Please Pray for the O'Malley Family

This is an alert to all of my Southeast friends! One of the churches we attended here in Lumberton has a wonderful preacher with a wonderful family. Even though we chose not to go to make this our home church, we have kept in touch with the family. They have 5 children. Their oldest, Jonathan, who is 16 was living at Texas Childrens Hospital in Houston fighting Leukemia. He was sent home over the summer cancer free!

This morning, I got an alert to look at his Care Page (See attached link) and at my dismay, he is in remission. This family is in need of financial assistance! They will have to attain an apartment in Houston again with the mother, Melanie and the younger children. She will homeschool them there. Kevin, the father and preacher of Lumberton C of C, will be back and forth with his preaching duties and his family. Please keep them in your prayers. If you can help financially, please do.

The family is Kevin and Melanie O'Malley and the son's name is Jonathan.

Thank you!

The $250 Magnet!

On Sunday, Kaden was playing at a neighbor's house. I got a phone call around 3:30. The neighbor told me that Kaden just swallowed a Magnetix magnet. He wasn't choking, but it was in his system. I went over and got him. I called our insurance's nurse hotline. Since it was a rather large thing for him to swallow, she told us to go to the ER. We went on Sunday night ($125 copay) and again on Monday morning ($125 copay). He had max. dosage of M.O.M. on Sunday night...nothing. Again on Monday morning...nothing. It had moved, but nothing else had (ha).

Today, Tuesday, I called his pediatrician and she wanted to see him. Low and behold, I fed him a Fiber One bar and 30 minutes later, Cami came in (while I was showering) with the butter container which held the magnet, among other yucky things. She had "caught" it since I was in the shower. Way to go Cami!

I sifted through the mess and cleaned it up to keep as a souvineer. Here it is up close. Kaden has vowed to only swallow food and drinks from now on. Lesson learned, I hope!