Coach Outlet We had lived nine days in an emotional casino, awaiting the results of Michael's bone marrow tests. Before I left for work on February 26, 1992. I spent a special time in prayer for our 6-month-old son. The test results were due later that day.
The latest link in our family chain of Jacklyn, 9, Amy, 6, and Kevin, 3, was blood-haired, blue-eyed Michael Jeffrey Lee-land. Not long after I started my new teaching job at Kamiakin Junior High near Seattle, Michael had developed pneumonia. Though he responded well to treatment, the doctor was concerned that his platelets. the clotting cells in his blood, were at a surprisingly low level. A month later, physicians at Children's Hospital and Medical Center inserted a long needle into Michael's pelvic bone and removed a sample of his bone marrow. Then we took our baby home to wait for the test result-and pray.
Cheap coach bags Later on that morning of February 26, the clock on my office wall reminded me that it was time to call home. The minute I heard my wife's voice I knew it was bad news. "Michael has what?" I asked.
Through her tears, Kristi repeated the diagnosis, "Michael has my elodysplastic syndrome. It's a pre-leukemia disease. He needs a bone-marrow transplant."
cheap chanel bags Two words, leukemia and transplant, combined in a sledgehammer punch to my gut. Without a transplant, Michael's condition would progress to terminal leukemia. He might live weeks, maybe a year.
chanel j12 Gripped by fear, my deepest question was amply: Why Michael ? Why not the child abuser, the drug pusher? Why not me? Could I say that my heart was pure, that I was above divine chastening? There were no audible, easy answers-no words of wisdom, no heavenly visions, no angelic visitations. Answers to such questions of the human heart must come by faith-a faith, in our case, shaken to the foundation.
The latest link in our family chain of Jacklyn, 9, Amy, 6, and Kevin, 3, was blood-haired, blue-eyed Michael Jeffrey Lee-land. Not long after I started my new teaching job at Kamiakin Junior High near Seattle, Michael had developed pneumonia. Though he responded well to treatment, the doctor was concerned that his platelets. the clotting cells in his blood, were at a surprisingly low level. A month later, physicians at Children's Hospital and Medical Center inserted a long needle into Michael's pelvic bone and removed a sample of his bone marrow. Then we took our baby home to wait for the test result-and pray.
Cheap coach bags Later on that morning of February 26, the clock on my office wall reminded me that it was time to call home. The minute I heard my wife's voice I knew it was bad news. "Michael has what?" I asked.
Through her tears, Kristi repeated the diagnosis, "Michael has my elodysplastic syndrome. It's a pre-leukemia disease. He needs a bone-marrow transplant."
cheap chanel bags Two words, leukemia and transplant, combined in a sledgehammer punch to my gut. Without a transplant, Michael's condition would progress to terminal leukemia. He might live weeks, maybe a year.
chanel j12 Gripped by fear, my deepest question was amply: Why Michael ? Why not the child abuser, the drug pusher? Why not me? Could I say that my heart was pure, that I was above divine chastening? There were no audible, easy answers-no words of wisdom, no heavenly visions, no angelic visitations. Answers to such questions of the human heart must come by faith-a faith, in our case, shaken to the foundation.