{"id":331,"date":"2024-09-26T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/?p=331"},"modified":"2024-11-21T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:37:21","slug":"time-to-rally-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/2024\/09\/26\/time-to-rally-the-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to rally the troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military images come easy to me.&nbsp; While I was not a military brat it has been part of my family history.&nbsp; Plus I have two sons, one especially interested in all things military\u2026and that son just turned 16 this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know many of you have been praying for us along this journey, and we want to reinvite you to pray again with fervor for our family and especially for Chris\u2019s health.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though Chris had good numbers for his blood work on July 1, and again this week, our oncologist here has ordered more tests due to his pain levels. So we will head back to the hospital for a 3rd time this week.&nbsp; Tomorrow, Friday, (1am EST) he will have a bone marrow aspiration\/biopsy and possibly a CT\/PET.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pray with us that the doctor will have an appointment opening on Friday so that we can meet with her and discuss any results that may have come, especially the spinal tap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pray for the procedures on Friday, that they will go well.&nbsp; The last time he had the bone marrow aspiration\/biopsy the doctor said it was difficult because he had \u201csticky\u201d bones\u2026I won&#8217;t elaborate more in an effort to keep you, the reader, comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We thank God that Chris had a good night of sleep this past night.&nbsp; It was the first night he slept through the night in a bed in a week (he has been sleeping in a recliner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We thank God Chris had a good day of meetings at work despite discomfort. The Lord has opened a door for Chris to use his leadership skills to help foster a collaboration between a like minded organization in Thailand, the Foundation of Applied Linguistics to utilize SIL software for their needs.&nbsp; The troops were rallied today to launch this new initiative, thanks be to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240926_080515624-Copy-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240926_080515624-Copy-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240926_080515624-Copy-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240926_080515624-Copy-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240926_080515624-Copy-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240926_080515624-Copy-2048x1342.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military images come easy to me.&nbsp; While I was not a military brat it has been part of my family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}