her with a possible CURE    —    A STEM CELL TRANSPLANT  —.  

“In might just work,”  he told her.  And then asked her if she wanted to give it a ‘go’.

And She said,  “YES”.    The Rest is now history, as they say.

And just as I was very glad that she said ‘yes’ to me over 41 years ago, to the idea of a ‘New Life’ together (for she and I), I now, and hopefully all of you too, now  rejoice again that she said ‘yes’ to her great physician when he offered to her a ‘New Life’, with more days of victory to celebrate ahead. 

From the very start of this (October 2021) most recent cancer episode for Kay, until this very day, we continue to see God’s hand and purpose in our lives.

It has been 150 days since her Donor Stem Cells were infused on Sept. 23, 2022!

Please rejoice with us on this latest milestone and as we thank our God for each of you that have stood with us in prayer asking Him for His grace and strength for each new day.

We will (all of us) need it for the days ahead.

Godspeed,

David