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Jonas was admitted to Children's Mercy last night with a 102° fever and extreme lethargy. After having bloodwork drawn he was determined to be neutrapenic and was almost immediately given a blood transfusion. He is restng comfortably and is being given antibiotics for an infection around his gtube (the tube on his stomach where he gets his formula feeding). Apparently, all the germs in your gut like to get out of control when your battle systems go down. It looks like Texas wil be put on hold until after this next round of chemo. We are in a holding pattern for now.
We continue to pray for you all and wish we could be in there slugging for you guys. Don't give in. Don't give up. Love, Morales'
Posted 4 hours ago
by marilyn koshland
Gosh,Jonas...enough setting records on all that can go wrong..... Only positive steps from here on.... We ALL are rooting for you and cheering you on. We love you and wish you strength and good cheer.... Hugs to you and your family, The Koshlands Merryland and Koshieland
Posted 5 hours ago
by Morgan Elizabeth
Okay so I know Jonas may not know me that well, but when I heard about all of this, I started crying. I have been praying for him every day hoping that he will get better. I know that Jonas is a strong kid, and he CAN get through this. I went and saw Mr. Morales today and I looked over at the stool where Jonas used to sit in strings and i said, "That was Jonas' stool." and Mr. Mo turns to me and says, "It still IS his stool." Keep fighting, Jonas. :) ~Morgan Abernathey
Posted 6 hours ago
by Terry Wright
Crazy germs!! Jonas,you can do this,we're all praying for you and your family. Harold & Terry,
Posted 6 hours ago
by jessica bobal
Dang germs! I may be rethinking my facsination for germs if they don't leave my boy Jonas alone. Hang in there buddy! --Mrs Bobal
Posted 7 hours ago
by Joanne Fuchs
Hang in there bud! You are tougher than the sarcoma an the chemo.Prayers are coming your way.
Posted 8 hours ago
by stephanie nolte
Love you Jonas. You are strong and you can do this. Love you all. My prayers are with you. Aunt Stephanie
Posted 8 hours ago
by Becky Jackson
Hang in there, Jonas. We're praying for your strength.
Posted 8 hours ago
by mel you
Thinking of you, Jonas and your family every single day. Our prayers for healing and best wishes for peace go out to you. Melvina, Greg and Sage Youngstreich
DEVOTION: Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea -- the LORD on high is mighty. Psalm 93:4
Many of our Daily Devotion readers are acquainted with the name, Mick Onnen, president of the International Lutheran Laymen's League and that organization's public persona, Lutheran Hour Ministries. Since his presidency, Mick has sent out a weekly prayer list to our organization's leaders. Recently that list was accompanied by the devotion, which follows. Presented with only the smallest of changes, I share it because of its value and because I wanted you to know the kind of leaders our organization has. Pastor Ken Klaus
Last week, my extended family vacationed in the Colorado Rockies and we enjoyed a new experience.
We older ones in the crowd rafted a stretch of the Colorado River which was somewhat swollen from the heavy snowmelt.
It was a bit turbulent. Even so, for a man who originates from a state appropriately named "Flat Waters" by the Native Americans (Nebraska), it was fun and exhilarating.
Our kids, on the other hand, rafted the swollen and very challenging Clear Creek, west of Denver. It is a stream with fast-moving white water, treacherous rocks and whirlpools. I offered a lot of prayers that day -- not for our group -- but for the kids.
Although guides are present on the rafts trips, swollen rivers can be unpredictable and dangerous. I was glad when we got the call that the kids had finished the ride and were on their way home.
It wasn't until they arrived at our cabin that we learned my daughter-in-law had twice been thrown out of the raft ... along with the guide. (They told me the guide had only been dunked one time in the last five years). By God's grace, they had been plucked out of the water before a dangerous whirlpool engulfed them or they were smacked against a rock.
My son's comment after the ride was "Now I can say that I've done it, but I don't have a desire to do it again."
For that comment I said another prayer of thanks!
Thinking upon the adventure, I've concluded mountain streams can pack a lot of power as they tumble and roar down the mountainside. Those who have experienced the force of floodwaters can attest to the strength of water.
But as powerful as is a mighty river, the LORD on high is mightier.
It is a comfort to know that at all times, even when the waters surround and engulf us (or the problems of the world weigh heavy upon us), the LORD is in control for He is mightier than all the force of the sea. Truly, "... God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1b).
For that, I say a little prayer of thanks.
THE PRAYER: Dear Lord, I give thanks for Your power and strength. For bringing us through dangerous waters, for using that power in the Person of Your Son to defeat sin, death, and devil and win my salvation, I praise Your Name. In Jesus' Name I praise You. Amen.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ YESTERDAY'S QUIZ: How long was Zedekiah king? 11 years (Is Doug Herzog ever going to be dethroned?
(Note: You almost have to be at your computer and answer the question as soon as it pops into your email to beat Doug to the punch.)
Tues- Quilters 9-2; NO Bible study (Pastor and family are going to spend the day at Six Flags using the season passes we were given by the congregation.)
Wed- Ladies Aid Luncheon noon; NEWSLETTER DEADLINE
Thurs- SCHOOL STARTS
Fri- nothing
Sat- worship 5pm Sun- Bible study 8am; worship 9am; Bible study 10:30; voters meeting 11:30 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ NEWS:
THANK YOUS ALL AROUND, ESPECIALLY TO ALAN and CHERI HOFELDT, the many hole sponsors, and the many others hwo had a hand in making our golf outing this past Saturday such a big success. It was a wonderful time for both members and the many friends and family who attended!
This is a time for men to come to the pavilion at church, bring your favorite food to grill along with a side to share and your favorite beverage. We will just hang out, maybe have a short devotion, get to know each other, and relax.
LADIES RETREAT 9am-9pm SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 at the SCHIRRS
I don't know too much about this day, because I'm not a woman. What I do know is that the sign up sheet is on the table in the narthex and the ladies always have a wonderful time of fellowship, Bible study, and relaxation!
It is one of the highlights of my year. Great golf, even better food, and excellent friends all gathered together in the fellowship of God and His Word. Call 359-1061 or email me to ask all the questions you want.
If you don't want to stay for the whole weekend, just come up for the day on Saturday. If want to stay for the whole weekend but don't want to sleep in the bunkhouses there are many other options including camping in tents on the grounds, going to a campground nearby that has hookups, or staying in the hotels in Perry or Monroe City only a few miles away.
The ninth annual T-3 Men's Retreat is set for Friday-Sunday, September 23-25, 2011.This promises to be another great experience for the men of St John's and other Lutheran congregations in the St. Charles area.In fact, men from all over the metro area have joined this special time in the past.Men 18 years of age or older are eligible and they need not be Lutheran to attend.The retreat will be held at Mark Twain State Park at the Si Coburn Group Camp.This is a beautiful setting for a weekend of adventure and growth.The theme of this year's retreat is "Respectable Sins" and the study times during the retreat will be spent exploring the areas of our lives where we have come to accept less than God might want from us.
The retreat will feature great food and a lot of activitiesA scramble golf tournament, fishing tournament, trap and skeet shooting competition, and euchre tournament all take place on Saturday morning. If none of these interest you, you may choose to spend time reading, hiking , biking, site seeing, or napping.Prizes are awarded to tournament winners at dinner on Saturday evening. Campfires on Friday and Saturday nights provide the opportunity to get to know others better under the stars. Music is a big part of the camp experience and you will enjoy hearing and singing familiar songs with the 100+ men who typically attend.The culminating worship service on Sunday morning is a special time of praising God for all His gifts to us and a great way to prepare us to return to our homes and lives.
The cost of the retreat is only $42 and this includes meals and a commemorative tee-shirt.Attendees have the option of staying in group cabins or tent camping on the grounds at no additional charge.You can even arrange to stay in a local motel near the camp at reduced rates if you like.
A brochure with all information and a registration form will be available soon in the narthex.You can also register online at www.t3mensretreat.org using PayPal.It is really easy and you can see pictures of the camp and facilities there, too.
This is the year for you to go to the T-3 (trap-tackle-tees) Retreat.Sign up, meet new friends, bring old friends, and join in the fun of growing your faith. For more information, contact Don Hugo at Zion –636 441-7425 ext 246 or home 636 441-9954.
1. Sunday, August 28 HIGHWAY CLEAN UP right after church. After we are done cleaning up we are planning on going to the park for a picnic! Please come and bring a dish to share.
2. Sept 30 and October 1- Firstfruits weekend at the ROCK. Pastor Randy Wilken invites groups to come down to St. Louis on the first weekend of each month to serve, worship, and fellowship with other Christians from around the area. We are signed up to go down there Friday, Sept 30 and Sat, Oct 1! It is an unforgetable and wonderful experience. Make plans ot attend!
3. Last Sunday of each month- HANGING OUT WITH PASTOR- We will meet at different time and at different locations throughout the year to have some fun and to get into God's Word. In August we will meet to clean up the highway and have a picnic after worship. Most of the time we will meet on Sunday evenings.
Invite your friends to all of these things. It is a great way for them to see that Christianity is pretty cool and can be a lot of fun!
PRAYERS: (If I have missed anyone please let me know.) For PAUL TOEDEBUSCH who will have a procedure tomorrow to take biopsies because of abnormal test results a couple weeks ago.
For a FRIEND OF CHRISTY WINN who lost her baby today due to a missed pregnancy.
For ANGIE SCOTT, who had her gall bladder and an obstruction in her bile duct removed yesterday.
For LIL WINTER who is home from the hospital and doing much better. She will still have to have an MRI on her liver.
For MOLLY HENDERSHOT who is back at home, but will have to make a lot of trips to the hospital for infusions for the next few weeks.
For the HOWARD FAMILY at the death of their 15 month old son John. He was laid to rest this past Friday.
For PEGGY GILKEY who is having knee replacement surgery on the 18th
For JONAS BORCHERT, grandson of Don Nolte, who continues to be up and down because of chemotherapy treatments.
For EVELYN SHERMAN at Cedar Crest Rehab and Nursing in Washington for rehab on her hip.
For RUTH CANTRELL who is at home and STILL recovering very slowly.
OUR CHURCH as we continue the CARE PROCESS.
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Paul Toedebusch will have procedure tomorrow at Univ of Mo Hospital to take biopsies because of abnormal test results a couple weeks ago. Please pray for him.
This is an update on Jonas, Don Nolte's grandson. If you wish to read the whole thing, it follows this shortened version. The short story is that Jonas took a trip to a special hospital in Houston. While he was there he got sick, but the cancer doctor at the hospital was able to help him. The tumor has shrunk some, but there is a long way to go and a lot of treatments. He is back in KC now and is doing relatively well.
Peace to all!
Updates
Posted 58 minutes ago
We are back from Houston! I have to first mention that I'm sorry we didn't journal while we were there. I need a computer or laptop to make entries and we did not take one with us. We had access somewhere at the hotel, but we did not have time to juggle that. I have so much to record that it may take me more than one entry to get it all in! All in all, it was a very good trip. Thanks again to our neighbors Karen and Bill Atkins who made our flights possible! Every detail about flying -ticketing, boarding, attendants, transporting, went without a hitch. Continental Airlines made flying with a Cancer patient very accomodating. We would highly recommend them. On the way down to Houson on Wednesday, Jonas experience a great deal of stomach upset and threw up at the airport, on the plane and in our taxi about five six times. Upon arriving at the hotel, we realized (with all the medical needs we had to pack) we had forgotten the feeding pump! Kind of crucial to feeding the guy at this point. His stomach was so upset, even painful, with nothing in it, that he was throwing up all the medicine we were giving him. He tried to eat, but couldn't keep anything down. Neither the hospital in Houston nor our medical contacts here in KC were helpful at all about getting us replacement pump! Nothing for loan, lease, or replacement. In fact, they all seemed oblivious about what company we could find to help us attend to that situation. I was beside myself. Joel an all over the hospital looking for the right department to handle our situation. Jonas was tired and weak and way past due for all his pain meds... and had thrown up all the ones he had had only hours before. The only recommendation our medical team at Children's Mercy could offer was to take him to the Emergency Room because, at this point, he was likely to be neutrapenic. I checked him and he had no fever, but we had no other options. We called Dr. Hughes's office to tell him that we were going to the ER there at MD Anderson and got some surprise news. Two nights a month, he works the chemo division of the ER and he was there at this very moment! So we packed up and went right over.
Before ever meeting the man, we had heard very little about him and knew mostly only what we had read. We knew that he had given lectures here at Children's Mercy several times and had met a nurse who had done some training under him in Texas. The only insight we had to him is that he was a scientific specialist and a teaching doctor, which as I understand, means he does his own experimenting and publishes in medical journals. We had also heard that he was great with kids and kind of on the chatty side. Well. Have you seen the movie Patch Adams? He actually kind of resembles Robin Williams and is that kind of a doctor...only not as goofy or unprofessional. He is the first doctor that talked DIRECTLY to Jonas. If we interupted, he would answer us by talking to Jonas. Don't get me wrong, he talked to us too, but we were used to being at a Children's Hospital where he was treated like a child. (Not that that is bad! We were and are very pleased with all our experience with Children's Mercy.) He calmed Jonas in a way I had not yet seen, and he is now Jonas' most favorite doctor. It didn't start out like that though. When we arrived at the hospital, they checked him in and put him in a room. Dr. Hughes introduced himself and learned that we were behind on getting him his pain meds. One of them is a shot I have to give Jonas in his leg every evening. Upon hearing this, he put some numbing cream on Jonas' leg. (it takes about 20-30 minutes to work) After about 5 minutes, he said, "okay, let's just do this." Jonas about freaked out and shot daggers from his eyes at me, pleading me to stop him. I asked the doctor to wait, but he smiled and told Jonas, "Its really not that big of a deal" laughing it off. He had Jonas look at the ceiling and count backwards from 100 by 7's. When it was over, Jonas had toughened up. It set the tone for the whole ER visit. From about 11pm we spent 5 hours there getting fluids and meds in him, and having blood drawn for labs. The two of them became quick friends talking about all matter of things from cancer to sports to science and other teen boy things moms aren't privy to. He talked to us about adding some other medications regimen that would help Jonas put some weight on. (We were back down to 87 pounds after this chemo. So he NEEDs it!) Around 4am we were sent back to our hospital room. He was also kind enough to push back our 8am office visit to 10:30. So we quickly caught up on sleep. He was there the next morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, freshly dressed and as jovial as ever. And after visiting the office, we were so very grateful for our time with him in the ER. Our office visit was useful and thourough, but also sandwiched in between all the other patients waiting in line to see him. Had we not spent the evening conversing with him, we would not have gotten to know him so well or been able to ask all the questions we wanted to ask. He sent us with medical students to see a variety of doctors from eye specialist to head and neck surgeons. Our day was so full the never did get to sit down for a meal, but ate our meals in waiting rooms. To our suprise, Jonas drank Ensure instead of getting it through his feeding tube! From the early morning on, Jonas had new life in him. He volunteered, most of the time, to walk or push the wheelchair rather than riding in it. (Thank you to Susan Murphy who is letting us borrow her wheelchair. A perfect fit!) I could tell he was taking a new vested interest in his condition and was doing most of the talking with ALL his doctors now. That alone is giving him confidence, spunk and a more positive outlook on cancer and his treatment. We could not be happier! The surgical team decided that although the opthamologist recognizes that there is enough information going into and coming out of his eye and might be reversed, the tumor has ahold of it in a very bad postion futher back on the optic nerve. It is not in place were they can safely operate to release it. We were hoping something could be done to give him his vision back sooner than later, but that is not to be. Jonas seemed to take that information in stride. They were very realistic with him that while they hope to get it back while killing the tumor, there is a real possibility that it may never come back. Even if it does, it may be completely destroyed by the radiation he will get. Not what he wanted to hear. For a kid that loves to play baseball and wants to learn how to fly a plane - that stinks! (If you have ever seen the movie Little Miss Sunshine - you know what kind of reaction I was ready for.) He sucked it up and stayed positive. That night he had his first MRI with contrast since his cancer was first identified. They wanted to check images side-by-side with his original MRI to see if the tumor has shrunk. (shrank?, shrunk? has shranken? lol. I never could figure that one out = ) Anyway, we found out Friday morning that it HAS! Yay!!! We visitied with the Proton Therapy specialists Friday morning who showed us the head to head comparison. The tumor has dimished in some areas. Not so much in others. They told us they had aleady confered with Dr. Hughes and want to begin Proton therapy asap. This post is getting really long so I will divulge what all that means tomorrow. I will end with saying that we finished out trip with our first sit down meal of the entire stay at the hotel restaurant, which was pricey and not worth the expense. Lesson learned. We then hopped into a taxi and had a quick and very uneventful flight back home to Kansas City. It was good to be home. Brette and Blaire left for a float trip with Amber Dahm and the James family on Friday morning so they weren't here to greet up. We hear they are having a lovely time and that Blaire has latched on to Jonas' baseball coach, Shawn James. How sweet. It's only fitting since Jonas thinks the world of him, too. = ) Lovin' that. More soon...........
I am so happy that things went well. I keep you in my prayers every night. Sounds like another success. My prayers are that his eyesight be restored. That this cancer that has gotten ahold of him be taken away. My prayers for the family is that everyone gets through this burden and that God grant you comfort that things will be okay. I hope that you find some PEACE in every day. Love Aunt Stephanie
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