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Faith drank 3 bottles between getting home & going to bed yesterday no problem at all!!

The drs gave her 1/2 a bag of fluids before her chemo treatment. She still didn’t want to eat much the next morning. Of course she wouldn’t drink her bottle at all.
They called the dr & she said if no luck by 8pm, they must bring her over. Try force feeding if needed by syringe.
Well, Brandi started with formula. Faith didn’t like it, but she took everything they put in the back of her throat. If it touches her tongue, she gags & spits it out. Part of that has to do with chemo and she has sensory issues with food & liquids. They got enough in her between yesterday that the dr said she didn’t need to come over to CHP last night!! 🤩🥳😍🥰🤗
They are coming home today!! Thank you for all your Prayers for Baby Faith!!
 

Prayer does work.  GOD BLESS! She has more toughness than a lot of adults I know.

Please pray that Faith handles the double dose of chemo today & she does not get sick like she was 3 weeks ago. They are staying the weekend just to make sure.
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PRAISE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!!! CANCER AND THE LESIONS ARE GONE!!!! we still have to continue with chemo to kill it dead but all I can say FAITH DEFIES THE ODDS AND PROVES THERE IS POWER IN PRAYERS! THANKS BE TO GOD!!!!!!!

Well folks we did well through our first night home.
She had an average of 98% oxygen level.
No problems 
Ate good before bed, .....no bottles though....so we are putting water in her food for now till we figure out how to get her drinking. 
She woke up happy and smiling and kicking her legs in bed. 
Today the home nurse is coming to watch us give her first dose of medicine at home. She is in an antibiotic that’s given through her port. She’ll be on this until the 19th. 
This Friday she is to still do her MRI to check on the size of the tumor and receive her one chemo. It’s the easy chemo not the double dose. 
We will be discussing a plan of action with Dr. Meade to possibly help prevent this from happening again. She may need iv fluids for a couple days after receiving her chemo treatments.
If Dr. Meade doesn’t think that she needs to get fluids after her chemo treatments then We are also considering staying down there in a hotel for a couple days after she gets the double chemo treatments so we can take her over to the ED for fluids if she gets lethargic and doesn’t want to eat or drink. 
We are hoping this doesn’t happen again but we are also trying to prepare a plan if it does as well as preparing a plan to help prevent this from happening again.

They are getting DISCHARGED!! 

Faith received two different kinds of chemo yesterday. This happens every third treatment. When she has these two chemos together it really knocks the snuff out of her (VinCristine and Dactinomycin). She slept last night and most of today only to wake up enough to eat a bottle or some puréed pears ( her fav food when she’s not feeling well) then back to sleep again. 
She’s finally perking up now and wanted to sing to you all! ❤️🥰😞 (Sorry I can’t post her video)

You can get ahold of me also if you want to make a donation to the family. I’m Faith Marie’s grandmother!! ❤️

Hope many give to this!  Even if you don't purchase a sign, you can call the number and get the info so you can mail a check to help this sweet little angel!  She is one of our own on here.  I feel like I know her just from seeing her photos and news from her grandma.

Help support the Spicher Family. Signs are $20.00 each. All proceeds go to the Family to help cost of going to Pittsburgh. Faith Marie was born with Trisomy 18, Edward’s Syndrome. At 19 months she was diagnosed with Wilm’s Tumor or Kidney cancer. She has to go every week to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to have chemo. Thank you & God Bless!!
Please call Deb Kalgren Kramer @ 771-8459

Continued prayers for this precious child. 

Dr. Meade feels that Faith will only need 18 weeks of chemo!
She also said that it is extremely rare that the chemo will shrink the tumor to the point that surgery will not be needed........
But we know Faith, and we know how she defies the odds and Proves there is Power in Prayer! Our Faith can move mountains! So prayer warriors, pray! Pray that God uses his power through her chemo to smite this tumor!
 
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Keep the faith Bon, we're all praying as hard as we can for all of you.

Keep the faith Bon, we're all praying as hard as we can for all of you.

Keep the faith Bon, we're all praying as hard as we can for all of you.

Continued prayers Bon.  Let  Brandy and her hubby know we are with them in spirit.  My granddaughter talks to me about them quite often.  She worries about all of the challenges they and Faith have and are continuing to face.

She just had her heart ultrasound & the dr said she could have her eye surgery as long as the anesthesiologist is ok with it. So she will no longer be cross eyed In a few weeks!! That is the best b-day news I could get!! Yea!! We have been waiting & 🙏🏻 for those words for 6 months!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻 😁☺️🥳

Penfield, which encompasses the intersection of Routes 153 and 255, in Huston Township, is an older village than one might think.
The driving duo of lumber and coal gave rise to the locale’s economy is the late 19th and early 20th century, but the town was settled or founded by a man named Gould Hoyt in 1839.
Mr. Hoyt was the son so Catherine Hoyt, a Vermont native and a Revolutionary War nurse and veteran who lived from 1758 to 1845.
Her short obituary listed her as a “mother of the revolution.”  She is buried in an unmarked gravesite just north of the intersection.  A historical marker notes the approximate spot.
As is told, Gould Hoyt had neat penmanship and the Penfield was named for his talent.
John DuBois, the 19th century lumber baron, whose namesake is given to DuBois itself, expanded his logging operations and railroads throughout the Bennetts Valley, essentially connecting DuBois to St. Marys.
DuBois was the catalyst whose ever-expanding resource extraction interests made the Penfield area rapidly grow.
Markets needed laborers and immigrants, at this time, served the purpose.  Many single men, and later their families, arrived from poorer regions of southern Italy as well as Eastern and other European regions and spiked the population growth of Penfield and the surrounding communities.
Many of their names and family traditions still thrive in Penfield today. One ingrained tradition was the willingness to work hard to get ahead.
Tanneries, that processed hides into leather, often became a spin-off industry of the lumber business.  Tree bark and an abundant supply of coal were two essential products that kept tanneries in business.
The 1912 photo shows Elk Tannery company houses in Penfield.  They were simple wooden structures, simply built, to provide double-family occupancy.
Large families were often crammed into these units.  Rent was often deducted from worker’s wages.  The abuse of that system, as well as company store policies, was often a source of labor strife at the time.
The photo shows the surrounding hills, sets of railway tracks, dirt streets and a locomotive watering tank.
The company house design resembles that of the somewhat more picturesque New England “salt box” style, but the working families of Penfield, then, saw them basic shelter as they hoped for a better future.

Faith Marie can not go trick or treating, but that didn’t stop her Mom & a far away friend from buying her some outfits!!

Yes Bon she Is perfect!  What a beautiful child❤️ I check for new pictures all the time. Thank you for sharing this precious baby with us all.  Although I have never met you or your family, little Faith has really touched my heart.  She is a rockstar.  

On Oct 6th Faith Marie was baptized again. This time under much better circumstances, she was in the NICU the last time. Everything is much better now then then. God sure does love Faith, how could He not, He made her perfect!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Quarter midget racing in our area began on a track that was to the left of the entrance gate at the drive-in theater on 322 south of town.  That track was dirt surface.  From there the racing moved to Falls Creek, across from the Eagles Club where the current Miller Brothers operation sits.  That track was paved.  When the FBC store was built on that property the racing moved to a track behind the old fairgrounds dirt track that was a little further back into the woods.  I'm fairly certain that track was also paved.  It may have been built on the site of a small dirt track that was used for go kart racing before the quarter midgets moved there.
At that point I was more involved in racing stock cars and lost track of the smaller car activities, so my memories are not very pertinent from that point forward.  This racing began at the Drive-In around the1958-1960 time frame and continued into the 1980's if my memories are completely correct, possibly even longer.

Yesterday was Faith Marie’s 8th month birthday. She is 13# & 24 1/2” long. She loves most baby foods, loves to “talk”, & knows who is talking to her. She has been learning so much stuff this past month. Her appt in Pitts went well, so well in fact, the Drs said that Faith would live past her 1st birthday.  With all the prayers this little girl has in our area, state, and country, God hears them, and He has healed most of the problems she was born with! Thank you Jesus!!
 

When we connect stories to the area of the Boy Scout Camp during that time frame (probably any time frame) I would take all of them with a big grain of salt.  In my experience as a Scout during the late 50's and early 60's I recall many stories of things in the woods that would be designed to scare the unsuspecting campers.  I'm pretty sure there were never mountain lion or bear attacks, etc.
I would believe the tales told around the campfires at night were more designed to keep the curious campers from straying away into the night creating mischief as kids are inclined to do.  Keeping things in context and understanding the time frame we have to believe that young people of that era and from our area were not big travelers.  Most had not been more than 50 miles from their homes and had seen very little of the world outside their local area,  An area that might be quite small, certainly by today's standards.
I respect the feelings some people get that they attribute to spirits.  I have felt things that I will say are similar when visiting places like the Vietnam Wall in DC, and the Murra building in Oklahoma City.  When you get a knot the size of a football in your stomach and the hair on your arms and the back of your neck just tingles, it gets your attention.  I can't say I've experienced anything remotely close to that anywhere else.  It begs the eternal question, do spirits or ghosts exist?  I don't know, but if they do I wish I knew how to communicate with a few.  I would love to have conversations with my Dad, my Son and my Sister.  There may be a lot to learn from them.  If nothing else I may be able to know about the afterlife while there is still time to change my evil ways.