April Fools Day

April 1 brought lots of fun to the DeVries household when our children were small. It was pretty common for our little ones to fill their daddy's shoes with newspaper on the morning of the first day of April. Daddy would try to put on his shoes and find the paper. The little kids would dance and laugh....haha, Daddy, we fooled you. Daddy never seemed to realize the date so every year he was fooled. Times have changed. I haven't heard anything about April Fools Day today. I've been holed up in the house for the most part while Ken and Scarlen took turns asking for my assistance. Scarlen asked for help with a resume. After working with her for what seemed like an hour or more, I told her we needed to seek help from someone that knows what is going on in the business world these days. She was disappointed that Mom couldn't fill the bill but Mom has been out of it way too long. I promised to find someone that knows what they are doing and ask for help.

My only blood aunt whom I dearly love was told in November that she probably had lung cancer. It has taken this long to get a plan and date for treatment. She went into Northwestern Hospital in Chicago yesterday morning. First there were two nodules that needed testing. If those were cancer, it would have indicated that the cancer had matastisized and there would have been no surgery. Praise God the nodules were residual from a former fungal infection. Surgery was a go. The specialist has developed a laparoscopic technique for this surgery so that the surgery is not so invasive as it once was. It was not guaranteed that that technique could be used but as it turned out, he did remove a lobe from her lung laparoscopically. She did so well...at 86...we are amazed and so thankful. God is good. Her son called here today to say that her oxygen tube has been removed and that she was sitting up in a chair. I clap my hands in praise to God for his mercy for this dear saint.