Wes Miller

Thanks for checking in. Wes is currently in the maintenance phase of a 3 1/2 year treatment to combat Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)diagnosed on January 3o, 2004. Any cancer is a scary disease but even more heartbreaking when it is diagnosed in children. We have come a long way with faith, hope and courage, much of it borrowed from friends and family. Thank you to all who have shared in the laughter and the tears and we ask that you continue to check in and leave positive, upbeat messages for Wes as we navigate our way through this 'armpit' of a disease. Every day we are grateful for the gifts given to us by God. The community that shares these Caring Bridge pages is most definitely one of those gifts.

Journal

Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:27 AM CDT

It is a lovely fall day and we have been busy harvesting all of the crops we placed in God's care earlier this spring. There is something about this time of year. It is a little bit of relief from the seemingly never ending heat, humidity and 20 hour days a working dairy can exact on ones body and spirit in the summer and yet it is also a little bittersweet as well. Winter will be upon us all too soon. The flowers are putting forth small but ambitious blooms one last time, the garden vegetables are making one last ditch effort to ripen that last blossom despite withering vines and leaves as the nights turn chilly and the angle of the sun dips ever lower. The stalks of corn and soybeans are dry and crackling. They stood the tests of the growing season and managed to produce seed...the hope for next years season.

As it is with us as well. We are aware that we have stood the test of one season, pediatric cancer, and are looking forward to new seasons. Wesley is not only surviving his first semester at Penn State University but seems to be thriving. Our greatest worry is not what doctors might find at his next clinic appointment but whether or not he will make the right choices about school and life while away from the safety net of home and whether or not he will hurt himself wax paper skiing on cafeteria trays in the dorm hallways. (I've seen the videos!)

Yet we are ever mindful that a good season or a bountiful harvest should never be squandered as there are no guarantees for the next one. We are reminded of this with the news from a dear friend that her grandson, Grant, was just diagnosed with AML and a neighbors 12 year son, Isaiah, has also joined the ranks as a Cancer Warrior. They are in a different season for now and I ask each of you to remember the blessings of your own harvest in life. Please pass your bounty around to those who are in need of the faith and hope of a few 'seeds' that may help to carry them into their next season.

God Bless

Hospital Information:

AI DuPont Childrens Hospital
1600 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE

E-mail Author: millfarm@zoominternet.net

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