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About a year ago (as many know) my step-father underwent neurosurgery to remove a large tumor from the base of his brain (Read more here ). Though a dramatic success, the surgery also damaged several of Gerry's facial nerves, effectively paralyzing...
Yesterday (Monday) Gerry got the go-ahead to skip out of the hospital and enjoy home-cooking from here on out. He proceeded to sleep for about 12 hours straight... the first time he's really slept since before the operation. To stay up to date you can...
(Above: Gerry with Caleb at Krista, Rob's sister's, wedding in September 2005) Doctors say they'll clamp off the tube that's draining fluids from Gerry's brain today. If it doesn't cause swelling in his brain, Gerry will be one step closer to recovery...
Throughout Monday Debbie noticed that along with increasing disorientation, swelling had begun where the tube which had been installed in Gerry's ventricule. She called the hospital and they recommended that she bring Gerry in... this was around midnight...
HOME: Surgeons were able to remove 98% of the tumor. The other 2% will be attacked with radiation after Gerry recovers from the surgery. He spent two days in ICU, one day in a regular room, then, due to his rapid recovery, went home! Now he's resting...
Dear Friends: We're praising God tonight for gifting the surgeons with great skill. Everything they hoped for - and more - was accomplished today in surgery. Gerry arrived at the hospital at 5:30 a.m. and went into surgery promptly at 8 a.m. By 5:30 p...
Gerry was told by his doctors that he shouldn't eat anything after midnight, so he ate two dinners Monday night: the first with his family, and the second when friends from church stopped by, bearing lasagna. He blamed his usually goofy nature on his...
Gerry & Debbie Schaffner (above) Over half of the people who receive this e-mail personally know Gerry and Debbie Schaffner (above). They are very active leaders at First Baptist of Forest Grove of which Gerry has been an elder for several years,...
What's up? (this past week)... I felt old as all but 3 in the group were 23 and under. Martine was sick (a 24 hour flu bug), so her parents watched the kids while 12 of us met to discuss the violent, yet righteous anger of Jesus in John 2:12-25. Are we...
What's Up? (this past week)... As 21 people sat in (or around, on the stairs, etc.) our living room last Tuesday, Mary Yuill (See photo) showed how God radically loves Muslims. Drawing on her 20+ years of experiences in Senegal, she forced us to look...
We had a bit fewer this week (13). Of course, small groups are an ebb and flow affair. We just pray that the ebbs and flows slowly rise as we announce Christ in this region and see lives transformed. (L-R) Zac (guitar), Jacob (guitar), Ben (Conga-drum...
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