Miracle For Rock Riser

Miracle For Rock Riser CAR-T cell infusion 8.6.25 Rock Riser is a 17 year old young man from Bowman, SC. He tore his ACL playing football in Sept. He was given Bactrim (sulfur drug).

- Rock Riser’s journey through double lung transplant, lymphoma, chemo, radiation & CAR-T Cell Therapy at MUSC Charleston. 17 years old at transplant on 1.10.23. He is a junior at Branchville High School and an active member of Fellowship of Praise church in Santee, SC. Rock had Covid last year, followed by pneumonia but recovered with no known lingering side effects. He had scheduled Sinus Surgery on Nov 4, ‘22. He initially seemed to recover from this surgery. He spiked a high fever and rash about 9 days after surgery and after many trips to urgent care and ED, he was admitted to tRMC on Nov 20. He was transferred to ICU at Prisma Children’s Hospital 2 days later and has underwent so many tests and procedures for the next 9 days. He was intubated and put on a ventilator and air lifted to ICU at MUSC Children’s Hospital in Charleston. He continued to decline and demanded more oxygen support as they searched for answers. The doctors have no definitive answer why and what is attacking his lungs. 13 days later our family made the decision to transfer him to adult side of MUSC and put him on ECMO which is a machine that oxygenates his blood and takes over breathing for him. Our goal for Rock is for his lungs to rest while ECMO does all the work and for him to get stronger. That did not happen. He continued to get weaker and the doctors told us his only option was for a double lung transplant. But he had to get stronger to qualify to get on the transplant list. It seemed impossible. But the amazing team at MUSC in Charleston, SC worked diligently with him and he was placed on the transplant list. He received new lungs on January 10, 2023. He stayed in the hospital over a month and then transferred to a local apartment so he could be near the hospital for rehab. He was released to home on April 8, 2023. He continues visits to MUSC for labs and for rehab but is growing stronger each day. Please pray for the donor family. Without them, none of this would have been possible. And the amazing transplant team at MUSC. We have tried to document his journey so others will be encouraged. We give praise to God for keeping His hand on Rock. Admitted to Prisma Columbia, SC ICU on 11.20.22
Put on ventilator and airlifted to MUSC 11.30.22
79 days in hospital total
27 days on ECMO at MUSC beginning 12.13.22
New lungs 1.10.23
60 days outpatient rehab in Charleston at apartment near hospital
Welcome Home Parade April 8th, 2023


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We had a great time at the Holiday Festival of Lights at James Island County Park! First Christmas in three years that R...
12/21/2025

We had a great time at the Holiday Festival of Lights at James Island County Park! First Christmas in three years that Rock has not been in the hospital! Thank you Lord!

Another awesome praise of the day-Rock’s labs were wonderful today!! Platelets 407K, Hemoglobin 13- perfect labs!  He is...
12/18/2025

Another awesome praise of the day-
Rock’s labs were wonderful today!! Platelets 407K, Hemoglobin 13- perfect labs! He is scheduled for next visit with HemeOnc team on Jan21st!! A whole month in between visits!! God is good!!!

Congratulations to my sister Brooke! Pinning service tonight!
12/10/2025

Congratulations to my sister Brooke! Pinning service tonight!

12/07/2025

Thank you LORD for Your creation and the LOVE YOU HAVE FOR US!!
Call on JESUS CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR !!

His Son . . . through whom also He made the world" (Heb. 1:2).
Christ is the agent through whom God created the world.
John 1:3 testifies, "All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." Jesus has the ability to create something out of nothing (cf. Rom. 4:17), and that sets Him apart from mere creatures. Only God can create like that; we can't. If you could create, you'd live in a different house, drive a different car, and probably have a different job—if you had any job at all. You could just sit in your backyard and make money. Fortunately, God didn't give depraved men and women the right to be creators.
The ability to create ex nihilo belongs to God alone and the fact that Jesus creates like that indicates He is God and establishes His absolute superiority over everything. He created everything material and spiritual. Though man has stained His work with sin, Christ originally made it good, and the very creation itself longs to be restored to what it was in the beginning (Rom. 8:22).
The common Greek word for "world" is kosmos, but that's not the one used in Hebrews 1:2. The word here is aionas, which does not refer to the material world but to "the ages," as it is often translated. Jesus Christ is responsible for creating not only the physical earth, but also time, space, energy, and matter. The writer of Hebrews does not restrict Christ's creation to this earth; he shows us that Christ is the Creator of the entire universe and of existence itself. And He made it all without effort.
What about you? If you don't recognize God as the Creator, you'll have difficulty explaining how this universe came into being. Where did it all come from? Who conceived it? Who made it? It cannot be an accident. Someone made it, and the Bible tells us who He is: Jesus Christ.
Suggestion for Prayer
Praise God for the wonder of His creation, which we can so easily take for granted.S

Rock’s labs all looked great yesterday (platelets 367K, Hgb 12.9, great electrolytes and Magnesium) except yes, he needs...
12/02/2025

Rock’s labs all looked great yesterday (platelets 367K, Hgb 12.9, great electrolytes and Magnesium) except yes, he needs to drink more water. Transplant Team said they were giving Rock a “Lab Break”. Labs scheduled again Dec 29th for Transplant Team. He gets labs, has a follow up with HemeOnc Team on 12/17.
This gives him 17 days with no labs and Doctors appointments!! Praise the Lord!! So very grateful and thrilled for him to have some normalcy 💙🙌🏻💙”

12/02/2025

Thank you LORD JESUS CHRIST for Your sacrifices and making a way to the FATHER!!

"The point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens" (Heb. 8:1).
Since Jesus serves as our High Priest, we have access to God.
Access to God was always a problem for the Jewish people. Exodus 33:20 declares that no man can see God and live. Once each year, on the great Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), the Jewish high priest entered into the Holy of Holies, where God's presence dwelt in a unique sense, to approach God on behalf of the people.
God's covenant with Israel was the basis for their communion with Him. And the sacrificial system that accompanied the Old Covenant gave the people an outward act to represent their inner repentance. But their sacrifices were incessant because their sin was incessant. They needed a perfect priest and sacrifice to provide access to God permanently. That's exactly what Jesus was and did.
Hebrews 10 says that Jesus offered His body as a sacrifice for mankind's sins once for all, then sat down at the right hand of the Father (vv. 10, 12). That was a revolutionary concept to Jewish thinking. A priest on duty could never sit down because his work was never done. But Jesus introduced a new and wonderful element into the sacrificial system: one sacrifice, offered once, sufficient for all time. That was the basis of the New Covenant.
Our Lord's priesthood is permanent and perpetual: "Because He abides forever, [He] holds His priesthood permanently. Hence, also, He is able to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them" (Heb. 7:24-25). That's the central message of the book of Hebrews.
It wasn't easy for the Jewish people to accept the need for a new covenant. Most rejected Christ outright. Similarly, many people today reject His priesthood, supposing they can gain access to God on their own terms. But they're tragically mistaken. Jesus Himself said, "No one comes to the Father, but through Me" (John 14:6).
Suggestion for Prayer
Praise God for receiving you into His presence through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Great Thanksgiving with family! We all have so much to be thankful for!
11/27/2025

Great Thanksgiving with family! We all have so much to be thankful for!

Celebrating my sister, Brooke!! Finished her last nursing class!!! Way to go Brooke!! So proud of you!!
11/26/2025

Celebrating my sister, Brooke!! Finished her last nursing class!!! Way to go Brooke!! So proud of you!!

11/25/2025

Making the most of your time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:16).
God expects the believer to use his time wisely.�
Many people never finish what they begin. There are unfinished symphonies, unfinished paintings, and unfinished sculptures (sometimes because the composer or artist died). There are relationships that never become all they could be, ministries that never come to fruition, dreams that always remain dreams, and hopes that always remain hopes. For a lot of people, life can be an unfinished symphony or a dream without reality. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I believe the answer can be found in the phrase “making the most of your time” (Eph. 5:16).
If we are ever to turn our dreams into realities and our hopes into facts—to finish our symphonies, paint our paintings, and sculpt our sculptures—it will be only when we have made the most of our time. I believe that in eternity past, God prescribed the specific time that we are to live. And only as we maximize that time can we maintain its potential for fulfillment.
The apostle Paul knew firsthand the importance of redeeming his time. In Acts 20:24 he says, “I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus.” In other words, God has given us a time boundary, and within that time He has defined a course. Paul in effect said, “I want to finish the specific course and specific ministry in the specific time given to me.” At the end of his life Paul could say, “I have finished the course” (2 Tim. 4:7). He completed the race because he made the most of his time.
I believe God has sovereignly given you and me a specific period of time. He knows the beginning and the end because He predetermined both. Be sure to finish your prescribed race by walking wisely and living for His glory.
Suggestions for Prayer
• Thank the Lord for sovereignly giving you a course to run in life.
• Pray for His perfect will to be reflected in your life as you run the course.

Dad and I getting it done! Thank you Lord that I can help!
11/21/2025

Dad and I getting it done! Thank you Lord that I can help!

Rock had a 3 month PET Scan today and it was all clear!! Complete REMISSION from lymphoma! Lord, we thank you!!! His lab...
11/19/2025

Rock had a 3 month PET Scan today and it was all clear!! Complete REMISSION from lymphoma! Lord, we thank you!!! His labs were great too!!
This picture is Rock and mom at wedding but I’m sure their smiles were this big today after appointments and getting this amazing results!! We serve an amazing God!

11/19/2025

LORD please help us to always be a witness that shines the light of JESUS CHRIST!!

Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise” (Ephesians 5:15).
Living wisely will set you apart from the world.�
Walking in wisdom is an element of the worthy walk that Paul has been describing since the beginning of Ephesians 4. He says in verse 1, “Walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called” and then proceeds to describe this worthy walk with the following characteristics: It’s a humble walk (4:1-3), a united walk (4:4-16), a unique walk (4:17-32), a loving walk (5:1-7), an illuminated walk (5:8-14), and a wise walk (5:15-17). The point that Paul is making in describing the various elements of the worthy walk is that Christians are different from the world. The world can’t be humble because everyone is fighting for his rights. The world can’t be united because it celebrates and exalts differences. The world can’t be unique because it’s trapped in its own self-destruction. The world can’t love because it doesn’t have the life of God—the source of real love. The world can’t know light because it lies in the system of darkness. And the world can’t be wise because the wisdom of God is hidden from the mind of man. As Paul says in 2 Timothy 3:7, “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
Realize that being different from the world is an asset to your Christian witness, not a hindrance. When others see you obeying Scripture—when they see you walking in wisdom—they’ll notice you’re not like them. That difference can create opportunities to tell them about your Savior. Jesus said, “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). Keep walking in wisdom, and let others be attracted to the light of Christ!

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