Well....it's been an interesting week.....

Sorry for the blank space here for a while. This past week was an interesting one, to say the least. Sheri has been having off and on headaches for the past few weeks. It seems to coincide with the timing of her chemo. This week the same thing happened. Her doctor had dropped one of the chemos we had thought was causing the problem. Needless to say Monday, four days after chemo, we woke up, read the bible, had coffee and toast....a normal day. Sheri started to get a headache so she decided to take a hot bath, that seems to help for a bit. A bit later she was washing her hands in the bathroom when she called out to me that she was feeling funny. I found her half way to the floor with no strength in her legs. I had her sit down...when she began to have a seizure. It lasted about five seconds. I got her to bed and immediately called her doctors. I had Sheri's Mom pick up some anti seizure medicine at the pharmacy that the doctors prescribed. She slept a while, so I went to work, her Mom with her. A few hours later she had another seizure, this one lasted a minute or so....so we called 911.....time to go to the hospital. We traveled to Wenatchee with the lights off, as Sheri was doing better. We spent the next day in the hospital doing scans and talking to doctors. The scans came back clear, no swelling, and things looked stable. So the conclusion? Once again the chemo reacted with a few of the Gamma Knife treated spots in her brain to press and give her headaches and the seizures. She is now on anti seizure meds, and steroids to avoid a recurrence, and is no longer on chemo. Each day she is doing much better. Today she went for a massage and shopped for flowers for our yard with her Mom. Yesterday she walked a half mile on the treadmill. They put her through the ringer that's for sure.

We are continuing to look up and trust God, our Healer. One good thing is the scans showed none of the things the doctors were worried about...which is good. Thanks for the concern and support.

Looking up, and getting well!

Brett and Sheri

Sheri's Willow Tree.......

Everyone loves a good story...I like telling them...it's a good combination! This is the story of Sheri's Willow Tree:

About four years ago we bought a piece of property just above the town of Manson, in a development call Winesap Ridge. I took Sheri up there several years before, when it first came on the market, and she fell in love with it. As fate would have it, we could not afford it at the time, it was just out of reach for us....so the dream died, or did it? A few years passed and we were able to sell a home we had built. We happened to know the family who had bought the lot we fell in love with, so I contacted them to see what their plans were....they wanted to sell! So alas the dream of our Winesap property did come true after all, just a few years later then we thought. What drew us to the property in the first place was the amazing view, and all the trees....all kinds of trees. Firs, and pines, maple, apple, cherry, poplar, alder....and one mammoth willow tree, right at the entrance to the property. This was Sheri's favorite tree of all. Sheri envisioned a swing or a bench under her mighty flowing branched where you could whittle away a hot summer day in her shade, reading a good book with a glass of iced tea. We bought the lot just a few months before Sheri began her battle against cancer. Our plan is to build a home there for our family, but life and the economy have not allowed that to happen in our timing. Meanwhile Sheri's willow stood tall and proud at the entrance, waiting for us to join her.

The past few years have been tough on the willow tree. Many wind storms have ravished her once strong branches, ripping them from her one gale at a time. Finally this past fall, one last storm tore her final large branch from her massive trunk...her former glory was no more...or was it? We called in a professional tree trimmer to prune her back to almost nothing...not sure if she was coming back, or would be sent to the firewood pile. All winter she has stood, branch less and bare....until this spring. Hundreds of new sprouting limbs cover her trunk, with fresh budding leaves, already draping to the ground like glory days of old. Is she back? Time will tell. If this tree is anything like the owner that loves her, it's tough to keep her down for long. Maybe Sheri and her tree are more alike then we know.

Looking up,

Brett