As you pray this morning:
1. Pray for the nurses who work so hard – focused, and diligent for 12 hours at a time, 5 or 7 days or nights in a row. All with a caring, smiling, loving attitude in the midst of pain and suffering for patients, and concern and a million questions by parents.
2. Children and families here on pediatric cancer floor of Batson hospital:

Jordan
Hanberry
Hood
Taylor
Palmer
Gibbs
House
Lee
Porter
Green
Martinez
Thompson
King

Some of these families have financial needs as well. Some with single parent situations.
3. Encouragement and the light of hope deep into Jaron’s spirit. He is really, really struggling to be positive or to make any sense of any of this. He literally wants to sleep through these 28 days.
4. Mouth sores, throat sores and heartburn to go away. It’s hard to even talk or open his mouth to put a thermometer in to check his temp – much less eat anything. It’s been like this for over a week; he hasn’t eaten anything solid in 2,3 weeks. He has had two 24-hour nutrient bags this weekend via IV, along with antibiotics, fluids, blood and platelets. Sometimes as many as 5 different bags at once. Plus a separate IV at one point.
4. Fever to go away. His blood counts are so low that he has nothing to fight infection, so his temp can spike at any point; it has been as high as 103.1, but mostly between 101.1 and 102.4. Last night they had to bring in a “cold blanket” and turn it down to 63 degrees to get it to fall, and it went right back up.
5. Doctors for wisdom in how to proceed, both for the duration of the 28 days and then for a clear course of action after that. It almost assuredly will be a bone marrow transplant; all 3 of our family are having our blood tested to find a perfect match. That would be in several weeks from now. Melody is extremely nervous about this; she is most likely the best candidate for a match.

Thank you for your loving support and your faithfulness to pray during this time in Jaron’s journey – we are dependent on your prayers! We trust God is in control and He knows what is best for our journey. 1 Peter 5:10,11.