Duffy’s blog entry

Where to begin on today….Such prayers answered and prayers to ask for…

The day started out somewhat chaotic. Kaylee is getting so many fluids that if I don’t wake up hourly to change her, she will soak thru her diaper, clothes and the bed! I guess my body really needed the sleep b/c I apparently hit snooze and slept right on thru until the nurse came in to check her vitals this morning. After waking up, I immediately needed to clean and change k, who was not pleased. She had a better breakfast than yesterday, but still nothing like they told me to expect with her on these steroids (which apparently is yet to come) They said to expect her mood changes… to cry one minute, laugh the next and be angry after and repeat, and THAT is happening…but the food part is slowly getting better. She had phases today on hating life, to barely napping, to crying hysterically if I wasn’t cuddling with her, to high fiving friends that came to visit, to laughing when we went to see a large choo choo train they have here. All over the map in emotions! Its ok…its part of this process!

The great news of the day~ The Chief of the Oncology dept. came to meet with me again today (k reallllllllly doesn’t like him) but he had some interesting news. “Her blood results are very good. It might scare you b/c her white blood count is so low to 0, and she is VERY susceptible to getting an infection at this point with no blood cells to fight anything off. I assure you, this is what we want. We want the chemo to get rid of those cells. Her platelet transfusion yesterday brought up her platelet count like we wanted and her reaction to the chemo is also something we are quite pleased with.” My response “You clearly were not here during World War III of trying to bathe her last night. ha ha” DR: “No, No, that is the steroids job and also very normal. She will be all over the place emotionally and Prednisone doesn’t hold a candle to what she is taking, so know that her fussiness and moaning, and crying are normal. With that said, we always feel like if a patient is responding in a positive way like Kaylee, we feel like with two strong parents, the child will do better at healing in their own environment that they are used to. Although she is at a MUCH higher risk or getting an infection…… (Wait for it…….) We are releasing Kaylee to go home TOMORROW!” (Holy Moly~ Praise God right?!!!) One would think I would be jumping up and down with excitement, right? What did I do? Tried not to cry while being filled with total & utter FEAR! My mind was all over the place with things like; but we aren’t ready, How will I know if she needs blood, or platelets? I have no idea what I’m doing, she could get so sick, and we will need a U-Haul to get all our stuff out, what do I do? Now, what I actually said was, “I’m sorry, what did you say!?” He laughed and explained that K’s chemo and surgical procedures will all be taking place on the same days, so we will need to be at the clinic (next door where they do outpatient chemo) every Monday, and to have a” go bag” in the car for every appt in case our appt turns into hospital stays. Chris and I have to attend 2 classes tomorrow before being released on ‘Parenting a child with Leukemia’, & handling meds, stats and when to call the Dr. The Dr. looked very pleased with his “good news” when leaving my room, and that is when I let the fear of being alone during the day with her..My child with Leukemia…without a nurse nearby to ask when I have a question, or concern for them to take a look at… consumed me, and I cried. Of course I cried lol. I was expecting to do what they told us; to live at the hospital until September 2^nd. I wasn’t prepared for this. This is terrifying yet awesome news!

Although the idea is a HUGE praise God that she is responding well enough to go home, it is a HUGE prayer request that God keeps her healthy while she is at home since she is SO at risk for getting sick! We have a LOOOOONG way to go (We aren’t even ½ way thru phase 1 of “Induction” yet.)

We are totally relying on God to help us with fear and doubt that we will do the correct things. (Need to keep repeating to myself Isaiah 41:13! I mean, I learned how to crush pills tonight and fill a syringe for her twice a day steroids…I learned what to give her if she is vomiting, I learned how to stop a bloody nose, I learned what to pack in a “GO” bag (which is much like what I packed for delivering Kaylee!) There will be plenty that we will learn tomorrow too! This will be another chance to test our strength, her strength and what else God can do with the power of prayer that so many of you are doing!

So, tonight I challenge you to keep praying for her, and our family. We are thanking God for letting us attempt this at home where she feels more comfortable and free. This is still a battle we are intending on beating to the core!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your prayers! Clearly, they are working! Let’s keep it up for TEAM KAYLEE!

************(we finally picked out THE verse we think is fitting for Kaylee’s battle. So this verse will actually be on the shirts we are working on getting made.

Jeremiah 29:11~ For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

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Duffy’s Entry

(I would just like to apologize to all the English teachers out there that I am offending with my grammatical errors)

Today was a mixture of emotions day. Kaylee and I woke up just about every hour last night due to the nurses doing their job (meds, vitals, taking her blood, and more vitals.) So, I woke up feeling like I had been run over, but knew today was surgical procedure day, which was like a natural pulse amp for me. We woke Kaylee up and had to wipe her down with CHG wipes (anti bacteria pre-surgery skin wipes) and dress her in my not so favorite Scottish Rite purple nightgown. We waited for about 20 minutes before the Dr’s were ready, and carried Kaylee down to the OR. The point of today was to insert chemo drugs into her spine, change out her port in her chest to keep it sanitary, and extract spinal fluid to test for leukemia cells; we will be doing that every Monday for the next three &1/2 weeks. The DR allowed us to hold her when they gave her the sedative like drug and did not prepare me to see K’s eyes roll up in her head before she went limp in my arms, which was alarming enough and then I was being ordered to put my daughter on the operating table immediately which was also unsettling. We were asked to leave the room and wait to hear how the surgery went. AS soon as the OR doors shut behind me, I let myself cry a minute. Chris put his arm around me and reassured me she would be fine. I just have a hard time having to see her have to go thru this, and at times I let myself crack.

About an hour later I could hear my child being rolled down the Aflac hall and I ran to the door to greet my crying little girl. Normally after a surgical procedure, one would want to sleep…my daughter? She wants to eat… and that girl feasted! (thank you, Steroids) So after downing a large homemade apple muffin, a yogurt, applesauce cup, a cup of milk, an apple juice box, and some macaroni and cheese, she settled down a bit. (This is actually a huge Praise God thing, b/c she wasn’t eating much & losing a lot of weight. The Dr’s mentioned that if the steroids weren’t working soon on the weight gain thing, then we would need to discuss a possible feeding tube! (Not Ok) So seeing her freak out when I wasn’t handing her a piece of muffin fast enough, made us smile. (Eat baby, eat.)

My mom and Stepdad kissed & hugged goodbye to us as they left to head back to Florida to handle a few business things before returning soon. Chris also needed to return to work, so he left shortly after. So, my mother in law, cousin Jenn and I were in the room to keep K occupied and happy. While K was starting in on her third chemo treatment, my friends arrived for a planned visit. :> You may have seen the picture on here already. They brought a super creative, giant box of fun things for Kaylee to play with, and said they had a big surprise for us and it might make me cry. I responded with “I reached me tears quota this morning, I hope it doesn’t.” So Courtney and Hannah pulled out this gorgeous handmade quilt with family pictures, and pictures of Kaylee sewn into the quilt and I was done for. I tried to hide the ugly cry as I heard picture snaps going off. Take a moment to check out the picture on here. It was so incredibly thoughtful and something we will love for years to come! (We have received get well cards in the hospital mail, as well as a care package and we are so very thankful for those as well, so I didn’t want those people to feel left out either!) We always have K help us open any gifts and this girl LOVES flinging tissue wrapping paper! Ha-ha.

The Chief Oncologist met with me to warn me about the side effects of today’s chemo and…(Get ready for this, prayer warriors-good news!—>) to tell me that the oncology team was very happy with her blood results so far and even though she will definitely need a platelet transfusion tomorrow, they think the chemo is doing its job, and doing it well! I think highly of this Oncologist but K wanted him nowhere near her and screamed in horror when he used his stethoscope on her. (Won’t have to teach this girl about ‘stranger danger!’)

K took a long nap while she and I were alone. Once she woke up (from getting her vitals taken) we played for a bit, then took a long walk to welcome daddy home from work. I left the hospital (what? Yeah I did~) to pick up dinner a mile away. So, walking into the lobby with my hands full with dinner, I can hear my child squeal with laughter (first of all, where is she? Second of all didn’t she have 3 chemo treatments today, and I’m hearing laughter?! ) That’s all due to prayers people! Chris called my name near the gift shop and apparently they had discovered a giant Elmo doll for sale! “Emmo Momma! Emmo!” I love that girl!

We walked back to the room and ate dinner (she ate a cracker…didn’t want anything else but her milk. (C’mon sweet baby, eat.) I don’t want to mislead anyone either, there were large portions of the day that she moaned and whined…all the more reason for me to cuddle her! :>

So we got her in her jammies and did story time but she wanted to play. Finally, at 9:30 (!) her little eyes fluttered closed and I silently prayed over her for God to heal her, because He will! I think this girl is only at the beginning of amazing everyone, and due to prayer she will overcome this cancer battle! She is a strong fighter, and is already showing us that she will not allow “this chemo stuff “to stifle her laughter!

I thought of a different closing paragraph for this blog, but instead am feeling I need to encourage everyone to listen to ‘Who shall I fear’ by Chris Tomlin to find out where I am at today. This is a song I listen to at full volume when K isn’t in the car with me. Find the version on YouTube with the lyrics. Love.

Thank you to all the people praying, and we ask you to keep praying! I’ve always said there is no such thing as too many prayers!

Psalm 27:1

#Pray4K

Duffy’s Blog

Grammatical errors all over the place~ work with me here.

Where to begin? There are so many things to be thankful for as well as things we need to be praying about! I guess I will not worry about yesterday and tell everyone about today. AUGUST 10^th: Day 8 of living in the hospital.

This morning we were thankful to wake up to Hot and fresh Krispy Kreme donuts and Starbucks coffee from Chris’s dad who flew in town this wknd to see K & family. I tried to tell Kaylee (when she refused a bite of my donut) what she was missing out on but she wanted nothing to do with it (is this my child?) I started to worry a bit when she refused anything we offered her for breakfast, even milk which she has every morning with me. The Oncologists came to meet with us about her current blood results (Kaylee gets her blood taken every morning at 4am.) Everything was so low (which is what we want the chemo to be doing but the levels were SO low that she was lethargic, pale and NOT happy.) The Dr’s suggested that we go ahead with a blood transfusion 2 days early to which Chris and I both replied “Yes, please! Can we do it now?!” (we know from last week’s experience that she does SOOO much better with new blood~ it just makes her feel better, and that is all we want….her to feel better!) We told the oncologists about her weight this morning (she lost even more weight) and the fact that she keeps refusing food. This seemed to surprise them, b/c pthe steroids that she is on is supposed to make her a monster eater and gain 10lbs in a week (part of the chemo plan.) They stood firm on “She’ll be fine, the steroids will kick in soon.” Ugh.

We were told that K could have a 2 hour break from all the drips/cords until they found her perfect match of blood, (YAY!) so we were able to take her for a walk (which usually cheers her up.) So, we took her to the outside Koi pond and after saying “FISHY!” with excitement, she cried. :< We took her to the Aquarium looking wall (a Video wall that has clips of aquatic life and it almost makes you think you are at an Aquarium for a second) ~ She again was excited for a second, then kind of moaned, cuddled into me, whined a bit and looked super sleepy, so we took her back to the room. She catnapped until my mom and Stepdad showed up (bless my mom & Ron who are housesitting for us~ She does our daily laundry, gets our mail, and is taking care of our dogs while we are in the hospital (as well as visiting us every day, which I love.)

K fell back asleep on me and that’s when I told my mom & stepdad about her blood levels and I just let the worry of her not eating, her losing weight constantly, and the tiredness get the best of me and cried. When you are a mom and you have to sit back and watch your daughter go thru pain, it breaks your heart. It is a constant battle of “Why her and not me? I could do this….but she is …so little and fragile..” But then I regroup, get focused & and give all my worries and concern to God and Trust that He will heal her. It is just hard.

Our nurse came in and said the blood was ready and would take 3 hours for it to fully be in her system so we knew we had to stay in the room (which worked out b/c we had visitors throughout the day). There were moments of playfulness when Kaylee received a new toy from friends that visited, then she would fall back asleep (when your blood levels are super low, you will be very tired!) As soon as her blood was done, Chris’s family came in with an amazing dinner for all the staff and us to enjoy (at this point K had eaten 2 cheese sticks and ½ a yogurt ALL day, and now refused dinner.) Chris’s Uncle Kevin walked in and immediately put a smile on K’s face and got her to laugh (which was like heaven to my ears at this point!) When all family packed up and headed home around 7 ish, my little girl let it all out with mommy! Chris had walked his dad out downstairs and I was by myself trying to learn how to tape up K’s port in order to bathe her, get her bath ready, get her clothes off, pjs out with her crying & clinging to my neck. (Sigh) The best I can say about this evening was that she finally said yes at our last ditch effort of food after her bath (easy mac & chz!) She settled down with a full tummy and 3 short bedtime stories w/ mommy & I breathed a sigh of relief as I saw her little eyelids flutter closed b/c I know she needs her sleep to fight her battle.

So I sit her with a smuggled in glass of wine from a friend, drinking out of a Styrofoam cup (classy, I know loll) and rehashing the day with Chris. He has no idea that he took me from being kind of sad to another way of thinking. He talked about another mom that came to chat with us today. She has a 16 month old with a brain tumor & on his 3^rd round of chemo…… and I sit here and complain about a trial of a day with just some moaning and crying from my child? Shame on me! I quickly realize I need to rise up and THANK GOD that our situation isn’t worse! Thank God, that she has the BEST type of Leukemia… The one with an 85% cure rate! Thank God that we only have to live in the hospital for 4 weeks instead of 5, 6, or even 10 like a family I met today! I need to THANK GOD that my child still has smiles to give us, new words to share with us (she has learned 5 new words in this last week!) and Hugs to give out to people she trusts! I need to THANK GOD for all the people reading this, praying for us, and praying for her! I need to THANK GOD for knowing the outcome of this fight already and allowing us to lean on HIM when we feel like breaking! Most of all, I need to THANK GOD for giving me the opportunity to be Kaylee’s mom, for knowing that I am strong enough to handle this, and to come out of this trial we have been given THANKING GOD!!

HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD AND HOW GRATEFUL SHOULD WE BE?!
Hug your children extra tight tonight for us and just….be thankful! There is no such thing as loving your kids too much! To our prayer warriors who read this~ THANK YOU!!!

Philippians 4:6~ Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

#PRAY4K!

Dad’s Entry:

Since so much was going on with our daughter, it took us a few days to get this blog together. During this time, we were periodically providing updates via Facebook, text messages and phone calls, and some might have missed those updates. Below is a recap of our families first few days in the hospital. Some of these I was able to get from Facebook posts, and others I am just writing from memory.

Saturday August 3^rd:

The amount of people that are praying & the compassion we have received from emails, calls, texts and private messages bring me to tears and thankfulness! I promise we will read all the texts and messages when we are able.
Below are answers to some of the most asked questions

* Yes, we will start a blog you can follow about k’s progress with daily updates to help Chris and I feel sane.
*We will be living in the hospital for a minimum of 4 weeks.
*Kaylee begins chemo Monday August 5^th, at 9am.
*K was diagnosed with “B cell A.L.L Leukemia on August 1st.” It was a huge shock to us & news we were expected to absorb very quickly. Not easy.
*Yes, we would love for you to tell others to pray & share her story with your church. God is bigger than Cancer & prayer can produce miracles!

The blood work came back in today, and her white blood cell count is 106,400, down from 159,000 on the day of diagnosis (normal is 5,000 to 10,000). She is considered high risk leukemia, which is a WBC of 50,000 or higher. Also, her blood was 90% white blood cells, which have turned into leukemia cells.

She will receive her second blood transfusion tonight. After the first blood transfusion, she was acting like our little girl again. She sat up in bed until 10:30 PM last night playing and laughing; that was the first time we smiled in two days!

Sunday August 4^th:

We have been having family and friends come and visit all day long. Some tears have been shed and some prayers have been said, but we have all remained positive knowing that God will get our family through this.

We took Kaylee outside to play in the garden, which raised her spirits and ours. For a second, we felt like it was just a regular Sunday playing outside with our daughter. She also got to see her cousin today, Micah. As soon as he entered the room, she got this big smile that lit up the room and yelled out “Icah” (her version of Micah). Micah brought a remote control car for them to play with today, and as he raced it across the room, she chased it laughing the entire time; this warmed all of our hearts! Our hearts stopped though as she tripped over the car falling on her face, giving her a bloody nose and lip. Mom tried to lunge for her as she was falling, but it happened so quickly, she couldn’t catch her. Because Kaylee’s platelet count was soooo low (clotting part of the blood), we started freaking out; the doctor’s calmed us down telling us she would be all right, and to just watch it over the next hour. She did end up with a black and blue nose, but 15 minutes later she was ready to play again.

Today’s blood results came in, and her WBC is down to 49,010 (praise God!); that is a 66% drop since the day she came in. She is still considered high risk, since she was above 50,000 when she came in, but the doctors said this is a good sign. Her platelet count is still low at 49,000, and we need it to be at least 100,000 for her surgery.

They will check her blood levels in the morning to make sure she is good before her spinal tap, bone marrow aspiration (extraction), port installation and first injection of Chemo in her spine. Once she has recovered from surgery, she gets four other chemo medications throughout the day. Let’s pray for her platelet levels to go up, or she will need another platelet transfusion at 4AM.

Monday August 5^th:

At 4 AM, blood was drawn. By 6 AM, the results were in, and her platelet count was 102,000!! She will not need another platelet transfusion!

At around 9 AM, we followed Kaylee into the pre-op room. We think she felt our anxiety, because she sat there and cried, and wouldn’t let go of mom the entire time. They gave her something to calm her nerves, and within 30 seconds, she was as calm as could be. After a few questions with the surgeon, we hugged our daughter tight, gave her a kiss, and watched them wheel her away; this was probably one of the hardest things we ever had to do.

After one hour, the nurses came to our room and told us the surgery went well, and she was in the post op room; she would have to wait there by herself for about 30 minutes to make sure she is ok, and then they would bring her back to the room. The nurse also told us that after they were done in the OR, Kaylee woke up and said… “All done!” to which they replied “All done”, she then closed her eyes and fell back asleep. If that doesn’t melt your heart, I don’t know what will!!

When they brought her back to the room, we noticed that she was VERY puffy and bright red. After the doctors monitored her for about an hour, she started to get a fever (101.5). They told us it was probably a reaction to the anesthesia, and gave her Benadryl. We also decided to do our part, and ask everyone to pray about it, and within 30 minutes the fever was gone; within 1 hour the swelling went down, and her face started to go back to her normal color.

Over the next few hours, she started to receive her first round of Chemo therapy. As the doctors told us, this round of treatments were very anti-climactic, which was a blessing. Kaylee went through this round of treatment without any bad side effects, and she was a trooper the entire time. This just showed us how strong our little girl really was, and that the Lord was giving her the strength she needed to make it through this tough time!

#Pray4K

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Duffy’s blog entry:

Please excuse the thousands of grammatical errors~ it is 1 am and I am not worried about comma splices or run on sentences, lol. I also tell stories in way too much detail.

We have been so busy trying to be by Kaylee’s side that we haven’t had a chance to answer the biggest question; how did this happen? How did you end up at the hospital? So here goes.

Kaylee had been showing signs of teething for about a week 1/2- two weeks until I started to notice she was getting very needy (always wanting me to hold her, throwing a tantrum when I didn’t, waking up multiple times of the night crying, not having much appetite….) So I did what we all do…I googled everything about teething and saw that everything she was doing was “normal” for teething, and would hopefully get better soon. I did everything I could to make her “teething” easier. On recent play dates I mentioned to friends that see her quite often “Does Kaylee look weird to you? She just seems ‘off’ lately…and I don’t know what it is other than teething…and I don’t want to be that…mom that worries for no reason…”

Finally, on Thursday Aug 1st, I called my husband and said “It’s a bad day…she is totally crying about nothing, except when I hold her…she isn’t eating much either. Something is wrong and I don’t think it’s just teething honey. Maybe she has an ear infection?” He said “she is probably tired, but call the Dr.” I talked to my mother in law and mother and both said “Duff, make a dr. appt just to feel better.” So I did. I made a sick appt for 2:15.

During the Dr. visit, Dr. Hill mentioned Kaylee’s bruises (I’m thinking; uh she is a toddler and running into everything) and her super pale complexion (I am mentally patting myself on the back at this point at what a good sunblock warrior I have been for my daughter (so dumb, Duffy.) and then she said she wanted to do a blood test to see if Kaylee was Anemic. (wait, what?) I looked at the Dr. and knew that something else was bothering her but I didn’t question it. The Dr. came back after a few minutes of looking at K’s blood and said. “Ok, Kaylee is Anemic.” my response: Ohhh.. Ok so that explains the random bruising and her paleness?” (I started to relax for a minute b/c she had just confirmed I wasn’t paranoid about worrying) but there was more…. Our sweet Dr. looked like she was going to cry so I said “Oh no…Oh God…What….? Tell me….don’t sugarcoat whatever you need to say… what is it?” She took a deep breath and said ” I looked at Kaylee’s blood on a slide, and her white blood cells are off the charts, her red blood cells & platelets are way down…I need to send you to Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital because I need the hematologist to confirm if she has a really bad virus or maybe..possibly even Leukemia.” (I couldn’t breathe…I felt like someone had just punched me in the stomach and the flood of tears came. My Brain was screaming WHAT?!!) She said “Do you want your husband to go with you?” I couldn’t talk between my sobs (other than nodding yes) so she called Chris at work, explained the situation and to meet me at the Pediatricians office. He arrived, she filled him in and we headed to Scottish Rite. (I prayed the whole way there.) We were ushered immediately into a Triage room past the other Emergency room patients at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital. We were introduced to the Hematologist and the Oncologist. Kaylee had to give more blood (screaming crying while I held her and tried to comfort her for being poked so many times) Both Dr.’s said it could take an hour to get results back, so we waited….only 10 minutes later the Oncologist came back in and said “I am so sorry to tell you this, but your daughter has Leukemia. There are different types so it may take a bit longer to find out what type it is, but I believe it is ALL Leukemia which has the highest cure rate….. ( at this point my husband, my mother in law, sister in law, and I are crying &I pretty much don’t remember much what he said after that…I was trying to process,,,,, my sweet baby girl…(asleep on my lap at this point) my little 17 month old, full of spunk, sass, and sweetness, lover of playground slides, and Elmo..has cancer?!!! How and Why did this happen? At one point later that day I know I asked “What if I had gone to the Dr a week earlier? The Dr said, it doesn’t matter, she would have gotten more and more lethargic making her heart work harder and you would have noticed…a week…two weeks, would not have made this diagnosis different. She either has Leukemia or she doesn’t. It isn’t like other cancers where there are stages, and it is not known how all kids get Leukemia.” Later, I remember when I was being wheeled to our hospital room (bc K was asleep on my lap) I was quietly sobbing when we came thru the doors of our section and seeing ‘AFLAC Cancer and Blood Disorder Center.” Pictures of smiling bald babies hung in the hallways and kids with IV’s walking by us…. I tried so hard not to cry in front of Kaylee, but found myself asking the Dr questions and having to take a second to breathe to stop the tears. Just being real here, I was not some strong, fearless mom at this point. I was a crumbling mess trying to hold it together while my sister in law prayed over us.

We didn’t tell anyone but immediate family for the next few hours, and only posted to Facebook that we needed prayers for blood tests that Kaylee was going through (because they wouldn’t know for sure it was ALL Leukemia until the morning.) So, the original Dr appt was at 2;15, we were told she had cancer by 5pm and were wheeled to her room in the Cancer Center by 6ish, so our life completely changed in a matter of hours and we had no idea how to process it all.

I think it was when Chris’s Uncle and a friend of mine said the same words that night that put the fire back in my heart, that helped me quit crying & be the parents our daughter needs us to be during this battle while trusting God the entire way. Both of them said something along these lines ” Do not for one second feel sorry for yourself, or for Kaylee or for Chris. It is a waste of energy that can be spent fighting for your daughter, praying for your daughter and encouraging your daughter. God has chosen you three to lean on Him during this trial and to trust His purpose. You job is to love your daughter, and to teach her to fight, and pray…Pray everyday for the Dr’s, the nurses, for her and know that God will heal her, because He can!

So that is what we are doing. We are praying. We are fighting for her recovery and believing that she WILL beat this! We will be blogging as much as possible with pictures and updates on how she is doing, what she is doing, or how we are doing, There might be days where we need your encouragement and prayer (well, we always need your prayers.) So please FIGHT WITH US, PRAY WITH/FOR US, and share Kaylee’s story because there is NO such thing as too much prayer! Proverbs 3:5-6.