Wow, it has already been 10 years that Melanie and I have been married. Totally AWESOME!!! I thought I would attempt to write a poem for her. Check it out at Word Junkies.
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So, the family and I are in Hobbs, NM visiting family on my side. It has been awhile since I have seen my Grandma and Grandpa, this would be the kids great grand parents. The wind has been blowing something awful here. I took some pictures of it all, the “haze” is actually dust and sand in the air. Let me tell you, Melanie and I both REALLY miss home right now because of the dust. We forgot how the “West Texas” dust is. Poor Melanie’s allergies are just really getting to her. However, it is so wonderful to see the family again. The kids are having such a great time hanging out with their cousin Emily. Emily is my sisters daughter. Anyways, here are the pictures.
They went to the doctor this morning and they diagnosed James with Meniere’s Disease….causes sometimes violent vertigo, visual disturbance, nausea and vomiting (explanation thanks to my friend Chris). He got grounded from driving his truck until he gets better. He is a truck driver. Thank you all for your prayers!!!
Melanie got a call today that her dad may have had a stroke the other day, or it could be a really bad inner ear infection. How the doctors came up with that, not sure? Anyways, she is going to be with them for the doctor visit tomorrow at 9:30am. Please be praying for a safe travel for Melanie and for her dad. Her dad is a very good man!
So here is the deal. I was suppose to have $2100 and change ready by April 1st so I can get my airfare for the Africa Mission Trip. We finally got that money and was ready to write the check when I got another email a couple of days ago saying that the price has changed to $2631, if I pay this week. Well, I don’t have $2631. Melanie and I did our taxes and we are getting back some money and now plan on using that to help pay for this, but I am not sure if we are going to get it in time. I wrote a blog about the Mission Trip and money and not stressing, but that is easier said than done sometimes. So, of course me being me, I started to stress out again. I talked to my mom about it yesterday and she basically told me to “chill out” and God was going to take care of it all. (I love my mom, she always has a way with word when it comes to me.) So, I chilled out and decided things would be OK.
Here is where Melanie comes into the picture. She comes home today and starts crying. Says that she has to talk to me. If you read a couple of post back about her selling her sewing machine. She put $1000 towards the mission trip, $1000 towards her parents 50 year anniversary, and $1000 towards our 10 year anniversary. We were going to renew our “love for each other!” So she tells me that she is being selfish and that we don’t have to prove our love to each other or anyone else. This Africa Mission Trip is more important to her than us spending $1000 on “proving” our love to each other and everyone else. We both know that we love each other….why spend $1000 on it? So she is paying the rest of the amount so we can write a check next week. All I can say is WOW!!! God is an AWESOME God and my wife is an AWESOME wife.
Not with all that said…this $2631 is not all the money that we have to come up with. I STILL NEED HELP!!! HELP…HELP…HELP!!! If you want to know more, look at my other blogs in the “mission trip” category. If you want to call me and talk about it, please email me at joe@suprajoe.com and I will email you my phone number. If you want to send money via paypal…here is my paypal account: joe@suprajoe.com. It doesn’t matter if it is $5 dollars or $50 dollars. This money is going to help send me and a team to DR Congo. I am going to setup a computer lab for a Methodist Seminary. You should really read the other blogs.
God Bless Your Day!!!
We were at Hot Hearts this past weekend and it was so awesome. We had junior and senior high students go. It was at Highland Lakes Camp. There were about 500 students from all around that attended Hot Hearts. 33 Miles Christian band was there and they ROCKED the house!!! It was an awesome experience for me because I got to know a couple of the junior high kids a little bit better. I made some connections with them that I hadn’t been able to make before. All I can say about that is God really blessed me this past weekend. Melanie was there as well and she had a great time. It was awesome to get to experience something like that with my wife. It got a little crazy at night though. The room we were in had around 30 bunk beds and they all had someone sleeping in them. I had to get out my trusty iPhone and my noise canceling headphones and I was set. I didn’t hear a thing. Which was good because I know the boys had a blast yelling back and forth….and I didn’t have to hear it. NOTE: those of you looking at sponsoring at a youth camp, look at getting these headphone - Etymotic Research, Inc. - you will not be disappointed. The highlight of the trip, we had 6 students in our group that accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. THANK YOU JESUS!!!!
I would like to ask you to please pray for our youth. Pray that the ones who have accepted Christ, walk with Him, and the ones that are still searching, find Him.
This is the story of a strong and beautiful little girl who has overcome so much in her short life, seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and is walking through it. Britney was born in 2000, a very sweet, happy and laid back child. Aside from a little colic in the first few months she was what I considered at that time normal…
We moved a couple months later and during the move while staying in a hotel, some idiot jerk decided it would be fun to set off the alarm at 2:00 am. So here my husband and I are lugging two children down five flights of stairs with alarms blaring and lights flashing and all I could think was here we go again.
About this time she went and stayed for three weeks with my in laws. This was the longest she had ever been away. When I would talk to my Mother I law she told me that Britney was just being so mean and they had to get onto her for some of the strange noises and movements she was doing. I asked them to be patient and that I was starting to think that it couldn’t be helped. That’s when I started remembering back to my childhood and how I would do little vocal things and I was always told that I could stop if I really wanted to. As an adult I learned to control it so I had never made the connection between us.
Then in August of 2006, we found our best hope yet. Dr. Kendall Stewart. I had heard that this Dr. had a different approach to treat the causes not just cover the symptoms. I made an appt and got her in 3 months later. They performed hearing and balance tests on her and told us that yes she did have sensory integration disorder and that they could treat it and she would be off all medications within a year.
Now she is completely off her meds including the one for tics which also helped with the ADHD and although she is a naturally hyper child it is not the same as not being able to control your speed and your actions. You would honestly never know that she ever had any of her problems. Dr. Stewart was really a Godsend. She has been tested three times (hearing and balance tests) and every time you can see on the graphs that the different areas of her brain are starting to work together. It’s like before she was floating in space and now it has all come together.
The website is www.neurosensorycenters.com
Please feel free to email me at Melanie@stitchin4kids.com if you have any questions or if you just want to share your story.
UPDATE:
After much research and talking to other parents, I have come to believe that immunizations and some of the preservatives in them are what caused Britney’s problems. I have also found out that even though she is well, there is a chance that she could regress if she gets any kind of infection. Because of this, we have to put her back on her medications for a couple of weeks if she starts to get sick.
Also she takes a micronutrient along with MB12 nasal spray just to keep things going smoothly. The MB12 nasal spray has really helped calm her down and has basically balanced her system out.
We go back to the DR. in June and I will continue to update periodically when I get the chance. Thank you to everyone who has read this and has passed it on.
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