October 5, 2010 in Uncategorized with 6 Comments

GRAYSON IS HOME!!!! For the first time in over a week Gray gets to spend the night in his own home with his whole family! Everyone is excited! The whole family needs rest and it’ll feel so good to be all together again! We appreciate all the prayers you have sent our way! We can feel them daily! We do ask that during this transition from hospital to home that we be allowed some privacy as a family. We know that you all are thinking of and praying for us. Please allow us some down time and give us a chance to breathe. Gray’s “at home” schedule will remain pretty hectic. He has five perscriptions and we have to give him a shot daily. He also has to return to the hospital twice a week for blood tests to monitor his white and red blood cell counts…not to mention the chemo treatments. We also have to watch Gray closely and keep him as protected as possible from anyone who is sick and may compromise his immune system. On that note, we found out today that Gray cannot be exposed to either fresh flowers or fresh fruit. I never would have thought that those things, but particularly fresh fruit, could be harmful to him but apparently there are chemicals on both that could make him sick. Thanks for your help in this area. We not only want to thank everyone for their daily prayers but we also want to say a HUGE thank you to all the children across the state of Oklahoma who have sent, and continue to send, handwritten cards to Grayson! We read every single one of them! They were plastered on nearly every single wall of his hospital room and now they will all go home with us! Please continue to pray for Gray’s appetite to increase and for all of us to get some rest. Doug has been able to go back to work some but we still need prayer that our lives will return to some form of normalcy.

“If the Lord delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.”  -Psalm 37:23-24