Card #101 for 2025

Dear blog readers, I will enter this card in the challenge at:

The Paper Players

The stamp set I used is: 

Stampin Up:  Gingerbread man and dies

It's a bit hard to tell from the picture but the base

card stock is a dark green.  I tried to match up a colored piece

that would resemble mossy meadow, but in the picture it don't even look green.

I stamped and heat embossed the gingerbread man then cut out his 

scarf and hat in cajun craze.  I used old olive for the candies, and early espresso for 

the cute little ginger bread man.  I added some wink of stella clear to the candy 

stick, and I also dry embossed snowflakes behind the gingerbread man and used 

a scallop die on the edge.  

Patriot pup has an earache, so he really loves the 

radiator heater today.  Especially since temps dipped

in the 20's .. I'm not ready for the chill of winter.  

The verse I chose for this card is:

Exodus 23:25 KJV
 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread,

 and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

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UPDATE:

The surgeon had a chance to look over my results from the procedure I had done Nov. 7th

at the hospital.  He said that even though there is scattered diverticulum still present he gave

me the green light for surgery.  PRAISE the LORD.  So please please pray for me, the surgeon and surgery team.  On November 19th I go back for the surgery to close my ileostomy and hook my intestines back up.  Please pray no complications or injuries this time in surgery  and that my recovery will be quicker and everything will work properly in the Name of Jesus.  Thank you all.

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 💗