Why?

I haven't written much lately. I have been posting videos on here. I have a site entitled www.leefloridatv.com that I am trying to get up and running. Go there and visit if you have a chance.
Today, I carried my brother Danny to his ophthalmologist Dr. Jerry Ford in Tallahassee. Dr. Ford sent him to another eye doctor (Dr. Logan Brooks) who discovered that Danny has a severe form of glaucoma. Danny has a better chance of losing his left eye than they do of saving it. Dr. Brooks said that prayer would be the key to saving Danny's eye. Danny has to go back to Dr. Ford tomorrow for a follow-up.
Everything seems to keep happening to my family. I had emergency stomach surgery in March and then threw two blood clots which almost killed me because they got in my lungs. Daddy broke his hip last October. My sister, Abbie, has her own medical problems. But still I believe that God is good and that He will sustain us.
The health problems have been bad and the money situation has been very bleak. I have had to miss work with my health problems and also to help carry Danny to Tallahassee, as well as take Daddy back and forth to the VA Medical Clinic in Lake City. If I don't work, I don't get paid. Still, I know that God is good and He will help us.
I'm exhausted. Everyone in the family is exhausted. Still, I know that God will give us eagles' wings to help us.
God will be there. Please remember my family in your prayers.

Eating Chicken Can Be Painful

I found out last week what was causing my physical pain. It was not appendicitis, as I had thought, but it was dangerous and almost deadly.
The pain persisted in my right side until I finally went to the emergency room on Sunday afternoon, March 2, 2008. After the doctor examined me and CT scans were run on my stomach, nothing was found. They admitted me to the hospital for observation. The next day, my doctor, Julie Schindler, came in and took one look at me and said, "You're not going anywhere yet" and told me she couldn't send me home. Later that day, she made arrangements with Dr. Eliot Sieloff in Tallahassee to accept me as a patient. As soon as a bed became available at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, I was transported via ambulance by my friends, Rob Covell and Jimmy Kent, to TMH.
As soon as I arrived at TMH, I was immediately taken into emergency exploratory surgery, where Dr. Sieloff found what had happened and took care of it immediately. It seemed that a chicken bone had gotten stuck in my small intestine and had lodged there, causing an infection. Dr. Sieloff said that one thing that kept the infection from spreading further was a belly button hernia that I have.
God is good and gracious to have spared my life and to have granted me relief from that pain. It was so bad that I could not stand up straight and anytime I moved, it was wrenching.
I thank Dr. Sieloff and all the wonderful nurses at TMH. Most of all, though, I thank God.
I'm so glad to be home now with my family. I thank God for them.