Hey ladies!
Some of you may know Chris and Lisa Cox at our church. Chris has muscular dystrophy and is in a wheelchair and they have 2 small children. Lisa is a 1st grade teacher at Oaklawn and is also a very good friend of mine. She has been having seizures for years that have progressively become worse. She cannot drive and has begun to lose some cognitive ability. You can imagine the difficulties this creates when you have 2 preschool age children and a disabled husband that requires around the clock care. Well, just when she thought things couldn't get harder, she is now having to have brain surgery. They are hoping that by removing the area of the brain that the seizures are coming from, they can stop them. Brain surgery though is, of course, a big deal. Especially when you don't have a husband that can help, you have 2 small children, AND all of your family lives in California. So, I'm hoping that her church family can all pitch in to help her and her family during this time. They are very active in a great Sunday school class that I know will do everything they can for them but because of the amount of help they will need and the length of time, I'm trying to spread the word to others who are not in their Sunday school class that may know them and want to help.
I've created a couple of calendars for people to sign up to help on. They are both on a website called "take them a meal" but one of them is actually for checking in on Lisa when she will be by herself. It was just easy to use the same website to create the calendar. She originally had told me that she would need help with Chris in the evenings but Chris has told her that he will take care of finding help for himself. I've told her that if she ends up needing some help there as well though, to let me know. She will have her mom here until the 22nd and then she will take the kids with her back to California until July 6th. Depending on how she is doing, it's possible that she may need help getting them ready for daycare in the morning once they get back. She said they have become pretty self-sufficient but she knows not to hesitate to let me know that she needs help if she realizes she's going to need it. So, if you know them, or even don't, and would like to sign up to help, please do. Also feel free to pass the word along to anyone that you think would be interested.
http://www.TakeThemAMeal.com/meals.php?t=OIYT6915 password: meal (this schedule is for the meals)
http://www.TakeThemAMeal.com/meals.php?t=GTZZ1538 password: lisa (this schedule is to check on Lisa)
