Prayer Request

for 8-year-old Brett Bowden

Please pray with me for the Preston Bowden family. I took this information from the prayer request I received this week from Christy Dasher. It is as follows:

I received this request earlier today- this is a friend of mine from college- please pray
cyd


Guys,

Can we please get a prayer request out for Preston Bowden and his family. This is the same Preston that attended Peerless Road while he was at Tomlinson College in the late 80's and early 90's and fixed half of our vehicles when they were down. His son Brett was diagnosed with Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (PH+ ALL). August 26th Brett went through a Bone Marrow Transplant. January 29, 2009 we found out that Brett relapsed.

His wife Lorie shared this on Caring Bridge:
"Seth spent last night with Mamaw and Papaw. Baylee went back to school today. Preston is taking some time off from work. We spent a lot of time on the phone today. Took Brett to Petco so that he could buy some things for his puppy, Max. He's been saving money for quite some time and most of it is gone after shopping at Petco and Gamestop. We ate lunch at Fire Mountain. Papa and Bobo picked up Brett and Baylee around 4:00. They spent some time playing with Hunter and ate supper at CiCi's Pizza. Preston and I worked on organizing our paperwork to get taxes done this week.

We switched Brett's lab work from Thursday to tomorrow, so we had to set down and talk with Brett this evening. We needed his input on what choice to make regarding his treatment. Preston held him in his lap snuggled under his Duke blanket. Brett couldn't remember all 3 choices, so Preston spelled them out in detail. Choice A is to start over with chemo, to try to get him back into remission and work towards another bone marrow transplant. This would mean a lot of pain and sickness with harsh chemo. Brett said he didn't want to hurt and go through all that again. Choice B involves low doses of chemo to keep the leukemia from raging, prolonging his life a few months. Choice C is to make him as comfortable as possible without chemo.
Brett broke down and cried saying, "If I could choose not to hurt, I'd rather go tonight." By the end of the conversation, Brett, along with Preston and me agreed on Choice C.

We are filling our schedule for the next week or two with lots of fun family time. We'll keep going until Brett is too tired to go. We don't know how soon that time will come, but we've put it in God's hands.

Here is a link to their CaringBridge page if anyone wants to leave them a message of encouragement:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/theclownfish

Please keep this family in your prayers!

Gene Dasher Jr

My heart goes out to this family and makes me so grateful that my children are healthy.

Dear Lord, please cradle the Bowden family in your arms and give them strength to get through each day.

His,
Cendy