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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

February-Joy-Dare

Join me in counting gifts: February-Joy-Dare

88. Doctor says: Cancer free
89. Feeding Molly an apple
90. Dinner at home
91. Line item deduct when you can
92. Barking dogs
93. Praise the Lord!
94. be strong i the Lord and in his strength.
95. Yaweh-nissi
96. Keep it simple sister
97. Missing LEGO pieces
98. Purring cat
99. Dog water bowl
100. prayer quilt
101. Coat hooks on wall
102. Shawl
103. First calf of the year
104. Frozen water troughs
105. Hooting owls
106. Painted red toe nails
107. Coffee mug
108. Sewing patches on red AWANA vest
109. Toilet
110. Toilet
111. A purse
112. Laundry at 3 am, sick little boy
113. Quiet time: alone
114. A vacation
115. A child
116. My husband
117. Random people in a crowd
118. Satisfaction
119. Discipline
120. Patience
121. Sabbath rest
122. Marital communication
123. Reading Radical Together
124. Solitude
125. A ocean view
126. Son - waiting for our return
127. Loyalty found in the eyes of a four-legged pooch starring at you.
128. Prayers of the saints
129. The warmth of a heating blanket - enveloping me
130. Time
131. Words to write
132. Cooking food
133. a flower
134. Cob webs
135. Darkness
136. Old papers
137. A smile
138. Fulfillment
139. A chance to pray
140. Gospel driven obedience produces Gospel filled joy
141. The word of God will accomplish the work of God among the people of God.
142. Leaders do not exist to provides services - they exist to serve people.
143. Not following my speaking notes
144. Videos not playing on cue
145. Camping out with Dustin
146. The sound of rice Krispies "Snap, Crackle & Pop"
147. Leftovers
148. A new project discussed
149. A blanket of fresh snow
150. Folded white towels
151. Flour
152. Sale items
153. Rain
154. Ash Wednesday
155. Old watering can
156. Flower vase
157. Old rugged cross
158. Hay stacked in the barn
159. Mama cows nursing calves
160. Ticking clock
161. Old coveralls
162. Sweater
163. Tattered Bible
164. Trees
165. Clouds
166. Faces
167. Manure - outside in piles and inside my heart
168. Dirty socks
169. Green smoothies
170. Strength when needed
171. Extra measure of faith
172. Promises found in the Word
173. Reading a book to Dustin
174. Saying I'm sorry
175. Crock Pot dinner

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My Cancer Story

Many have asked me how long have you been sick? When did this all begin? Tough questions even for me to answer...all I can say at this point is I finally found some Doctors who listened to all my symptoms and did something about it. Late in April 2011 I went to see a family practitioner who sent me to a GI specialist for a colonoscopy. This resulted in a diagnosis on May 13th, 2011 of cancer in the colon. The extent was unknown at that point in time. I had to wait until Monday May 16th, 2011 for a CT scan. Then wait till Tuesday for an appointment with the surgeon, who would later remove the colon. I was informed of the biopsy results: adenocarcinoma. The CT did not show any signs of the cancer spreading to other organs (praise the Lord). In fact the CT did not even show the tumor. It was estimated by the GI Doctor to be the size of a golf ball. So surgery was scheduled for May 31st, 2011. Surgery was successful. They removed about a foot of the sigmoid colon and 20 lympnodes. I had to wait again for lab results. On June 2nd, 2011 I was told about the lab results. The tumor had evaded through the colon wall. Two out of the twenty lymph nodes tested positive for cancer. This elevated the stage of my cancer to 3 B. This is when I knew chemotherapy would be necessary. Recovery from surgery went well. GI functions are returning on their own and pain was easily controlled. I had my first appointment with the oncology team at MSTI (Twin Falls) on Friday June 17th, 2011.

I started chemotherapy on July 13th. The plan was set to give every two weeks for infusion treatments of poison. Sounds great on paper. The reality is this: chemo drugs deplete the body of healthy cells as well as potential rouge cancer cells. Keeping this schedule of every two weeks has proven to be difficult. On my off weeks I get my blood levels checked. This is to determine if it is "safe" enough for me to get chemo again. Safe...uh...it's poison right? Anyway chemo treatments have come and gone now, twelve in all. I finished up with my last round on January 27th.

On January 29th 2012 I had a CT scan. My oncology doctor said everything looked fine. No cancer detected. Doing the party dance! I am officially on the other side of living cancer free. I am celebrating in many ways. This has been the hardest thing in my life to do. Not to mention to try to balance so called "normal" life at home on the farm.

As far as the future goes with my health I have a few more doctor appointments scheduled. I will have another colonoscpy in May. For now, it is just watch and monitor my blood work and pray cancer doesn't return. Prognosis is good and I am believing and trusting in a mighty God. He is faithful!

Fast forward seven years -- 2018! Still cancer free! After many lab tests, blood work and CT scans so far no cancer detected. Miracles still happen everyone!

Favorite Quotes

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. Helen Keller

"Every good work should be a revelation of the glory of God. What makes the good deed an act of love is not the raw act, but the passion and the sacrifice to make God himself known as glorious. Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need most deeply. And to have all else without him is to perish in the end. The Bible says that you can give away all that you have and deliver your body to be burned and have not love (1 Corinthians 13:3). If you don't point people to God for everlasting joy, you don't love. You waste your life." John Piper ---Don't Waste Your Life

"Surrender is the key that unlocks the vault of God's best and deepest treasures." Charles Swindoll

"You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head." John Maxwell

Spiritual growth is a conundrum. The key to spiritual growth is developing healthy and holy routines called spiritual disciplines. But once routine becomes routine we need to change the routine. Why? Because sacred routines become empty rituals if we do them out of left-brain memory instead of right-brain imagination. When we learn how and forget why we start going through the motions spiritually. Mark Batterson

Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with you forever in the next. --Reinhold Niebuhr

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