Dear family and friends,
Ginny is now back home! She was released from Cedar Sinai a week ago. Her blood counts are very good. Her stem cell was a huge success! She is left, however, extremely weak and fatigued. Some of her early troubling symptoms have gone. For this she is grateful. She has started to eat solid foods after almost two or three weeks of basically a saline drip. Needless to say Ginny has lost almost thirty pounds and some of her hair. She still tries to walk around the house with the help of a walker to get back her strength. She even ventures outside for a very brief walk. It will take months for Gin’s recovery but her prospects look good.
There is no place like home! It is decorated for Christmas and anticipated time around the tree with Christmas music playing. We missed being with our family for Thanksgiving so much. This Christmas promises to be a joyous time celebrating our Savior’s birth and hopefully spending some limited time with family and friends in the church. She will need to restrict her visiting and public outings even though she can hardly wait to return to church and to her former school to see her friends. Ginny will not return to teach but will officially retire next June.
We are overwhelmed with gratitude for all God has done, is doing and will do for us. Christmas is a wonderful time to remind us of the love of God. We join with the heavenly host, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased”. We know our Lord is pleased with those who are of faith, for without faith it is impossible to please Him. We also know that we are pleasing to Him only because He is pleased with His Beloved Son with whom we identify.
We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas! May our days be filled with the love of God and the joy of Christ!
Don & Ginny
