I have been on chemo for a year now. Most people think this is waaay long. What I have learned is that treatments differ for each kind of cancer. For me it is now a way of life. It is a blessing. This is what God is using to sustain my life. This has allowed me to live a normal life and continue to work. The other part of the formula are the prayers. I have heard from so many of you that continue to pray for me, sometimes I am moved to tears. Thank you, thank you so very much.
In June I go through the scans. If things look good to the doctor, he will recommend chemo for another 3 months. The longer I stay on the treatment, the better for me. And I continue to be aware of how fortunate I am to be at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Everything there from the reception, the blood work, staff morale, to the setting of the infusions, is top notch. Patients come from other states and other countries for treatment. And I can get there in 15 minutes. Yes, we have been blessed.
Again, I cannot say it enough, thank you for your concerns and prayers.
-Cal-
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I was talking to my friend this morning who had stage four non-hodgkins Lymphoma (intestinal cancer) about twenty years ago (before I knew her). I hadn't realized that it was in her bones and other organs and she was not expected to live. She said that she remembered reading a Reader's Digest type article decades before that time, about a lady with bone cancer dying in the hospital. The lady's bones were so brittle that she had pulled up her bed sheets and broken her arm. Her family was called to her room for the last day of her life on earth and surrounded her bed. Suddenly the walls disappeared and she was in a garden with a man standing over her. He said, "The prayers of the many have compelled me to heal you". The woman was a school teacher and asked him to repeat what he said. He said it again and she wrote it down. She began to get well slowly from that time on. Soon the family was sent home. She had only told her husband of the vision, but after two weeks when the bone scans were revealing her reversal, the Dr. came and asked what was going on. She told him what had happened to her and he said he figured it had to be something like that.
ReplyDeleteMy friend remembered reading this article many years before she found herself battling stage 4 non-hodgkins lymphoma that had spread to her bones and other organs. She had herself put on any prayer list available and studied scripture to know that it was God's will for her to be healed. [sickness is a curse of the law (deut)
Jesus died to free us from the curse (galatians?) Jesus came to do the will of the father and He healed them *all* (gospels) By His stripes we are healed. (Isaiah)]. She was also a recipient of many group laying on of hands prayer times with various friends and church groups.
Despite current nutrition wisdom, she was unable to eat healthy during that time on chemotherapy, but did eat whatever she could keep down as she'd heard that 40% of chemo patients die of malnutrition! The chemo was terrible for her (shots back then with terrible aftereffects) and she quit the treatments early saying they would kill her before the cancer did. Drs. insisted on doing a bone scan again, and it revealed no cancer. She was still advised to do more chemo because even tho the tumors were no more the drs. said that the cells were still there, so when the dr. said he'd order it at 1/3 the dose, she did four more rounds of that before quitting early again for good. Looking back she feels she could have quit sooner, and now the common knowledge is that we all have cancer cells in our bodies because of the free-radicals in the environment, and our diet & lifestyle play a huge role in killing off the bad guys.
My friend said that the word of the article that impressed her the most was "compelled" and it parallels the gospel story of the old woman with the un-just judge, pounding at his door for justice and help. I wanted to share these experiences with you, to encourage you in your battles (the battle belongs to the Lord) and to let you know that I am compelling Him to heal you, too. Do not give up or give in to the enemy of our souls, who prowls around to kill, steal and destroy. Keep the pathways to healing and the abundant life clear in your relationships and thoughts and actions and be blessed with His healing and peace.
Love and hugs,
Janet