BBQ and Silent Auction

A reminder to everyone:
We are having a BBQ and Silent Auction for Barth at the ELK's June 27th from 4-7 pm. It will be $10 per person or $25 per family. There are signs going up all over town, but pass the word around to anyone who doesn't know, we're hoping for a good turn out.
We have really good auction items, here are a few of the people donating
Don Henry~Spoon art sculptures (as seen at City Hall and Homer Library)
Homer Theatre
Teri Robl (catering)
Fat Olives gift certificates
Jai photography
North Wind
Homer Jeans
Quilted Moose
TK Posh
Sea-Glo
And tons more! There will also be desserts for auction.

More bad news......

I spoke with Heidi this morning and got more bad news concerning Barth. He is still not doing well. When he gets up, his oxygen saturation plumets to around 82. They aren't sure what is going on, but will be doing a CT this afternoon. Right now they are thinking it could be either a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) or pneumonia. Either way, both Barth and Pam are really struggling. As far as I know, Barth is still in the ICU at Matsu Regional Medical Center. They had hoped to come home for the weekend, but that doesn't appear to be a possibility. Please, please keep them in your prayers.

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God" ~Phillipians 4:6

Keep praying....

I recieved some not-so-good news from Heidi (Pam's neice) about Barth. As I mentioned before, this whole process of chemotherapy and radiation has really made Barth weak. This morning he was taken to Matsu Regional Hospital and placed in ICU because of severe dehydration, and upper GI-bleed, coughing up blood and being severely weak. Please keep praying faithfully for Barth to come through this, beat the odds and be healed! Also keep Pam in your prayers, as she has been such a strength for Barth, but is obviously struggling through this.

"Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard."
Isaiah 58:8

Be praying

I got a quick update today on Barth and it isn't sounding so good. Barth has become very weak from the mix of chemotherapy and radiation, so much so that he and Pam are having a hard time with transfers to the car and wheelchair. He is sleeping most of the day and is just not feeling well. On top of that, he might need blood transfusions again :( Tomorrow he gets a CT scan to check the progress on his treatment. Please remember him in your prayers.

Garage Sale

We had Barth's garage sale today and it was a great success! Thank you to all of the people who donated and to all who helped with the sale. We prayed for a nice day and we got it. In fact, the first drop of rain fell when we were loading up to leave! The combined income for both the bake sale and the garage sale brought in $1372!!!! This will be a tremendous help to Barth and Pam, especially since they will be leaving for Anchorage tomorrow to begin radiation. Thank you also to the Homer Volunteer Fire Deparment for letting us use their space and Dan for all his help in sales! Here are some pictures from today.
This is all of things that were donated. We had just unloaded and were readying ourselves for the task of organizing and putting things out before the garage salers came.

Mia and Mikayla selling baked goods and iced tea. Mia was quite the little persuasive salesperson (personally I think it's cause she's so darn cute :) They brought in $105.10 for all of their efforts. They were quite a team!

Tiffany and Alissa, part of today's crew.

Joni and Paul, more of the crew. We were especially thankful to Paul who manned the "man" table, since us ladies had no idea what most of the items were and knew nothing of pricing them.

Fun pictures

So I can't figure out how to put a slideshow on here yet, but I thought you would all get a kick out of these pictures! Thanks Heidi!

Barth's famous fishing boat!

Check out that rack :) Hunting with the guys.

Aaaawwwwwwwww ;)

Nothing like a rodeo!

What a stud muffin!

Update

Okay, so here's the scoop....I ran into Barth and Pam today at the hospital, where Barth had to get some more labs drawn. Although the counts were still low, he will not need transfusions.....this is 2 weeks in a row. Some of the numbers were too low and he will have to get the Epogen, but this is great news. Keep the prayers coming!
Barth and Pam will be leaving for Anchorage on June 1st to add radiation to the 2 chemo treatments Barth is getting. They know for sure that they will be there for at least 12 days, then they will just have to see how things go. They are really hoping to be able to come back for weekends and get a break. This is one of the things we are really hoping the fundraisers will help with, travel and lodging expenses. I know it's a very expensive time of year to be traveling as well. We are also making it our goal to fund their entire Seattle trip for the Stem Cell transplants. I will be getting their Alaska Airline Mileage number, if you would like to donate in that way as well.
Don't forget the garage sale is this weekend at the fire station. It will be from 9-1. Things are price really well. If you still have items that you would like to donate, stop them by tomorrow. Mia has made some yummy baked items and iced tea that will also be available tomorrow. Hope to see you there!