Too many bleesings to be able to count them all.

I am at work today and for lunch Jayne and I watched a wonderful video about Stephanie Nielson. What a way to spend you lunch. It has touched my heart and made me think of the more wonderful things in life than just what we want to do. I am so grateful for those things that I can do.

Yesterday, my beautiful bride and I were able to speak in 2 different wards in the church that share the same building. It was wonderful to feel of their great love. I have to keep reminding people that I suffer from CD, Crying Disorder. Jayne talked about how my health issues at times do not allow me to do the things that I may want to. This lead me to share with those in that ward that I was waiting for a liver transplant. I also made sure that no one there thought I needed any pity. Just the contrary, I am so happy that I love to share what it means to me to have friends stop me at work and want to pray with me. What a great blessing it is to have your dear friends and those that become your dear friends just want to stop and pray for you.

The thing that happened at the close of the meeting is when a dear member who may have never known of me before that day closes the meeting with prayer and pleads with our Heavenly Father to bless the Sproul Family in there trails and needs. My dear wife's hand seems to slide over into mine and that touch triggers even more tears. I am so grateful for tears.

I guess what I am trying to say today is that there is always those things that we can do that should be what we try for and not just those things that we think we want to do. Thank You Stephanie, even if you never see this.

Health Update

Being that this is the first post about Health Issues, I guess I should start from the beginning.

In Aug of 09' the doctor told me I have cirrhosis of liver. He was nice enough to preface it with “Non-Alcoholic” being I have really never drunk. A few weeks after that he told Jayne and I that I would not make it to 60 on this liver. Now that was not something we felt good about.

Since that time nothing has really been down. My blood count won’t get high enough for the doctor to feel comfortable to do a biopsy. Who knows when that will happen?

I have been losing weight without having to do much. I have lost about 40 lbs. since the whole thing started. I like that, but I know it is muscle tone and that is not really the best.

The major problem that I have is dealing with pain from all the past stuff like back, legs, hip and shoulders. Now we can add hands and they are not allowing me to take anything for any of the pain. Oh what fun!!!

OK, with all that, I have to say that I feel great otherwise. I have really never felt happier in my life. There are so many great friends that have me in their prayers and I really feel it. What a wonderful blessing.

The Start of a Blog

There seems to be an increasing need for the understanding of what a blog is. I guess the best way to do this is to start a blog. I can't say that this is going to be the most informative blog, but we will try and make it fun. That is the one thing that the family has always had, FUN! Even when it comes to bad health, we will try and make it fun, or at least funny. There are times that this will not be possible and then we will go to the other extreme. The family also seems to cry a lot, if we can't make it fun we will at least make you cry.

As far as pictures, Jayne and I are the worst picture takers in the world. I will try and link the cool pictures that the rest of the family has out on their blogs or other web sites. There may be a picture or two come up from us, but don't think that will be the norm.

We will always make the family look good. We will always help others feel good and we will always look forward to any comments from those who happen across our blog.

Now that there are some ground rules, or expectations, in place we will try and march forward.