Prayer Update

I have to admit I was taken off guard by this one!

As I mentioned before, Dutchman is in Holland with his father-in-law whom has cancer, his weight had fallen to 90 pounds, he was poorly responsive and they gave him to last Saturday to live.  I got the call from Dutchman as to his hopelessness.  What can you say?  A really cool Christian man, a pastor, a missionary, someone you have known and respected for decades is slipping away.

Next day, a very excited Dutchman calls to say that things have changed incredibly!!!!!  Really?

I guess even if you are dying from cancer, the doctors do not necessarily give up on you!  One doctor, that first day Dutchman was there, noticed that Gene was on a medicine which causes a severe lactose intolerance.  Gene's diet was heavily filled with dairy products.  So, he changed the diet for the whole day and stopped that medication from being given to Gene.  Dutchman called to tell me that Gene was up and walking around, talking and having albeit shaky but good time!  Only 24 hours later!

What the heck!?!?!?!?!?

I am glad that Dutchwoman gets to now visit for a week with her father rather than be making burial arrangements!  But, like my grandmother, whom rallied for three weeks before her death, Gene has lost so much it is sort of in the cards for him still, but not quite yet.

As for Gene's other children?  Nope all no shows and that sort of says something about them ...