QUOTE(wliberty @ Sep 25 2008, 03:48 AM) 
Please except my heartfelt thanks for all your prayers. You were successful. There are many reasons to be thankful today. He had a few issues but came through surgery and recovery. The bone looks good. There was a fear the cancer had spread into the bone. It was a clean break. A plate and screws were used to repair the hip break. He does have some big challenges. He has gained some weight but is only up to 105. He has no muscle left. He is fighting cancer with an immune system that has been destroyed by repeated rounds of chemo and radiation. Along with all this four years ago he broke the other hip. It was a complicated break that left him with a limp and has made walking more difficult. Getting him back on his feet will be no small feat. We'll take on that challenge tomorrow. Today we'll be thankful for a good day. Your prayers today went to a very special person. Gary, to those that know him is one of the good guys. After a tragic car crash he became a widower with three and four year old boys. He raised them on his own for several years until he met and married me. I was divorced with a six year old son. He accepted him as his own. That was thirty five years ago. We were blessed with a daughter seven years later. He coached the boys in baseball from midget league through pony league. He taught our sons a great work ethic and a man is measured by how he cares for his family.
He believes everyone deserves a second chance. When a handyman with two little boys ran into hard times, this is the man that took them grocerys and firewood. Many times he took him gas so he could look for work. He wasn't asked to do this. He chose to do it. He said he couldn't allow kids to go hungry or cold. When a grandkid needed an expensive car repair he couldn't afford, Gary paid for it. Again he wasn't asked. He allowed him to pay it back in small increments over a long period of time. When he made the last payment, he handed him back a hundred dollars because he had paid it back.
In the past four years he has lost his mother, his father, has had two broken hips,been diagnosed with cancer, gone through chemo. radiation, a horrific eight and a half hour surgery, aspiration pneumonia. He fought back and returned to work. After six months the cancer returned in both lungs, the liver and a saliva gland. There was more chemo, and more pneumonia. This last round has left him weak and emancipated. With all this, what's his biggest concern? ME. He apologizes to me for putting me through this. He said I don't deserve it. I just ask, If it were me you'd do for me. He answers yes. I tell him there's no difference. He doesn't deserve it. I've been blessed to share my life with him. He's one of the good guys.
I just wanted you to know your special prayers were for a special guy.
Thank You again,
wliberty
My heart goes out to you, Gary and your family.
