Good News / Bad News

99 days! Til what you ask? That is the countdown until we take our family on a cruise to celebrate 40 years of marriage. And to us, this is a BIG deal! We love the life God has given us, the children and grandchildren and decided to take a big dive and celebrate what God has “joined together!”  So that is the good news in the Denlinger household. Matthew has been sharing this with anyone he encounters, so I figured I should get the word out too.

The bad news is (and this won’t come as a surprise if you’ve heard some of our recent history) we have much to accomplish health wise before this trip. Kari saw her second urologist today. She has been battling kidney and bladder stones. So good news on her end is that stones shifted giving her relief, but we need to get them out before any blockage occurs causing her intense pain. Hopefully within the coming month that will surgically happen without complication. In the meantime, she needs to see a kidney specialist for help in understanding why she is such a rock-maker. We call her our “Rock Star.”

And over this past weekend she developed another problem that we need to pursue as well. Just a tad overwhelming, but in the larger scheme of world problems, I guess I am grateful that our issues seem small. Just asking for prayer that we will be able to fulfill our dream of this cruise. Ron already told me that he has as a back-up plan – a night for him and me to stay at the “Fulton Steamboat Inn” (3.4 miles down the road). Haha Oh, do pray that we aging people get and keep our health!! Thanks- Joan