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Welcome! Since Sarah is thankfully finished with her cancer treatment and in excellent health, I have stopped updating this site on a regular basis.

Please feel free to hang out for a while and browse through the journal history. There are a lot of inspiring and funny stories to read.

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The Smith Family History (Extremely, Exceedingly Condensed Version)

The Smiths spent fifteen years traveling full time, living in campers, and doing about 160 concerts a year in churches around the country.

Sarah and Nathan have traveled since they were four weeks old and have been in thirty-five states, Canada and Mexico. Steve and Becky have recorded thirteen CD's of original music. When Sarah was diagnosed on May 17, 2002, the family left the road so that they could dedicate themselves to doing everything possible to help her get well.

If you've just recently found this site, you might be interested to know that there is a companion site available that features updates written before this blog was started in January 2003. Go to: Sarah's Spot Archives

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Journal

January 12, 2012

It's hard to believe that 9 years ago at this time, we were sequestered in a small, sterile room at Duke starting the long wait to see when (and if) Sarah's counts would start to recover and if she would be one of the few to walk out of that place alive.

We have so many memories of doctors and nurses and people who made our stay bearable, who invested their time and their knowledge and their hearts into helping our Princess Groovy Chick get well.

And almost a decade later, she is happier and healthier than she has ever been.

Grateful doesn't even begin to sum up how we feel.

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

I recently saw the following exchange on Facebook between Sarah and her dear friend, Victoria.

Victoria wrote, "Hey everyone...I just heard about a girl named Kendall who was diagnosed with cancer 2 weeks ago. The cancer is in her lungs and brain. The doctor says she has 6 weeks to live, but we know that God has the power to heal any disease or sickness no matter what the odds. Please be praying that God will heal her. God will and can heal her if it is His will, we just need to have faith. Please be praying with me."

Sarah's response, "'You have X amount of weeks to live.' It seems like I've heard this somewhere else before... So glad God doesn't take orders from doctors! :) Will definitely be praying for her."

Bottom line?

God doesn't take orders from doctors. Love that!

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

CHANGES

Hello, wonderful friends of Sarah Smith's Spot!

Eight and a half years and two million hits--what an adventure we've all been on!

It's sometimes hard for me to really believe that some of you have been reading here since the beginning--or very close to it. It makes me feel all teary-eyed to think of your loyalty, your sweet comments, your prayers and your encouragements through the years. This has turned into a very special place to be.

Most of you Sarah's Spot readers know that about two years ago, I started a family blog over at Smithellaneous. I did that because I knew that Caringbridge is a service dedicated to individuals and families facing major health challenges and--thankfully!--that is no longer true of Sarah.

I have made every effort to keep both blogs going but it's gotten more and more challenging because I'm always thinking, "Well, what should I write about on Caringbridge?"

I realize that I could write about what's going on currently in Sarah's life but then I think, "Well, Sarah is part of the Smith family so why wouldn't I write her stuff on Smithellaneous? But yet if I do that, what will I have left to write on Caringbridge?"

And around and around I would go with it, trying to figure out how to strike a happy balance between the two.

Well, last week I talked to Sarah about it and she and I agreed that it might be time to make a transition and just turn this site into an archive of stories and pictures of our family's journey from Cancer to Health, allowing me to move Sarah's "everyday, normal" stories over to Smithellaneous.

My prayer and my hope is that I will never again have to visit this page to write about Sarah and cancer. We trust that those days are behind us and we joyfully move on to living and telling the stories that go beyond a life of cancer.

This site can also serve as a resource for someone you may know who has a child newly diagnosed with cancer. The journal history (accessible at the top of the page) will take any new family back to stories communicating emotions of all kinds--tears and hope and laughter, all connected with a small girl on a big journey.

(And also remember that there is a site even older than this one which starts at the very beginning of Sarah's treatment; it can be found in the intro paragraph at the top of this page.)

As a way of doing a "last hurrah" together, it would be meaningful to us (and hopefully to you) if you would share in the guestbook the most memorable story or experience you read on these pages--and why that particular incident was memorable for you. It doesn't even have to be back when Sarah was sick--it could be from any time period.

I think it would be really fun for us all to come back to the guest book and read what everyone else has shared. (And as the writer of all those stories, I would truly love to hear which ones resonated the most with my wonderful readers.)

We'll still drop in a couple times a week to check the guest book; feel free to stop by and peruse the hundreds of old journal entries and the thousands of guest book entries.

Words cannot express what it has meant to our family to have had this place to collect the stories of Sarah and keep them in one very special place.

But it's really not my stories that have made this such a precious place. I could have written Sarah Stories all day long, but it would never have been as meaningful without you coming here and reading and commenting and praying--YOU made this site the incredible place that it is and the Smith family would like to say thank you for walking with us through a challenging, horrible, inspiring, incredible, miraculous season of life.

God bless you; we love you!
Steve, Becky, Nathan and Sarah Smith





Sunday, June 26, 2011 4:27 PM CDT

Two MILLION!??!?!

Somehow we reached two million hits here on Sarah Smith's Spot in the last few days and I didn't even realize it! Yikes! How did I let that happen? Oh well, I guess we will have to celebrate after the fact.

Thanks for being such faithful friends of our family and for making this page such a special place to hang out.

(Note: The counter that you see above was added to the page after it had been going awhile; the counter at the bottom of the page is the one that's been going since the beginning.)





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