A Heart Felt Thank You!

During the past 3 weeks my family and I fave felt the influence, and power of collective prayer from family and friends.

Three weeks ago I went with my brother Elton, to not only pick up my mother from work, but also my brothers girlfriend from the airport. After we picked up my mother from work, she felt like something was wrong. We were going to go straight from my mother's work to the airport, but we all forgot cash money for parking fee at the airport, so we end up going home to get cash. My mother deiced to stay home, I picked up Elton's girlfriend.

When I got home I found out that my mother and brother Jeremy, took my father to the ER. My mother was worried because his legs was severally swollen and his left leg was a bright red. Come to find out that his lymphoid was full of infection. They gave him an antibiotic shot, and some antibiotic pills. As time went by the infection got worse, his legs became more swollen and the redness in his left leg became more red, and the color was spreading. He went back to the clinic and he got more antibiotic shots in his hip, one shot on each side. He also got different antibiotic pills. Before my parents left the Nurse Practitioner told my parents to see her in the day.

My mother took him the next day to see the Nurse Practitioner took his temperature and it was at 103. She said: "what hospital do you want to go to?" They chose IMC in Utah.

My dear o'le father was in IMC for three days. While there they gave him 6 different kinds of antibiotics, trying to find the right combination to kill the infection. This infection ravaged his body, because of this his doctor wouldn't let him take any of the pills that was previously prescribe. They wanted to control everything that was going into his body. Their was also a phlebotomist that took his blood 4 times a day, to find what caused the Staph infection. They couldn't find what caused the Staph, no kidding.

During this time my mother didn't know if she would have her job. While my father was in the hospital she had to go to work, they wouldn't let her have PTO to see her husband who was in the hospital fighting for his life. All what they could say was: "if I give you special treatment then I half to give it to everyone else." She finally got on FLMA, good thing.

It was a Monday when we got a phone call from my father saying that he can finally go home. He said that it took 4 different doctors to decide if he can go home. So that afternoon we got him home. His leg was still red and swollen, but looking very good. His antibiotics was in pill form. Soon one of his legs became its normal size, the other was still swollen and the color was still there.

Now it has been a week and a half that he has been home from the hospital. His legs are good, the color on the left leg is almost completely normal. He still needs to wrap his left leg so that the cells can regenerate. He has also lost over 20 pounds. We think that when infection in his body left that is what caused him to loose the 20 pounds or more. How insane was that?

His recovery wouldn't have happen as quickly if not for the collective prayers from family and friends. Thank you all so much for your support, love, and prayers. Their have been so many people that have offered up prayers on behalf of my family. Forgive me for not mentioning any names, I am afraid that if I do someone would get left out.

Cheers Everyone!!

Elder Dallin H. Oaks preaches protection of the Constitution

I took this from KSL.com and loved it. Not because I am LDS, but because this came from a former member of the Utah Supreme Court Justice, Dallin H. Oaks. I also love this quote by Elder Oaks:

"Some of the things said by various persons in recent public discourse cause me to urge that we be more careful in the way we throw around the idea that something is unconstitutional. A constitution should not be used as a weapon to end debate."

Too many persons are using the US constitution as a *weapon* to get what they want. When clearly they have not studied the constitution themselves.

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Click on the link for Elder Oaks full talk on Protection of the Constitution.

It was also claimed by religious leaders that Freedom of Religion is under attack. In the USA we have the right under the Deceleration of Independence and the US Constitution to have Freedom of Religion. That of course means that we can by law, have the right to belong and practice any religion in the USA. It is imperative that we keep our Freedom of Religion. Not only did our founding father's of the Deceleration but the founders of the Constitution gave so much of themselves to give us such freedoms. Some of our founding fathers lost everything; their family's, lively hood, riches and reputations to give us the freedoms that we so do enjoy! People are fighting to take away our precious freedoms, we must fight to take it back!

Cheers Everyone!!