happy whipple day

One year ago today, my mom spent 8.5 hours in surgery while hundreds of prayer warriors stormed the gates of heaven on her behalf. Volunteering to pray during specified time slots, our friends made sure that a prayer was being said for Mom during every moment of her Whipple surgery. They also made sure that the rest of us were not alone as we waited - forty friends came by to love us, feed us, and pray with us during our 10-hour stay in the waiting room. Nearly 400 people visited this blog throughout the day checking for updates. Our facebook pages and phones overflowed with messages of support, encouragement, and love.

To each of you who said a prayer, who came to visit, who brought a meal, who sent a message of hope - "thank you" doesn't seem sufficient. But thank you, thank you, thank you. God has carried us through the last year with amazing grace and He's used you to do it. Your kindness and love still overwhelm me.

One year later, Trish still has no pancreatic cancer in sight!

Happy Whipple Day. : )

 

  
"The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy!" -Psalm 126:3


P.S. One of those friends who waited at the hospital with us was our dear friend Nancy, who unexpectedly passed away this past Thursday. She and her husband Don have loved my mom as one of their own since she was a little girl. My parents and some other friends had just been out to dinner with Nancy and Don the night before she died. Please keep her family and friends in your prayers, especially this weekend.