May God hold you all close in His loving arms and keep you safe in His love.

Tanzanite, you're from Wisconsin. Where? It's always great to meet another Wisconsinite.

Yesterday they took Erv (now you can pray by name)off the breathing machine. He was only off an hour or so and got too excited, blood pressure went way up so he's back on. I'll stay home today. Kids are taking mom. Mom is holding up fairly well. He always calls her Dolly. She said, "Honey, this is your Dolly". He opened his eyes and reached out to her. He's got to be getting better.

Thank you all for your prayers they mean so much.

Now he has strep-pneumonia.

barb,
hold your chin up. they say it gets worse before it gets better and we are still praying for him. take care and GOD BLESS.
DON N JACKIE

Thanks Don! Before we went to the hospital tonite I was almost in a panic because mom wasn't sure she wanted us to come get her. I asked her if she was afraid something was going to happen. She got choked up. I said, we're coming. My aunt was saying "you know he is 86 yrs old and led a very active life." Well, thanks to you Don and many others I WILL HAVE HOPE!!

My daughter who is in real estate just told me when she went to do a listing for a video store the wife said, "hey, we had prayer at our church this morning for your grandpa." Her husband said, "oh my goodness, that was your grandpa." I'm intrigued with helicopters so I go by the flight for life when it takes off. He said I was praying for your grandpa from the time they loaded him till take off. I skipped the quotes since that's not exact quotes. Anyhow, isn't that awesome??? GOD IS AWESOME. My faith has been wavering especially since people have said when they get pneumonia most of the time people don't make it. I've found out he's on many, many prayer chains and in various churches, you guys are all praying and who knows what the Lord will do here. He's been a great jokester all his life and in their van I found a whole book of handwritten jokes he wrote. Let's pray he will speak more of the Lord than jokes, (not that we don't need laughter) I just pray God will get the glory thru this and Erv will realize what God has done thru people's prayers.

Barb, I've been praying for you and your family. Sorry I didn't let you know sooner.
Beverly

GOD IS SO.... GOOD! We brought him home today. He's getting back to his spunky 'ol self! We were hoping for some changes because of how God spared his life. He's very argumentative and this was stressing my husband who was driving and trying to make things pleasant for him. He also argues with mom. Please pray he can stop this terrible habit and praise God for sparing his life. He is a fighter and the doctors are amazed how well he's doing.