Dear Friends, our Marsha is only with us physically as she lays in a hospital bed in the bedroom. Hospice has been in charge of her medical needs the past 16 days and family and friends have been caregivers along with a couple of paid caregivers who have become "family".
Mona and Bob, our longtime friends from AZ, have been here a week and have done incredible ministry for Marsha and me. Marsha bonded with Mona and mostly trusts her beyond all others.
Mona is a writer of children books that our family have read and shared for many years, check out her website at monahodgson.com. I am asking Mona to fill you in below as she has been with our Marsha day and night.
Here is Mona: Hi, it has been good to be here with Dan and Marsha and their children; to see Devin and Michelle, Daren and Sky, Danelle and Keith minster to one another and to their parents. Thursday was Marsha's best day in the past week or more as it was what we refer to as her "Heaven" day. The Lord ministered peace to her spirit as He prepared her spiritually and emotionally for her eternal rest. And she had sweet time with family and friends--times of song, prayer, and sharing. Though Jesus didn't take her "home" that day or yet in the days that have followed, her body is beginning to shut down and the time of her physical relief is nearing.
Thank you especially for your prayers as the family continues to care for her and one another, and prepare themselves and their own families for losing a beloved wife, a mother, a grandmother, and an aunt.
This is Dan again: Your prayers, messages, food, offers of help, flowers, etc., has been truly appreciated by our family. Last night the hospice nurse came for a few hours and kicked us out to go to dinner together and get a respite. That was truly a blessed time together with Daren and Sky (who continued to have contractions in the restaurant), Danelle and her cousin Scott Lohrenz from WY, Bob and Mona and me.
Please try to leave a short comment or prayer below.
In Christ Alone,
Dan for Marsha
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
August 28
I have meant to update all of you about our Marsha the last few days, but.....
She is talking about her journey from earth to heaven and wondering why the Lord is not hurrying up the process. I reminded her of the passage she has quoted for the last four years
(Psalms 139) when she first discovered breast cancer. That seemed to calm her.
She is now in a hospital bed and is supposed to be non ambulatory, but she amazes us at times and finds a way to crawl around the rail and appear in the door way. We rush to catch her, but she has heard people talking in the living room and wants to be a part of the party. She usually tires out quickly and we escort her back to bed.
She only is seeing family now and that tires her out enough. She and I had a great conversation this am after she used the word "regrets" with Mona, a great friend who has been here for her most of the time with her husband Bob Hodgson. I leaned over her and said "I dont have any regrets marrying you or being with you these 38 years" and she looked up and opened her one good eye and said "I dont have any regrets marrying you Dan." Then Mona left and husband and wife had a great heart to heart. I shared with her Phil 4:8 which is one of her favority verses and we agreeded to think on these things today.
A special time was her Maid of Honor Kathy visiting Sunday night with her husdand Stan who I have never forgiven for the ball and chain on my leg at our wedding. They shared memorys and cried together and had a very sweet time together for about an hour. Then on monday afternoon her Matron of Honor Leemay who she traveled across the US in a VW in during the summer after Biola came and they had a blessed time together.
She told Mona that she is seeing the light today, but not Jesus yet.
Hospice and my kids are taking care of everything and letting me be the husband and Bob and Gary Long whose wife Kathy have been here for us have been with me daily to help me emotionally and do errand in preparation for her graduation.
Continue to pray for Sky, Daren's wife, to have Marsha's first granddaughter soon as that is all Marsha talks about and Sky is feeling guilty. However, Marsha has had some blessed one on one time with each of the kids and the daughter in laws.
I'll sign off now and leave the future in God's hands.
Dan
She is talking about her journey from earth to heaven and wondering why the Lord is not hurrying up the process. I reminded her of the passage she has quoted for the last four years
(Psalms 139) when she first discovered breast cancer. That seemed to calm her.
She is now in a hospital bed and is supposed to be non ambulatory, but she amazes us at times and finds a way to crawl around the rail and appear in the door way. We rush to catch her, but she has heard people talking in the living room and wants to be a part of the party. She usually tires out quickly and we escort her back to bed.
She only is seeing family now and that tires her out enough. She and I had a great conversation this am after she used the word "regrets" with Mona, a great friend who has been here for her most of the time with her husband Bob Hodgson. I leaned over her and said "I dont have any regrets marrying you or being with you these 38 years" and she looked up and opened her one good eye and said "I dont have any regrets marrying you Dan." Then Mona left and husband and wife had a great heart to heart. I shared with her Phil 4:8 which is one of her favority verses and we agreeded to think on these things today.
A special time was her Maid of Honor Kathy visiting Sunday night with her husdand Stan who I have never forgiven for the ball and chain on my leg at our wedding. They shared memorys and cried together and had a very sweet time together for about an hour. Then on monday afternoon her Matron of Honor Leemay who she traveled across the US in a VW in during the summer after Biola came and they had a blessed time together.
She told Mona that she is seeing the light today, but not Jesus yet.
Hospice and my kids are taking care of everything and letting me be the husband and Bob and Gary Long whose wife Kathy have been here for us have been with me daily to help me emotionally and do errand in preparation for her graduation.
Continue to pray for Sky, Daren's wife, to have Marsha's first granddaughter soon as that is all Marsha talks about and Sky is feeling guilty. However, Marsha has had some blessed one on one time with each of the kids and the daughter in laws.
I'll sign off now and leave the future in God's hands.
Dan
Monday, August 18, 2008
August 18
I want to thank so many of you that responded to my blog (Dan); many of you just replied via email or called one of our phone numbers. If you scroll down to bottom of current blog you will see comments. If you make your comments there, others can read them and be inspired as well and I can keep them in the same place for future use and easy access.
Many want to come and read or sign hymms with Marsha and she would love it for a half hour at a time; just call my number to schedule 235 8421.
Some have asked about bringing food. Marsha is on a strict diet of fresh organic steamed veges and grains, so I fix them for her each meal fresh. Then I fix my meal mostly as Marsha is heading off to bed.
Love ya, Dan
Many want to come and read or sign hymms with Marsha and she would love it for a half hour at a time; just call my number to schedule 235 8421.
Some have asked about bringing food. Marsha is on a strict diet of fresh organic steamed veges and grains, so I fix them for her each meal fresh. Then I fix my meal mostly as Marsha is heading off to bed.
Love ya, Dan
Saturday, August 16, 2008
August 16
Dan here: I just wrote a blog and clicked the wrong button and now I am doing it over again.
We need our friends and prayer partners to lift up Marsha at this time and seek God's will for her future as she has taken a turn for the worst.
An update: She has had horrific pain beginning two months ago and every pain killer the doctor prescribes is worse, causing her to vomit and dry heaves. She cant eat, which is a problem since she needs food in her stomach to take her meds. About a month ago she began to see double and we found out she has a pulsy behind her eye that has become more and more debilitating to the point that she cant see much and light stings her eyes and brain. She cant drive and only goes out infrequently (doctors, appointments) as she vertigo and balance and riding in a car is a huge problem. The morphine pill tends to take the edge off the pain if she can keep it down. The pulsy has left her left side frozen and tingling from her eyes to her face to her shoulder down her arm and side and now even in her left leg. Chiropractors and massage therapists wont touch her fearing they will spread the cancer that is now traveled up her spine into her lower skull.
She enjoys the only form of communiction she has, her cell phone 235 9226, and would enjoy short 5 minute calls as well as humor to her email ml_boggs@yahoo.com which I can read to her. We read Oswell Chambers "His Upmost for His Highest" and discuss it and pray each day. If you are reading this too for daily devotions you can talk about it when you call that day.
Marsha is excited about including a GRANDDAUGHTER to our picture above that is due in a few weeks to Daren and Sky. She enjoys her family that all live within minutes of us. And she enjoys her church and Christian friends that have become like sisters to her (you know who you are).
Love, Dan
We need our friends and prayer partners to lift up Marsha at this time and seek God's will for her future as she has taken a turn for the worst.
An update: She has had horrific pain beginning two months ago and every pain killer the doctor prescribes is worse, causing her to vomit and dry heaves. She cant eat, which is a problem since she needs food in her stomach to take her meds. About a month ago she began to see double and we found out she has a pulsy behind her eye that has become more and more debilitating to the point that she cant see much and light stings her eyes and brain. She cant drive and only goes out infrequently (doctors, appointments) as she vertigo and balance and riding in a car is a huge problem. The morphine pill tends to take the edge off the pain if she can keep it down. The pulsy has left her left side frozen and tingling from her eyes to her face to her shoulder down her arm and side and now even in her left leg. Chiropractors and massage therapists wont touch her fearing they will spread the cancer that is now traveled up her spine into her lower skull.
She enjoys the only form of communiction she has, her cell phone 235 9226, and would enjoy short 5 minute calls as well as humor to her email ml_boggs@yahoo.com which I can read to her. We read Oswell Chambers "His Upmost for His Highest" and discuss it and pray each day. If you are reading this too for daily devotions you can talk about it when you call that day.
Marsha is excited about including a GRANDDAUGHTER to our picture above that is due in a few weeks to Daren and Sky. She enjoys her family that all live within minutes of us. And she enjoys her church and Christian friends that have become like sisters to her (you know who you are).
Love, Dan
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