I can only do this update once every four years.

Well, today is that day that rolls around every four years. Good thing that Mckenna was born last Friday and not today. I hate to think of a four year old getting their drivers license. (get it?) Anyways, besides being sore from the birth, Stacy and Steve now have to contend with Tyler having strep throat. Patti says she just hopes I don't get anything out of it since they were here all day Thursday and Ty said he wasn't feeling good toward the late afternoon.

Patti got in touch with Dr. Peleg's office today and they are gathering up all the info that they need from Dr. Koon so that we can get started on the interferon hopefully on March 10th. That will mean Ty and Micah will have grandpa in good spirits on their 5th birthdays next week. For those of you who do not know, they are what Patti and I call our twins by different parents. They were born 18 hours apart and when the two of them, well really when all four of them get together you would think that they are brothers and not cousins. Patti and I think that it's great that they play together that way. It will be interesting this summer when all four go on the camping trip with us. Josh has been limited up to now because Josh is Josh and he has his own set of rules. Well grandma's rules are in effect when we camp.

I was able to sleep thru the night for the first time in over two weeks and woke up without a headache for a few hours. I am learning to control the headache and neck ache by just stopping, calming myself and closing my eyes for a few minutes. I hate to take medicine and have not gotten the prescription yet, and probably will not. I rather do it the way I am and control it myself.

And not to be a commercial, but I have been trying a product called Meadowlake Farm Renewing Salve and Renewing Complex. The salve has really helped me with the radiation burns. It has put me ahead of schedule on the healing. The salve has also softened my scars from the surgeries. But it has also softened scars that I have had for years. The stuff really works and it is all natural. I am not a natural or organic nut, but this stuff has really done the job that aloe and the other petroleum based salves did not do. It is all based on honey and beeswax. Again, I am trying this for them on a trial basis, but I can tell you the stuff really works. Even on chap lips.

Continue to pray for Stacy and Steve and the kids, Pastor Quick, Barb, Ralph, Mary Buckholtz and others that need your prayers. Thanks.