

{"id":18904,"date":"2017-03-05T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2017-03-05T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:28:36","slug":"special-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=18904","title":{"rendered":"Special Request&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18905\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-960x648.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-05 at 12.57.37 PM copy\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-960x648.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-270x182.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-600x405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-880x594.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-580x391.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-350x236.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-400x270.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-370x250.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-500x337.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-12.57.37-PM-copy-741x500.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">First, thank you so much for your prayers a good wishes for Wesley and \u00a0his family. \u00a0He is doing great and his long trip to a cure starts this week. \u00a0We think his chemotherapy will start on Wednesday. \u00a0The form of T cell lymphoma that he has is aggressive and his treatment will be as well. \u00a0 In the words of his doctor, &#8220;He is young and strong and ready for the fight, and we believe, and are determined to fight this enemy and win.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0Knowing that his chemo regime will be for three treatments a week for three straight weeks, and then rest for two weeks and then back to that pattern for 6 full rounds, each round being a 5 week period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Sherelene came up with a great idea and I&#8217;m doing my part with this blog entry. We are going ot load up a backpack for him to take to the Cancer Center each day filled with things to help him pass the long days of receiving the chemo. \u00a0We will fill it with some good books, a few DVDs, to change out and we want to place a container in the bag with short wishes, prayers or even funny stories he can pull out one at a time when he needs enouragement, a boost in faith or\u00a0a good laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">So here goes my request, if you could send me an email or two or three with words of encouragment, a favorite scripure or favorite joke, I will print them and cut them in strips to place in his &#8220;Encouragement Jar!&#8221; \u00a0Pleae sign them as I know he will want to pray for you! \u00a0 Just emil them to me at: \u00a0 bill@billfortney.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">For a parent\u00a0there is no tougher time than when one of your children is suffering and you feel powerless to help. \u00a0But that is a lie from the enemy, I am praying constantly for him and Rhonda, Elijah and Abigail, and of course have, daily, placed him in God&#8217;s tender care. \u00a0My mantra is <strong>&#8220;God has this.&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0I know in my Heavenly Father&#8217;s Hands he could not be in better care!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Wes, Rhonda, Sherelene and I and the entire Fortney family appreciate your prayers and good wishes. \u00a0Thanks for being with us!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Blesssings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; First, thank you so much for your prayers a good wishes for Wesley and \u00a0his family. \u00a0He is doing great and his long trip to a cure starts this week. \u00a0We think his chemotherapy will start on Wednesday. \u00a0The form of T cell lymphoma that he has is aggressive and his treatment will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18907,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions\/18907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}