Happy New Year from Team Youngblood!!
Today we have come to value the sacrifices that others make and their acts of service on our behalf:
1. We learned today that Dr. Gernon sacrificed his ski trip to Flagstaff so that he could do Randy’s surgery on the 30th rather than make him wait for the next available opening in the OR which would have been the middle of January.
2. We value Michelle, our Resperatory Therapist, who is spending her first day back at work, away from her baby boy after delivering him 3 months ago.
3. We appreciate the tender way Randy’s Technician, Philip (like another great Philip we know), carefully gave Randy a bath today and helped him get fresh jammies on.
4. For Kristin, Randy’s nurse who lives in Sierra Vista and knows the Kamarowski family and has to make the long drive to and from work to be here to serve.
5. For Stephen who cleaned up all the mess my completely full Venti coffee made after I spilled it this morning.
6. For Precious Beth Fuller who took a portion of her afternoon to deliver a card and pray with Randy and me. Thank you Beth for being such an ecnouraging and courageous person.
7. For the blessing of free hotel rooms provided by the American Cancer Society and the generous gift of two time share weeks by Petie and Lynn.
Today has had a few more bumps as the swelling increased and stitches and tubing started to pull or irritate. But as the one nurse commented when she came in “there is that smile you (Randy) are always wearing”. Sleep and breathing were both better for Randy last night and I hope that continues tonight. We of course are sad that our Bronco’s has to lose to the Chiefs today but thankfully the Charger’s beat the Raiders so now we get to watch Tim play in his first post season game.
Thank you for the beautiful flower arrangement that arrived yesterday from our TMCC family. I was able to show Randy the arrangement through the ICU glass door and until we can change rooms they are blessing the front desk and are a source of beauty for all the staff to enjoy as they continue to serve a very full ICU.
Pray for Randy’s folks to have safe travels home to Texas. Pray for Andrew, Lindsey and Johnathon as their news was especially emotional for Randy yesterday and he drew great strcngth from Lindsey’s postive posts and likes her new theme song “Survivor”. Pray for Philip, Angela and Parker to have a great week in Atlanta. Pray for Kelly, Meg, Cindy and Charity who have to hold the office down while Lindsey, Randy and Philip are away.
We loved seeing the pictures of the worship at TMCC this morning, and we would have much rather been there than here! But we will worship God wherever we are 
Again, Happy New Year!
Team Youngblood