Wow, we have our own blog now! Brian has been working on this for a few days. Fortunately, he has been keeping a journal of everything that has happened so it wasn’t too much work to copy it into a blog.
So why a blog? Well, we’ve had a number of people tell us we should start a Care Page. Brian knows a couple people from work who have a blog and this is basically the same thing. We’ll still send out periodic e-mails before major events with specific prayer requests; we just thought it would be helpful for people to understand our day to day victories, emotions, struggles, etc. We will update the blog on a more regular basis and include our e-mails, prayer requests, pictures, happy stories, and I‘m sure some struggles along the way. The blog will be more of personal look inside our 4 walls and hopefully will help everyone understand what we deal with. Brian finds it therapeutic to write his feelings down rather than talk about them…so he apologizes in advance if he is sometimes negative…as he has made it clear…cancer sucks.
So many people ask us “how are you doing?” It’s just so hard to stop and talk to everyone. There’s so much going on that unless you have an hour or 2 to listen (which most of us usually don’t), we just respond by saying “OK”. Then we usually get “are you sure?” What you need to understand is our OK is different now. It’s different than your OK. Our OK means we made it through another day, or another chemo cycle. Our OK will never be what it used to be. Our OK is forever changed. So, hopefully this blog will help everyone understand what we’re dealing with. Then, next time we see you, we can talk about the nice weather, or the kids, or how you are doing. A lot of people feel like they don’t want to burden us with their problems but we really want to know how you are doing as well and how we can pray for you.
Feel free to pass along this website to anyone. The other wish for this blog is we hope it is shared with thousands of people. I think Kristi’s testimony is such an uplifting one that maybe just one person out there reading the blog will say “give me a piece of whatever she has”. Of course we all know what she “has”….it’s the spirit of the Lord working in her. If we can make a difference in just one or two people that would be so incredible. So pass it on and let Kristi’s brightness shine like never before!!!
So that’s it…that’s the reason for the blog. We hope you enjoy reading it. Here’s how you get to it: http://briankristi.blogspot.com/ Either click on that link, or if that doesn’t work, simply copy it to your address bar. That’s it. Then enjoy.
Finally, a few prayer requests to end on:
*We have a chemo treatment on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday is the stomach port and a lot of unknowns.
*We seem to have a small flu bug running through the house with Emily and Brian. Please pray that it will stay small and not go to the rest of us.
*Brian’s brother, Jeff, broke his leg last Thursday. He had surgery and had to stay in the hospital a couple days because of risk of infection. It was a bad break and there will be a long road of recovery ahead.
*We have received word on my brother-in-law but want to wait for more details from them before we send an update. Please continue to keep them in your prayers.
Love,
Brian & Kristi
