Hello,
Today is Monday April 16th. I am starting to regain some of my balance and memory. I am
so blessed to have you all . Thank those of you that have helped Connie and Gary find thier way along. The children are splendid and I don't think they have missed a beat. Easter the children came to see me in the hospital and So many pictures have been taken while I have been recouping I am brought to tears at how bless we all have been. I woke up today and the pain and swelling was down significantly. I know Kevin have up dated the blog regarding the success of my surgery. He has been a champ. To all you men in his life that have stood beside him and
been there for him godbless you! We are praying for the next step. That God would do what he is going to do to irradicate this remaining 5% . I will not be lengthy I wanted to say Their is no beter family than the family of GOD.!!! Love JEN

Good evening my brothers and sisters,
I am going to be brief tonight, only because my sleep depravation topped off with my eagerness to lay in the bed beside my bride will overtake me and my ability to hang with the keyboard.
SHE is Home!!! Praise HIM, and thank you from the depths of thankfulness. Boy, that is a deep thank you.... Yes, its silly time with Kev. Anyway, it is so good to be home and together, one more thing that seemingly appears to be taken for granted. My prayer tonight is that Jenny will rest with sweet sleep and that the fluid will quickly begin to diminish; it is uncomfortable to her tummy and her legs and knees are very swolen. Please join with me in that request. I am so thankful to God for all my friends and family that he has blessed Jenny, the kids and I; I am most definately the most blessed man in Loxley. Yes, once again another opportunity to be me (goofy). Salutations for the night my beloved, and know that I love you all and pray that The Jehovah God will enlarge your territory and do whatever it takes to grow closer to Him in these last days...

Greetings everyone, I am sorry that the update comes so late, we had technical difficulties with our blog site. Today is April 5th, and we are rejoicing in the goodness of God. Whether we experience His goodness or not, should not determine our rejoicing in Him, although this journey has been long and the enduring teaching us many things about our Savior, we are agreeing with the text that says, "everything that is good and perfect, comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." You our brothers and sisters in the faith have been so untiringly faithful to pray without ceasing, and that my friends swings the pendulum, that is a love language unmatched and we are blessed for your faithfulness.
Jennifer's surgery was a 95% success in removal of all the masses that Doctor Thompson, Dr. Finnan, and assistants were after. I have to tell you that before the anesthesiologist put her to sleep, she grabbed his hand and the scrub nurse hand, and lifted them to our Lord, the woman is always considering others. The surgery took approximately six hours.
The location of tumors that were removed were all around the liver, bladder, and stomach. There was a large mass pushing against the spleen, and a large mass in between the kidney and ureter. The peritoneum which is the lining of the stomach that surrounds all the organs, was removed from the rear of the stomach all the way forward to the pelvis area. This was a big deal because she will have to rebuild a new peritoneum and will be very sore for a long time.
I do believe that they will put Jennifer in a room today, she is recovering very fast, in which is another praise. I do know that she did not sleep last night, so pray that she will find rest today. The medical oncologist Dr. Beeker says that "He wants to think out of the box, and begin her on an oral medication when she gets to that stage". He believes that because we (God) has eradicated so much bulk of cancer that this will help with the remainder...
I want to finish out by saying that, "words are non-existent, as a means to express my gratitude for your kinship, so it's my goal to greet you with Holy kisses and hugs. So get ready, and pucker up.... We Love You all.
One last update, Thank you all involved in serving my children through this, they are doing great, and our prayer was that they would get to see the hand of God through this, and they most certainly have. Thank you for making meals and keeping us energized, what a blessing you have been at the end of a very tiring day...
Praise God for the Family of God, I do not know how some endure without the outstretched arms of the Father and His children... Your eternal Servant

Kevin.

Good Morning,

We are so pleased the blog has helped. Thank you all for you words of encouragement.
I wanted to correct something. I was diagnosed in 2004 not 2005. Sorry about the mix up.
You all will be interested to know that Dr. Thomspon is an believer and Casey Frawley one of his E.R. nurses is a believer too . I have spoken with Casey and she will be in surgery that day and praying as she works. As if that wasn't already a huge blessing. Brad Garret will be my CNA" Nurse Anesthatist" which I hear is his gifted calling and he is a solid beliver and has changed his schedule to be in surgery that day. Brads sweet wife is a teacher at Bay SHore were my children go to school. Just another tesimony of the ministry of BayShore Christian School. Truly our cup runneth over. Haveing a solid encampment of prayer in the O.R. is a love letter from Our Heavenly Father . He takes care of all the details!
Last night I was awakened in the middle of the night. That happens often. Sometimes I drift off to sleep ,sometimes I have to get up and get the bugs out of my head. Anyway. I woke up and immediately began to fear all I had to walk through the next few weeks. I began to frett over
Merideth and Jacob, my husbands tremendouse job ahead of him. I had that sinking feeling you know the one that only the enemy can bring!!!! Early in this battle I would let him hang around and choke out every bit of hope I had untill I got enough and would begin to battle back.
However, I have come to a place that I just do not engage the evil ones at all. I don't argue with them , I don't yell at them, I do not let them take me down to that dark place they enjoy . I simply say" Go!" As they ( SATANs demons) bombards me with thoughts I say" STOP" "That is not my control. God has that in his hands" I truly release it and mean it is in his hands. I might have to say it a few time so they know I am not playing. Then I begin to speak GOds words aloud. Well, last night was one of those nights. My sweet husbands been doing alot of battleing in his mind so we have been really praying in that area the last two weeks,but last night The enemy started on me. I new he was bothering me when I woke in a fearful state. I was sleeping so good and it made me mad he woke me just to steal my restful sleep and try to arrest my hope. The battle was quick and over and My heavenly Father who is greater than he that is in this old world gave me back my sleep! I rested the rest of the night like a baby. I rejoiced greatly this morning with joy in my heart that we serve The GOD ! I hope this is encouragement to you brothers and sisters in Christ when the enemy comes against you too! AND HE WILL. LOVE JEN

Whats Up with the Busbys

In an effort to keep everyone informed and on the same page we finally set up this blog we hope it helps. Yes, I know it's a long time over due!
First let us say Thank You to all of you that have walked this journey with us. Some from the beginning and some just recently. Nevertheless, prayers ,help with the children,meals,Dr.s appt.'s ,chemo appt.'s ,financial, and encouragements are just a few of the ways you all have touched our lives.

We have never done a blog before so if for some reason we leave out some info please feel free to ask us in the comment section. We welcome the questions and will do our best to answer them.

So many have asked just what is it Jennifer has. The name of the cancer is Carcino-sarcoma.
We are not quite cetain where it originated but we think it originated in the ovaries due to the pathology that showed immature ovarian cells in the tumors. Because of the nature of the tumor it is very hard to diagnose untill it is already significant in size. I was diagnosed Jan 2005, but was ill a good year before anyone could tell me what was going on. Fatigue was a huge red flag.
I had gone to Dr after Dr, had tests and because I did not ask for the right tests I went on frustrated with the entire process. I was told I had everything from irritable bowl to viral pancreatitus. I had normal paps and in the early stages the Ct scans and ultra sounds showed nothing. So it was like we were in a battle with an invisible enemy. Long storey short by the time I was diagnosed I was in full blown fourth stage malignancy. The prognosis was grave.
I remember leaving the Dr. and Kevin grabbing my hand and saying "Honey, we can't give the enemy and inch here." So we started to fight. We did a wholistic route at first because we felt I needed to go for quality of life, since my quantity of life was in question. For three months I
began to gain strenth and my body got stronger in some ways but the cancer was growing as well. So After three months we started carbo and taxol chemo. I did this for several months and then had a major debulking surgery. Debulking is just what it sounds like. The Dr. goes in and extrcats as much cancer tumors as possible.
I have Amazing Dr.s .My Med Onc. is TAd Beeker. For those that don't know the Med Onc is the Dr that oversees the chemo and essentially drives the bus. My Surgical Onc. is Lee Thompson. He is the one that does any surgery I need from a port to a major overhaul. Both of these Dr.s are gifted men at what they do and I can say onekind of becomes like family after a while or at least good friends .
Anyway, I took more chemo and it wasn't strong enough. Some hard decisions needed to be made . I was needing break if I was going to fight some more. So I took the summer and enjoyed the kids and family. Kevin and I enjoyed for the first time in two years some normalsy for about three months untill it was evident I needed to do something. So I went back on some really heavy duty chemo for months and under went another debulking. This time I had three surgeons. Dr Finnan a GYN ONC. , Dr Daniels a very talented thoracic Onc. , and Dr. Thompson . They all did their part and did what they could. I recouped and started more chemo. My body would not do the heavy chemo anymore some we tried something to at least keep the fluid down. Which is where we find ourelves today.

The swelling in my abdomen is because the tumors are active and making fluid to cushion the tumors. The body is amazing how it works to survive. God has truly made an amazing instrument in the design of the body. So Dr Thomspon is going to go in on April 2nd and
do another debulk. Typically the type of cancer I have is not one that is operable, but as Dr. Thompson said " For some reason your body responds to this type of treatment." So you know
what I say .... In the words of Tyler perry "HALILUYER!!" We serve an awsome GOD!
We are so blessed to have options, and you know what? Even if we didn't have options we are blessed. The surgery is at 8 am at Mobile infirmary. Our friends Connie and Gary are coming in to take care of the kids for those weeks I am layed up. Our goal is to keep things as normal as possible. Standard stay in the hospital is two weeks , but I always ask the Lord to heal me up quick so I can get home soon and he does. Our childrens school Bay Shore Christian has been an amazing light house for the children. They have also ministered to our family through meals and prayers. They are preparing meals through April 12th. My sister Dot , dad, and Aunt will also be in for the surgery. Specific prayer needs relating to the surgery are : No scar tissue to have to contend with, removal of the tumor blocking the uriter, removal of tumor pressing on blood vessels of the spleen and spleen removal, removal of all tumors around or on the liver, removel of tumors around pancrease with no damage at all to the pancrease , also good resection of intestines if he hs to get into the intestines for any reason. Now let me be clear and say. A Ct can only tell so much, so he could get in there and say there is nothing he can do that is always a possibility. However as bad as all this sounds we have been here several times before and although I have not walked in complete healing I have walked in a super natural sustaining!
God is not taken back by any of this. If I may be frank for a moment . We need all of you to pray regarding these things, and be careful to not to get caught up in the negative stuff and gossip. Our children need to see the peace in the storm. My sweet husband needs to be encouraged not bombarded with a million what if's . We have to face those enough with in our selves. Please know our hearts and requests are as much from our heart of love to you as your desire to pray is for us! We deeply appreciate and thank you all for your inquiries, offers and prayers. We are so honored and favored to be in the family of God.