The Ewing Adventures: Fam Pictures

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Fam Pictures

I was so intent on updating my blog after our busy week last week that I totally forgot to include the pictures from our adventures!

In Santa Monica, we did fun things...

and some of my children totally creeped me out by doing other things!

Spencer and Clyde, a red Colombian boa. Yuck!

We had so much fun in Long Beach at the aquarium and, thankfully, there were no snakes.

But there were birds! The boys went in to the enclosure with the Lorakeets and let them fly around them. This mama stayed outside where it was safe.;)

Cue the jaws music!

I cannot imagine my life without these three fabulous guys.

"I am holding you by your right hand - I, the Lord your God. And I say to you, 'Do not be afraid. I am here to help you.'"

~Isaiah 42:13

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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.