halfway there...

Madison & Adeline here, updating you on our Mom. As of today, she is halfway through her chemo treatment! Her counts and numbers are where they should be, which is awesome news. Thank you for praying and for your encouraging words to her as she fights this out...I know God is blessing her through you!!

(Her meds today were a bit different - making her feel on cloud 9...however, her chemo friends say she will come down and hit reality. So after that time, she'll tell you about the pickle jar in her hands. Its fun and God is good - and how He uses the little things in life to bring a smile to our faces.)

#3 treatment...

... will be tomorrow -- Tuesday July 19th....

thank you for your encouragement and prayers

our little cowboys... however Solomon says that he's a 'Farmer' !!

A New Day...

" Self-Pity is a slimy, bottomless pit. Once you fall in, you tend to go deeper and deeper into the mire. As you slide down those slippery walls, you are well on your way to depression, and the darkness is profound....." Jesus Calling

I'll admit-- that last week this was exactly where I was ... in the bottomless pit. I begged God to take me home to heaven. BUT ... with your many prayers - my family - my doctors- and GOD -- I am out of the pit and praising HIM today. I can see blessing after blessing that has happened; even the chemo treatment being postponed.

Thank you for your prayers and encouragement. GOD is GOOD

Psalm 40: 1-3

"I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me. And heard my cry.

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.

He has put a new song in my mouth---

Praise our God, Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the Lord."

smiles!!

Postponed....

...after getting 'prepared mentally' for my 3rd treatment on Wednesday... my chemo nurse called and said that my 'blood counts' are much too low...and to plan for more bloodwork on the 18th to see if they will come back higher!
so
please pray with me specifically......

about 3 years ago the plans started for a celebration/reunion of my family (3 brothers/2sisters) with my parents' 50th anniversary at a private beach house in North Carolina............ my sweet sis-in-law said the only way anyone could get out of it would be death!! (teasing of course).......... so this year when I found out I had cancer I teased back saying I wouldn't be there! Well my doctors have told me that I CAN go ... my parents are going to come help us drive to NC with room to separate our 6 kids (as you know how a LONG road trip can be)..... I'm praying that my counts will be up so the treatment can be the 19th so I will have several days to recover before we leave........ again please pray with me specifically....

so again... 'man may make his plans, but only the Lord will bring them about'...

Sunday to Praise Him!

Today is one of the first days that I felt like getting up and going anywhere. So off to church we went (it's been months and have so missed it)... It was good to see familiar faces but hard to say (no hugs please) as my 'counts' (white blood count and platelets) are quite low. The sermon was just what our family needed to hear ....

As I lay in my hammock on the front porch many times I call out to God but not exactly sure what to say as the pain is intense and I have so many questions ...

Romans 8:31-34 was the call to worship.... timely for me.

also Romans 8:26 "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will."

I want to thank the many of you for praying for me and my family. This has been hard and it's not over. I go for my 3rd treatment on Wednesday. The treatment is nothing compared to the week following.

I want to share also what happened today when we stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch (someone gave us a gift card-thank you!) .....

I usually ALWAYS have my 'gollum like head' covered if I go out in public... but I got hot and frustrated and pulled off my scarf ...but left the sunglasses on... OH HOW THEY STARE! anyways ...

We got our lunch and being my appetite is about as big a walnut, and the air conditioner was freezing me, I told Montie I'd wait for him and the kids outside in the rocker that was right in the sunshine.... OH it felt so good... I had my scarf kinda draped over my head when we went in and while sitting in the sun, but you could see the bald back......

Well here came this nicely dressed older lady and she sat down right next to me... "Do you have cancer?" 'yes' "My names is Susan (honestly I don't remember her name) and I had cancer too. I am a Christian." 'yes-i am too' "When I had cancer I wanted to give up and didn't want to go on, but the Lord promised to raise me up and that's exactly what He did and I'm living years past that." 'well this last week i prayed that He would raise me to heaven and just take me it was such a hard week-and He didn't' "May I pray for you?".........so she prayed for me, for my family, for the Lord to raise me up be it to heaven or on here on earth- whatever His will. Then she squeezed my hand and said , "I'll probably never see you again, until the day we're together in heaven!" and she walked back in to her lunch table.

So as I'm often told...

you'll be able to help someone some day.