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The news is not good. It seems God has not finished testing our little boy and his family. I’m posting his Caring Bridge page and including the link. Your prayers are always appreciated. Tyler’s dad has him on his insurance and his treatments over the last year have run into the hundreds of thousands. The family will incur expenses for travel, meals, missed work, etc. And all this for a second Christmas in a row. I know money is tight, but if you have a couple dollars, I’m sure the family would put it to good use.

Tyler’s Story

Welcome to our CaringBridge site. We’ve created it to keep friends and family updated. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement during this time when it matters most.

Latest Journal Update

It has been quite some time since I have posted an update. Things got rough for a few weeks after Tyler finished radiation in June, but he completed treatment in August, had his port removed in October, & I honestly thought this journal would become a memory time capsule.

Unfortunately, life, & Cancer had other plans.

Tyler started experiencing pain in his left knee on Thanksgiving night. After a visit with his doctors on December 4th, & over a week of scheduled Ibuprofen & Hycet (codene & Tylenol), Tyler’s pain continued to worsen. Since he was already scheduled for his 3 month follow up scans, we decided to push them up to this past Thursday, & add on more tests, to try & find out what was happening.

After 3 straight days of scans, we now know what has been causing Tyler’s pain, & it’s not the news we wanted to hear. Tyler’s cancer is back, & is believed to have spread. He has a tumor in his back from the L-1 vertebrae, down through the end of the sacral vertebrae, & it has wrapped around his spine, encasing the nerves. The largest part is at the base of the sacral, below the spine. He also has a lesion on his T-3 vertebrae, & a spot on his brain, though they do not know if the spot on his brain is cancerous or just a blood vessel. The primary concern is the tumor in his back. He will have a port placed again tomorrow, & will begin chemo tomorrow as well. We are meeting with his radiologist on Tuesday, & he will start radiation as soon as possible. His treatment schedule will be outpatient, 5 day cycles, every 3 weeks, for a year. The biggest priority right now is to stop the tumor from growing any further. Besides the knee pain, he has not shown any neurological effects. In fact, neither his oncologist or neurosurgeons could explain why the pain presented in his knee. I believe that it was God’s intervention, as you can not see the tumor from the outside, & it could have been much worse had it been discovered any later.

To say that we are devastated would be a gross understatement. It has felt like a recurring bad dream, since it was exactly a year ago that he was first diagnosed. We are going to tell Tyler tomorrow morning, & he will likely be in the hospital through the week while we get a handle on everything. He is the strongest, bravest boy, who shouldn’t have to go through this. With God’s grace, & a lot of prayer, love, & support, I believe that he can beat this. It’s going to be a long road, but we are going to do everything we can to help Tyler beat cancer for the second time.

Thank you for all of your love & prayers, & please keep them coming.

MAKES MY OWN LITTLE PROBLEMS SEEM PIDDLING. HE’S ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/tylerlevine3

THIS IS THE GOFUNDME PAGE
https://www.gofundme.com/u4esvhjw

This is being posted today because I may not be able to post tomorrow. My loving wife has had her faith tested today. Her older sister is in the hospital, and has refused to be put on life support. DW just came back from her father, who is 96 and is now facing the loss of his second child.

Piled on top of that, DW went to WalMart today. She loaded her purchases in the car and got to the end of the parking lot when she realized she’d left her purse in the cart. There was a shiny-faced young aspiring rapper named Dindu Nuffin gathering carts as she was getting ready to leave. When she got back minutes later, her purse was gone and so was Dindu. She reported it to store security, who saw her loading the car on the surveillance camera but claimed they didn’t see him take it. They didn’t dare ask to look in his car, he’d have sued them because that’s what they do. She only had about $20, her driver’s license, insurance cards and her cell phone, which is worth nothing to a pawn shop because it’s a flip phone.

When she got home, everything was just too much for her. We hugged and then we prayed together. She called the bank and cancelled her bank card right away. We can’t get her a duplicate driver’s license since all the state offices are closed on Monday. She still has her old phone, so we’re going to the store to see if they can reactivate it. She has to get a new Medicare card and a new Humana card. But all her doctors have her information anyway. It’s not the money, it’s just the feeling of violation when someone knowingly steals from you. In the end, I’m sure he will answer for what he’s done. Maybe it was providence that she went shopping alone. Had this happened when I was with her I most likely would have been arrested for my extreme racist rants. I just don’t suffer in silence well.

OK, SO DONALD DID SNL LAST NIGHT.

‘SNL’ Recap: We’ve Been Trumped
THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY ETHAN ALTER. I’D BET MONEY HE’S LEFTIST HACK JONATHON ALTER’S KID.
“Why are you hosting Saturday Night Live? Why?” It turns out the answer is pretty simple. “I really have nothing better to do,” Trump admitted.

Of course, Trump was just kidding around. (We think.) The real reason he’s hosting SNL is to show that he can take a joke. Heck, he can take all the jokes the show has thrown at him over the years. (Actually, the real real reason is for all the free attention and exposure, but that’s obvious enough to not require explanation.) “I don’t hold grudges against anybody,” he insisted, pointing out that he’s even gotten over his feud with Rosie O’Donnell…although she probably shouldn’t expect a dinner party invite anytime soon, since he can’t tell the difference between the real O’Donnell and SNL cast member Aidy Bryant.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/snl-weve-all-been-trumped-123755142.html

Donald Trump Monologue – SNL
IT’S AT THE END OF THIS CLIP WHEN UNFUNNY MAN LARRY DAVID STARTS SHOUTING “YOU’RE A RACIST!” HE THEN ADMITS HE WAS TOLD HE’D GET FIVE GRAND FOR DOING IT. I GUESS HE NEEDS THE MONEY.

AY CARAMBA! #BoycottFail Trump Delivers SNL Highest Ratings in 4 YEARS!
With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012.

According to NBC, SNL had a whopping 6.6 household rating on Saturday night, easily beating the season’s previous high: the 41st season premiere last month, hosted by Miley Cyrus and with a guest appearance by none other than … Hillary Clinton. In fact, Trump’s overnight rating was 47 percent higher than the Miley/Hillary episode.

The previous high was held by an episode that aired Jan. 7, 2012, hosted by Charles Barkley with musical guest Kelly Clarkson.

AY CARAMBA! #BoycottFail Trump Delivers SNL Highest Ratings in 4 YEARS!

‘Dad-dancing Donald Trump goes all-out to prove he can take a joke on SNL – and Larry David is the only heckler to shout out ‘racist!’
Donald Trump took up his controversial slot as SNL host on Saturday night
Republican presidential candidate went all-out to prove he can take a joke
Mocked his campaign pledges, his ego, and his row with Rosie O’Donnell
The Donald also showed off his dad dancing to Drake’s hit Hotline Bling

PREPARE YOURSELF:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308916/Birth-certificates-blistering-impressions-dad-dancing-Hotline-Bling-Donald-Trump-goes-prove-joke-hosting-Saturday-Night-Live.html#ixzz3qwX7mOhq

Live Tweeting – SNL

Go ahead. Roll your eyes and keep scrolling. Most of you stop here for Chrissy’s in depth posts on matters of Faith and maybe the funny crap I post. The long and short of it is this: aside from my fishing partner I have no friends. I have always considered you as friends I’ll never meet. A very large part of my life has been wasted. The only thing I can look back at with pride are my two girls. During the most important times in their youth I was busy taking care of myself first and foremost. Now they’re grown and have children of their own and I’m trying to make up for some of the irreparable harm I did by neglecting them for so long.

After 40 years of smoking two packs of cigarettes a day my cardiologist gave me two choices: quit and enjoy your grandkids a little longer, or keep on and probably not see them graduate. Quitting cold turkey was a easy proposition. I don’t carry a lot of pictures in my wallet because there’s no one to show them to. So I do it here. Those little ones are the only reason I have to keep going.

Thank you for your patience.

THIS IS BIG SIS AND HER NOT-REALLY-A-DATE,THE CLASS’ FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT

SIS AND FRIENDS GOOFING OFF

ON HER RIGHT, MOM AND STEPDAD; ON HER LEFT, STEPMOM AND DAD. STRANGELY ENOUGH, MOM AND DAD GET ALONG BETTER NOW THAN THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE MARRIED. I CALL THEM THE MOM AND DAD PROTECTION AGENCY. PITY THE YOUNG STUD WHO CROSSES HER MOM – SHE AIN’T NO JOKE

THIS IS MY BABY (TYLER’S MOM) SIX YEARS AGO BEFORE SHE DECIDED TO GET HEALTHY

THIS IS HER NOW WITH HER BEAU

THIS IS THE MOST FRIGHTENING: THE LITTLE GIRL I REMEMBER HOLDING WHEN SHE WAS LESS THAN A DAY OLD. NOW SHE’S 14 GOING ON 22.

In the small town of Winnebago, Illinois they had a homecoming parade Wednesday. The homecoming game is tonight and the dance is tomorrow night. RJ’s big sis asked a boy to go to homecoming, although she insists it’s NOT A DATE!! Mom has ordered a boutonniere for the young casanova and she’s getting a corsage. They’re going to a Japanese restaurant in Rockford for dinner along with, she thought, his parents. My daughter informed her that she and her stepdad will also be along as chaperones. She’s a wonderful kid and I couldn’t ask for a better granddaughter but responsible parents like she has (and I had) don’t buy the “boys will be boys” and “might as well give them condoms because they’re going to do it anyway” horses hit. One day they will look back and be thankful they had parents who loved and protected them, even the times they were sure mom and dad just didn’t understand because they were never young.

THE WHOLE TOWN TURNS OUT FOR THE PARADE

THIS MAN OWNS THE MOST POPULAR (AND ONE OF ONLY TWO) PIZZA RESTAURANTS IN TOWN. HE’LL BE AT THE HOMECOMING GAME TONIGHT, GIVING AWAY PIZZA IN EXCHANGE FOR DONATIONS TO ST. JUDE’S CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. HE’S DONATING HIS TIME AND FOOD 100%. THAT’S HOW SMALL TOWNS ROLL.

FROM THE INNOCENCE OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA TO THE SENSELESS TRAGEDY THAT UNFOLDED YESTERDAY AS A COLD-BLOODED KILLER MURDERED 10 PEOPLE BEFORE THE POLICE SENT HIM TO HELL. NEVER TO LET A NATIONAL TRAGEDY GO TO WASTE, OBAMA WAS IN FRONT OF CAMERAS BEFORE THE FINAL BODY COUNT WAS DETERMINED RAILING ABOUT MORE GUN CONTROL

Umpqua Shooter Targeted “Christians” – Ordered Victims “STAND UP AND STATE YOUR RELIGION”
“The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” she wrote. “If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs. My grandma just got to my house, and she was in the room. She wasn’t shot, but she is very upset.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/01/oregon-gunman-singled-out-christians-during-rampage/

‘The more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight’: College gunman, 26, was ‘filled with hate,’ lived with his mother and asked if his victims were Christian in rampage that left at least ten dead
Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, has been identified as the gunman at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon
Killer with British father died in gunfight with police and had four guns – three pistols and one rifle and body armor
He killed nine and wounded at least nine, and just three days prior he had downloaded This World Surviving Sandy Hook BBC Documentary 2015 according to his profile on a website community
Harper-Mercer said he was ‘mixed race,’ a ‘conservative Republican,’ ‘not religious,’ and ‘living with parents’
He celebrated Nazis and IRA online
In August he praised TV station shooter Vester Flanagan and said killing more people meant ‘more limelight’
Harper-Mercer made his victims lie on the ground and then stand up and state their religion before shooting them in the head if they responded Christian
He said: ‘Good, you’ll see God in a second’
THIS WRETCHED PIG WAS NOT A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN, DESPITE THE LEFT’S BEST EFFORTS TO MAKE HIM SO. HIS FATHER WAS WHITE BUT HAD NOT BEEN IN HIS LIFE SINCE INFANCY. HE LIVED WITH HIS BLACK MOTHER.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256633/Shooter-Oregon-community-college-kills-people-campus.html#ixzz3nQSLB75G

THIS IS CHRIS MINTZ. HE’S A 30 YEAR OLD ARMY VETERAN WHO CHARGED THE WALKING SCUM IN AN EFFORT TO STOP HIM AND WAS SHOT FIVE TIMES. HE’S NOW IN A HOSPITAL RECOVERING.

TRAGICALLY THIS SLAUGHTER COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED
Armed Air Force Vet Was on Umpqua Campus – Barred From Assisting Victims During Shooting
John Parker was in the veteran’s center with other veterans.
He went out to help the victims.
But officials barred him from helping the victims as they were being gunned down.

“I was carrying. And I was ready to help.”

Obama: Never Letting a Good Mass Shooting Go To Waste

In his televised temper tantrum, Obama scolded those opposed to a crackdown on firearms ownership, including people who say the nation needs “more guns” to prevent such mass shootings. He implored those who would gut Second Amendment protections to vote for political candidates who share their visceral contempt for a constitutionally-guaranteed right.

“Each time this happens I’m going to bring this up,” Obama said. “Each time this happens I am going to say we can actually do something about it.”

Obama’s twelve-and-a-half minute oration was the fifteenth time the president has issued a statement on a mass shooting, CBS Radio reporter Mark Knoller wrote on Twitter.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260325/obama-never-letting-good-mass-shooting-go-waste-matthew-vadum

SAME OLD SAME OLD

THIS MAY OR MAY NOT COME AS A COMPLETE SURPRISE TO YOU:
In 12 Minute Speech to America About Mass Shooting, Obama Refers to Himself 28 Times

During today’s 12-minute address, President Obama referred to himself 28 times. (For those counting at home, that’s almost three times per minute.)

Note that in arriving at this calculation, we included mentions of “we” when he was clearly including himself as part of the plural pronoun; the many uses of “we” in referring to America at large were not included.
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=38185&from=allstories

The Radical-in-Chief grabs the Oregon atrocity and opens fire on the Second Amendment