Arel Brown

Christian Sympathy to the family of Arel Brown, 87, Collinsville, who died Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. today at Collinsville Baptist Church.Collinsville Funeral Home directing.

Tonya

False alarm on going back to the hospital. The surgeon called back and said it was normal pain. Since Tonya decided to come home and start doing stuff right away they said she irritated the site. She needs to take it easy for the next three weeks. So, if anyone wants to cook for me, it will be appreciated LOL.

Everything is okay for now. I'll let you know if anything else developes.
Brian

Tonya

Suddenly Tonya developed this sharp shooting pain in her upper right chest area. This is where the Groshong catheter comes out of her skin. She has called the surgeon and we are waiting on a call back. I don't know if this is normal or not and they didn't tell us to expect this type of pain before we left. So, we may be going back to the hospital depending on what the surgeon says. I'll keep you updated.
Brian

Dear Lord, has not Satan had enough license to torment those who serve you? Amen. Bill

Tonya is finally home

We are finally home now. Tonya seems to be feeling better, however, she is not completely well. She is still going to have to take some pills by mouth for a few more days. Hopefully, after this it will be at least another 3 months before we go back to the hospital. This time it has been a whole 3 months since she was last there. We now have to go to the drug store to get supplies to take care of the Groshong catheter that has been placed. I have no idea if insurance is going to take care of those supplies or not. I suppose I will find out shortly.

One more thing. Lately Katie has been fainting. It so far has been attribubted to stress. She passed out Saturday night and went into convulsions. We took her to the ER and they did blood work and a CT and of course, the Gadsden hospital said, It's just stress take this medicince and go home and get some rest. It seems we are now on our own and going to have to go to a Neurologist to see what is going on. Katie is in her second semester of nursing and has clinicals she absolutely cannot miss, therefore, it is very difficult to get doctor's appts. scheduled. She is taking some medication that may be causing this and she has been told to discontinue it. It is still in her system and still causing a problem. I now have to drive her to school and pick her up until we can determine if this is a medication problem or not.

Just pray for this condition to be brought to light soon. Thats about all for now. Brian

Latest on Tonya

The doctor came in this morning and said maybe she would get to go home on Tuesday. We would have to see how things go. Since the port was put in on Friday there hasn't been any problems so far. We have been told that from now on we will have to flush the port with heparin everyday to keep it from clotting off. I don't know if insurance is going to pay for the heparin or the needles but I think they might. I just hope the port doesn't get infected where it exits the skin. As long as that doesn't happen we will be good to go with the port. If not then removal of it is the only option to get rid of the infection. We do not want this to happen so pray very hard that no infection develops with the port. Thats all for now except that Tonya has misplaced her cell phone so the only way to contact her right now is to call the hospital room at 256-235-8333.

I will let you know if she gets to come home tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed. And your toes.
Brian

ONCE UPON A PEW I SAT

Once upon a pew I sat and heard the preacher ask,
"We need someone to teach a class, now who will take this task?"
Then God sat down beside me there and said, "Son, that's for you."
"But, Lord, to stand before a class is one thing I can't do.
Now Bill would be the man to call, there's nothing he won't do.
I'd rather hear the lesson taught from here upon my pew."

Once upon a pew I sat and heard the preacher ask,
"We need someone to lead the songs, now who will take this task?"
Then God sat down beside me there and said, "Son, that's for you."
"But Lord, to sing before a crowd is one thing I can't do.
Now Brother King will do the job, there's nothing he won't do.
I'd rather hear the music played from here upon my pew."

Once upon a pew I sat and heard the preacher ask,
"I need someone to keep the door, now who will take this task?"
Then God sat down beside me there and said, "Son, that's for you."
"But saying things to strangers, Lord, is one thing I can't do.
Now Tom can talk to people, Lord, there's nothing he won't do.
I'd rather someone come to me and greet me on the pew."

As years just seemed to pass me by, I heard that voice no more.
Until one night I closed my eyes and woke on heaven's shore.
'Twas four of us together there to face eternity.
God said, "I need just three of you to do a job for me."
"O Lord, I cried, "I'll do the job, there's nothing I won't do."
But Jesus said, "I'm sorry, Friend, in heaven there's no pew."

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