BigFred

Howdie ya’ll. It’s the weekend and I’m just chillin’. Hope everyone is doing well. A number of things jumped off this week. Christian jazz saxiphonist Donald Johnson called and asked if he could record one of our songs, Elohim, for his new CD. That’s cool. This will be the second artist to record that number. Walter Finch, Christian guitarist, did a hip hop style recording some years back. Cool, huh?

The past couple of days have been really good for me health wise. The doctors are still trying to figue out why my body is going up and down, so they’re still adjusting my medication. So far it seems to work, I’ll have to wait a few more days to see if the adjustment works.

I’m looking forward to church tomorrow. A long praise and worship before the word would be just fine with me. I miss playing guitar on the team. When my health is more stable I’ll look at getting back in action. I’ve got some projects I’m trying to gett on with right now, so that ought to keep me busy.

If you get a chance, holla back on the blog ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, praise the Lord!

Frederick

The end of another hard week. What makes it so hard is that we have no new news!!!!!

The MRI that Frederick took on Wednesday did not show what the neurologist thought: excess fluid causing pressure on the brain, causing the headaches. Sooo, she’s going to get together with all of Frederick’s doctors: oncologist, surgeon, general practicioner, radiologist and physical therapy doctore to try to figure out what’s going on. Prayerfully, something will come of this. If not, we will probably try for a new set of doctors somewhere else.

Frederick has been really tired and not done much all week, except today. He has been awake and upbeat so that is encouraging.

Please pray for discernment and wisdom for the doctors. We’ll see what next week brings!

Diana

We went to see a neurologist today. She was very nice, and very knowledgeable. She had only looked at Frederick’s MRI pictures for a few minutes and was able to show us that he has a new mass forming in the right side of his brain. She originally asked if Frederick had had a stroke. As far as we know he has not. Based on his symptoms, she believes that this new mass might indicate that a vein is closed and excess fluid is buidling on his brain again. Frederick will go in for a special MRI on wednesday and then we’ll go back to her for a consult where she can be more precise and make plans from there. She says he may need a shunt to drain the fluid. It was disheartning to hear that but at the same time we finally had some kind of a real diagnosis so in some ways it was good to hear. At least now we know Frederick’s symptoms were pointing to something real. We’re just glad this neurologist has come on board. My only complaint is why wasn’t this done sooner.

Frederick is a little down, but he says he’ll be okay. I know he doesn’t want to go under the knife again.

As usual thank you for your prayers as we trust God to show himself mighty in this situation. We are still waiting to be able to praise God for complete healing. Your prayers and showing of love to us keeps us looking up.

Love ya’ll

Diana

It’s been a couple of weeks since Frederick was in the hospital last and he went in again last night. Almost similar symptoms from the last few times, headache, stomache, nausea, vomiting and low blood pressure. This time we know it shouldn’t be due to the steroids because he isn’t even on the taper right now. We arrived at Swedish Emergency around 4:30 and Frederick was seen by a doctor around 8. They did a cat scan to make sure he wasn’t bleeding in his brain since his INR had been low for a few weeks, but that was clear and his INR had improved. Unfortunately, after they decided to keep him he didn’t actually get into a room until around Midnight!

This morning Frederick continued to have the headache and vomiting. The doctors are doing more testing, but still not able to say what’s causing the symptoms. Please pray for discernment and clarity for the doctors so that we can get to the bottom of what’s going on. We are getting tired of going back and forth with no real answers. Our other option would be to try a different set of doctors. Please pray that God will direct us clearly as to what our next steps should be.

Thanks as always for your continued love, prayers and support. I know that we are only standing because of God and his people!

If anything changes, we’ll let you know.

Love ya’ll
Diana & Frederick

Wasup? Went to church this morning had a good time too. Lots of prayer going up in the house this morning. The saints are sending up much prayer for me lately. I was thinking during the service that I need to walk in my healing. The Lord wants to see me healed so I need to conduct myself as one who excepts His blessing.

My energy kept going up and down during the service, but I feel pretty good right now. I’m trying to learn how to pace myself so I’m not so exhusted. I’m getting better at it.

This past week I did more of my physical therapy excersies here at home. In the long run that should make my body stronger. I need to get to the gym and the pool a couple times a week. I can do the tredmill and water arobics.

I have a really good friend in fellowship and the music business that I’m working on some projects with right now. I spoke with him last night and he said he’s getting ready to cut up some of the guitar samples I’ve given him for a commerical or two. He’s requested more samples from me. So I’m excited about putting in somemore work to be used commerically. Fun stuff. I’ll have to get my copy rights together for the tunes that haven’t been tagged yet. So my music is coming alive, it took awhile but the Lord is faithful. When Diana can get involved it will really be exciting. I loved watching her lead praise and worship this morning. Of course she’s my favorite It’s been a long while since we’ve sang together so when we get to it the devil better lookout.

Be blessed this week

Federick aka Freddy

A great Sunday in the Lord. Went to church enjoyed the message, the music and he fellowship. A youth group came and did a message on teen violence. It got right to the point, there’s too much fighting and killing going on with our youth. It was done vey well.

I’ve spoken to just about all of my family members today, everyone is doing well. My brother is a preacher and preaches a lot at his church in Tacoma. He sends me a power point of all his messages every week. He’s pretty good to. He loves the word of God and really gets into it.

I think my next laptop will be a Mac, I could use it for my music and graphcs. It could be a nice change. A lot people doing mussic use mac so it would make it esier to transfer data. My Reason program would be able to cross both the PC and Mac platforms with no problem. So it would make it easy to use between applications. So we’ll see how it goes.

Have a blessed week veryone,

Frederick

In and out of the hospital. I’m feeling much better now though. Messing around with these medications is a drag. I’m just praying that the tumor will continue to shrink.

Gegg Alex brought me an offical cap from Oboma’s inaug, it’s really cool. He and his wife D attended. It was nice of them to think of me. I’m still getting used to a black prez. Cool, huh?

aster is coing up, I’m still not sure if or how I’m going to get involved. The music is always good, I just need to have the energy. With the adjustment of my meds I should be able to stablize and stay level. The doctors say my tapper off the striod should be even slower, like maybe over two years. That’s a long long time to tapper of a medication. But I’ll do what I have to to get well.
Diana and I still haven’t figured out a date for us. If anyone out there would like to donate a date package feel freee to step up and help out. Nothing big, just something that will let us gett away from the kids and the house to get a breath.
Please keep all our kids in your prayers, Jerrold, Ericka and Frederick, IV. That the Lord will keep His hedge of protetection around them.

Be blessed of the Lord,

Frederick

Is March suppose to come in like a lion and go out like a Lamb, cause it sure has. I’m writing from Swedish Hospital where Frederick has been since Friday. He had been overly tired, was nauseaous, had diarrha and just not feeling well. He didn’t want us (Fatima care giver and I) to call the doctor but we did. By the time the doctor got back to me it was after 5 and she was pretty concerned and wanted him to be looked at. We went to emergency and after some testing they determined that Frederick might have pancreatitus, and they kept him to do some other testing. On saturday they determined that he probably didn’t have pancreatitus, but they were very concerned about him falling so much. They also wanted to find out what was causing the other symptoms. They thought it might also be due to the decadron weening so they called in an endocrinologist who didin’t see Frederick until late Saturday. In addition we got an early MRI (it was already scheduled for later in March). The MRI showed that the tumor had shrunk in comparison to the 6/08 MRI, but they didn’t have the 1/09 MRI to compare it to. So…to make a long story short…after 2 interns and 4 doctors, and two days, they have no idea what’s happening with Frederick but this morning they decided to do some nerve testing to see if that might be causing some of the problems. Please pray that somehow with all these doctors God will give discernment so that we can get this handled and back on the road to FULL recovery.

Thank you for your continued prayers.
Diana from Swedish Hospital Room 905 SW