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Fishing at our pond in July

2011 has been a year of changes! 

The first change came when Reuben asked me to inquire of a friend of ours whether she would be interested in selling her house in Strawn.  Long story short she was, and at the end of June he moved out into his own place.  But prior to that, the Lord brought about an opportunity in May for Fred & I to purchase a piece of property in the little Village of Forrest! The first weekend of June Reuben was baptized and then the 16th a delightful change came when we welcomed Kyson into Seth & Renee's little family.  We started "day"dreaming about house plans, but not too much until Caleb came around in August with his engagement to Shannon!  We thought we would start in earnest preparing the ground to build in the spring, after the wedding, but Sunday night Fred got sick and it was apparent we needed to see the Dr.

Monday, October 10th he was admitted to St. Joseph's for a small bowel obstruction.  After starting the fluids to flush his system, the pain returned.  With no change during the night, an NG tube was put in place at 6AM Tuesday morning, the pain subsided fairly soon and then we waited... and PTL things started moving @ 4:25 that evening.  The next 24 hrs kept showing improvements, the NG tube was removed around 11AM and at 4:30 the doc came in and said we could be discharged but that we needed to schedule a colonoscopy for Friday.  So with great delight we were headed out of the hospital parking lot about 6PM. We had a good night and today has been free of pain.  He's started his flush again in prep for the colonoscopy which is scheduled for 12:30 tomorrow.