Hello everyone I know some people were confused about this Friday’s event our friend Dahlia created the idea bellow. How incredible to be able to help support someone in need?
This one is easy…lend a hand by giving your hand. All you have to do is trace your hand on a piece of paper and cut it out to show your support. You can decorate it with colors, stickers, glue, glitter, pictures or just simply write an encouraging thought or verse. Even if you grabbed a piece of scrap paper or the back of some junk mail, how hard would it be to do the rest???...totally EASY! You can even do this whether you actually know the person or not. It is incredible to be able to “show” someone that you are supporting them, so that they are actually able to visualize it. How long will it take you?…it can just be a few quick minutes or if you want to get artsy, just a bit longer. How encouraging would it be to be able to “see” that there are caring people that wish that they could Lend A Hand, but instead are at least able to give a hand…their hand! Please mail your hand 4195 Chino Hills Pkwy. #594, Chino Hills, CA 91709 or you can bring your hands to the PF Changs in Chino Hills and receive a free appetizer card!!! Please feel free to copy this blog and forward it to your friends. We will be using the hands to decorate when Megan comes home from the hospital (after Isla is born). Show your hand whether you know Meg or you just read this for the first time and you can pray for her! Thanks!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
April 26, 2009
Megan would like to let you know that your prayers are continually being answered. God has been and is so GOOD! So far Megan has not experienced any side effects that are expected when you first start chemo. Please continue to pray for Megan and Isla. Megan's next treatment is scheduled for the 6th. They are not certain on when Isla will be delivered but the doctors are saying that it will be shortly after that. VISITORS You can come and visit from 10 - 6. Please again stay only for 15 to 30 min. And please if you are ill or think you are about to become sick. Thank you all.
Friday, April 24, 2009
UPCOMING EVENTS!!!
HELLO Everyone
I wanted to let you all in on the fundraising events that will be coming up.
EVENT 1
Come support Megan Parrera and her family at The Shoppes at Chino Hills on Friday, May 1st. We will have a table available to make and decorate your hands to support Megan, or you can bring yours from home. We will have preaddressed envelopes available for those who would like to donate to her help with her medical expenses as well. We are going to set up early so that everyone is able to enjoy the movie Wall-E at dusk. Come give your hand! Hope to see you there!!
Date:Friday, May 1, 2009
Time:6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:The Promenade at The Shoppes at Chino Hills
Street:13920 City Center Drive (on the corner of Peyton Dr. and Grand Ave.)
City/Town:Chino Hills, CA
EVENT 2 AND 3
Monday, May 4th AND Tuesday, May 5th ALL DAY from 11 am to 9 pm, anyone who orders in, takes out, or calls for delivery AND mentions Megan Parrera will help her earn 25% of the entire subtotal of their bill. This can be huge and YOU can help make it happen. I have the flyer in JPEG form if anyone wants to print it and pass it out. I will be marketing and need your help too. Tell EVERYONE...friends, neighbors and family. Come and enjoy great food to support Megan and her family. Don't forget to mention Megan's name! P.S. We will have a table set up to do hands too!
*****IF YOU NEED A FLYER email lahgah@rocketmail.com******
Start Time:Monday, May 4, 2009 at 11:00am
End Time:Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 9:00pm
Location:JoJo's Pizza Kitchen
Street:2923 Chino Ave. H1
City/Town:Chino Hills, CA
EVENT 4
HEY ON THIS ONE WE NEED YOU TO HELP US BY MAKING BAKE GOODS!!!!
Bake your favorite treat to donate for us to sell at a bake sale to benefit Megan Parrera. It will be on Saturday, May 9th (the day before Mother's Day) in front of Paul's Country Kitchen in Placentia. This cannot work without help. Please contact Dahlia Voth for information. Thanks for Lending A Hand!!!
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 7:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Paul's Country Kitchen
Street: 1267 E. Imperial Highway
City/Town:Placentia, CA
Please respond and leave a comment if you will be able to come or participate in any of these events
I wanted to let you all in on the fundraising events that will be coming up.
EVENT 1
Come support Megan Parrera and her family at The Shoppes at Chino Hills on Friday, May 1st. We will have a table available to make and decorate your hands to support Megan, or you can bring yours from home. We will have preaddressed envelopes available for those who would like to donate to her help with her medical expenses as well. We are going to set up early so that everyone is able to enjoy the movie Wall-E at dusk. Come give your hand! Hope to see you there!!
Date:Friday, May 1, 2009
Time:6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:The Promenade at The Shoppes at Chino Hills
Street:13920 City Center Drive (on the corner of Peyton Dr. and Grand Ave.)
City/Town:Chino Hills, CA
EVENT 2 AND 3
Monday, May 4th AND Tuesday, May 5th ALL DAY from 11 am to 9 pm, anyone who orders in, takes out, or calls for delivery AND mentions Megan Parrera will help her earn 25% of the entire subtotal of their bill. This can be huge and YOU can help make it happen. I have the flyer in JPEG form if anyone wants to print it and pass it out. I will be marketing and need your help too. Tell EVERYONE...friends, neighbors and family. Come and enjoy great food to support Megan and her family. Don't forget to mention Megan's name! P.S. We will have a table set up to do hands too!
*****IF YOU NEED A FLYER email lahgah@rocketmail.com******
Start Time:Monday, May 4, 2009 at 11:00am
End Time:Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 9:00pm
Location:JoJo's Pizza Kitchen
Street:2923 Chino Ave. H1
City/Town:Chino Hills, CA
EVENT 4
HEY ON THIS ONE WE NEED YOU TO HELP US BY MAKING BAKE GOODS!!!!
Bake your favorite treat to donate for us to sell at a bake sale to benefit Megan Parrera. It will be on Saturday, May 9th (the day before Mother's Day) in front of Paul's Country Kitchen in Placentia. This cannot work without help. Please contact Dahlia Voth for information. Thanks for Lending A Hand!!!
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 7:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Paul's Country Kitchen
Street: 1267 E. Imperial Highway
City/Town:Placentia, CA
Please respond and leave a comment if you will be able to come or participate in any of these events
Visitation
As you know Megan started Chemo on Wednesday night. The doctor has instructed her to tell her friends and family that if they are sick to not come and visit. Chemo weakens the immune system and as a result Megan will now have more chances of getting a cold or flu if someone comes in to visit her. Thank you for your understanding!!!!
Lauren
Lauren
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Friday april 23 visitors
Hey everyone please continue to pray for meg. The chemo is going to start very soon. As its a new experience it would probably be best if she has limited/no visitors other then immediate family tom. if it changes i will let you know via this blog tomorrow. Thank you for your understanding! And we all appreciate your prayers!
Lauren
Lauren
April 22, 2009
Hello everyone
The baby and Megan are doing well. They did not start the chemo yet. That got rescheduled to today. So anytime now a nurse should be in to start the chemo. Please continue to pray for Megan's strength, peace, hope.
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5: 3-5
The baby and Megan are doing well. They did not start the chemo yet. That got rescheduled to today. So anytime now a nurse should be in to start the chemo. Please continue to pray for Megan's strength, peace, hope.
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5: 3-5
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Visting Hours
Megan loves all the support people are giving her by praying or coming in and visting. However things get a bit hectic in the hospital at times. She is asking that when you come and visit to only stay 15 to 20 minutes. She truly appreciates the visits she has gotten but at times it can be some what overwhelming. She is also requesting that if at all possible all visitations are done before 6pm. Thank you for your understanding.
Thank you again for your prayers!
Thank you again for your prayers!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
April 19, 2009
Megan is 27 years old and 30 weeks pregnant tomorrow. For the past 4-6 weeks she has been seeing a doctor for a lump on the side of her neck. She also was experiencing some nausea, night sweats, and chest pressure. The doctors told her that best case scenario it was an abscess and worse case scenario that it was lymphoma. On Monday the 13 of April she went to her second day of work as a Science teacher at a school in Claremont. Right after work her mom took her to the doctors office. At the doctors they found that her heart rate was extremely high and they told her to go to the emergency room. The first xray they gave her in the ER they told her that there was something going on inside of her. She was then admitted to the hospital.
Since being in the hospital she has had a needle biopsy, core biopsy, ultra sound and x ray of her heart, lymph node extraction, chest tube to drain the fluid around her heart, and a bone marrow biopsy.
The preliminary results have shown that there are several small masses and one large 11 cm mass of Hodgkinslymphoma. The current results reveal that she is at stage two. The final results of the bone marrow biopsy will reveal a more precise stage.
We are waiting for the second opinion from the City of Hope on the confirmation of the Hodgkins Lymphoma, Megan will be starting chemo on Tuesday.
Despite all of these things. The baby has not been effected she has strong heart beats and is doing well. They monitor the baby twice a day. She is fully developed and if for some reason she had to be delivered today they said she would be fine.
God has answered all the prayers that Megan has been praying for! We prayed that it would be Hodgkins lymphoma because it is the best one to have and the most responsive to chemo therapy and God has kept the baby healthy.
The chemo plan is to do two treatments which will occur over a four week period. The chemo is safe for the baby. Our goal is to deliver at 34 weeks.
Megan would like you to know that the LORD has provided many Christian nurses and doctors. She would like to thank you for all of your prayers because the LORD is faithful and He has been listening to our crys and answering them in His timing. God has been giving her peace and comfort. Being sick has always been something that Megan has not liked. She says she has been so blessed to have a peace that passes all understanding. She says that even in the hard moments of being here in the Hospital she is able to feel His presence around her.
We appreciate all your prayers...please keep talking to GOD!!!! we all are...
"And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:7
Since being in the hospital she has had a needle biopsy, core biopsy, ultra sound and x ray of her heart, lymph node extraction, chest tube to drain the fluid around her heart, and a bone marrow biopsy.
The preliminary results have shown that there are several small masses and one large 11 cm mass of Hodgkinslymphoma. The current results reveal that she is at stage two. The final results of the bone marrow biopsy will reveal a more precise stage.
We are waiting for the second opinion from the City of Hope on the confirmation of the Hodgkins Lymphoma, Megan will be starting chemo on Tuesday.
Despite all of these things. The baby has not been effected she has strong heart beats and is doing well. They monitor the baby twice a day. She is fully developed and if for some reason she had to be delivered today they said she would be fine.
God has answered all the prayers that Megan has been praying for! We prayed that it would be Hodgkins lymphoma because it is the best one to have and the most responsive to chemo therapy and God has kept the baby healthy.
The chemo plan is to do two treatments which will occur over a four week period. The chemo is safe for the baby. Our goal is to deliver at 34 weeks.
Megan would like you to know that the LORD has provided many Christian nurses and doctors. She would like to thank you for all of your prayers because the LORD is faithful and He has been listening to our crys and answering them in His timing. God has been giving her peace and comfort. Being sick has always been something that Megan has not liked. She says she has been so blessed to have a peace that passes all understanding. She says that even in the hard moments of being here in the Hospital she is able to feel His presence around her.
We appreciate all your prayers...please keep talking to GOD!!!! we all are...
"And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:7
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Contacts
Hello everyone as new updates come on how Megan is doing I will be letting you know through this blog. If you have any further questions i would encourage you to contact the following people bellow.
Stewart Family - Larry
Parrera Family - Kathryn
Holt Family - Dave
Ingram Family - Lauren
Friends of the Holt/Ingram family - Dahlia Voth
Multiples club Moms - Selma and Keri
Stewart Family - Larry
Parrera Family - Kathryn
Holt Family - Dave
Ingram Family - Lauren
Friends of the Holt/Ingram family - Dahlia Voth
Multiples club Moms - Selma and Keri
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