So sorry to read this Jaco, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family and most importantly your little girl. Seems the surgery went well so hoping she makes a full recovery and heals up.
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Jaco, vertou alles sal goed afloop, ons is saam julle baie dankbaar vir die uitstekende uitkoms! Alle sterkte!
Groetnis
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Wow, dis goeie nuus, ons hou duimvas dat alles sal uit wees.
God will never give us more than we can handle.
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Wow Jaco, really glad to hear the op went that good!!
Holding my thumbs (and praying) for good news next week Tuesday!
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man, my eyes is tearing up reading your story Jaco.
I am really glad for you and your family, may God bless and heal her in abundance.
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Sjoe Jaco, ek het gedink jy’s bietjie stil die laaste tyd… Baie bly jy’t iets gesê.
Klink asof dinge sover vlot verloop het, baie sterkte vir die hersteltydperk.
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Awesome nuus Jaco. Ek is bly dit het so goed afgeloop.
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Wonderful news, so relieved for you and your family Jaco.
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How are we this morning @JacoDeJongh , actually not you, how is Skye?
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I am reminded how Paul said once (in 2 Corinthians 1:8) how sometimes you are weighed down beyond your abilities, or at least it feels so much like it that you may despair even of life. Roads in that part of Asia was a bit rough apparently.
But then so often the rest of that pericope is also true, that we are delivered from that evil, so today I think we can all give thanks on behalf of this family.
I just called Jaco and things are still looking very good this morning.
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Mooi gestel Plonkster and dankie vir die update.
@JacoDeJongh bly om te hoor dit rerig goed uit gedraai. Sterkte daar , en onthou, jy is nie alleen in dit nie, die Groot OU is altyd langs jou.
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Hi Nicus. She is doing good. Had a rough night with pain. But they adjusted medication dosages and she is sleeping now.
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Great news Jaco, Our family are praying for a speedy recovery for Skye, it tears me up when children have to go thru pain
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Todays news.
She is making great progress. Last time she asked for pain meds were last night. She says she don’t need it anymore. Today she is speaking for the first time, in fact she don’t stop.
We don’t know what to make of this and will take it up with doctors when we see them again. Thy made it very clear that she would loose feeling in the left hand side of the mouth as well as in the left cheek. We prepared her for that. Yesterday even though she could not talk, she signalled to me that she can feel all the sensations equally on the left and right side of her face and mouth. I guess they cut some of the neves and some remained intact. All her facial expressions are also still normal so the speculation that she might loose some facial expressions turned out not to be correct in her case.
We are now just waiting for the final pathology test to confirm that they had indeed remove all the cancer cells before she can be released.
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Wow! Wow! Wow!
Excellent news.
In my thoughts today, trust that everything will go well.
i did pm although i believe there is a lesson for all of us in 2Samuel 12:15-17 “Then Nathan departed to his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s widow bore to David, and he was very sick. David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted and went in and lay all night [repeatedly] on the floor. His older house servants arose [in the night] and went to him to raise him up from the floor, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.”
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2Samuel 12:18-23 “And on the seventh day the child died. David’s servants feared to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, While the child was yet alive, we spoke to him and he would not listen to our voices; will he then harm himself if we tell him the child is dead? But when David saw that his servants whispered, he perceived that the child was dead. So he said to them, Is the child dead? And they said, He is. Then David arose from the floor, washed, anointed himself, changed his apparel, and went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he came to his own house, and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate. Then his servants said to him, What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept while the child was alive, but when the child was dead, you arose and ate food. David said, While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me and let the child live? But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.” 
Dude… welcome to these parts.
I think death is the last thing a parent ever wants to consider. Which is probably why we tend to not say the word… at least not until much later. I think your quote illustrates well what a parent will do for a child, but I worry a bit that the context is rather wayward. The kid in question was the one he had with Batsheba, whose husband he killed… 
I spoke to Jaco yesterday and things are still sounding on the up and up. Some healing still required so that she can swallow more easily, and then hopefully she will go home. Thanks to all who has followed this and kept them in your thoughts and prayers.
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tx plonkster,
indeed the context seems out of place, but the true issue lies not in the situation, but the relationship man-God, i.e. notwithstanding circumstances, He is to be worshiped.
i am very pleased to have heard about the wonderful progress his daughter is making, being a father and grandfather myself and no stranger to cancer the process of healing has always filled me with awe and praise.
God bless!
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Thanks for clarifying. Indeed, I think you and I have had this conversation. You’re a staunch Calvinist. I’m not. Let’s leave it at that