After each chemotherapy treatment the patient needs to take prednisone, a high dosage for the next four days. This is causing more problems. It just seems as though they give you so much medication that it overwhelms the body. As said before, the idea is to kill the cancer, without killing the patient, but they get pretty close to doing that too. Please continue to pray for Harriet.
I met with my longtime friend Larry yesterday and he asked me about Daniel. I thought I'd take a moment to clarify my blog posting of a couple of days ago and what the implications of SB 260 are for him. Daniel was sentenced to 23 1/2 years and with good behavior you must serve 85% of the sentence. The law that was passed last year SB 260 and how it applies to Daniel is as follows, if a person was a youth when they committed the crime, but they were sentenced as an adult and after they've served a minimum of 15 years, they can have their sentencing reevaluated. It doesn't mean that everybody will be let out. What they are looking for is to see if the person who committed the crime has matured beyond his youthful stupidity, and can be a productive member of society.
To be totally objective and I know it sounds like it will be difficult because it's my son, but Daniel had a 707 hearing to establish the fact whether he could be tried as an adult or juvenile. Without going into a great deal of detail, there are five points that they use to determine these things. They determined that he could be tried as an adult, but when tried as an adult two of the five points were eliminated as not being relevant. But, beyond that, because that is the proverbial "spilt milk", Daniel has Towed the line for at least the last 14 years, out of 16 years that he's been imprisoned. It took a while for him to get to the place of repentance. The Bible clearly states, "Without repentance there is no remission of sins".
I wish I could share with you the last letter we received from Daniel just a few days ago. In preparation for presenting his case to the hearing board, he had to write out certain things from his past, which would include his crime. He said that it was very difficult to relive those stupid things that he did, but as he said in his letter, the story doesn't end there. He is become a new person in Christ and he is not that same idiot kid that did the crime. We're all thankful for that.
When they have the hearing for Daniel, they can do a number of things. They can let them serve out his full-term, or release him for time served and anything between those two options . So, it's not a guarantee that he'll be getting out after the hearing. That of course is our hope.
Thank you again for your prayers and support.
Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet
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