Sunday, October 12, 2008

overdue update

Dear friends, sorry about the overdue update. Lainey had a rough week with the chemo. She had chemo on Tuesday and immediately felt the effects, she felt pretty rough all the way until Saturday. As you can imagine knowing you have to keep on enduring these treatments and knowing this is your new life, is pretty depressing for her. She bounces back by the weekend though, it's brought a whole new meaning to "living for the weekend" to us . We love being together on the weekend , going to our meetings and seeing our friends.Where we would be without the truth i do not know !
The pain in her abdomen has eased up, the doctors don't think it is sinister, they think it's something else, (too many beans) or the effects of the chemo attacking her cancer, there is a literal battle going on inside of her and she is gaining the upper hand! Her c.a. 125 stayed stable at 8 so i keep telling her , "you are not going backwards keep looking forward".
We have had more cards, letters and e-mails from clients this week. All i can say is in this crazy world of mean , greedy people there are still plenty of big hearted kind people out there, we are touched by your kindness, it appears half the western hemisphere is praying for my beautiful wife. If you would indulge me, when Jehovah's Witnesses ( that's what we are) knock on your door , they are only there because they love people and want to share good news with them. If you want to please ask them to briefly explain what they believe and why. We all have freedom of choice to believe and practice whatever religion we want, witnesses are at your door not because they think they are better than you or "saved' but because they earnestly believe in a wonderful future and want to share what they have learned with you. The reason we sometimes appear overly zelous is because we think it's a life saving message, so it's hard for us to say to someone casually on a sinking ship "dude you might want to get in the lifeboat" so that's why we come again and again to your door, because we care, and believe me it's not easy when most people aren't interested or are sometimes rude. Personally i would rather watch (English ) football on Saturday than put on a suit and walk up and down streets knocking on doors, so it's a labor of love. Of course if you don't want to talk with us , just firmly but kindly tell us you are not interested, however, if you would ask for our brochure "what Jehovah's Witnesses believe" and you can at least learn the truth about us , that we are Christian and we love people and God. We love our children, our families , our friends, we seek peace and pursue it and pray for a better future in a literal paradise on earth, nuff said, love to you all , Keith.

1 comment:

jenandtonic said...

Yippie! Tell Lainey boo we love her and that we think she's strong and beautiful and wonderful!!!

Love,

Jen and Debbie