Good Afternoon y’all. What a beautiful day here in San Antonio. Sun is shining, blue sky, fluffy clouds, birds singing and butterflies are fluttering. God is truly awesome.
Well, let’s see what we did this week. Charlie started the week out well. Dialysis went well all week. School went pretty well. On Wednesday Charlie did a presentation at school in his Theatre appreciation class (that’s the last entry on the blog). Yesterday he was on the local morning news show. Charlie loves the folks at the station, so much so that he turns them on before he even turns the lights on in the morning. If you would like to see it you can go to KABB.com and in the search box type in Event Helps Combat Kidney Disease. It will bring up a new page and on the left side you will see the same title. Click on it and you can watch the interview.
Charlie is an advocate for the American Kidney Fund. They are having a Kidney Action Day event here in San Antoinio, at the AT&T center tomorrow (October 6th) from 9am to 3pm . Charlie has been asked to share his story at Noon. If you have a chance to go to the event look for him. There will be entertainment, Healthy food demos and you can get tested for FREE to see if you have kidney disease or are at risk. That alone makes it worth going! Everyone should get tested. Especially if you have a history of diabetes or kidney disease anywhere in you family history.
When Charlie finished his interview we went to school. As we were walking the path to the student center we met a person putting out this weeks issue of the school newspaper. Lo and behold, there’s Charlie on the front page. Charlie also advocates for the disabled students at his school. He has been doing that for a while now. The article is about the problem of access to some of the places on the campus. If you would like to read the article you can go to http://www.theranger.org/easier-wheelchair-access-to-mcallister-needed-1.2839236#.UlA4PwfRgcc.email
This has been an exciting week. Charlie got a call from our daughter Emily and found out that our new little bundle of joy that is due to be here end of March – beginning of April is a BOY! Little Ava will have a new brother. How exciting. That brings the tally to 4 boys and 5 girls. Yep 9 grandchildren. Each one of them brings us such joy. They all have such unique personalities. It’s amazing. God really has blessed us with the gift of being grandparents. It’s a wonderful job. There is nothing like being able to talk to your grandchildren about all of the amazing things God has done in our lives and help them to know how they can use all that God has for them. We LOVE being Grandparents.
Charlie’s foot seems to be recovering well. He has been walking on it a bit with the shoe and so far so good. We just need to keep a good eye on it so that it doesn’t get bad again. We would still like to see him start the new year without the wheelchair. We’ll see. All in God’s time, not ours.
Well, I suppose I have written enough for now. I am going to take pictures at tomorrow’s event. Maybe if we are lucky my camera will record part of the event. I think I remember how to do it, but I haven’t recorded with it in quite a while so we shall see! Either way I will post something after we get home.
Please pray for the following: 1. A Kidney. 2. The event tomorrow and Charlie’s presentation. 3. Healing of the foot. 4. Finances. 5. Fundraising.
Blessings to all.
Charlie & Sherrie
Charlie's Road to a Kidney Transplant 
being an advocate is sometimes all you can do… good job guys! hope it gets done for both of you!! and Sher… you NEED a haircut!!!lol
Yep Tam, you are right. It is getting better. Getting the Social Security will help us LOADS. We have to wait for them to contact me now. The letter from the lawyer said if I haven’t heard anything in 60 days then I am to call them. I am sure this government shut down will delay it some. Oh and YES I do NEED a haircut, so come down here and cut it please!!!