Card #100 for 2025

Dearest blog readers, Today was the day of 

my procedure at the hospital.  Now praying the results

will give me the green light to have the surgery that

will put me back together.   God willing.  

I will enter this card in the challenge at:

Sunday Stamps

The stamps I used are Stampin UP:

Peaceful Boughs

Garden Birdhouses

Christmas in the Making

I chose to use the red, green, and the deep brown.  I also

used black as my neutral color.  

I was inspired by a card I found on instagram @stampinthroughthecatalog.

I fell in love with making the birdhouses into a winter scene.  

I changed mine up a bit to match the colors in the challenge.  I embossed

the white with snowflakes, then die cut the branches and pinecones twice,

to overlay them with snowy white card stock.  I stamped, colored and cut 

the rest of the images and placed them down.  I added liquid pearl paint to the images

to make it glisten like freshly fallen snow.  

Below is a picture of the gorgeous sunrise at the hospital.  We had to leave

at 6:45 this morning to get there for my appointment.  

He is Patriot pup posing for his picture.  Forgive the clothes 

basket in the background.  We keep them on the couch so 

puppy learns to stay off until we can get a couch cover.  

The verse I chose for this card is:

Mark 9:24 KJV
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,

 Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗

UPDATE:

I had my surgeon appointment Oct 27th, and I went 

with a list of questions and I asked him none.  Because

he wants to get me hooked back up ASAP.  I was so happy and 

yet very scared.  I have to have a colon barium enema x-ray on 

Nov 7th.  I could really use prayer for the procedure as I have to 

be alert for the whole thing, and that the results come back all

good for us to move forward and get this reversed.  If it's all

good the doctor would like to do the surgery in November.  Praise

God for this good news.  I'm praying my test will show all good

things and my body will be ready for surgery with no 

complications or injuries this time.   He's not to concerned

about the damage to my bladder, ureter and kidney because

he's focused on the intestines and closing up the ileostomy and hooking

the plumbing back up together.  I will have more titanium staples in me now,

but God willing they will last and be ok until I'm a 102 years old.  

Thank you for all the prayers and love.  I truly appreciate it.  

Oct 14th 2025~Update: I had my 6 week appointment after having my stents out of the ureter tube
and sadly it's not going well, that ureter tube is not emptying, and the kidney is enlarged and I now have stones again too. Drawing my blood was a disaster and the tears fell like a flood, my body is so broken from all that has happened. It took 2 jabs to the arm, much digging and my hand went numb,
then they had to dig around for a vein in my hand to use finally the the second poke in the hand and searching they were able to prick a vein with the butterfly needle and a small drip. I'm exhausted. Please continue to pray for healing if it's God's will to make me whole again. I'm so heartbroken by this all, it just means the surgery for the ileostomy will now be postponed until we can figure out what to do with my swollen kidney and not working ureter tube, something that is entirely their fault because of the surgery, this shouldn't have been a thing to recovery from, but here we are, and God willing it will be restored by His mighty hand. Because of who He is and what He can do I trust He will bring me safely through. Counting it all Joy knowing I can trust Jesus. ✟

Here is a link to what happened this summer:  Surgery and Healing it's at the bottom of the post.  I appreciate all the love and prayers.  Thank you kindly 💗