The Ewing Adventures: Fun

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Fun

Although it has been quiet on the audition front, we have been busy having fun.

We went to Talton's short film premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Just want you all to know that I stayed out until 12:30 a.m.!

Mom and Gigi visited Spencer to make sure he was feeling better. I love this picture with Spencer and Max and, especially, Gigi peeking around the corner.

Talton, Bree, Brooke, Freya, Braden, Cole and Slade have had so much fun playing in the park by our house. Freeze tag and hide-and-go-seek never go out of style!

Why, when a Mom mops the floor, does everyone want to then go into the kitchen. I expressed intent to commit bodily harm to anyone who walked on the floor so the kids devised other methods to get to their water bottles!

Spencer keeps me laughing by constantly sending me funny photos. I feel like this every day. ;)

The BEST news of all is that Brad and Spencer will be arriving in LA September 7th! Brad will spend an entire week and Spencer will spend an entire month. I am giddy with anticipation.

"Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart."

~Colossians 4:2

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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.