today is marks big day...
tim's brother mark has been a real trooper though this whole ordeal. it would be IMPOSSIBLE for us to express the gratitude that we have for his willingness AND genuine desire to do this for his brother.
the past 4 days have had him driving back and forth to hershey for a series of tests and shots to prepare for the harvest which is at 8am this morning. mark and deb will be spending anywhere from 4-6 hours in the blood bank today. he will have one arm hooked up to a machine that will take out his blood and spin it to be able to remove the "stem cells" and then remix the portion they don't need and put it back into his other arm. he could harvest as many as 5-6 million stem cells today-tim will need about 2 million of those cells (which he will get tomorrow). isn't science a wonderful thing...
pray that mark has a great day and that all will go well for him today.
i will try to update on tim later on. we wanted to just throw out a general but heart-felt thank-you to all who offered to be tested for tim's transplant-and to gwen who was tested and was a very close match...thank you all.
as always we appreciate all your love and care and concern.
(tim and ) tammy
posted by tdewalt @ 6:38 AM
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Hi Tim and Tammy
We are Trusting The Lord for a good report for Tim.The Men's Bible Class at church has been holding Tim up in prayer every Sunday.We also pray for Your Family and read updates on the Blog site each day.
Blessing from
Dick/Kathy
Jn1010~
Hi Tim and TAmmy, please know that you have been in our prayers every day. We admire your tremendous strength and optimism throughout this whole ordeal. Sometimes we feel so helpless, we want to help but we just keep praying. Take care. Know that the power of the Holy Spirit is behind you. Bill and Joanna
Tim and Tammy,
May God give you a good day. Rest in the assurance that we are all praying for you. WE love you. God loves you more than we do. We are walking through this with you. If only we could do more!
Got the report on the harvested cell count. WAHOO!!! Is our God awesome or what? Not just so-so, not just barely enough. Not even just good. Nope. Not our God. He is the God of WAY more than enough. Only the best for his kids. Even in the hardest of circumstances we can count on Him for the best. We are celebrating and praising Him right along with you tonight for His abundance in this leg of the journey. Me the kids were laughing and crying and dancing around like nuts. (did I just type that?!) Anyway, yes, we get a little excited over here at how great our God is. So now we look ahead to the next thing prayerfully and expecting once again His very best. Love to all of you!!!
Tim,Tam and girls,
We are so encouraged when reading the messages of love and support to you. God is so good to give us relationships - family, friends, co workers, prayer partners all over this world and brothers and sisters in His great big family. We thank God for each and everyone who has blessed your family.We pray, right now, that God blesses them and their loved ones. Now, let us all agree together, in JESUS name, that the miracle He began in Tim's body will be complete. We give GOD "ALL THE GLORY" for Tim's healing, we thank Him and praise Him. WE HAVE VICTORY
IN JESUS!!!
JOHN 20:30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Isa 12:5 "Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world."
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