Hopefully you have gotten to read about Luna and are up to date. If you arent, its the previous blog for April 30th. As far as today, she is still leaking from the paracentesis spots (3 holes total) and this is abnormal. This should not be happening but as my vet says "she defies all things" evidently. It did help her. She isnt panting quite as much but she is still uncomfortable from the fluids. But we have to give it til next week to see if her own body is going to reabsorb it. For now, my instinct was to put a wrap around her belly with gauze and basically make a dressing for her (can you tell I'm a nurse?) When I talked to dr. Carol today, she said thats pretty much the best thing we can do. So we are putting neosporin on it and keeping it covered in hopes of preventing infection. I just pray that it stops soon so we dont have to worry about infection, because she is immunocompromised right now from all the meds shes on. So we can only do our best and we are. She is moving about a lil better and seems a tad more comfortable. She ate really good this morning so we are still hopeful. It just sucks living in uncertainty :(. So thats where we are right now with her.
In other news...spring break was alot of fun being at home with the family. I really miss them so it was really nice to see everyone. Here are some pics from the visit :)
And now for sad news. In January and February, my lil ferret, Demi, started to play with me less. She used to get out and play for hours. She started playing less and less and searching for a cozy more and more. This is normal for old age ferrets. She was going to be 7 this year and 6 is old for a ferret. Well she had cancer, as you may know. She has had it for 2 years but we were giving her treatments that suppressed the symptoms to improve quality of life and she was a happy girl. Over spring break, Cory stayed home with the cat and the weasel so he could do research. Demi began to be uninterested in food and was wobbly, unsteady and just not acting right. We made an appointment with the vet on March 20th. Cory took her to the vet with me on speakerphone in STL. The vet did an assessment and said that she had had a stroke. :( If we didn't put her to sleep, she would only live for 1-2 more days so...I was in STL on the phone with Cory when they put her to sleep. unable to be with my weasel I have had since I was 16/17. :( That was heartbreaking, very heartbreaking. I wish I could have been there for her. When I came back home, it was strange to not see her cage, not be scheduling time to get her out to play with her, and to not hear "weasel itches" or noises such as her balls she would play with. So on March 20th, my weasel lay to rest. Here she is, loving her Momma...
Here is a rose that our vet sent us in memory of Demi Brooke.
And here is a lil memorial place we set up for her. We had her cremated because I would like to bury her in my parents backyard with the rest of my ferrets. Until then, she is in this lil memorial Cory made for her. She LOVED her igloos and in fact, would get in them and push it with her nose across the floor...we called this "weasel tank" She had her own personal army tank ;) One of her blankies with her favorite ball toys are in the igloo. The colored paper is a Rainbow Bridge poem that the cremation place gave us and she is inside a velvet pouch that is embroidered with the words "Until we meet again my friend, on Rainbow Bridge". I miss her greatly.
Now I get home from Spring break, having just lost my ferret. And Luna's illness saga begins, June ends up getting sick and my stupid betta starts laying on the bottom of the tank. That week I got back everyone was trying to croak! Well, June got medicine and she was well within a few days. My fish acted like he was dying for about a week and now he is revived and well again. Strange. And we are still battling whatever is wrong with Luna. Even though we are hopeful I am wrought with grief because I know there is a possibility that we may lose Luna now. I am trying to be stay hopeful, but its hard to get that out of my head. I look over at her and see her panting because of the fluid in her tummy and while she is still that happy/tail wagging/cuddle me/give me a treat pup, I just see her not being "healthy" and it breaks my heart. Its one of those things that you really dont want to deal with but have no choice to. I am just grateful that I am not dealing with this uncertainty with a person. It sucks, but I would much rather deal with this with a pet rather than my husband, parents, grandparents, brother... but that doesnt make it easy at all. Luna is my baby and I have a special connection with her so ...it just is hard, especially after just losing one of my other pets Anyway, I know that I am "miss happy sunshine", arent i? ;) I guess I better go study for my final I have on Tuesday...if there is even such a thing as being able to focus... Have a great afternoon everyone and I will be blogging more tomarrow. Until then...caio
Well, I havent blogged in just about forever. My critical care rotation is coming to an end. I have a final next week and I am done! YAY! Then all I have left is my internship in the fall. Exciting stuff :)
Been kind of down here, :( struggling with Luna's health and so I am finally gonna write about whats goin on. To start, Luna has had chronic diarrhea since she was a pup. We got her at 7 weeks old. But she gained weight, and ate good. Then at about 1years old, she got super picky about eating. We tried to figure out what was going on for the past 6 months, putting her on different antibiotics and such, switching brands of food etc. She is suppose to eat like 2 1/2 cups of dog food a day. Often times I could only get her to eat 1 1/2 for the whole day. She just kept getting pickier and pickier but acted totally fine and happy. Since she was about 1 year, she has weighed 45 lbs. She realistically should weigh at least 50-55 which is why we tried to figure out what was with the diarrhea but cuold never come to a conclusion. Well I got home from spring break in March and she lost alot of weight and there was blood in her stool. She was 38-39 lbs and was acting tired, but not lethargic. She wouldnt eat very much at all, 1/2 cup a day if that. We started doing test after test trying to figure out what could be going on. We put her on a special prescription diet (z/d diet). She would eat the canned food ok, but it was still very difficult to get her to eat. I tried adding peanut butter, bbq sauce, anything to make it taste "better". That first week we got back, we did blood work and found her hematocrit and hemoglobin were very low and that she was extremely lacking in the albumin department. She was super anemic and malnourished cuz we couldnt get her to eat a good amt. So she got a B12 shot and antibiotics. Our vet had a huge list of things that could be happening and narrowed it down eventually to Lupis, leukemia, severe allergy or a rare disease called lymphangectasia. Her first initial thought was Addisons diease but the other diseases we were facing were much more severe so that got put on the back buner. The next week her platelets crapped out and the vet told me that I needed to face the inevitable that I was most likely going to lose Luna cuz if her platelets got much lower she would bleed out. That on top of my crazy school workload has really made me down lately, cuz Luna is my baby! Well, we put her on a new diet... 1/2 cup farina, 1 1/2 cups of cottage cheese, 1 tbs veggie oil, 3 tbs sugar and 2 tbs brewers yeast with one boiled egg. BOY! Did she start eating good. We also put her on prednisone. Prednisone is bad long term for dogs and causes complications and shortens thier lifespan, but its a short term wonderdrug. We were willing to do whatever we needed to do to help her. A few days later, her platelets had doubled. YAY! We were seeing small improvements. We did a titer and found that it was not Lupis. A buffy coat smear showed that it is most likely not leukemia (although for 2 weeks we thought thats what it was). She began to gain weight like crazy. Last week she was back to her 45 lbs and starting to feel much better and much happier. Then a new symptom. Shivering. Emergency trip to the vet we go and I miss class for it. We thought it was her potassium being low causing the shivering and they did an electrolyte panel checking her potassium and sodium. Abnormal potassium levels can cause heart arrthymias so it was important to check this. The electrolyte panel comes back... Prednisone makes ya really hungry, thirsty and pee alot. You pee out potassium so her potassium should be low and her sodium high due to the pred. well, her labs were perfect, which made the vet think its Addisons (the first thing she initially thought). She kept thinkin its addisons, while the pathologist she has been working with on Lunas case thought leukemia or lymphangectasia. Well this past monday we put her on Florinef, a drug that manages lifelong Addisons. 4 days later her stool is improving despite the fact that her poor intestines hate life. Rather than being watery, its got some kind of consistency which again makes Dr. Carol think its Addisons. So we have been on a roller coaster of "shes gonna make it, no shes not, shes gonna make it, no shes not". Well Tuesday, she begins to do the shivering thing again (which is a sign of addisons, but at this point, could it be somethign else?) But this time its her whole body, so I call Dr. Carol and ask her what she thinks, do i bring her in or let it pass? She wants me to bring her in for another complete blood count. well, her hematocrit and hemoglobin are improving YAY! She also has reticulocytes which means her body is TRYING to make Red blood cells. But her platelets went down the hole again :( lower then the first time. So Wednesday, she goes in for a blood transfusion. Ya gotta think we are crazy at this point to be doing this for a dog. But Luna is not even 2 yet...and if it truely is Addisons, if we get her past this stupid part, she will be a healthy dog once again. So, blood transfusion goes well. Her gums are pinker, rather than pale paper white. Now we got a new problem. Over the past few days she has been breathing more rapid each day. Prednisone can cause that. Its a side effect. Well by yesterday when we took her to do the blood transfusion, Dr. Carol wanted to do an xray of her tummy cuz her tummy was distended. Sure she has been eating 3 times a day, a healthy amount, and shes got a big belly. She went from 39 lbs to 48 lbs in 2 weeks. On the xray, they were looking for a constricted bowel or intestinal problem that we would finally be seeing cuz she was eating. If this was the case, surgery would be required. Well, good news, but uncomfortable news for luna. No surgery required is the good news. Bad news, She has ascites, this means "fluid in the abdomen" The reason her tummy is so full is that fluid from her blood vessels has leaked out into her peritoneal cavity. Albumin, one of the largest proteins in our bodies, helps maintain an osmotic fluid balance in our vessels. If you lose albumin, your fluid starts to shift out of the vessels and this is what has happened to Luna. Albumin also is a sign of how nourished one is. So if you are malnourished, like Luna was, byebye albumin. This fluid buildup is mashing up on her diaphragm and making her take shallow breaths so she is breathing much faster. And she is quite uncomfortable now :(
well, just got back from the vet. We did a paracentesis, which means Dr. Carol drew fluid out of Luna's abdomen. She pulled 265 ml's total. This should help her feel a lil more comfortable. Because she got a whole blood transfusion yesterday, her blood should have albumin in it now which will pull that fluid back into the vessels. But that is gonna take 3-4 days or so. So, we went ahead and did a paracentesis to help her feel a lil better. This may sound awful and like we are prolonging something and just making her uncomfy and unhappy. But she is still a happy, love on me, cuddle with me, do tricks for a treat happy dog. We just have to fix these other problems (which means she may be uncomfy for a short while) before she gets better. We really are trying to do what we can for her. Right now, we still have options and we are taking them, as we did yesterday with the blood transfusion and today with the paracentesis. Our vet feels good about her prognosis so that is hopeful. If it truely is Addison's as they all believe it is, then all this will be well worth it since she can live a normal life with Addison's... Here are a few pics of our baby girl. Look at her lil paws where they shaved to do the blood transfusion. Please pray for our pup!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Hey folks!
Whew. Time sure flies. My community rotation is coming to an end. We had our last exam on Monday (which I got a 94 whoohoo!) and we also did the ERI (which I talked about at the end of last semester -national exam) which I got 4 points above the national average! Monday was a great day for me! I have finals this week and then I start critical care! I cannot believe how fast the semester has gone. Already halfway done! While I am nervous, I am really excited for critical care because students that have been thru this semester say this is the rotation where it all seems to come together. It has slowly been coming together. Each week that goes by makes me feel more and more like a nurse :) I can't believe I only have a semester and half left til I am a nurse! Wow! Through my community rotation, I have found that I really enjoy community health, educating and managing cases. I started to look into grad school at SLU (St. Louis University) even though its a ways off still. I am thinking about becoming a Nurse Specialist and being a case manager. I would love to work with individual families, educating them and helping them find resources for whatever their situation. But I will most likely work in the hospitals for a while to get experience and while going through grad school. Grad school is just a thought right now and since graduation is getting closer, it doesn't hurt to explore options now :)
Cory is still blowing things up and spending alot of time in his lab. I will be heading to STL for spring break while he stays behind to work in the lab. He also has been working on his Roadrunner and working on getting the engine built with the help of a machine shop in Tulia. He has really enjoyed it! He also did some engineering on the side and I was really impressed with it so I wanted to share a picture of his beautiful engineering :) A work bench for all his lovely greasy car parts!
well, time for me to unload some pictures. This first album is from last semester. We delivered a baby, nursing student style with SimMomma, a simulation mannequin. It is as realistic as it can be to a live birth so enter at your own risk!
My good friend Christina added a new addition to her family a couple weeks ago. =) Lil Jake entered the world on February 16th! Here are some pics of her new lil one :)
There is much more to blog about but I need to go run some errands and pick Cory up from the Chevy dealer. He is getting the radio in his HHR worked on. So, I am off! Here is a video to make you smile. It made me laugh and I hope it does you too!
Been quite a while since I been able to update the blog. We have been so busy! And there is much to update so this might be a long one!
My semester has been a happy one so far. I only have 2 weeks left of my community rotation and then I move on to critical care, which I am pretty excited about. I have done clinicals at a cancer center, a slaugter house (ya, a slaugther house, I got to see the WHOLE plant too...poor cows, but I sure do love hamburger), home health and hospice and our campus medical center. I have enjoyed all my rotations so far. I have also been working on a project with my partner Christina for the past 4 weeks. We had to research Hyperlipidemia and create a booth for a health fair we will be doing for the homeless population at a shelter next week. We created some pretty nifty handouts as well as a pretty awesome poster that we are proud of. Here are some pics of our presentation day and some of the other groups posters. We also made goodie bags to hand out to the homeless. It was a fun day. I would rather do public speaking then take an exam!
Christina is 39 weeks pregnant now but has been in active labor for the past week. We weren't sure if I was going to be doing the presentation alone or not! She is due anytime! So we worked on our project together every Mon/Thursday after clas for the past 4 weeks. It was the least stressful project ever. Christina was the best partner I have ever had for a class project! One day we were heading to hobby lobby to get some materials for our project and to get materials for a mum for her door when the baby does come. We heard that Kat Country was giving away a pair of tickets to the Monster Trucks. We went to thier location they were hanging out at but missed it. Someone had already gotten the tickets. Willy (the dj) said he would be in Canyon later that day so we had another chance. Well, I was staying in Canyon for most of the day because I was going out with Kendra (girls nite! Dinner and Beauty and the Beast musical at WT which was AMAZING). So I ran some errands in Canyon and hung out in the parking lot by Hastings across from campus, listening to the radio and doing homework. Around 4:45, Willy pulls right up beside me in his Kat Country truck. I rolled my window down and he started laughing, remembering me from earlier and I said "You couldn't have made that any easier!!" He handed me my tickets and we chatted for a lil bit. YAY!! It was a surprise for Cory and I told him I love him enough to hang out in my car for 4 hours to get him tickets to the Monster Trucks. Here are some pics from the Monster Trucks
Many of you have recieved my emails that announced I am now a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant! I am having alot of fun with it and enjoying running my own business. It is great because it is SOOO flexible and I am my own boss. It is what I make it. Its great! It has introduced me to some wonderful women that I spend every Tuesday night with (when clinicals don't get in the way!) We have a blast and it is so fun to be around encouraging women who have thier own business as well. I am going through "Stiletto Camp" right now which is a conference call new consultant training and I have "to-do" lists. If I complete all the objectives, I recieve a prize! I didn't realize how much I love winning prizes until now LOL. So far I have shared the Mary Kay opportunity with 6 women via conference calls with my director (Thanks to those that helped me!) and I won my pearls of sharing earrings and bracelet! Even a ring! I have also won other little prizes including a Mary Kay money bag! its so cute!
Cory has also been working on his Roadrunner alot here lately. I will post more pics later this weekend if I get the chance. For now, I will end with a video of Luna.
Whoa, been over a month since I blogged. Its been a crazy past month and I have about a billion pictures to prove it ;) As everyone knows, I am overly obsessed with pictures. I think after I graduate from nursing school, I would really like to take some classes on photography and get a really spiffy camera and follow in the footsteps of my Uncle Tim ;) I love taking pictures so much and of course, they are nowhere near professional level at this point, but it is something I am considering pursuing in the future.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and a VERY happy new year! I believe I left off with deer hunting and finals last post. It was such a relief to be done for a short while. To celebrate, a couple of my girlfriends got together at my house and we had a cookie party! It was so much fun =)
We had a great Christmas! This was our first Christmas with the Farleys/Hedricks. It was their turn ;) Here are some pics of Christmas in Texas Christmas in Texas: Volume 1
I am sitting in Cory's lab while he blows stuff up and burns and nuc's things. As much as he tries to explain it to me, I still don't get it ;) So I am waiting for him to finish his research for today so I can go shopping! I decided I would use the time to blog, post pics and then work on Christmas cards. So, lets post some pics, shall we?
Last weekend, Cory took me hunting in Quitique. It was going to be my first attempt to go deer hunting...ever. We got to Quitique Friday night where Cory and his dad gave me a crash course on how to shoot a rifle. I didn't get a chance to practice. So they showed me in a magazine where to line the cross hairs and then quizzed me on a whole bunch of pics of deer. Saturday morning, 630 am, we head out to the fields to find the mule-y deer are already out and about! They hadn't been coming out til about 7. So we go head out to the field and wait for the sunrise. When I took my first shot, I pulled the trigger to quickly and must have jerked the gun enough to make the bullet go high or low. I have decided that muleys are stupid because instead of running like any white tailed deer in thier right mind would do, this muley looked around and said "what the heck was that!?" He then proceeded over a hill where I couldnt see him in the scope anymore. He was only a spike so I am sorta thankful I missed. ;) The second one came, he was a spike and a fork. This time, on my second time ever shooting a rifle, (the first being moments before!), I got my first deer :) It was sad but exciting at the same time. =) Cory got a 5 point also this weekend. We are going back tomarrow to process both the deer ourselves so that will be an experience. Here are the pics to go with my first deer hunting experience. About halfway through there is a picture with a caption that says "enter at your own risk" because there are some pics of us skinning and quartering it. So if you dont want to see that, I am warning you not to go past that. ;) Like I said, Enter at Your Own Risk!
For Thanksgiving, my parents came to town! YAY!!!!!!!!! It was so much fun =). It was great to have Thanksgiving at my house and it was our very first time to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Cory was in charge of the ham and the turkey. Mom and I did sides. Dad poured the wine ;) Thanks dad! Here are some pics of us prepping with our Christmas decor followed by the actual pics of the visits. I will take pics of all the decor and post those later. So here ya go!
We also trooped while my parents were here! We rang the Salvation Army bells at Walmart and made $301.54 in three hours. It was a blast!! Here are some pics !
I hope everyone's Christmas shopping is going smoothly. I'm anxiously awaiting Cory to finish so I can go shop. I did bring my Christmas cards so I may get to work on this now...take care everyone!
Yesterday marked the end of them semester for both of us. WHOOO! Sorry I have not blogged in the past month, but it has been quite hectic here. And I have forgotten what it feels like to not do homework...awwwww...feels great ;) So let me feel you in!
My past 4 weeks are what college kids like to call "heck week." (I will use nice words! lol) I have been on the go nonstop for the past few weeks with papers, exams, homeworks...more papers...The week before Thanksgiving, I wrote 4 papers! PHEW! One of them was a 14 page literature review for my research class about hospice nurse burnout titled: Palliative Care Burnout: A Literature Review on Risk Factors and Coping Strategies. I am actually quite proud of that one! And it is something I hope I can change or impact in the future because palliative care is my passion. And after writing this paper, I found it is just as important to care for the caregivers. OH I LOVE NURSING! I also wrote a 9 page evidence based practice paper for my OB/pedi class titled Evidence Based Practice: Grief Reactions of Women Experiencing an Elective Abortion. I chose this topic because although I do not believe in abortion, I most likely will take care of a patient that has had one and one thing about nursing, is that we are to remain unbiased in our care for our patients, regardless of our beliefs vs. theirs. We cannot let that step in our way of quality care so I thought it would be an interesting topic to cover.
So, last week I had a clinical exam on Tuesday and an ERI (national online exam) on Wednesday. And what a week that turned out to be. On Monday, my friend Hilary and I went out to lunch and then to the library to study. The instructors didnt give us any pointers or hints so we had no idea what to study for this exam. A clinical exam consist of 5 case studies. Basically, you are given a scenario and then you may have 10-15 questions off that one scenario. One question may be short and simple, another question may require two pages of handwritten material. Its basically a "show what you know" type exam. The slot to take this exam was FOUR hours. Hilary and I were pretty much feeling ill, "how can we write FOUR hours of material?" On top of that, we didn't know what topics to study. In the past semesters, they told us the topics. Our friend Christina joined us and we decided that dehydration and respiratory problems were the most frequently seen issues on the pedi floor so we studied that for about 3 hours! I told Hilary if these are the topics for pedi that I would build a church or an alter! Time goes fast when you study. That night I got home and I was so broken. I was so tired, worn out, exhausted and feeling really low. I was pretty much ready to give up nursing school because nursing school really sucks the life out of you. I do not have any idea how people can go to med school. So I was feeling extremely broken on Monday. While studying Monday with Hilary, there was alot of prayer between the two of us and we went to the Word often during our studying. I think that was God nudging me, but I failed to notice and became very broken.
On the way to my exam, I was listening to a new MercyMe cd that I have been listening to over and over again. But God said "HELLO!" with this song. I listened to it then God said "uh rewind that and listen to that song again, You need to hear that. Listen to the words." So I rewind it and listen to it and whoa...
It's been one of those days where everything just feels so far away Hope don't be a stranger, won't you help me make it through the day? Then a voice comes,calling out to me, you are never alone cuz I am with you And I will always be, I will hold you, cuz you belong to me, You are never alone Cuz I will be with you, for all eternity Someone tell me how I stumble into doubting all the time. Some days I am all together and other days I stand here asking why...
WOW! That was definatly me on Monday and Tuesday before the exam. So I went in, took the exam and afterwards, I built an alter ;) The pedi topics were dehydration and respiratory! YAY! And the OB topics went wonderful also. I came out of that exam, 4 hours later, (yes I wrote the whole four hours!), feeling great. I felt like I actually did really well. On the way home, I was rejoicing that it went so well. Then the Lord said..."um excuse me, got another song for you to listen to..." This song came on and blew me away. I tried to find an official MercyMe video of it, but no can do so here is a version of the song being signed to. Here is the song and the words...The last line hit me hard.
Undone
No apologies, for who I'm meant to be. The only thing that matters is I am free. When I am overwhelmed, holding pieces of my heart. WHen I feel my world start to fall apart... To the cross I run, holding high my chains undone, Now I am finally free, Free to be what I've become...Undone. Even in defeat, the face of tragedy, still you have to say that I found victory. In brokeness comes beautfy, divine fragility. Reminding me of nailed scarred hands, reaching out to me...to the cross I run...
WOW!!! Even in this video, I was so the guy in the middle. I was so broken on Monday. And the Lord said "HELLO TRUST ME!!! Cast your anxieties on me!" That last line hit me hard "In brokness comes beauty, divine fragility." - I learned to trust in the Lord through my brokenness. "Reminding me of nail scarred hands, reaching out to me"- God is always pursuing us. ALWAYS. I should be running to the Cross in all that I do and all that I am.
SO! On Wednesday, I had to take the ERI. The ERI is a national exam that has random questions on it, some of which we may not have even covered over the semester. It is one of the hardest exams I have ever taken. We have to take one each semester and they are usually about 15% of our grade. EVERY semester I have gotten 1 point away from the national average, which is really pretty discouraging. Wednesday mornin before the exam, I decided to go to the Word and read Psalm 42 and 43 about Hope, because I decided I needed to find hope in the Lord. It was wierd. There was like a calming effect on me before the exam. When I got to school to take the exam, Kathy (my ob instructor) informed me that I recieved a 99% on my paper about grief reactions to abortion, so that was super encouraging! I then proceeded to the exam. I cast my anxieties on the Lord and took the exam. What happen next was REALLY wierd. It was like a conversation with God. We took the exam together. This may sound crazy, but it was pretty cool. I do not know how to explain it. It was just like we conversed over the questions and I felt pretty confident with each answer. Strange, considering the ERI usually FREAKS me out and always discourages me. So at the end of the 2 hour exam, before I submitted, I prayed to God and said, "I am trusting you. Whatever score I get, I am ok with it because I know you are here." Screen pops up...SIX FREAKIN POINTS ABOVE the national average! HOLY COWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!1 WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the Lord said "see, you trust in me, I take care of you." WHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I was blown away and pretty freaking excited. That brought my grade up to an 82% in the class! WOW! I went home with such a greatful heart!!!
So this Monday, I had my final. I told the Lord I am trusting in Him and again, my anxieties were all cast on him. Phew, what a relief. I spent all day Sunday studying and felt pretty good, even though I was nervous, for the final. When I got to the final, I looked at question 1 and said "uh Lord, you there? Remember, I already confressed i cant do this alone" He said "Im here" but it wasnt the whole conversation again, it was just like Him reminding me He was there...it was so strange. Got my results last night and I made an 82% on the final. YAY!!! The Lord taught me an important life lesson in these past two weeks and I wanted to share with you all. Here is one more video/song by MercyMe that sums up what I am feeling right now. I do feel God had a plan for Cory and I to attend that MercyMe concert last month, He knew those cd's were going to come in handy. I love how the Lord works!!
