Prayer

Well its been a little time lapse since I last blogged.

I wanted to give some more pictures of things that I see everyday living with Ennis and Leona.

He has really been working on taking care of her needs everyday. Almost like I'm working my way out of a job! He truly loves her tremendously.

He does a great job taking care of her.
He hasn't done everything but sometimes I don't have to do anything for her because he tries to beat me to it. LOL!!!

One of the things I have enjoyed about them is how he will pray with her on the couch or after he puts her to bed at night. They pray for everyone in the family and friends. It just is sweet to see him continue their life as if the disease never came.

He kisses and hugs on her constantly. With some of the reading he has done on Alzheimer's he says that the person still has emotion and feelings though their ability to express has gone away. He read also that it appears that men in general don't continue affection as much with their spouse after they get married but the wife does.

So he decided to experiment and he gave her a good kiss and he said that she required back to be kissed 7 times. That was interesting. So she really likes his kisses!

I believe it has strengthen his Faith in God to give of himself to her.

Leona seems to be staying steady with some changes. We had taken her to Dr. Finney for her second checkup. She told us that she sees Leona has regressed.

Later, Ennis had an appointment with Dr. Finney too and he decided he wanted to know what the Dr really thought about Leona.

Dr. Finney told him that she thought she had 6 months to live. Well, that really hit Ennis hard.

Sometimes I just don't know what to do for him when he feels the inevitable. I feel for him losing his wife through a disease like this. She was always his friend. They talked to each other a lot, did things together, etc. Now it's changed.

But I know in the midst of this God is in control and knows exactly what He is doing.

He knows exactly what He wants to do in all our lives. Bringing us closer to Him.

It changed my life as well as my family's. It is opening doors to the Pennington kids who have never come to RCV.

And the awesome thing is my family can be apart of it. I want us to be used!

Ennis sent another letter out to his kids expressing that since Leona is getting worse that they may want to see her again.

We will be having some of them come this month on Feb. 18th weekend. Russ' brother Micheal with his wife Angela and son Colton.

Possibly Russ' Uncle Allen and Grandfather, Arthur, in March. These are Leona's brother and father. Her father had just went into the hospital for breathing problems so it is tentative if he is coming.

Just asking for prayer for our family that God prepare's our hearts and we will be there for each other.