Keeping up with the Williams Family

Well, we are still all at home and doing very well.  It has been so nice to be back home all together as a family.  We missed each other so much!  Payton has been feeling great.  She went to the church district girls retreat and spent the night with the youth pastor’s wife and all the teen girls from our church.  She kept calling me (Pam) just to say how much fun she was having and how good it was to be there!  Everytime the phone would ring my heart would jump but she was just so overwhelmed with the fact that she was there and felt good.

She has been on her bike a couple of times but mostly she has been roller blading and jumping on the trampoline!  She has also jogged twice just a very short distance about 6 houses up and back!!!!  That is so amazing - I cried the first time I stood at the door and watched her run.  She has been so active that she has had sore muscles in other parts of her body just because she has been so inactive for so long.  It is so nice to have her back active in the family activities and feeling good.  We went to Zane’s Karate tournament as a family and it was so much fun because not only was Payton there with us but she felt good and enjoyed herself, too.  Payton will be the first to give God all the glory and to say that He has given her this remission.  We are thankful that God has made her feel better and given new life to her and new meaning to her life.  We are trusting for a lifelong remission in symptoms but if not…we know that God is the great physician and that He will provide just like he always has for our family.

Take some time out today to hug your kids, hug your family members and spend some time together.  It goes by too fast to take anything for granted!

It is so wonderful to be at home!  We have been catching up on sleep and chores around the house that have gone undone for a long time.  We had a fun evening together last night for halloween.  Payton and I passed out candy and Tim and Zane went begging for candy.  Then, Payton walked about a block with the boys to get some candy of her own!  I had to go pick them up because she couldn’t go any further but what a great thing that she made it as far as she did.  She had some pain last night and had to take medication but today she did fine.  This evening she rode her bike up the street and back and jumped slowly and gingerly on the trampoline!  She is so enjoying doing things that she has not been able to do in over a year and we are having a great time watching her!   Zane is also enjoying having her back as well - he has missed playing with her outside.

Continue to remember her in prayer as this process seems to be a little forward and back but she is still just an amazingly stong young lady and even if she is having a little pain she is pushing through so she can continue to heal those confused nerves.