Day +336 (11 Months)

Horse Camp 2022

Branson

73rd Birthday

 It has been a long time since I have given an update!! Mom is doing great! She still travels in to Dallas on a regular basis to get blood work done and check her levels. She has enjoyed traveling again and getting back into her routine. She even felt like hosting horse camp again this year. We are praising God for answered prayer. We also are thankful this past weekend we got to celebrate her 73rd Birthday!!! Such a sweet time, and so thankful to celebrate even more than before.  Thank you for continuing to think about her and praying for her.  

To God be the Glory, great things He has done,

JJ 

Day +147 !!

I have not updated in so long!! Sorry for the delay, but there has been no news to report other than Mom is doing so well! We can do nothing but praise the Lord! A few sniffles and drainage here and there, but honestly, really doing good!! Better than the rest of our family who have had rounds of covid this season.  I believe the Lord is putting an extra special barrier of protection around her.

She still goes in on a regular basis to get her blood work done so they can check her levels and see if they need to tweak her medications.  But these have become pretty uneventful appointments so far.  

So I just wanted to give all you prayer warriors a praise and and update on Mom, and also a recent picture of her at the Ft. Worth Stock Show!!!

Thank you for all being so concerned and loving on her the way you do.  I will update again here in another month or so unless things change.

Love,

JJ

Day +64

 Well, I am having to do "high math" as the days continue to increase!!  Praise God we are at Day +64 and Mom continues to do well.  What a blessing, all we can say is "Thank you Lord!" 

She has a few discomforts now and then but when she goes to her weekly appointment, they check her blood levels, tweak what needs to be tweaked on her medication, and usually are able to take care of the problem with the adjustments.

We will continue to pray for no infections and no rejection to these new stem cells.  Also we continue to ask for renewed strength, and health as Mom steadily moves in the right direction.  We most of all, are just thankful.

Since so many of you enjoy seeing the pictures of Mom, here she is on a big outing to the Baylor/Texas game last weekend with Jamie's family.  What a blast they had and so much fun for Mom to see extended family at the game!!

Thank you for continuing to pray for Mom,

JJ

Day +49

Wow, almost half way through the first critical 100 days post transplant!! And those were supposed to be spent IN DALLAS, but glory to God, Mom IS HOME!! Hallelujah! We are so so thankful that she continues to do well and got to go home to the ranch on Friday!! 

Jamie and Reese, Jamie's youngest, had an appointment in Dallas on Friday morning and were able to pick Mom up and take her home to the ranch.  What a wonderful day and a wonderful welcome home!

Packing up the apartment!!

Heading Home!!

Cross J Ranch!!

Tara and the girls had hung balloons and signs!!

We will keep you posted as Mom continues to recover and grow new healthy blood.  All we can say is Thank you Lord.  We are grateful for every day, and that God continues to give us MORE days with Mom.  So thankful, so grateful for each of you that continue to pray for her and for our family.  We don't deserve more days or blessing or favor, it is only His grace and His new morning mercies that continue to give us every day, the breath in our lungs, and the strength to get out of bed.  All I can say is thank You for today.  Tomorrow is another day with it's own struggles, but we are grateful for today. 

Celebrating with you,

JJ

Day +42

 What a week Mom has had!

She has been able to have some wonderful visits from family and dear friends and this has been such a blessing and encouragement to her. 

She had her bone marrow biopsy last week, and received the initial results, but today we received some wonderful news! She found out that the bone marrow donor‘s blood cells have taken over 95% of the blood production! The doctor expects this to eventually move to 100%! Because she is doing so well, she will get to go home sometime later this week, to the ranch!! 

We are just praising the Lord for His grace and mercy and this unexpected shortening of her stay in Dallas! We are so excited to share this with all of you that are continuing to pray for Mom’s healing. Thank you all so very much!

Keep it up as we move toward these different bench marks of 100 days, then 6 months, and then a year.  These are significant in the bone marrow transplant time table. Each bench mark is another hurdle Mom has cleared toward full recovery and her body not rejecting the donor cells and developing graft vs. host disease  

Praising God with each of you over this wonder wonderful news!!

Love,

JJ 

Day +33

We received some wonderful news this weekend!! Friday Mom found out that the initial report from the Bone Marrow Biopsy shows NO LEUKEMIA!! We are praising God and thanking Him!! She said she would find out a more detailed report this next week.

Honestly, I don't even really understand all this exactly and what it means, but this sure sounds good to me!! We are so thankful, so keep praying that she will continue in this direction.  

Pray against any infection, and also against the graft vs. host disease.  

I just had to share this with all those that are lifting her up daily!! It is so good to hear the good report and join together in praising God for this good news.  Thank you Lord!!

Also, another blessing, this weekend, after Jamie's crew came up to Stillwater for the Baylor/OSU game, they came back through Dallas to see Mom.  Sweet pictures below of a sweet visit!

Love,

JJ

Day +28

 Well, no news is good news, right?!

Mom is plugging along, overall feeling pretty good.  This weekend was a blessing as she was able to see family and enjoy some grandkids and watching college football on Saturday.

This time with family is such a boost for her and encouragement.  We do not take these times for granted and know every day is a gift! What precious memories we are still getting to make. Thank You Lord.

Joy and her crew with the newest grandson!!

Mom and Jase.

Ray stopped by Dallas to see Mom on his way to see his parents in Tyler.

Today Mom will have a Bone Marrow Biopsy to see what is going on with the donor stem cells, her old stem cells, and see if the new is producing.  If all goes well, this will be the last one for about a year!! 

This can be a little painful, but they do give her medication before and after the procedure.  

Please join us in praying that we have great news, that her donor's cells have taken over and are producing strong healthy blood to replenish Mom's body and replace the cancer cells in the blood.

Love,

JJ