Hi/Lo Thursday: Win a Hundred Bucks... "Hi Pics"

How About $100 For Posting Your Hi/Lo today?

When you participate in things like "Laughter Lives Tuesday", "Hi/Lo Thursday", or suggest a photo caption, you get links on our site to your blog, chances to be in our magazine and a lot of laughs and tears.

We don't slap a bunch of ads on our blog. We've decided that we'll have a sponsor in a post IF our readers get to win something significant. Not a coupon, or a $5 trinket... but something of real value, something that makes it worth YOUR time to check out the sponsor.

Post your Hi/Lo Thursday, and we'll randomly choose one of you to win the hundred bucks tomorrow! Be sure to visit the sponsor website so they feel good too (and keep sponsoring prizes!) Sound good?

Hi/Lo Thursday

Hi/Lo Thursday is where we get to know each other by sharing our emotional/spiritual HIGH and LOW for this previous week. It's a great way to get to know each other!

Our HIGHS:

A "high" that you won't find on most normal days. Our high is getting to give chemo at home. We cajoled the doctors into allowing us to keep her I.V. port in, and sending us home with the chemo. It takes us about 5 minutes, saving us 4-5 hours going to the clinic.

It's kind of weird putting a chemical into your child that is highly toxic and you have to protect yourself from even smelling, much less touching.

Abby is actually telling me to "smile Daddy!"
as Sami takes the pics.

Abby has two ports: the one on the left with the white circle is her
feeding tube. The one on the right, under the bandages is her I.V. port.
The dark area around her feeding tube port is where they had
to chemically burn off the tissue that was expanding outside her stomach.
Michelle is putting chemo in a second port, on the right, a tube
that runs directly into her heart. Fun, huh?

Momma, a real nurse, administers chemo while Dad, a pretend nurse
helps out. Actually, I (Brent) do all this stuff too, but I only feel safe doing it
because Michelle carefully watches everything anyone does medically with Abby.

Our LOWS:

Abby is already starting to show signs of the mucositis (sores) after just a couple of days of starting this round. Last night she was weak and tired. It appears we are headed for another very difficult time. We covet your prayers.

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Okay, now it's YOUR turn. Here's how:

• Go to your blog, create a new post for "Hi/Lo Thursday!" Copy and paste ALL the HTML code below at the beginning your post. To be eligible to win the $100, you have to have our badge and our link in your post.
  (NOTE: Make sure you are in HTML mode when you paste HTML code!):
  <img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" src="http://www.brentriggs.com/hilothursdaywin100.jpg" /> This post is part of "Hi/Lo Thursday" on the <a href="http://www.riggsfamilyblog.com">Riggs Family Blog</a>. Check out <a href="http://www.riggsfamilyblog.com">their blog</a> to read everyone else's "Hi/Lo" posts and for a chance to win $100.
  
  
• Then, use the form at the bottom of this post to enter the title of your BLOG and the link to your "Hi/Lo" blog post. (if you don't have a blog, feel free to leave a comment)

That's it! You'll be linked in today's entries and we'll have a fun and inspiring list of "Hi/Lo Thursday" posts for everyone to read! Can't wait to read your blog posts for "Hi/Lo Thursday". By the way, did you know it really helps YOUR blog to have a link on our blog (because of how much trafffic we get)?

Can't wait to give someone a $100 tomorrow!

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