Monday, October 09, 2006

it's been a pretty incredible weekend...the only time Ramona has been in emergency this weekend was to escort me to get my face glued back together (only a minor hockey injury)...obviously that hits the top of the list of things we are thankful for....Ramona isn't nearly perfectly healthy and this is actually a pretty tedious stage in chemotherapy...tiredness, mouthsores, stomach/esophagus pain...and stuff like that...but it is still awesome not to need to be in emerge...the hockey tournament this weekend was a surreal time...and a huge thank-you to Ray and Lori and the Petkau family for putting it together...i haven't been on the friendsoframona site since the tournament but i hope pictures and details are posted there....there are so many little special things that happened it almost brought me to tears sometimes....they deserve personal time...not a random/general blog thankyou...thanks so much for praying
-earl

5 comments:

Stacey said...

You might not know who I am (I'm married to Keith Friesen, a Mennville boy, and I've helped with timekeeping at 8 hours of Howardville) but I just want to say thank you for being to honest and not afraid to say how you're really feeling. That's something that I feel challenged with right now, to be real.

. said...

wow! i'm so very glad to hear that you haven't had to go into the hospital thus far, ramona... other than to be a support to earl of course :) praise the lord! i'm so glad to hear that the hockey marathon went well! i heard story after story about it at thanksgiving dinner yesterday!

seems like it's been so long since i've seen you, but that doesn't mean that i've forgotten about you!

hope to see you soon, though!

i love you,
dayna

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Anonymous said...

Hey Earl and Ramona!

So glad to hear that the hockey marathon was a success! Earl, sorry to hear about your face! I hope the damage isn't too extensive.

Have a great week you two!

Michele (Jobina's sister)

Anonymous said...

Special note to Extended Petkau clan,
The enormous amount of energy and the extravagant generousity demonstrated this weekend at the Hockey marathon will not go unrewarded. Touching and inspiring!
Tim Reimer