November 2, 2010 in Uncategorized with 3 Comments

Since Gray’s cancer diagnosis, our local high school has reached out to 0ur family in ways that we could have never imagined. A few weeks ago they held a car wash in Gray’s honor and raised funds for cancer awareness and now they have taken their support even further! A couple of the students who I have had the pleasure of getting to know at our church have used the positions they hold in their senior class to reach out to Grayson and our family. Most recently, the Student Leadership Class has chosen Gray for their “King and Queen of Hearts Campaign”, which will help raise money for Grayson’s treatment and prescription costs. This is a picture of Caitlyn Clark, chairperson for Relay 4 Life at the high school. Thank you Mustang High for so greatly supporting our family and for reaching out to our little Grayson. The hand you have extended to us was a surprise but it is greatly appreciated! We are humbled more then you could know!

Yesterday morning, Gray had his blood drawn and his levels tested. When we were given the results it was exciting to learn that Gray’s white blood cell levels had not yet dropped! Even though we know they will at some point this week any number of days we can have with a healthy feeling boy are good days! Today we had yet another appointment at the hospital. This morning they had to access Gray’s port and inject dye for the bone scan scheduled for tomorrow. Our entire life feels like doctors appointment after doctors appointment. The only day we have nothing scheduled this week is Thursday. Tomorrow we take Grayson back to the hospital again for another blood test and for his first post-chemo bone scan. There are no words to describe how we are feeling. We are anxious to find out the results of tomorrow’s bone scan but almost scared to death at the same time. Just knowing that at some point tomorrow we will hear how our son is responding to his chemo treatments is nerve racking to say the least. It’s downright scary. Please pray that our nerves will be calmed and that our entire family gets a good nights sleep tonight. We will need it. Also, please pray that as we approach the next few weeks we have strength, understanding, patience and peace. We have a concrete schedule of doctors visits, blood tests, chemo treatments, a marrow harvest, and bone scans spread over the next three weeks. We also know for sure that Gray will be admitted to the hospital for at least eight days out of the next twenty. Sigh. We don’t know what tomorrow holds and while we knew that it’s all in God’s hands we also covet your prayers for our sanity. We are doing our best to stay strong for Grayson AND Seth while at the same time trying to remain real with ourselves and each other. We’re doing our best to maintain our hope for a miracle while at the same time looking at our calendar every day and seeing Gray’s schedule staring back at us. It’s overwhelming. Thank you for allowing us to share with you day after day and thank you for supporting us in our ups and downs. It truly is comforting on some level to know there are more people then we can count continuing to read Gray’s story and pray for him. When we don’t feel like we can walk through one more day we know that your prayers are helping strengthen us.

“But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.” Romans 8:24-27