Melissa taught the whole day today! She is so strong, positive, amazing, and dedicated to her classroom!
Steve lost his job as chauffeur----Melissa fired him! She is ready to drive tomorrow. Her plans are to teach part of the day, rest, and then go back to school for Parent-Teacher conferences.
Our meeting with Fr. Shane was wonderful yesterday! Melissa discussed her feelings from these past 10 days and how confident she is and wondered if that shows a reflection of her faith. Later that night she had a dream that her hair had fallen out. She saw herself with no hair. She realized it wasn't as scary as she feared! Melissa felt God was speaking to her and that it will all be okay! We all realize that we must Fully Rely On God (FROG)....an acronym we learned from the Novacek family! She then called us using her cell phone from the bedroom 20 feet down the hall at 1:45 a.m. to tell us all about her dream!
Looking forward to warmer weather and not having any treatment! We are going to try to do something fun every weekend that is chemo free!
Living with Dad and him driving you....that's good motivation to become independent ASAP!!! But seriously, you better hire him back if you need to...I hear he's pretty affordable!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Melissa had a full day of teaching!
ReplyDeleteWe will keep her and your family in our prayers.
Glad you had a good week. Hope and pray that things continue to move in a positive direction! You all are still in my prayers! I think about Melissa everyday. I have a 9 year old son and told him about Melissa. He knew she would be feeling better soon - she just has to Mom - he said! So there you go from a 9 year old boy - I guess he is Melissa's third cousin.
ReplyDeleteLot of Love,
Jennifer Ballenger
PS. We are hoping to see our grass soon - snow covered here too!
Glad to hear things have been going well. We continue to think of Melissa and your family. We love you all. The Curry's (Scott, Beth, Haley and Louie)
ReplyDeleteWe are glad to hear things are going well and that you had a good full day on Wednesday! We hope Thursday and Friday went well too and that you get to enjoy this weekend. :) You are in the Niemann and Marron family prayers!
ReplyDeleteLove,
Becky and Matt Marron