May 14, 2010

Dear friends and family,

First of all I want to thank all of you for your prayer support, letters, cards, emails, visits and flowers sent to us and Crystal. Its been very encouraging to us.

As for an update. After a good weekend, especially Sunday, we hoped her condition would continue to improve. It was so good to see her improve, but it seems as though God still has other plans. I must conclude that those several good days were a miracle from God. Thank-You Dear God.

This week her condition seemed to regress again. Her movements have gotten bad again. She's also having some other health issues that concern us. This morning she had ear ache. As the day progressed she got worse so we took her to our family doctor. She has an acute ear infection, something very unusual for her to have. We talked to her neurologist today. We sense that he does not understand why her body is doing some of the things it has been doing. He said he was in contact with several other Neurologists to get some direction. He told us that she should quit taking the medication he prescribed last week. He did schedule her for another Botox treatment next Thursday. So far we have seen very little affects of her other treatment. At this point there are some unanswered questions. Pray that God would give us wisdom in knowing what steps to take in trying to seek help.

We are thankful for Crystals cheerfulness through all this. She does not have much pain which we are so thankful for. We certainly sense Gods grace and courage he gives to us. One night this week I woke up and lay awake for quite some time thinking about some of the cares of this life and then it seemed like God was telling me to cast these cares at the feet of Jesus and was reminded of the words, Casting all your cares upon Him for He careth for you. What a promise and blessing to know that God cares.

Dave