James is back up at the VA Hospital in Missouri again. Ok. Rewind that. A lot. It's been a year since I've posted here and so much has happened to us! First and foremost (as those of you who read my main journal already know) we bought our first home (in Arkansas) 2,500 miles away from where we were currently living (California). So now instead of going to San Francisco for treatment, James is going to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. His Oncology care is up in St. Louis (Missouri) though. That in and of itself presents some problems financially for us as it's so far away and getting up there and paying for room and board as well as food, etc. We know that the Lord has always provided for our needs according to His will and He won't fail us now!

So anyway, James was transported up there from our local hospital via ambulance early this morning around 4:30 am CST. Early this year he contracted a nasty virus called Clostridium. It's a very nasty Botulism-related virus. He's back in now for the same thing. I just spoke with him and he said when the doctor came in to see him (same DR he had the last time - very helpful) he said that the Clostridium virus can seem to go away completely but in fact it's really lying dormant elsewhere in the body. So now it's back and he's on round two of antibiotics. The doctor seems to think that James is just more prone to things like this because of the shape his body is in. The biggest threat at this point is dehydration so he's being flushed with IV fluids to remedy that.

As for treatments of any kind, everything's on hold for now. I hate that it is. I hate to think of the cancer that's been growing or spreading since November of 2005. It's times like these when I have to almost minute-by-minute put my faith and control into God's capable hands.