I'm back!!!

Hello everyone! I first off want to apologize for not posting as often as I should. I really had no idea how many people were following this blog until my first trip to Wal Mart after my surgery! A few days ago, I had three more people stop me in Wal Mart and ask if we were done with the blog. I promised them I would post more regularly so here it goes!

My progress is a direct result of God's sovereign work in our lives and His desire to bless us is utterly amzing! I want to be able to share what God has done for me and my family through my pancreatitis and shout it from the mountain tops! I am feeling so much better than I have in a long time. I still have a little back pain here and there and my sugar bottomed out this past Saturday night ( I'll give you the details later in the blog) but other than that, I feel amazing! Just knowing there is no pancreas inside of me is almost undescribable! Lol! I'm eating like crazy and enjoying every bit of food that God allows me to put into my mouth! I actually look forward to eating instead of dreading it! I have rediscovered the beauty of food and am in awe of God's creativity in the foods of His creation!

Something else I would like to say, and never cease to do so, is that I want to thank every person who has prayed for us and helped us throughout this whole ordeal. God has truly blessed us with wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ and we want you all to know we are forever indebted to you! If we can ever help any of you in any way, please please, please let us know! "I give thanks to my God on every remembrance of you..." Php 1:3

As far as last Saturday night, here's the story..............
After Jeremy and I put Elyse to sleep around 8 pm, Jeremy went to work out, as he usually does 3 times a week, while I began to get myself and the house ready for bed... you know...laundry, dishes, Sunday clothes, etc. I was double checking the locks on the doors (I knew Jeremy locked them before he left but when he is gone, I do not take any chances.) I began to feel a little dizzy so I tested my sugar. It was 63. It was then I made the mistake. When I should have eaten something to bring my sugar level up, I instead tried to finish everything I had started...thinking I could get in bed and enjoy a piece of cake once I finished everything. Well, as you can imagine, I ended up on my knees, crawling to my phone, trying to dial Jeremy. He was unable to reach his phone so I tried to dial mother. Now you must understand, when your sugar gets low, you become very weak and very lethargic. I don't remember reaching mother but she later told me that she received my call and I was mumbling something so she immediately got in the car and drove here. Somehow and the reason being, I believe, a true miracle of God, the front door was unlocked, leaving mother a quick entry into the house. She found me on the floor with a half eaten piece of laffy taffy in my mouth. To be honest, I cannot recall what all she told me she did but I soon awoke on my bed with mother and daddy hovered over me, trying to get me to drink orange juice. Jeremy soon arrived and everyone was startled by what had just taken place, including myself. We have been told by doctors that when one's sugar bottoms out, there can sometimes be brain damage if he/she has been out for any length of time and too if one is left for several hours in such condition, it could possibly lead to death. So, needless to say, we were all very shaken. I learned my lesson. I will immediately eat something when I began to feel my sugar getting low. So praise be to our God for blessing the situation!

"For he says to Moses,'"I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion,' So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy." Rom. 9: 15-16


Thank you all again for your love and support. Please continue to pray for us. We have a follow up visit with Dr. Sutherland in Minnesotta on February 17 so please pray all goes well. We will be gone for three days.

Again, I will try to post more regularly to let you all know what God is doing in our lives! May He continue to bless you all!

Love,
Jeremy, Lacey, and Elyse