The Ewing Adventures: Back to a Routine

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Back to a Routine

Our internet has been out all week. Ugh. There is definitely truth to the saying, "You don't know how much you need it until you don't have it." I'm thankful for our new roomie who showed the Time Warner Cable tech how to connect the internet line to a different phone line to get us up and running! Yeah!!!!

This has been a week of getting back into a routine for which I am very grateful. Some sort of order in this crazy life is needed.

Our days have been something like this...

Swim:

Audition and Filming:

Cookout:

Poor Brad and Spencer, the weather in Arkansas is boiling so they are just trying to keep cool while they go about their day.

I'll leave you with my favorite picture:

What do you mean we're out of coffee?!

"A joyful heart makes the face cheerful..."
~Proverbs 15:13

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Spencer's Story

In November 1999, when Spencer was three years old, he began experiencing headaches, vomiting and left sided paralysis. An MRI revealed a very large brain stem tumor that stretched from the bottom of his ponds down to C4 in his spinal cord. We flew to Beth Israel hospital in New York City where Dr. Fred Epstein performed the first of two resections (tumor removal). After the first surgery, Spencer woke up and was paralyzed from the neck down; he could blink once for yes and twice for no. The doctors placed a trach so that he could be placed on a ventilator, and a feeding tube in his stomach. After six weeks at Beth Israel, Spencer was transferred to Arkansas Children's Hospital for three months of rehabilitation.

After another tumor resection in June of 2000, two years of weekly chemo treatments and seven weeks of radiation, Spencer's tumor has been "stable" for the past 12 years.

At Spencer's time of prognosis, the doctor's told us that less than 10% of children with this type of brain tumor live past the age of five, but we know that God's plan trumps anyone's speculations.