Joy Update

Infromation from Sue Crone from Gloria (JOy's Mother)

We received a call from Gloria Saturday morning letting us know that they had taken Joy to the hospital Friday night. She was running a fever of 102; anything over 100, she is required to report to the hospital. They determined the cause of the fever is a urinary tract infection. As of Sunday Joy was still in the hospital. We hope this will not delay their homecoming arrival date.

Message from Joy

Here is a current photo of Joy. She is looking forward to coming home

Message To Joy

HI JOY,
WAS SO GLAD TO TALK TO YOU. I HOPE
THAT YOU FOOT WILL BE FINE.

CAN'T WAIT UNTIL YOU COME HOME.

LOVE YA
EVIE

Message To Joy

Wonderful Joy!

It will be great seeing you again. Praise God for answering all our prayers!
Lyn Mitchell

Message To Joy

HI JOY
SO GLAD TO HEAR YOU ARE COMING HOME SOON. CAN'T WAIT. COREY HAD A YARD SALE THIS PAST WEEKEND
AND MADE A WOPPING $7.35 WOW THAT
BROKE THE BANK.

HOPE TO SEE YA SOON

LOVE YOU
EVIE

Hello family and friends,

It is Saturday again! I only had 2 appointments at the hospital this week. I now get my blood tested once a week on Monday. My kidney incision was getting red, so we took off the wound vac suction kit for a few days. Today the nurse came and put it back on. I have to carry it with me wherever I go !
My brother, Terry and his wife, Steph, arrived on Thursday. They are staying until Tuesday. It
was so nice to see them, it helps me be less homesick. We will make a day trip or two, but its nice just spending time with them.
If anyone would like a short vacation, come down and see us, we would love to have you.
Next week I have 2 appointments, blood work, and surgeon. They want to look at my kidney incision which still has the staples in it.
I'm starting to prepare for coming home. I am praying everything goes well so i can come home on schedule.
There is one place I want to go yet, The Alligator Farm in St. Augustine. I want to see alligators!!! I don't know if we will make it there or not.
I am counting the days. If any one has time to send me e-mails with news, even what you think may be boring, I love to get mail from home.
I miss all of you and can't wait to be back in Dover.
Love, Joy

Joy Update

Hey everybody!

Just wanted you all to know I made my plane resrvation to come home. July 10, 2008. I will have much more recuperating to do, but I will be home. PRAISE GOD!

Ialso wanted to thank all of you for your e-mails. It made me feel connected to home.

Love all of you.

Joy

Message To Joy

Hi Joy,
We want to send you and the family all our thoughts and prayers!!! I pray for you every night!! I hope that all is well down in Florida and your enjoying the beautiful weather!!! Uncle larry and Aunt Shirley send their thoughts and prayers as well!!! We are all looking forward to you returning home!!!! Keep up all the good work and take your time healing!!!! Know that you have the love and support of all your family and friends!!!
With all our love and thoughts!!!

Shirley, Larry, Danielle, and Aiden

Message To Joy

They tell us we’re in for some FL weather here in PA. Expecting very humid, mid-90 temperatures the next four days or so. Somehow I think we missed spring!

Today’s the last day of school for Chelsea and Colby; yesterday and today were only ½ days for them. Now they are anxious to get to FL for a visit sometime.

We wish Tanya (Joy’s cousin) and Brad Yost a SAFE trip tomorrow to visit with you for the week. Perhaps familiar faces will relieve some of the homesickness.

Joy, so many people continue to ask about you. It’s always good to report how well you are doing. So keep up the good work!

You know how much we love you all and miss you all!!



Susan R. Crone

Message To Joy

Hey Joy,
great to see you improving. Can't wait to see you home and healthy.Things are going good up here. Steve had a infection in his incision,good news is it wasn't MRSA. That scared me. Can't wait til the both of you are back to being healthy again.We miss you and love you

Steve Mis and Tay

Message To Joy

Hi Joy

Glad you are feeling better. Can't
wait until you are home. Nothing
has changed much here except our
heat wave.

Tell Mom & Dad ,Mike I said hi.

Love Ya All
Evie

Hi everyone,

I thought it was hot here in Florida, but this week, Pennsylvania has us beat. It is usually hot and very humid here, but our weather this week is hot, breezy and not muggy.

My cousin and her husband, Tanya and Brad Yost, flew down on saturday. It is so nice to see someone from home. They will be here for the week. It will make the time pass faster. I will probably go on some short day trips while they are here.

I'm starting to feel better. I'm still on some pain medication, and my energy level isn't up to par, but I can tell I'm getting stronger everyday. The kidney incision still has staples, and I'm still wearing the wound vac suction machine. Fluid is still coming out.

This week I have at least one appointment at the hospital every day. I'm expecting to be home by the end of July [I hope].

I miss every one terribly. Can't wait to see all of you.

I'm getting ready to go to the hospital. I will keep in touch. Thank you to everyone who sends news from home. I enjoy hereing from you about the simple things in your lives.

Joy

An almost free day!

Hi everyone,

I,ve had a few tough days. Monday I had an ultrasound afterwhich I had much pain again and was running a fever. They took the staples out that were over my liver incision. I have a section of the wound that is open, about 2 inches. They discovered a pocket of fluid under the incision that could be causing my fever. The open wound needs dressed 2 times a day to help drain that fluid.
Yesterday when I got home from my long day at the hospital, I slept the whole afternoon. I'm
feeling much better today and my fever came down somewhat.

Thank you to eveyone who sent me some news. Its so nice to hear from Pennsylvania.

We found out we do not have free calling at 7:00 pm, it is 9:00pm till 9:00am and weekends after 9:00pm on Friday. Feel free to call after 9:00, we are always up till at least 11:30pm.

Thank you to everyone who attended Haas's Dinner. I heard it was very nice and I couldn't believe how many people attended. I received the beautiful card today. You all overwelmed me again. God has my cup running over from all your love.

Everyone is asking when I will be home. They did not give me any concrete answer. I'm still losing fluid off my legs. Total fluid loss to date is 54 lbs. I am expecting to be home by the end of July, but it could be sooner.

I'm going to rest now. Remember I like news!
Love ya, Joy Still Smiling!

Message from Joy

May 28,2008

Hello everyone! I'm finally feeling good enough to sit up and write a few lines. GOD IS SO GOOD TO ME. He still has his healing hands all over me. I went into surgery weighing 215 lbs. My Donor's kidney kicked in and started working immediately. I started losing fluid right away. I had so much fluid that it started leaking right thru my incisions and running down my legs! They put a device called a wound suction vacuum over the lower kidney incision and it started pumping fluid out like crazy. The fluid is due to my liver not kicking in right away. My liver is now kicking in. I lost 28 lbs. of fluid in the past 7 days.
I'm still having pain, mostly over my lower incision. They are very good about controlling pain, so that I am up walking around and doing physical therapy. Last night I slept in bed, totally reclined for the first time.
I saw my surgeon yesterday, and he said I am an amazement to him, especially after all the difficulty with the surgery. He told me I make his heart smile. He told me the last big obstacle in surgery was answered by God.
I always wondered why I wasn't healed. Now, I realize that my surgery was so difficult and they knew that going in, that God showed all these people involved that the surgery that it was a miracle to get through it, let alone be doing so well 2 weeks afterword. I can't wait to tell my story from the age of 15, because I truly am a miracle of God.

I also would to ask that you keep the donor's family in prayer.

And, all of you who are out there, surrounding me with your love and support, there are no words that can express my thanks and gratitude for your love.

I'm going to sign off now, but I'll be on more often now that I'm feeling better.

STILL SMILING, Love ya! Joy