About Me
- Hope Foley
- Born in Atmore, United States
- Wife & Mommy. I have a wonderful husband who loves me deeply and three great kids. I believe in my Creator who guides me everyday. My favorite interest are stage/theatre, music/singing, antiques and art.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
A long day away from the Hospital
Today was a long day away from Ivee. The kids had basketball games all day, so a friend, Catina, and my dad sat with Ivee. Her wound on the back of her head is still leaking some, so they put a pressure dressing on it, and will put dermabond on it (kinda like super glue). It's not bad, but we need to pray that it stops, cause the last thing Ivee needs is a shunt in her head now. Hopefully, we are done with all the surgeries for at least 6 months to a year. We pray so, cause they wipe her out everytime, and she really needs to just recover as much as she can. Chemotherapy is coming next week, and they will be hard. Pray that she will be one of the few who does not get sick from chemotherapy. That would be such a blessing! She is sleeping well, and only really gets fussy when it is close to pain medicine time, or when someone is touching her or changing her diaper. Her diaper rash is looking so much better. It was horrible. It is no longer bleeding. The oncologist will have test results Monday, but today he said that some alot of the result from the bone marrow came back negative, and we will know the rest of that report on Monday. Praise God!!! Many of you have called me and left messages. I got them but frankly have been busy when you called, and too tired to call you back later. Not trying to ignore you. Promise. I love all of you, and thanks for the thoughts and prayers. You are great, and the God we serve is awesome.
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May God bless your family and specially little Ivee. We have been praying for you all since the day she fell and we promise to continue. Your strength is amazing!
The Poores
Jim, Lesli, Reese & Ally
Hope - I honestly could not pick you out in a crowd of people but I rejoice with you every time you get good news about Ivee. I believe that is what the "family of God" is all about - bearing each others burdens and rejoicing in each others victories. I am so glad to hear that some of Ivee's results are negative. I am trusting God that they will all be negative. I was reading a scripture last night - Psalm 84:6 "When they walk through the Valley of weeping, it will became a place of springs where pools of blessing and refreshment collect after rains! They will grow constantly in strength..." I believe that for you - super strength as you walk through this with your little one. Blessing and refreshment everyday!! I was up with my little one last night - she is teething - and I felt myself get a little frustrated with her because I was tired - then the Lord brought you to my mind and I quickly had a change of heart. Ivee's life is touching so many others right now, teaching me something and causing my faith to really grow stronger. She is already doing ministry!! I hope you both have a wonderful nights rest and have some more good news to report tommorrow. Blessings, Paula Casallo
Praise GOD she is doing better....GOd is so good!!!!! I can not get ya'll off my heart and want you to know that you are in my prayers and I am here for you.
God Bless and love you, CJ Pipkins (Sonia's friends)
Hello Foley Family,
We are friends of Deborah and Blayne Chastain here in Colorado. Your precious baby Ivee and your family have been in our thoughts and prayers. Your trust in God is a blessing to us and to everyone who reads this blog. You are in His hands, and there is no better place to be! Love, David, Natalie and Cecily Mash
Hope,
I work with Steve Burch from your church. Things happen in life that we are not suppose to understand at the time. Your Strength,and Faith is an inspiration to so many. The most of us you will only meet in the Spirit. You,your family, and Ivee are touching hearts all over the world. Ivee has a HUGE Ministry all ready. I have read this whole blog this moring and have lost count of all the Prayer Groups, and people she is bringing to gether in prayer. I ride with Christian Motor Cycle Association and will put Ivee and your family on our Pratyer LIst. What an awesome or "awesomeness" God we serve. Take Care, I Love You, Keep on Smiling, God Bless!
Rick Grayson
CMA/Joy Riders
Hattiesburg,Ms.
601-4470111
6015451762
To Hope and all of your family. I do not know you personally, but I know we are brother and sister in Christ. I got an e-mail through a mutual friend and I have now sent it on for others to pray. These people are all over GA, FL and Europe. Please know that the family of God is thinking of you and praying for you. While we are not aware of God's total plan, therefore not aware of the daily agendas that lay before us, we all know that God knows those plans. He constructed them. Walk in Him and you will be going the right direction. I pray for Ivee and all the doctors and nurses that are working with her.
A verse that has always guided me is Psalm 91:11. He will give His angels charge over you....trust and believe.
A Brother in Christ,
Bryn
Gainesville, FL
Hope,
I finally made to the site and have sat a cried as I have read. God certainly has His hand on your family. You and Emmett have such strong faith and God is blessing you now in this difficult time. It is so hard to see children go through sickness.
It is encouraging to see God's hand in everyhing as it unfolds. God is being lifted up. Ivee is a special little girl who has touched many lives as God has used her illness to reach out and touch so many believers and non believers as her story is being told.
I have been keeping up with the progress of Ivee(she is beautiful!) through friends as not to disturb you at the hospital. Please call me if you need anything at all.
You are in our prayers.
Teresa Russell
h-447-0279, c-232-8738
Hi Hope and Emmett,
I met Ivee before I ever saw you. My name is Tonya, and I am a neighbor and friends with Scott and Serah Carrier, and one day Serah had Ivee at her house for part of an afternoon, and I had the privilege of meeting your precious Ivee. I just fell in love with her and asked Serah at different times when she would have her over again. She is such a beautiful little girl. Such a snuggly baby! After that day, Serah and Scott invited us to see "The Gift" and my entire family was blessed that evening to be there and be touched by the play and all of you who played such a wonderful part in making it happen. We are praying that The Great Physician will hold His healing hands on her and free her of this illness. God will never leave her or forsake her.
This is something I read sometime ago and I hope you find some comfort in reading it too.
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery.
Her husband, David, held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency Cesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.
At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs.
"I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one."
Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Dana would likely face if she survived.
She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.
"No! No!" was all Diana could say.
She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away.
But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana. Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their love. All they could do, as Dana struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl.
There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger. But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there. At last, when Dana turned two months old, her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.
Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she was everything a little girl can be and more. But that happy ending is far from the end of her story.
One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing.
As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked, "Do you smell that?"
Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."
Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"
Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain."
Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."
Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily hopped down to play with the other children.
Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along.
During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.
"I can do ALL things thru Christ who strengthens me" God Bless, Tonya Wesson twme2u@yahoo.com
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