Stevens Family

I can't believe how amazing Brads incision looks......is that amazing how the body heals itself?

I wish I could thank everyone personally who has helped us but there has been too many too count, thank you to everyone who brought us meals.....breakfast, lunch, and dinner!!!!! Thank you to the numerous people, family, friends, people that we do not know personally, people of all faiths for praying for my husband.  The prayers were heard and made a huge difference. Thank you for everyone who fasted for Brad all over from California to Ohio! I have even heard story's of people who have never fasted before and haven't in a long time fasting for Brad. THANKYOU! Thank you to Bishop Dubray and Bishop Hunter for asking our ward family's for prayers and thoughts. Thank you to everyone who came to visit Brad at home and in the hospital and lift his spirits. One day we had 8 different friends come by.  It was amazing! Thank you for cards sent, flowers, texts, emails, and face book messages.  They have all been read and appreciated. Thank you to the missionary's who were by Bra...

I would consider Brad and I do be spiritual, God believing, church going people. We go to church every Sunday ( even when he has a killer headache from a tumor), we pray every morning and evening as a family, we pray individually, we pray over meals, we go to the temple as often as we can, we read the scriptures, we do our callings at church, we believe in GOD there is no doubt about it.  I hope that friends whom are not too close to us and even strangers can talk to us and know we live a faith center life with trying to be Christ like at all times, and places. With that said FAITH can be hard, believing in something you do not see.  I have always had faith there is a God but sometimes when I stopped to think really hard, or over analyzed a situation, or think about death, I think I could be just a little wrong about there being a GOD? My answer always comes back to No, there has to be a God. But BAD things happen to good people, would a God really do that? Unsure I ...

This is the name of the tumor Brad has....I just googled it and it is typically something children get.  This is how the appointment went....... The doctor walked in the room with a smile and said, "You know don't you?" "You called and found out the results?"  I told him I didn't and his smile got bigger :)  He still didn't tell us he did a few coordination tests on Brad and sat down and said, "You have a Pilocytic Astrocytoma WHO Grade 1 tumor.....and if you have a brain tumor this is the type of tumor you want to have!" YA!!!! Here are the details:  -Brad has had this tumor for a long time, something happened that weekend he had the bad headaches that caused the tumor to bleed.....that's why no one was sure if it was a brain bleed or tumor. -The pathologist at the hospital could not determine what it was so it was sent off to Cleveland clinic for another set of eyes. -The brain bleed is what was causing the headache and pain not...

So settlers is Brads favorite game and has not played since his head aches started.  So Joe and Heather came over tonight and made us crepes for dessert and play settlers......and guess who won? BRAD!!!! But Joe did let him win.......thanks Joe Baby!!!

 Today brad decided he was well enough to shave the top of his head to match the back of his head. You can see his left side is still pretty swollen even his check is more swollen. I think he looks amazing 2 weeks post surgery! This is what happens when you are in the hospital taking care of your husband when your daughter has school picture......worst picture ever......what did my mom do to her hair? the shirt brad needs or more like the shirt I need that says......excuse me my husband just had brain surgery and I am a little crazy! Flowers grandma flory sent us.....so pretty! my brother cody spending nights with brad so I can get some sleep. day three home from the hospital Day 8 home from the hospital

I have been horrible blogging.....but I guess I have a great excuse right? So I will left off from the last post.... Fri - they wheeled him off to surgery - the doctor and anesthesiologist came in at the same time and told Brad they needed to operate and go now. Brad cried, and said to tell the kids he loves them.....Ann cried and he told her to tell Brian he loves him.....my dad and I cried and said goodbye. As they were wheeling him away the last words I heard him say were....."I am not getting a catheter!" The three of us went to the waiting room where we got a pager and decided we should eat we had five hours to kill......a friend, we won't name names told us about this awesome restaurant at the hospital and after asking around it was the wrong hospital! So we settled for nasty cafeteria hospital food (I really wanted creme brulee though).  We laughed, cried, and laughed a whole bunch more (crying was not going to help the situation). Then ...

I  never thought in a 100 years I would say this statement.......life has turned upside down in a week....I don't have time to tell the whole story but here's the run down... Saturday the 29th of March ........Brad coached basketball for the youth at church and came home at 1pm and said, I have a headache.   He took some Motrin.   No big deal! Sunday the 30th of March .......woke up for church and he said he had a headache! took Motrin, went to church came home and slept until 5pm when we were having friends over for dinner. Monday and Tuesday ......went to work late, came home, did not eat dinner, went to bed.   Cried about how bad his head hurt and thought it might explode.   He kept teasing saying he had a tumor and we were all laughing at him about being a big baby.....everyone gets headaches and don't have tumors. Wednesday April 2 - Went to work and called me at noon saying he couldn't work anymore and came home.   I told him he...