An A Family Update

From the A Family Blog

Baby Steps and Legos
I just wanted to thank all of you who have been praying and loving on my family during this season of our life. Some of you I may never know but I will remember by the peace you helped provide me through your prayer, confirming God is in control and we have an awesome God!

Today I got to go home. Yeah!

Now I look forward to playing Legos with my boys. They are going to enjoy playing with dad. Who knew it would be the simple things like this that will help reprogram my brain and rehabilitate me back to a full recovery.

I have a lot to relearn, and so much to be thankful for. With baby steps and Legos I am on a path to a full recovery!

In His grip!
Mr. A

I hope you enjoy seeing God's answer to prayers in our friends' lives as much as we do! Thanks for your prayers.

Another A Family Update

From The A. Family Blog~

We spoke with the neurosurgeon this evening. He was very positive, and said Mark is doing great!

We asked him very specifically if we had to worry about this tumor being the kind of "cancer" that could either spread to other parts of his body, or had come from somewhere else. He immediately and emphatically answered, "No, it's not that kind of a tumor."
He also said that, barring any random microscopic cells or something, he was able to remove all of the tumor.
So that was reassuring, to say the least!

I will keep you posted!

Surgery Update #3 for Mr. A

I just got a text from Mrs. A that says Mr. A came through surgery just fine. He will have a follow-up MRI later today or tomorrow to make sure, but they think they got it all. Thanks for your prayer!

That is good news! I'll post what I hear tomorrow. Thanks for going on this journey with us!

Surgery Update #2 for Mr. A

From The A Family Blog-

Surgery Update #2
Surgery took a little longer, but just because you never quite know what you'll get once you get in there.They did a final MRI to make sure they "got" all they could. Now they're doing the final steps to take him from surgery to recovery.We'll talk to the surgeon in a few minutes, and I'll put up the next update after that.

Thanks for your continued prayers.

Surgery Update for Mr. A

Copied from The A Family Blog-

Surgery Update #1
Just heard from one of our nurses. Everything is going well. Actual surgery began around 9:15 (lots of prep work before the actual surgery I guess). He was in a good state of mind (haha) before he went in, and the rest of us are doing fine too. God is good, all the time :) Thanks for the continued prayer!

Keep praying! I will let you know when I hear more. Thanks so much for lifting our friends up to the Almighty Physician!

Surgery Date for Mr. A

I just copied this from The A Family's Blog~

I guess it is for real. I just got a call from the neurosurgeon and we have a date for surgery, October 7. I will be fitted for a fashionable hospital gown at 5:30 a.m., a last minute MRI at 6:30 a.m. and into surgery at 7:30 a.m. The surgery will take around 4 hours. This earlier date for surgery is not due to any turn of events. We were told end of October or beginning of November, as a best guess to the next available time. We knew they had asked for earlier rather than later, per our request, due to our health plan. Nobody guessed it would be this fast. So here we are. Buckle up and put on your knee pads.

~Mr. A

Thank you for praying, and please make a note on your calendar to pray during surgery. Thank you so much!

We Lift Up Our Friends

I would like to ask for our readers to join with us in prayer for our dear friends that we co-homeschooled with in Colorado. I will call them "The A Family." They have two boys, 9 and 7. Mr. A was having trouble with his leg and in the process of trying to figure out what was wrong the doctors decided to do an MRI. Praise God they did. They found a "brain mass" that is "almost certainly at least a low grade tumor, level 2." Mr. A will be having surgery late October or Early November. We will know more then. They are feeling drained, but are doing well overall. Please pray for healing for Mr. A and peace for The A Family. I will post an update when I have new information for you. Thanks.