Leg Weakness

Hi All,
Just a quick update and call to prayer today. Diane has been doing well with the pain management, but she feels that her legs are getting weaker. Saturday she spent the whole day in bed having sleepy Saturday (while the kids were running through a corn maze with my sisters Mary and Betty). Before I address the Sauerbraten, I remember Dr. Franckfort encouraging Diane to walk around each day after her surgery because the body loses X% of muscle tone (wish I could remember the amount) everyday you don't use them. So I am attributing the leg weakness to Saturday's lazy day because yesterday she did pretty well, certainly better than Sunday. Mary cooked Saurebraten for our Saturday night dinner and it was delicious. Though Diane did not join us at the table she did enjoy the noodles, gravy and the Sauerbrate (we finished the red cabbage before she got a chance at it). Her appetite has waned in the last couple of days and so she needs to be encouraged to eat and because of her determination to get better, to get stronger, she does eat. Please keep praying for the poundage, please keep praying for her total healing. Love, George

Rescheduled Appointment

Today is Friday, the day we had scheduled an appointment with Dr. O'Reilly at MSK. My brother asked last night whether we were still going in and I realized my last update and call to prayer left that up in the air. We decided to cancel that appointment to give Diane an opportunity to put on some more poundage. Please pray for that! She has been eating very well, but it is tough putting on those pounds. The next appointment is scheduled for Fri November 14. Please pray for that also! Diane has found that walking with a walker (with front wheels) has given her extra stability while standing and walking, and so now she is taking to exercising her legs, strengthening her body by walking with the walker. She looks forward to the day she can exercise walk without the aid of the walker, but for now it is a great tool to be used for her to get stronger. A little about the weekend. My sister Mary is going to cook us a Sauebraten Dinner. She is coming out early Saturday (sure it has been marinating in vinegar through a good deal of this week) to put it in a crock pot. Than she and her husband John will take the girls out for the day. If the weather cooperates doing the corn maze, haunted house scene, if not, we'll see what we can come up with. Sunday the girls may go to the street fair in Bellmore (Diane's cousin Ann is working it) and I may get out to purchase a laptop - that is important because the stairs to the basement (where the computer is) are just too tough on her. With the laptop she will be able to correspond with emails, keep up with her adoption chat groups, once again play hearts on-line and surf the net. So we are looking forward to all that is happening this weekend and wish you a great weekend. And of course I can never leave off without asking for your prayers for Diane's complete healing. The prayers are so essential for her healing, so appreciated. Keep them up, love, George

Prayers for Diane

To all our friends and families,
Diane has been waging a war against the cancer in her body for 1.5 years. During this time we have had many ups and downs. Also during this time we have had constants such as a courageous fighting attitude, hope and faith in our God. Even though we have the best “Cancer Care Anywhere” (one of MSK’s mottoes), from the very beginning we knew we were going to defeat the CA only with the help of God. And that is why for the last 1.5 years Diane and myself have been asking for your prayers. We continue to ask for those prayers and we continue to depend upon those prayers. Friends from Virginia are trying to bring me in to the world of blog. I think this allows communication back and forth on the internet and I look forward to using this medium to update all of you on Diane’s progress and asking for prayers. Thanks so much for all of your loving encouragement, support and most especially prayers during this time in our lives when all of that is so much needed and appreciated.
Love, George and Diane