Dear friends,
We just wanted to thank all of you so much for your prayers!!!! We feel your praying and we are encouraged by your many emails (even when we do not write back)!!!
Tomasz’s sermon went well on Sunday. From how people responded and what they said to him after church, it seemed like God really used both him and his translator, Edgar (a young Ukrainian guy from a different church) to encourage those who were there on Sunday. So praise God for that! And thanks for praying. It was really hard to be focused on the sermon preparation after we found out about the blood clot and with everything else that was going on last week…
Miriam is doing ok… It’s all a little bit of a roller-coaster (both physically and emotionally) but she is feeling better. She has to stay in bed to prevent the blood clot from dislodging but her leg does not really hurt when she is not walking. It is now a little bit of a battle between what is good for her leg/the blood clot and what is good for the rest of her body. For example last week our doctor told us that it would be risky not to put Miriam on certain hormones that would give her remaining ovary a break and some time to heal before it would be forced to “work for two.” But this week he had to take her off those hormones because they were adding to the blood clot problem. Also with all those blood thinners they are giving her, they have to try to help her leg but they have to do it without causing any extra bleeding along the way etc etc…
We are still hoping to be able to travel to Czech some time soon to get everything checked by Czech doctors but right now we cannot really plan much as Miriam needs to be in bed with her leg up.
But we are really blessed to have Miriam’s Mom here with us now. She came on Sunday and it is such a BIG help to have her here!!!! Especially since Tomasz came down with some kind of a stomach bug this morning so right now we are both in bed and Miriam’s Mom taking care of both of us. :)
Thank you again for your prayers and keep in touch. We appreciate all of you VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomasz and Miriam
PS: The picture is for you to see that Miriam really is feeling better :) The Steele girls (Abby and Beka) came to cheer her up on Sunday.
