JOSHUA TIME 280

Hi ya'll,
This is a letter from Kenney's cousin in Indianapolis Indiana. Just in case there's any of you that might be facing a hard battle and no end in sight....know that God's still working even when we don't see it, and that PRAYER WORKS.
Paula

Hey everybody.... Just took my mom for her two week checkup (since her hospital release) with the liver specialist from I.U. I am so so so so thankful to tell you that we got a good report. She is very very weak, and her breathings labored with just a few steps, but we still have a good report.

He said her liver is now small, when a few weeks ago, it was "humongously enlarged", thats what they told us then. It's gone back down, which I'm so thankful for. Theres only a little fluid around her right lung, which he said that the shunts that they inserted into her liver would take care of as time goes on. When they had taken the last fluid off, when she was smothering so drastically, just two weeks ago today, they hadn't taken all of it off, so that was left over from that, and no more has accumulated, which is a real miracle for my mom.

Even though he submitted her name to Methodist to be on a list for a liver transplant, and she was scared to death when she got that call yesterday, he told her that this was only a last choice thing, and his main intent was to get her liver that she was born with, to working right, so the transplant thing is just a last resort thing, a "just in case" thing. When she was in the hospital all those weeks, they talked transplant alot, but now, they're talking "possibility of getting hers where they need it", and thats what I'm shooting for. I'll take the transplant, if need be, but I want hers to work. she's already come such a long way, and has actually been prayed right out of the jaws of death, so many times, these last few weeks. The liver specialist, I think, has even become a believer, because when they were preparing to do the liver procedure on her a few weeks ago, he gave us no hope. He said she was between a rock and a hard place. She'd die without the procedure, and with all her complications, did not have much chance with it. That was then...This is now!

Prayer works. I don't know who got it through, or if it was a combination of folks, I don't really care....the important part is even though we still have somewhat of a battle before us, there appears to be some life in my moms future. Had things gone on at Community South, with the same doctor and such, my mom would already be buried by now. I could write a book on how the Lord worked things out, one at a time, when we were totally lost in not knowing what to do. He just laid the right things in our hands, like you would not believe, and we later found out that this was not normal, and that it was something the Lord had actually taken care of for us.

Well, I'd better go, its bed time, but since I'd asked for your prayers, I had to give an update. My life has been totally changed these last weeks, along with my mom. I'm so thankful, and will never forget what He's done, unless altzheimers were to take my thoughts away.

Thank you all so much, for your prayers, and continue to pray for her. He's still got a battle, but at least theres promise. God bless you all......Love you all, pam