A Long Day

Whew! It has been a very long day. First of all, before I left for treatment this morning, we got hit with a big heating/cooling bill for our upstairs unit. This weekend our neighbor came over & showed us that ice was built up around the bottom. Great!! So now we know why there had been some different noise to it. I just figured it was in overload with all the cold weather, because @ the fall tune-up, everything had checked out okay. Getting down to more important business...I got my scan results back & we are very happy. My bone scan showed a significant improvement, with no new lesions. He said the bone pain I had been having was probably due to them healing. The CT scan showed that most of the lymph nodes had stabilized in size, with one or two maybe a mm bigger. The doctor was not concerned, & considered this a good report. I had asked for them to include my head in the CT scan this go around. He asked me why I had wanted this done. I gave him my reasons & he felt it was justified. It was just one of those gut feelings for me. Any how, it came back & the radiologist suggested a MRI to further exam a place in the anterior left temporal region. He wanted to get it "stat" then take the chemo treatment. So I found myself again at the hospital waiting for another test. I'm getting to know the staff in those areas by name. After I went back to the oncology office & waited a little longer, trying to read to take my mind off things, my sweet little research nurse called me back, handed me a copy of the report & said there was nothing to worry about. Went back to the waiting area, because there was "no room in the inn", haha, meaning no chairs available in the chemo (infusion) area. Let's put it this way...I didn't get home until 5pm. My appointment was at 10am. I came home & crashed. Thank God for my sweet mom coming up to take care of my kiddos. I love you mom!

I just want to thank the most important one in all of these great results & that is Christ our Lord. Without him, I am nothing. My devotion that I hadn't picked up in the past few days, was perfect this morning. It was "No Fear of Bad News". How appropriate for me today. The one scripture that I wrote down was from 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. I love this!! These days anxiety tries to take hold. Pain, fatigue, the general blahs, & the feelings of not being a good mom & wife, because I can't always give them my all. He will take all these burdens on HIMSELF, as he did our sin. WOW, that is so cool to have someone take it all away if we just ask. That's all...we just have to ask.

Thank you all for your prayers & hugs, calls, food, & support. It means so much to me & my family. Please continue to pray for complete healing.