{"id":2848,"date":"2014-03-30T19:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2014-03-30T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T23:47:27","slug":"ruthie-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"Ruthie Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/Grandparents-grandkids_funny2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2789\" style=\"width: 554px;height: 344px\" alt=\"Grandparents-grandkids_funny2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/Grandparents-grandkids_funny2.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/Grandparents-grandkids_funny2.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/Grandparents-grandkids_funny2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We thought we would give a quick update on Ruthie.\u00a0 She has had 2 of her sisters with her since we came to Ecuador and a 3rd sister is planning on coming next week to help out with things.\u00a0 Ruthie continues to have good days and not so good days, but we would say overall she is doing OK.\u00a0 She has had less side effects from the medications, except she has had a lot of nausea.\u00a0 She takes medicine for this, but a lot of times it makes her sleepy.\u00a0 Because a lot her care is in Chicago with the physicians at Northwestern, it makes it hard if there are issues that she needs to take care of but doesn&#8217;t feel well enough to go to Chicago for.\u00a0 Due to this, she is going to go see a physician in Goshen, an oncologist to help manage her care locally in conjunction with the doctors at Northwestern.\u00a0 This seems to be a good option and something they are comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>Please continue to pray or COMPLETE healing of Ruthie&#8217;s body.\u00a0 Also pray for less nausea and more energy and for the chemotherapy medications to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2848&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought we would give a quick update on Ruthie.\u00a0 She has had 2 of her sisters with her since we came to Ecuador and a 3rd sister is planning on coming next week to help out with things.\u00a0 Ruthie continues to have good days and not so good days, but we would say overall &hellip; 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