Click here and go to slide number 8 if you want to see a cool ultrasound picture of the blood clot in my heart and the PowerPoint Presentation for Grand Rounds Ultrasound video of the blood clot in my heart! It’s difficult to comprehend that two full years have elapsed since my brain was taken out [...]
Here are the pics that you can enlarge if you wish by clicking on the image you would like to see in greater detail. I said this could be done with my last posting and it couldn’t. Enjoy! (By the way if you want to read the summary of this entire saga then just click [...]
If you want to understand what the Evans family has been through in the past year (Oct. 2008-Feb. 2010) without reading 200 or so postings, this is the posting to read! I have summarized the events here in a single posting…sort of a Cliff’s Notes version of our ordeal with pictures for those of you who [...]
Crossroad Church has been rocked in the past two weeks by the deaths of two 29 year olds and a pre-born baby.
Wow! It’s very hard to believe that it was just one year ago (October 23rd, 2008) that this most interesting of years began for our family. I can scarcely comprehend that 365 days have elapsed since we began this journey with a seizure that revealed a peach sized AVM (mass of intertwined veins and arteries) in my [...]
Carnegie Melon University Professor Randy Pausch struck a worldwide nerve a year-and-a-half ago. He was the featured speaker at the annual “Last Lecture” when he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Doctors gave him just months to live. The Last Lecture series was begun to give professors an opportunity to share those things [...]
Some things in life are more important than outstanding health, but not many. Some things are more important in life than a well functioning family where loving relationships rule the day, but not many. Some things in life are more important than an AVM free brain, but not many. What follows is what is more [...]
We have finally made a decision as to how to approach this bad boy in my brain. For the past month or so I have been sharing in this blog what has been on my mind…literally and figuratively.
If you’re anything like me you will have enjoyed near perfect health all of your life. For 44 years that has been my story. Even now I still feel perfectly fine even though that big thing in my brain makes it difficult for any of us to believe (If you haven’t seen the picture of it [...]
One of the questions going through many of our minds is why this? Why is this person (me) having this problem at this exact moment in history. I haven’t even asked this question yet. The grand and sovereign God that has undergirded my life for the first 44 years of my life will do the same [...]
