Challenging Times for our Family

The past few months have been a bit trying for the Leeper family as my nephew, Kelly has been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. Kelly is 24 years old and was married to a wonderful young lady (Laura) last July. Shortly after they were married, Kelly was diagnosed. Kelly is no ordinary man. He was born with a severe heart defect at birth that was corrected surgically and he is indeed a miracle. He was given a 3% chance of surviving, but I believe that it is because Kelly has such a strong and positive outlook on life, and mostly because he loves and follows Jesus with all of his heart that he leads a perfectly normal life. In fact if you met Kelly you would never know that there was anything wrong with him. As the years have gone by, we as a family tend to take Kelly for granted...shame on us! Well, we are brought to our knees as we process this cancer diagnosis for him. Kelly has more strength than any of us, and because of him, we all have a positive outlook and are believing God for a full recovery. This is a very treatable type of cancer. Kelly started Chemo this week, and we are all concerned about his heart. The cardiologist has said "what is everyone so worried about? Kelly's heart is strong! He'll be fine!!!" Kelly's prayer and all of our prayers are for full recovery, and also that he won't suffer from any of the side effects that the Dr. says he will have. So, please join us in praying for him and his wife Laura!