In Memory of Tom Bock

The Family Fold is thinking of our friend, Tom Bock, and remembering his loved ones in prayer. Tom’s celebration of life service happened on September 25th, 2022.

We were blessed to meet him at Club Magnolia one Masters Week many years ago. Each April, we would be so glad to see him again because he would sit nearby for hours listening to our band and clapping after every song. He would tell us that he would rather be there at Club Magnolia taking in our music rather than out at the golf course. Wow! What a compliment to receive during golf’s biggest week! And whenever we saw him, I always had to sing for him “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” That was his song.

We post this song in his honor, as well as a video from Club Magnolia to give you a sense of those happy times.

Thanks be unto our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, our Family Fold will see Tom Bock again, over the rainbow.

Mom’s home for her birthday!

Today is Mom’s birthday……. And she is celebrating with us at home in Augusta, Georgia! We are super thankful to God that she is well enough to be home, and of course she is very glad about it.

As y’all know, Mom was in Jacksonville, Florida for approx. 10-months for medical treatment at Mayo Clinic Hospital and Brooks Rehab Hospital. Our family would not have been able to make those biweekly roadtrips to be with her there without the donations y’all made for Mom. We cannot thank y’all enough for that!

We are not having to do those frequent trips now, but there will still be travels to Florida in our future. Mom has several follow up appointments at Mayo Clinic with her specialty doctors (neurology, infectious disease, and more), as well having the procedure there to remove her feeding tube. She also hopes to travel back to Brooks Rehab for periodic outpatient physical therapy there because they are just so top-notch with their methods, attitude, and resources. At home, Mom is on a lot of medicine to knock out infections, and those treatments are supposed to continue for at least a year. We also have various medical supplies to stay stocked up on since she uses them on a daily basis. So if you still feel compelled to donate to her from time to time, it will most definitely help her here at home, too.

But more than this, we ask that you PLEASE KEEP ON PRAYING for Mom! We praise God for what all He has done for her. It is so evident how He has helped her. But there’s still a lot that we are praying for God to bring to pass. Mom still needs to relearn how to walk and be able to take of herself again. We need God to keep on strengthening her, to defeat infections, to shield her from all harm, to take pain away, to keep on healing her and getting her better, to get her back to helping and serving others, to get her back to playing all of her musical instruments……. So please keep on praying for God to restore Mom’s health and life for His glory. Thank y’all for standing by us through all of this! We thank God for y’all.

Ricie still needs big prayers!

Mom has been in Brooks Rehab Hospital for 3-weeks now. She has done some things there that she has not been able to do in previous times. But, it has been over a year since she has been able to walk, and she has hit a plateau in her progress. If she does not improve soon, insurance wants her discharged. So please, PLEASE pray hard for her. She still needs strength and miracles. We really want her to have more time there at the rehab before she comes home. My slogan I say about her being there is, “The longer, the stronger.” Please continue to intercede for her. Thank you!

Mom is going to Brooks Rehab!

Mom always has my back! Let’s continue to have her back when it comes to our prayers for her. After 85-days in the Mayo Clinic Hospital, she is going to Brooks Rehab Hospital (Jacksonville, FL). Please continue to pray for The Lord to shield her from infections and setbacks, for her to get better & better, for all of her muscles to regain their strength, and for her to emerge from this long season of sickness she has endured. Thank y’all for caring and praying!

Ricie Update + Eryn’s 22nd Mandolin Anniversary

As y’all may know, Mom made it through her brain surgery, thank The Lord! ​The ongoing prayer is for the medicines they are giving Mom to work well for her so that all infection in her body will be defeated… So that her muscles will regain their strength and that she won’t have any more brain issues and problems like she has dealt with. So please, please, please continue to pray with us about this. We still need God to bless all of these efforts and bring about healing & restoration in Mom.

July 14th is my 22nd mandolin anniversary. Time has flown by, and I have had the most fun with this musical instrument. I celebrated today by giving a mandolin lesson to one of my teenage music students/friends. Many of the songs brought back wonderful memories. The tune that she chose to start with today was the first mandolin tune I ever played out of “The Fiddler’s Facebook” back when I was 12-years-old. I told her the way that came about was because I was so excited that the book had the sheet music for “Black Mountain Rag.” I flipped to that tune, looked at all of those notes & double-stops, and said to myself, “Oh! I can’t play that right now. Too hard for me! I guess I’ll play this one underneath it.” And that is how “Black Nag” got added to my repertoire, haha! I hope you enjoy this video of The Family Fold playing it. Mike always provides a solid rhythm guitar for my fingers to have fun dancing around, and Mom’s penny whistle always makes my mandolin sound better! Keep praying that she gets back to making me sound better soon.

Praise Report after Brain Surgery

Mom’s neurosurgeon just told me that her operation went very well… Praise God! Thank y’all so much for praying extra for her all throughout this day. 👏🏻💕🙏✝️💕 We didn’t know this until today when one of his coworkers told us, but Mom’s neurosurgeon was featured on a Netflix documentary. Click the video below to see a news clip about it…

Prayers for Mom’s upcoming brain surgery

Mom’s brain surgery will be this Thursday, July 7th, 2022 at The Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, Florida). Please pray extra for her, for her doctors, and for all of her medical team. Please pray for God to keep Mom safe, and for this operation to be successful. Please pray that this surgery will solve a lot of her problems. Thank y’all so much for caring about her like you do!

Wishing you a wonderful 4th of July, and we hope you enjoy our rendition of “This Land Is Your Land.”

Ricie Prayer Update… Biopsy + Brain Surgery

Mom is having another biopsy of one of her spinal discs today. They are talking about her having brain surgery next week. Please keep Mom and her medical team “prayed up!”

Prayer Alert for Ricie + More “Summertime Tunes” for You

PRAYER ALERT… Mom is in a rougher shape. 😞 But, the doctors here at Mayo Clinic are reassessing, retesting many things today, and working hard to get to the bottom of these problems. Please keep praying for God’s guidance & answers, and for His healing & restoration for Mom. Thank you! #injesusnameamen

We hope you enjoy this second helpin’ of “Summertime Tunes” from The Family Fold. We just need Mom’s bass and Dad’s box to make us sound better! Please keep praying for Mom.

“Girl I Left Behind Me + Miss McLeod’s Reel”

“Sockeye”

“Angel Band”

“Cuckoo’s Nest + Soldier’s Joy”

Summertime Tunes - part 1

Mom is still in The Mayo Clinic Hospital, and I am on the road to visit with her. Please continue to pray for her. Your prayers are what we are most grateful for. We are thankful for those who have given to her fund. That has been a big help, especially since it’s been 8-months of her having medical care in Jacksonville, Florida. We’ll keep on doing whatever it takes to get her better. Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the latest tunes uploaded to our YouTube channel. (You’ll see it posted at the bottom.) Please keep praying for Mom to get back to playing music with us again!

Also, we are posting a photo of our “Precious Jewell.” He has been in Heaven 5-years now. Our Family Fold sure misses him and his one-of-a-kind music he brought to our band. One of my favorite things about Heaven is getting to play music again with my loved ones I’m missing here on earth… The music won’t stop or be postponed up there!

Thank you for your prayers for all of us. We send our gratitude, love, & prayers for you all, too.

Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold play “Golden Slippers,” “Poor People of Paris,” “Fair & Tender Ladies,” and “Blackberry Blossom.”

June 14th with The Family Fold

On this date 14-years ago, The Family Fold hosted our first music festival benefiting Lynndale, Inc. in 2008. Time has flown by, and God has blessed us with a lot of fun! We pray to Him to get back to all of these musical events.

Mom is having a PET scan…

Mom is having a PET scan today. Please keep on praying for her healing. Thanks!

Prayers for Mom’s lung biopsy & brain MRI

Please pray for Mom as she has an MRI of her brain and a biopsy taken from her lungs.
Pray for her medical team at Mayo Clinic, too.
Pray that a diagnosis and treatment will be found for Mom to solve this abnormally high inflammation problem she has.
Thank you for praying for her!

“Just Because”

A little blast from the past with The Family Fold’s “Precious Jewell”… “Just Because!”

Prayers for Mom’s bronchoscopy

Please keep praying for God to heal her, restore her health & life, and solve all of these problems.

We are grateful for you praying with us!

“Crazy Arms”

“Crazy Arms” was one Mom wanted me to sing & play for her last time I visited with her in the hospital. We hope you enjoy this version that we were honored to have Grammy-award winning mandolinist, Mike Compton, perform with us.

Mom has been in Florida for 7-months now. We will keep on going to visit her there until she is well enough to be back home with us. Thank you for praying for us all during this season.

Post-Biopsy Praise/Prayer Report

The cheif neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic called me, and he said that Mom did well with her meningeal biopsy of her thoracic spine. We praise God for this! But, please keep your strong, fervent prayers going for her. They got several samples that they’re sending to various pathologists and such. The neurosurgeon said that he had never seen anything like this, and this is very abnormal. He said it didn’t look cancerous or infectious, but it is a lot of inflammation. So please keep on praying that they will get a diagnosis (as well as a treatment) so they will not have to resort to the brain biopsy. Thank you for holding her up in prayer!

“Without Him” + “Miracle In The Making”

These are some of our favorite songs to play at St. Paul’s Celtic Services. We hope you enjoy these.

Meningeal Biopsy & More Investigating

Please continue to pray for my mom. She is still at the Mayo Clinic hospital in Florida. She will have a meningeal biopsy, either tomorrow or Tuesday.

Mom had a few MRIs last week, and we found out that she has spine compression fractures. She is wearing a lumbar brace now.

Her spinal fluid continues to be tested and the inflammatory markers are consistent with chronic meningitis. More tests are pending about that.

And they are also exploring if she may have a disease that hasn’t been treated yet.

So please keep on praying for Mom and for her whole medical team. Everyone is trying hard. We all need answers. Thanks!

Pony

This song, “Pony,” is a favorite of mine & Mom’s. We found this song in the summer of 2015 when we went to see Australian singer/songwriter, Kasey Chambers, perform in Atlanta. Mom is a huge Kasey Chambers fan. I would hear my mom play those recordings, and Kasey’s music grew on me, too. By the time I was at the concert, I recognized many of those songs that Kasey was singing. But this one called “Pony,” I had never heard before that concert. But by the time she got through with that first yodel, I said to myself, “I have got to learn how to sing that song and do that one with my band!” We hope you enjoy our rendition of “Pony.”