Vacation at Last!

Hello friends!

I just wanted to make a quick update before I leave for vacation. Thank you so much for praying for my grandpa and my brother. Could you tell everything was happening all at once?! They are both doing good. My grandpa ended up being in the hospital for 14 days with pneumonia. He is now back at the nursing home and doing as well as he can be, given the circumstances.

When my brother got to the hospital they thought he had appendicitis, but you all prayed and when they did more tests they found out it wasn't, so he didn't have to have surgery. He got to go home and he'll need to go to a doctor for follow up to figure out why he gets these pains in his side. Thanks for praying!

As for me, I had been fighting a nasty cold since the 22nd of July. It just wasn't getting better so I went back to the doctor last week. When I was at the clinic I had a temp of 100 and felt miserable. Turns out my cold turned into walking pneumonia...though I sure didn't feel like doing much walking!! I was in bed the rest of the week and after many drugs and much rest I am feeling so much better!

Dad has a meeting in Asheville, North Carolina next week. I was going to stay home with Quigley while him and mom went...but we found a dog sitter so I get to go too! I am so excited! It has been such a crazy last couple weeks and it will be SO good to get away for a while and relax. We are going to drive down. We leave this Thursday around noon. We'll be home either the 29th or 30th. The place where dad has his meetings is supposed to be amazing! I can't wait, I'm bringing my fancy camera and will take a bunch of pictures to share!

For those of you in South Carolina, you are more than welcome to come visit me in Asheville, I'd love to see you!! (Hint, hint!)

Well, I better get back to the packing, but many of you have been asking for an update so I wanted to make sure I got this out before we leave on Thursday! Again, thank you so much for your prayers, God is so good!

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