Pm the paypal info please

ETA: Sorry if you get multiple PM's. We don't want to leave anybody out.

Hi guys,

We continue to be blessed by the members of this forum reaching out to us with prayer, praise, advice, and all of the donations. Christ has really shown his love through many different ways. But, I have to say that Amy and I are nothing but shocked how many people that WE DON'T KNOW devote prayer and give us financial support.

To answer a few of your questions, and if you have more let me know. I check in as often as I can without being "the dad' that stares at his computer with a sick daughter and pregnant wife.

In regards to the leave, I was released from theater to be with my family and placed on emergency leave status. That means that the gov paid to get me to where the emergency was, and will pay to get me back to where I need to go, and in this case, I will go back to Germany. Unfortunetly, my emergency leave expires (at least what was left of my leave balance) before Amy is due to have our baby (which btw is a boy, named Cameron). This could work out to be a good thing if we are released from Germany to come back to the states and hopefully get a job close to family to support the new baby and us with Savannah. This is called the exceptional family member program, and they try to match you up to where you would get the best care and support. So please pray that something in Oregon is available and they match us with an assignment out here. But hey, the lord is lord and I have no idea what his plans our, so we will continue to put our trust in him.

Dan

Pm me the info please.

Would like to send out a ck, pm me addy, please.

Here's Dan's email update. Hopefully, he won't mind me sharing it with the forums. Please remember how difficult this is for all of them. Prayers mean more to them than anything right now. Sometimes we get caught up in raising money and forget why we're doing it. Let this be a reminder. It's hard on Dan and Amy and especially Savannah. Pray for them. The content of Dan's email follows:

Hi Steve,

Yes we have been busy and things have been pretty tough the past couple of days and tomorrow is not going to be fun.

Savannah has had a lot of trouble walking since Saturday and has fallen down several times. Her bones are really weak right now and I have not seen her run the entire time she has been here. What has been very hard emotionally for all of us, but especially for Amy, is her constant hunger from the steroids. It literally is all Savannah can talk about and she just cries and cries if she doesn�t have something to eat. She shows no interest in her cousins, which were the highlight of her visits and can only be caught talking about the next thing she is going to eat. The hunger part is normal but I think her infatuation is getting a bit carried away even for me. Poor Amy has just been stressed out about her little lately and it just tears her up when Savannah squats to pick something up and can�t stand without help. She wakes up screaming in the middle of the night and all she wants to do is eat and it doesn�t matter what Momma does unless it is food. Her chubby cheeks are the initial reminder now of the leukemia, and her hair has started coming out more and more in the shower.

Speaking of shower, Amy had her baby shower for our baby boy Cameron who will be born in late April early May. One of our cousins told her baby girl (4 years old) that Savannah will soon lose her hair and this girl proceeded to go around telling everyone that and was asking Amy when Savannah�s hair was going to fall out. That was a rough spot for Amy too� everyone knew what had been on Amy�s mind every second of every day and I was hoping she could get a few hour reprieve so she could really enjoy thinking about having a new baby boy and then a comment like that serves as a frying pan to the face. Lord Lord.

Tuesdays are the tough chemo days and Savannah has anxiety I�m sure you�ve read from the caringbridge site. She is what I would call an extreme case right now. She�ll get better as time goes on but they literally have to give her an amnesia type medicine to help her forget/make her groggy otherwise the screaming and stress are ridiculous. So we are up here tonight in Portland for another early morning appt that will I assume only end with tears from all three of us again, but it�s the motion of the ocean this month. Savannah is having her port put in on the April 1st and I will be �going into the hole� for my leave days in order to stay a week after the surgery to help Amy and Savannah and then return to Germany to wait and get the house ready to out process. Not the best time of course with our little kiddo coming soon. I suppose the only highlight of that is that Amy and I were already expecting me to be out of country for the birth�. But that is not really any big consolation.

The donations continue to flow in as well as prayers and kind regards. I believe about 125 people have donated and we are right around 7000 dollars, and I just got your donation as I was typing this message (WOW!). I am meeting a man tomorrow to pick up 1k rds of 5.56 I put up for sale at the hospital. I am thankful for all your help Steve in pushing this on the campfire. We are covered in prayer and showered with contributions. We are amazed at how many people want to help. Amy and I do have a problem, folks like yourself want to send care packages which we would love� but we are stuffed with stuffed animals. And what kills Amy right now is that she doesn�t play with any of that like she used to. Some Christian kid books would be great, Christian kiddo music, she likes Pixar movies, we need pee pads (bed mats) because the meds make her a bit incontinent at night. Other than that, you have really taken great care of us. I have sold almost all of my stuff so that is a relief. One guy on the snipershide wanted to pay for me to keep some of my scopes, but that just felt wrong to me. I feel as if I am going to be accepting gifts from other people I need to have made several sacrifices to be at the point to receive support. I write a message back

We continue to pray everyday for the lord to comfort Savannah and us so we can take care of the his baby girl. I apologize if my consistency in updates is less than stellar� we�re all a bit scatter brained right now. I write back to each paypal payment and Amy is writing to all of our letters and donations in the mail. If we have had payments sent direct to Selco we may not have the opportunity to respond to those people so we want to let them know that we are appreciative of their donation.

Thanks Steve.. gotta get geared for bed.
v/r
Dan