Friday my husband was emceeing a pep rally, Saturday he was coaching my
daughter in a soccer game, and Sunday he woke up with vertigo.
I asked him to go to the hospital because we were really worried, and as you
know all guys, they are "tough," and he said no. I ended up going to church that
morning, and it was a blessing that I did because a friend of mine, she ended up
being at church and she saw that there was some concern in my eyes and she was
an ER nurse, and she came up and asked me what was wrong and I said "I'm really
worried about my husband" and she said "Well then, you know what, let me just go
over and check him out." And within about five minutes they said you need to go to
the hospital now. He is, he was a teacher and a coach and we have five children,
and by that night we found out that he had stage four colon cancer. And that
rocked our world. I kind of turned everybody, tuned everybody out,
and that's how I kind of deal with stuff, I just kind of need to be alone and I ran
to the bathroom and I locked the door, and all I could say was "Heavenly Father,
whatever is they will. I can't change it, even though I want to, but I will do
whatever you need me to do. And that was really hard because this is my best
friend. We had been married for 21 years at that time. We ended up spending about
30 days in the hospital with everything that he had to go through.
It was amazing to see the help that we received. Not only did we not have to worry
about my kids, because they were being taken care of, but a community came
together. Our church community and my husband's work community, his school and
they worked together. They talked and got meals put together. Now one of the things
that touched my heart the most, and it helped me go through some of the hardest
trials, was there were many times that I woke up thinking I needed to go to the
store and get things, and I had to get up and drive after not having that much
sleep because of different episodes my husband have, and I would open up the
door, and everything I needed was there off my doorstep. I don't know how it got
there, and I truly believe that Heavenly Father touched someone's heart, and said
that we needed that at that time. You never know what you do, and how it will
help someone. Even the smallest things: someone cleaning our front yard, or our
house, someone staying with our kids, someone getting the band together to
come to our house and play for my husband because he missed all of his students
so much. That is his world, and for them to take the time out and march down our
street, and play the fighting song for him and telling him he was a fighter,
and doing different things at school to show him that they loved him.
Those are small ways to minister to people, small ways to serve people that
mean the world.
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