Thank You for the Poem

Thank to whomever posted this sweet poem in the guestbook. I did a little search and found out that the author's name is Edgar A. Guest. I wanted to post it in an update so that later it will not be lost amongst the guestbook entries.

To All Parents
"I'll lend you for a little time a child of mine," He said,
"For you to love the while she lives and mourn for when she's dead.
It may be six or seven years, or twenty-two or three,
But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for me?
She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and should her stay be brief,
You'll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief.
"I can't promise she will stay, since all from earth return,
But there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn.
I've looked the wide world over in My search for teachers true
And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes I have selected you.
Now will you give her all your love, nor think the labor vain
Nor hate me when I come to call to take her back again?
"I fancied that I heard them say, 'Dear Lord, Thy will be done!
For all the joy Thy child shall bring, the risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter her with tenderness, we'll love her while we may,
And for the happiness we've known, forever grateful stay.
But should the angels call for her much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand.'"
This poem does bring tears to my eyes, but they are tears that are good to shed; I must not keep them in. We try to be thankful for every moment we have with this precious girl.
We have been doing pretty good. Kelby has been doing much better these last two days. The new anesthesiologist let her sleep until she got into my arms, so she can wake up there. She does much better. The treatment doesn't seem to be bothering her at all. I think she looks a little puffy, but they don't think that is from the treatment. I am not sure, but it seems like the tumor is still growing. Hopefully that radiation will start affecting it soon. We will be going down for another regular treatment, but on Friday we will be getting a treatment and another CT. They want to make sure that they are getting the entire tumor in their treatment site. They had done the calculations before we went to Disneyland and the tumor had grown since then. If they don't think they are getting the response that they would like by Friday, we might be going down for treatments on Saturday and Sunday as well. They said that they would prefer doing that over giving her two treatments in one day. They just don't like to anesthetize the kids more than once a day unless they have too. She is still an incredibly happy girl. This isn't phasing her at all anymore. She still doesn't quite like the guys in the blue scrubs, but she gets over it pretty quick. She explains to us, "They just gonna put medicine in my tube and I take a nap."
We have been getting home around noon. Kelby is pretty tired by then and has been taking long naps. I am a little rough around the edges myself. At least I have been getting to bed a little earlier. Plus it is so nice to not have to make any meals. Mike seems to be hanging in there. Tegan has been left behind each day with others...which doesn't seem to phase her...except that her schedule is a little off. I miss her a lot.
I talked to Kelby's Oncologist today. He said that Kelby's bone marrow biopsy came back clean. She also had another blood test done that shows levels of something that indicate cancer, but those levels are normal too. These are both really good news. This means that her cancer is fairly localized right now. Hopefully the radiation will keep this under control. If it does react well, we should have quite some time with our little angel. Thanks for continuing to pray! I know that I and our families need more strength and endurance and your prayers make a difference. God Bless!