Our hearts are filled with gratitude, awe, and praise to our God. Over the last number of months, we have experienced His mercy, His faithfulness, and His peace through the difficult times in my husband's health. We want to share our miracle with you.

Daryl started feeling unwell last summer, 2024. Through the month of September, he was treated with two rounds of antibiotics for pneumonia. He started feeling better, but went downhill again in mid October. After almost passing out twice on the evening of Oct 16th , I took him in to emerge.

They did a CT scan of his head. The Dr told us it was serious, Daryl had two lesions on the brain, and would be transferred to University Hospital.

At University the next day, they planned to do surgery to remove the lesions and send for testing. Brain cancer.

It's hard to describe the feeling. Your world just stops. You try to grasp the meaning...And yet we knew, whatever happens, God is faithful.

Before surgery happened, the neurologist came back and said, "I don't often get to share good news with patients and their families. But after the team studied the MRI results again, I came to tell you we are 99% sure this is infection of the brain rather than cancer."

I can't describe the relief and gratitude we felt. We knew it was still serious, but it looked so much more hopeful with this news.

The neurologist's joy in sharing the brighter diagnosis really impressed me with the difficult job they have. They too often have to share devastating news with families, and then on top of that, have the incredible responsibility of doing the surgeries, deciding on and providing treatment. We owe the medical professionals deep respect for the amazing work they do.

Daryl was treated for 2 weeks in the hospital, and then 4 weeks at home through a PICC line. The PICC antibiotic treatment was finished Dec 2nd. Again he started feeling better for the next week and a half.

Then he started with intense leg pain on Dec 11th, diarrhea and vomiting on Sunday, the 14th.

In and out of the hospital Mon-Tuesday, and by Thursday he was unable to walk.

He was back in University Hospital on Thursday, by Friday had critically high calcium levels, and looked like he was shutting down on us. A feeling you can't put in words --when it looks like you're going to lose the love of your life.

Eternally grateful for God's Presence, His peace, and His mercy through it all.

They got him stabilized and things looked a bit brighter again. There were so many tests, scans, and biopsies over the next two weeks.

On Christmas Eve, the team came to tell us that they were fairly sure they knew what it was, and they hoped to have a treatment plan by that evening or the next day.

They were fairly certain it was cancer. They used words like "eating at the hips..."

Words can't express what goes through the mind, the heart at times like these. We know that there are so many many people facing these illnesses, the heartache, the uncertainty...

On Christmas morning, the team came back in.

The head doctor was shaking his head. He said Daryl was a mystery to them. He had the symptoms of cancer, but after looking over all the tests again, there was no cancer.

It was an incredible Christmas gift. After what they said the day before, this was such a miracle. Again, you can't put into words what that news meant to us, and the joy of sharing that with our children, and extended family.

Between Christmas and New Year he continued to improve, and then had another close call on the 29th.

Again, we thought we were going to lose him. They were preparing for life saving measures, trying to stay ahead of the critical symptoms without being able to treat the cause. They couldn’t figure out what they were dealing with, but he was shutting down again.

I could never be grateful enough for the dedication and effort that the medical teams put into getting it figured out, and getting him stabilized again.

He slowly improved over the next week.

On Jan 7th, after the PET Scan came back clear, the doctor told Daryl, “We can’t figure you out. We thought for sure the PET Scan would show something to give us answers, but there's nothing. We have gone over everything. If there was another test we could think of to do, we would do it.

Your calcium levels and electrolytes are stable, and you can go home.

If anything changes, we need you to come right back here.”

With time, going from a walker, to crutches, to a cane, and finally on his own two feet, Daryl has regained his strength and is feeling pretty much back to normal again.

Since then, Daryl’s blood work has been normal, his follow up MRI looked good.

The Dr called him a medical enigma, a medical mystery. We know God gave us a medical miracle. We are just so so grateful for the miracle we were given, we feel unworthy, but so blessed.

Let us cherish our loved ones while we have the opportunity.

With deep gratitude to our God....