09/26/2026
Tomorrow, September 26th, is a special day around our house. Please Help me wish mom Caroline and dad Billie a Happy 61st Anniversary!! In 1965 mom and dad got married, she was 16 and dad was 18. I came along 3 years later in 68. The Love story of a lifetime....They had been sweethearts since 6th grade or even before but dad bought her a braclet in the 6th grade and that's kinda where it began. Mom still has it today. They lived in the same neighborhood, road the same bus, and grew up together. All my life they have worked together, been together 24/7. I dont remember a time one has been apart from the other. It's the perfect love story and is, still to this day. moms eyes sparkle when she looks at dad and she is dads everything. Whatever came their way, mom and dad have stood beside each other. But Life has a way of throwing curves and heartbreak at you sometime to test you, the last few years has tested them both and us. But they and me have faith in God and believe everything whatever the outcome is Gods will and its gonna be ok.
mom needed a kidney transplant and we went to drs for at least 10 years then on March 13, 2021 we got the call, the drs had a match for a new kidney from a 40 year old woman that had donated every organ for a new life for people who needed them, mom got a new chance at life, her body accepted it and she is still doing really good. Then in 2022 dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer and kidney cancer but not the same kind of cancer, they did the bladder surgery first, removed the cancer and dad started treatments. Then while still taking treatments the drs removed his right kidney. The cancer was contained in the kidney so when it was removed the cancer was taken care of in it but he continued with the BCG treatments for almost a year and in December of 2023 he was cancer free. God is Good! But then in September 2024 at one of our events dad passed out and when he came to he wasnt talking right or acting right. After the show he went to the dr, they said he had just gotten to Hot or maybe someone slipped him something. For many months we went from dr to dr, no answers to the trouble he was having. then july 18, 2025 the unthinkable. mom woke up and dad was unresponsive, no heartbeat, she started CPR and I called a ambulance, mom had revived him by the time the ambulance got here, after that, a few weeks later they diagnosed him with alpha gal from a tick bite. He quit eating got down to 95lbs with traumatic symptoms, he went back in the hospital in October of 2025 and drs installed a feeding tube..fast forward to now. Mom feeds him by tube 6 times a day, sponge baths him and completely takes care of him, his personality has flipped to what he was, he is very very sick. Mom and me pray for a complete recovery. And wish you all will join us in prayer. She loves him unconditionally as he does her. It has been a long road of unanswered questions and many many hospital visits and stays. We believe God is still in control and pray for a recovery for dad.
I am putting older pictures on here because dad is really sick and yall wouldn't want to see him at 130lbs, and pictures of mom wore out from waiting on him to help him live. So with this long post. Pray for dad and mom. Whatever God has planned, we believe he is in control and will praise him and give God all the Glory. So join me in wishing them a Happy Anniversary, 61 years!! They both and we all 3 appreciate you all.
