Dear prayer warriors,

Brian has gotten a round of chemo in COH 3 weeks ago (1/25/13) and will do the 2nd round  chemo today.

Few days ago (Wednesday 2/13/13), we came to clinic to get transfusion platelet.   But he felt his ear pain and swore ( he had a little bit sore throat too 2 days before that day).   He spike a temperature to 38.6c after transfusion and his right ear drain with a little bit blood.  
So they admitted him right away.  On 2/14/13 the culture showed the "fungitell(1,3) Beta D is >500.   Although he has no fever for 3 days already, they still want to give him CT scan today to see more detail.
 
Please pray for the CT scan with clear result.  No infection.
Pray for the 2nd round of chemo with new add on med.   Pray for the effective treatment.
Pray for Brian's ears with no pain and no bothering sound.
Pray for his numbing, tinkling feet can back to normal soon.  
Pray for Brian to  keep being strong and courageous.
 
God bless us all,

Mark & Anita

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Dear Prayer Warriors,
 
Thank you for your prayer.
That fever was gone at chemo day 4 (Monday morning).   That day they also checked his echocardiogram and CT scan.   The most impressive is the Neurologist came to diagnose the shivering on his right hand and right foot.   He prescribed B12 shot for him and it magically release the sympton and Brian can stand well and PT came started to walk with him around the floor again.    Thanks God for giving the doctors wisdom to cure all the symptoms.   
 
COH team is very efficient and has  very good team work.   All the check up were done right after the doctor order in 1 day.  Anyway, they said the fever was caused by the bacteria in his picc line.    MRI, CT scan, and echocardiogram are ok without other infection.    Thanks God!
 
This 5 days Chemo has done.   Today he has a lumbar puncher at 1pm.   NPO ( fast no food after midnight) since last night.  Please pray for the smooth procedure and clear result.   
Pray for the chemo effectively defeat the leukemia cells and aiming the next step--- transplant.
Pray for Dr. Rosenthal and all the medical team and staff have the wisdom, love and patience from Our almighty God. 
 
God bless us all,

Mark & Anita
 Thanks for your prayer.

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Dear prayer warriors,
 
Thanks for your prayer.
 
It built up a fever on Saturday morning after the 1st day (Friday) of chemo. It went down yesterday during the day and went up again last night.
They try to fix it bit it still spiked.
The fever came down this late morning but spike again at 4pm and still hot now. He has no appetite and feel weak especially wobble on his feet when stand. This chemo is 5 days a course，tonight 
Is the 3rd day and the chemo is running now (started at 9pm.) 
 
There are more check up tomorrow- ultra sound and CT scan to clear up the cause of fever. 
Please keep praying. 
Thank you.
 
God bless us all, 
Anita

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Dear prayer warriors,

 
It was a busy day.   The original plan today was NPO (fasting, no food and drink) till 1pm to get anesthesia for lumbar puncture and then do chemo.
Since the anesthesia doctor was delayed by her scheduled cases, Brian's LP procedure was done till 4:30pm.  That means he didn't eat anything until 5pm since last night.    Good thing the food in City Of Hope is good and has a variety of choices.   My homemade chicken soup made him warm too.    The tummy is satisfied by the gourmet dinner.
 
Dr. Rosenthal came again to see us around 5:30pm to explain more details of the treatment again (he came this morning but I was not here yet). They found one of his picc lines had an infection from the culture we drew yesterday.   These antibiotics are good to defeat the bugs.   
He wants the chemo to be started soon.   So, the nurse is giving him the chemo now. ( Oops! the chemo was done while I was writing).  Dr. Rosenthal said they had some successful results in some patients.    
 
Let's pray for this chemo to effectively destroy the leukemia.    
Pray for Brian to have good tolerate and protection to achieve the goal.
Keep praying for Dr. Rosenthal's team.   These attending doctors here are all really nice.
Pray for we all stay healthy and keep the Faith in The Lord to do His creative miracle in Brian's body.
 
God bless us all,
 
Anita
 

 

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 Dear prayer warriors,

We are in COH since last night due
to Brian had fever at 11:30pm.    We came in to COH ETC, they gave him antibiotic and transfusion blood.    Now, we are just being admitted to be inpatient.   The admitting is planned few days ago, but not in this kind of check in though.
Anyway, Brian's primary Dr. Rosenthal is on service in inpatient dept. for this week ( every attending doctor get to take turn on service for a week to take care inpatient.)   He will come to the rounding and see Brian later.

Brian is doing OK.   The fever is gonel  For his immune system is 0 today, they need to treat him with antibiotics and admit him.

Please keep praying for Brian.  Pray for his strength and keep the good shape to tolerate any treatment and the leukemia can be totally destroyed.  A fully recovery.
Pray for the medical team here in City of Hope(COH).
Pray for our discussion later with Dr. Rosenthal.
May God give him the best wisdom to treat Brian and cure the disease.
In Jesus' name, Amen!       

God bless us all,
 
Mark & Anita

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Dear Prayer Warriors,
 
 
Thanks for all your prayers.   Brian is doing well at home since Dec. 6 last year.
The Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy was done 2 days ago (Monday), and the result will come out in 2 days.
Dr. Rosenthal will discuss it with us tomorrow and also Brian will need to be admitted to City of Hope to start the treatment right after the clinic meeting.
That means the comfy home setting will be paused for a while.   
That's the rough plan now.    I'll let you know more details once I get further info.
 
 
Please keep praying for Brian.
1. Pray for the Bone marrow result will be in favor of God and let Dr. Rosenthal know how to acurately do the treatment.
2. Pray for Dr. Rosenthal and his team (and all the medical team and staff we will reach) have the best wisdom from God.
3. Pray for the transition will be smooth for it will be a whole new hospitalized experience in City of Hope.
    Brian like this place because you will see " Hope and Hope", in City Of Hope.
4. Pray for all of us to get ready for the new start.   And knowing God's promised land is ahead.
 
 
God bless us all,
Mark & Anita

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Dear Prayer Warriors,
 
After a long wait that Dr. Gaynon approved and Brian's condition allowed, 2 doctors finally get a compromised treatment plan after we met Dr. Rosenthal (City Of Hope) few days ago. Also, we had decided to transfer our treatment at COH. They will check Brian's bone marrow tomorrow (Monday) morning.
 
The day our meeting with Dr. Rosenthal and his team is on Wednesday, Jan. 16,2013.
It's the day our daily devotion (Living Life) talking about Noah and the Ark (Genesis 8:13-22).
The title is " The God of Life". Noah opened the ark and sees that the land is dry. God commands everyone to come out, and they come out from the ark. Noah presents an offfering to the Lord. The Lord receives the offering and promises Noah that He will never again destroy all living creatures due to the wickedness of man.
In Chinese version of Living Life, it says " Those people who are waiting get the convenant of blessing."
 
Transission is hard for people who need to move forward. We've been worked with CHLA these 2 years. We really appreciate Dr. Gaynon's loving care for Brian all the way in these 2 years. All of the staffs in CHLA performed very important parts in our life too. We really appreciate and cherish it.
But now, it's God's timing for us to come out and transfer to COH. The staff there are as nice as CHLA.
Dr. Rosenthal is a pediatric chair and director in COH Hematology/oncology. He will be Brian's primary doctor to oversee his treatment (including transplant).
 
The plan now is:
Tomorrow, Monday morning, Dr. Pawlowska will do bone marrow aspirate and LP for Brian to see the baseline of his bone marrow to fairly decide the next step. If the bone marrow has less and less blast leukemia cell, he might qualify to directly have a transplant. So, it's very important for us to pray for the bone marrow result to come out in good level.
We all believe in Miracle. The rainbow is God's promise to us. Let's keep believing and praying the best abiding God's plan.
 
Let's pray........
Havenly Father, Thank you for keeping Brian in good health condition. Thank you for directing us to City of Hope in your timing. We know everything is under your control and protection. We obey and follow your direction.
Please bless Brian's bone marrow's good cells grow more and more to cover and fight the bad cells.
Please let tomorrow's test come out with less and less number of leukemia.
Please bless all the COH medical team, Dr. Rosentahl, Dr. Pawlowska, RN Denise, RN Debbi, and all the people who Brian will meet. Bless them to have the love and wisdom from You.
Please bless Brian's body to stay in best condition to undergo any treatment in Your plan.
Please bless Vivian, Mark, and Anita to stay healthy to be donor and caregivers.
Please bless all the prayer warriors to stay the positive thinking to pray the best for Brian. And bless prayer warriors themselves too.
 
In Jesus' victorious name we pray,
 
God bless us all,

Mark & Anita


 

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January 12, 2013

The other day I was doing my devotions and I read this story.

"I once kept a bottle-shaped cocoon of an emperor moth for nearly one year. The cocoon was very strange in its construction. The neck of the 'bottle' had a narrow opening through which the mature insect forces its way. Therefore the abandoned cocoon is as perfect as one still inhabited, with no tearing of the interwoven fibers having taken place. The great disparity between the size of the opening and the size of the imprisoned insect makes a person wonder how the moth ever exits at all. Of course, it is never accomplished without great labor and difficulty. It is believed the pressure to which the moth's body is subjected when passing through such a narrow opening is nature's way of forcing fluids into the wings, since they are less developed at the time of emerging from the cocoon than in other insects.
⋯⋯ I happened to witness the first efforts of my imprisoned moth to escape from its long confinement. All morning I watched it patiently striving and struggling to be free. It never seemed able to get beyond a certain point, and at last my patience was exhausted. The confining fibers were probably drier and less elastic than if the cocoon had been left all winter in its native habitat, as nature meant it to be. In any case, I thought I was wiser and more compassionate than its Maker, so I resolved to give it a helping hand. With the point of my scissors, I snipped the confining threads to make the exit just a little easier. Immediately and with perfect ease, my moth crawled out, dragging a huge swollen body and little shriveled wings! I watched in vain to see the marvelous process of expansion in which these wings would silently and swiftly develop before my very eyes. As I examined the delicate markings if various colors that were all there in miniature, I longed to see them assume their ultimate size. I looked for my moth, one of the loveliest of its kind, to appear in all its perfect beauty. But I looked in vain. My misplaced tenderness had proved to be its ruin. The moth had suffered an aborted life, crawling painfully through its brief existence instead of flying through the air on rainbow wings."

When I finished reading this, I wondered if I am like that moth, and God knows that if he took away all my pain and suffering, I'll never be able to attain the state in which I can "fly". Perhaps right now I am in my "cocoon state", and soon I will be at the "moth state", flying freely through the air on my rainbow wings. Hm.
 
 
     Brian

 

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Dear Prayer Warriors,
 
We know you might have waited for the update for a long time. Actually, we do too.
 
Thanks God! We not only have Merry Christmas and also Happy new year at home. Many healthy friends came over for dinner and celebrated with us. Thanks for your love and accompany.
 
The plan now is going to CHLA day hospital tomorrow for platelet transfusion and wait for Dr. Gaynon's instruction for next treatment plan.
 
Please keep praying for Brian to have good health condition to wait for a best treatment plan that doctors are doing now.
It's God's grace to let us have family time at home during holiday. And now most of people are back to work and kids will back to school. We are still waiting for Dr. Gaynon( CHLA) and Dr. Rosenthal( COH) to find a solution to offer a best plan for Brian. Thanks God! Brian is doing good. The only weakness is his walking. He can't walk balancedly like he did before last advanced chemo. His immune counts still very low. It looks hard to go up by itself after last advanced chemo. That's why the next treatment plan is very important. Dr. Gaynon needs more time to consider the best for Brian.
There are many new decisions to make later.
 
Please pray for us to patiently wait for God's timing and enjoy our time at home.
Pray for Brian to keep the good health condition and being stronger to wait for the best timing for next treatment.
And also pray for Dr. Gaynon and Dr. Rosenthal have the best wisdom from our Almighty God and abide God's plan.
 
 
God bless us all,

Mark & Anita

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  Dear Prayer Warriors,
 
We met Dr. Gaynon after Christmas.   When he saw Brian's looking good and feeling good.   He said," Great, I've accomplished a task to make you have Christmas at home.   Let's wait after New Year.  We can treat it when you are ready."
So, we will stay home for a while.   Just need to get platelet, like tomorrow.
 
Thanks many of you came to celebrate Christmas with us.   There were more than hundred of people came to sing and praise for Jesus' birthday.   Brian shared his " Faith picture"( as attachment).   Everybody prayed for Brian.   And of course, the yammy refreshment.
 
We got a lot of responds for not being able to come due to travelling or some contagious symptoms of themselves or family members.
We received your blessings too.  Thank you.
 
The bottom portion are something in my mind during this week.   I was touched by what I just wrote, you should read it.
But sorry I expressed it by Chinese.   You may google to translate it from traditional Chinese to English.   I'll try to write in English later if I have time.   Some pictures we took that day will be posted later on facebook " pray for Brian" group.   Join it if you are not in that group yet.
 
Well,  you will see God is always there to protect us and provide what we need through the story I wrote as bottom ( in Chinese).
Faith is the key.   Brian has it.  We all has it.   Prayer warriors own it.   How about you?
 
There are some option and decision to make before next treatment.   Please keep praying for us. 
 
(Hebrews 11:1) Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
(Revelation 3:8 NLT ) I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me.
 
God bless us all,

Mark and Anita 
Thanks for your prayer.
 
 
 
親愛的勇士們，

非常感謝大家在百忙中抽空來參加Party (據保守計數有一百多人)，甚至有很多人放下自己教會的活動特別來為Brian 打氣、加油，uncle Kenny 是其中之一，在此獻上無限感激。BSF老師Mrs. & Mr. Wilson, GCCI 可明, Terry Yang 一家, 東安Edward & Lynn, Yang Ping, Paul Lin, 五姨&五姨丈,  VOH 家人, 和一些素未謀面的代禱者. 謝謝您們的參與.
 
很多人事先來信告知出城旅行，也更多是因家人或自己微恙而不能出席，羅省鄭牧師也很想來可是Yvonne 說咳嗽不行, 抱歉!
無論如何，你們的心意我們都領收到了，謝謝您們體諒我們對健康的嚴格篩檢以致您必須缺席， 也請您們為我們多保重您自己的身體。

我們很蒙福，在VOH這個愛的大家庭有這庅好的牧者 関牧師，區長 Paul Young.對我們愛護有加,全力支持。當我們在這麼急湊的時間內臨時起意要辦party，才一兩天的時間，上帝真實地令我們體會到大家常說的"調兵遣將＂，尤其看見這麼多VOH家人盡心盡力地付出，好美的畫面。

首先是Sophia,  神感動了她決定更改原訂行程 跨刀全力相助，從節目編排，制作PowerPoint,主持串場，連帶地英文堂Evangeline 的敬拜團隊也由她來邀約和coordinate。uncle Palmar 的音響燈光，Amy & Paul Tai 的power point control.  葉師母領軍的usher team.  Alice 的點心部門，Charlie 媽媽Helen 的水果雕.  負責攝影拍照的Joseph, Harrison,Thomas.  尤其臨時被推上去翻譯的Thomas 博得老少讚賞，實在是每件事  神都有預備，都不必排練也沒預約，一切銜接地就是這広流暢自然。那天我告訴大家，這是我們夫妻有始以來辦活動㐧一次這麼軽省，不必剪輯影片到天亮，也不必愁如何串場及各部門如何組織協調，因為我們我們深信有Sophia 出馬一切就搞定了，而且她更厲害的是擺平我和Mark之間的歧見，這也是在活動內容的要求上我倆首次如此合一，她真是 上帝派來的天使,代表 耶穌來當一個中保，幫助我們家合一。說到這兒，不知您能體會多少我們心中的感動。從這些小事當中我深深感受 神的愛與同在， 上帝一直將我們捧在祂的手心當中，這麼清楚地保護著我們，還有啥懼怕呢? 
各位代禱勇士，請您們也継續存著無畏的心，為我們爭戰得勝。

原以為聖誕節過後就會開始下一個療程，Dr. Gaynon 看Brian 狀況良好，他說＂可以繼續休息，過年後等你預備好再開始＂。  所以我們又可在家待久一奌了，跨越2013年。

對了，前兩天party的主題是分享 " Faith picture 信心的圖畫" .   上帝在Brian 生病以前，就是在2010年的11月為Brian 所預備的主題--- 信心。當年我每週二晚上帶他去BSF 聖經研讀聚會，他參加髙中組，我去婦女班。有天他的老師要每個人在一張白紙上畫出你心目中所謂的信心，不知為何，他那次的表現可圈可奌，不只畫得特別，他對＂信心＂的一番解說與令人讚歎的自信，真可謂＂神來之筆＂。我還記得下課後他很興奮地分享給我聽，旁邊一個小學生問他那圖畫中的小鳥在哪𥚃?  Brian 回答他並把他手上拿的那張畫調轉了一下方向說＂你拿反了＂。那孩子說, "喔! 這樣哦！我看到了！＂。 其實Brian 是故意逗那小孩的，他的畫中沒有小鳥，Brian說 "這就是我的信心，別人或許看不懂在哪裡或是什庅，但我很清楚我的信心就在這裡，這就是 上帝所給我的信心。＂
記得當時我也被他所表現的觸動了，印象特別深刻。囘家後他分享給Mark 聽，Mark 很有同感，還在教會開會中分享給関牧師和一些同工。孰知那張原稿卻被我不經意地給丟棄了。一直到那年的12月，在他最危急的時候，我想起了他這幅畫，神的伏筆就是如此巧妙，雖然原稿被我丟了，可是那些精彩的畫面和對話是永遠不會磨滅的。畫紙雖然丟了,但真正的信心是無形的.
就是這個信心帶我和Mark走過那段最艱辛的時日，上帝對我說,"你的信救了你的孩子＂。
就這樣，加上眾人情詞迫切的禱告， 上帝帶領著Brian 奇蹟式地甦醒，腦部的瘀血逐漸褪去。 感謝主！所有記憶全部都在，真的是令人歎乎神奇！下面這張就是去年夏天，Brian 又再照當初的原味重畫了一張類似原畫的傎品以供各位參考。

代禱勇士們，你們曾經link連結到Maria姊妹為 Brian 所架設的部落格嗎? 去看看，她說," 相信，就必看見！＂
部落格的英文名是grip of faith. 緊握住信心。您也是嗎?  有緊握嗎? 或有片刻鬆弛呢? 「 不要放開信心的繩索」，讀過活潑的生命月刊 12月28日 p.149 的默想散文就是這個主題( 見夾帶的附件有全文）。

各位勇士們，希望我今日的分享可以彌補各位上週未能列席參與的缺憾，也更期望大家和我們同心祈求, 奇蹟必會不斷降臨。 
近日在等候下一療程中，看著 上帝又不斷在開門，我們還在繼續禱告和尋求中，待明朗後再向各位報告。

経文分享：
信 就 是 所 望 之 事 的 實 底 ， 是 未 見 之 事 的 確 據 。(希 伯 來 書 11:1)
 
(啟示錄 3:8) 我知道你的行為, 你略有一點力量,也曾遵守我的道, 沒有棄絕我的名，看哪, 我在你面前給你一個敞開的門，是無人能關的。


願 上帝祝福我們大家有更平安喜楽，更蒙福與得勝的一年。

God bless us all,

Mark and Anita 
Thanks for your prayer.
P149
 

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