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Today was a day that just a few months ago was unimaginable. Jason's prognosis the beginning of April was that he would have to stay home, not be able to live out on his own, and have to take a reduced school load. Today he's living in Knoxville - far from home - and taking a full course load.

He's been off the nerve medication for three weeks. Jason feels nerve pain about ten times a day, but it is not unbearable. The good thing is he now has more stamina and no longer requires his daily afternoon nap.

Sunday we went to church in Knoxville with Kevin and Jason. At the end of the service, Kevin introduced Jason to a Campus Crusade staff member. Ryan said to Jason, "I know you. I was living in Sweden last year and we prayed for you."

Wow! We will never know the vast number of people who prayed for us, but we are so grateful and pray that God will bless each one.

I don't think I ever wrote this part of the story in the blog: Two days after the tornado Nurse Shay came into Jason's hospital room to take him to dialysis. We had been up for 48 hours at this point and I was about to lose it. She came across the room, wrapped her arms around me, began quoting Scripture and praying. Day after day she took care of Jason and told us what we could do for him when we were taking care of him. When Jason's dialysis schedule changed from daily to every other day, she would come and check on him on the off days. The last day Jason was in the hospital Nurse Shay came to his room to remove the port from Jason's neck. She told us that in 1992 her baby was 13 years old. He died in a tornado. Jason was her healing process.

It's just amazing how God knits our lives together to meet each other's needs!