BigFred

I’m having a better day than I had yesterday. I was just to tird all day. I’m doing much better today. I seem to have gotten a little rest.

I went to a ear nose and throat doc yesterday and they put a camera probe down my nose to my throat and took pictures showing that my right vocal chord isn’nt moving at all. They have to do more tests to find out why.

I gave my friend Tyrone a disc today of some guitar samples he can use on some future commericals for snownboarders and skaters. So that’s exciting, I’l get to work on some more tracks for him to use.

So I’m getting some work out of my recording equipment.

Stay tune

Frederick

I’ve just got home from the doctors office with god new. The tumor has shrunk in the past three months. I was so excited about the news that it brought me to tears. The doc encouraged me to continue to stay positive and get more into the physical therapy and things that bring about a positive attitude. I still haven’t taken any chemo or radiation, and the tumor still got smaller.

God is so good.

Still praying,

Frederick

Well, we have a new prez in office, and like most I didn’t think I’d see a black man in the White House while I was alive. But here it is. It hasn’t sunk it yet, but it feels good. I feel like God is in this all the way, that we as a people, blacks and Christians can do anything. I eally feel encouraged for my children. Who can tell them they can’t be whatever they wan to be?

I can’t even imagine what the future holds for us as a people and a nation. The first family is beautiful too. Thier every move is being watched, but I’m sure they’ll do just fine. I wonder what his first full day in office will be like? After all the cerimonies many of my family members nad I talked a lot on the phone excited about this historic event that is usre to reverberate for weeks to come. What a blessing to experience.

Let’s keep our nation and it’d leaders in a covering of prayer.

In Christ Jesus,

Frederick

It was a long day. I started the morning with an MRI which a doctpr wil look at tomorrow afternoon. Then went to the pain clinic to see another doc about managing my pain. My head, kneck and back hurt all the time so they asked a lot of questions about the pain differs and what not. Then he adjusted my meds. I haven’t been on chimo meds for at least nine months or so. But I don’t expect much has chaged in the size of the tumor, though my prayer would be that it has shurunk to nothing.

I’m working on icking put harmonies fro the praise team at church and hope to get Ericka to help me by singing parts on to a CD.

Diana and I are hoping for some new lyrics from the Lord so we can start working on some new material. I miss hearing her voice.
I showed her some beginers stuff on the bass guitar tonight, and she picked it up real easy. That would be cool if she could learn even the simplist pieces.

I should try to get some sleep now, Love you all,

Frederick

Well I had a productive week. Started work on a guitar sample CD for my friend Tyrone. In doing the project I’m learning more about my new recorder. I just make-up guitar riffs record them to a track and save them to be burned to a CD later.
I had a couple of doctors appointments and will have more next week with the cancer docs. I don’t expect there will be much change, which is fine. That just means things aren’t getting any worse. Again, I’m more than likely going to have to learn to live with the cancer and just enjoy life. God has given me so much to work with. A lot to be grateful for.

The past few days I’ve been so tired, sleepy. But other than that I feel pretty good, blessed really. Diana wants to learn how to play the electric bass guitar. That’ll be fun even if she learns a little bit. When she gets some rest we’ll get to it.

My grandson Jalen wants to learn how to play the guitar. That ought to be fun. It’ll be good to start him at the young age he’s at now. He has a little guitar to practice on so I just need to show him some entery level excerises to get him started.

I had a really bad fall a couple of weeks ago and messed up my right foot and leg. The late bursing makes it look worse than it is, but it’s getting better.

Diana is practicing the piano aas I type. I hope she keeps it up ’cause that would hlp us in our writting if she could pick out some tunes.

Thanks to all of you that countinue to support us in so many ways, you’re a real blessing.

In Christ Jesus,

Frederick

Happy New Year everyone! It’s been great ringing in the New Year. Didi’t do anything special just chilled out. I’ve got a music project I nedd to have done by next Thurs. It’s a guitar sample CD of different types of guitar sounds that you can use to enhance your tracks. It won’t be very hard. I’ll use my new gear to capture the loops in wav. type files and then burn them on disc. Fun!

I’m still a little sore in my right leg from my falll. As it heals it hurts a little. But at least it’s getting better. I hope to be very productive this week, starting and completing music projects. I can senese the presence of the Lord on my life to get some work done.

I should begin to draw again too. I have the ability to add music to vidieo so I might slowly start to get into that.

Hope 2009 should be a better yea for all of us.

God bess,

Frederick

We praise God we made it. It has been an exhausting 2008, but we praise God we’re all still here. We are looking forward to many more blessings in 2009. I say many more because though every thing didn’t work out as we planned in 2008, we are so grateful that in many other ways the Lord continued to show us that he loves us and he cares for us and he has continued to provide in ways we never, ever expected. We also thank God for Fatima our home health care worker. She has been wonderful with Frederick and I think he’ll be glad for me to go back to work so she can come back to help with him!

Our plans for 2009 include getting on the doctors for some new information and ideas about how to get Frederick well, how to get him physically better and dare I say it…getting rid of this tumor all together! We know that God can if so chooses and if he does we say thank you but if he doesn’t we say thank you.

We also want to start working on our music again. I asked Frederick to teach me how to play the bass guitar so that we can play together. He said he would, but I’ll have to be the initiator on that. Hopefully we’ll have some new music to sing praises to God with soon.

Ericka turned 14 in December and is now as tall as I am. It is so strange to stand next to her and look her in the eyes. It makes me feel old! My baby girl will be in high school this year. That’s all I’ve got to say about that!

Jerrold and Jalen spent the holidays in California so we didn’t get to do much grandparenting. They won’t be home until Sunday and school starts back on Monday.

We really want to thank all our family and friends and especially our church family. Emerald City Bible Fellowship has been a lifeline for us. You all have blessed us in so many ways that I couldn’t begin to say thank you enough. We had every intention to send out Christmas cards and then I was gonna do a New Years letter but even with two weeks vacation, I didn’t get anything out. Lord willing I will send something some time before Christmas 2009.

As always we covet your continued prayers.
Love from our family to yours.
Diana, Frederick and Ericka