I’m sitting here beside Paula in the recovery room. She pretty out of it. Good drugs I suppose. Anyway, Dr Indermauer said everthing went very well (as axpected). She took a look around while working in her abdomen and said there was “no yucky stuff” lurking around in there. We are again greatful to the surgeon and her team but, more so, to a God who continue to work on her behalf. She’ll be able to pick-up on the blog in a few hours. Thanks for your prayers.
update
Paula is now in the operating room for intra-pertoneal port placement for chemotherapy. The procedure is expected to last about 1 hour with 2 hours of recovery time. We spoke a length to the oncologist this morning and she expects that everything will go smoothly. But we know that God is in control so we are assured that all will be well. She will also use the scope to look around in her abdomen while she is doing this surgery to see there is any abnormalities. Also spoke with the anesthesiologist and she will need general anesthesia for the procedure. We continue to elicit your prayers for a successful surgery and speedy recovery.
Eleven, and off we go to the hospital!
I am grateful that my husband is passionate about my health and will do whatever he can to secure it. I am also grateful that he is not only focused on my health but continues to be fully engaged with the boys. I am blessed!
Today we have an appointment for the port placement to facilitate the delivery of chemotherapy. This gets more real with every step towards the actual administration of chemotherapy. Father, be enough!
12 and a date!
Today I am grateful that he loves the Lord and will encourage and support my efforts to hold on to Him!
In other news, we now have a date for the start of chemotherapy. It’s Wednesday 5/27 and it promises to be an all day affair. As we take this leg of the journey we ask that you keep our family in prayer. Specifically that we will be reminded daily that He is enough. Please pray that the side effects are significantly minimized in my case and that I will be able to take care of the children. I also crave your prayers for my boys that they will be strong and confident in God’s provision and protection. My eyes are watering…
Blessings!
13!
Today I am grateful that he loves the Lord and that he is willing and prepared to do the hard work of marriage. He will engage in the talking and working through required to get to the other side. I am blessed!
Blessings!
14, the count down continues…
Today, I am grateful for my amazing husband’s willingness to let me be me even if it drives him a little crazy. He is a food pusher and he hates to think there is someone who haven’t had enough to eat with a treat thrown in for good measure. Well, my new food choices do not lend themselves to the traditional definition of treats. So goings out to eat can be a real struggle. I watched him stay calm and try to encourage me to eat something that would meet my dietary needs and not compromise my lifestyle choices. It was some feat! Grateful that he cares enough to push but that he loves and respects me and what I am doing enough to understand.
So aside from my food challenges, (and I took my smoothies, water, nuts and fruit). It was a very busy weekend. Citizenship swearing in on Friday, check-in to hotel on Friday afternoon, neices graduation from med school in Gainesville almost 3 hours away and hotel check out on Sunday. That’s quite a bit to engage in, though super exhausted I am grateful that I got to do it all. I am also grateful for the friends who kept the boys. Hours after they picked the boys up from school they realized that their 5 year old was a very sick boy, 105 degree fever, diagnosis? bilateral pneumonia! So you think they called and told us so we could come get our boys? No way, they did business as usual, boys with dad, sick boy with mom. On top of that they got the boys dressed for graduation and met us at 6:00 to get them and were ready to receive them hours later after the ceremony. I am so grateful for their sacrifice! I feel so blessed.
Blessings!
15!
Today I am grateful that my husband understood that I needed the ocean. He made it happen and I am grateful. Its been pure joy to touch the water and be reminded that the great God who created this so many years ago can handle some abnormal cells. God continues to be enough for us.
Yesterday I became a citizen of the USA and today I head to Gainesville to witness my neice’s graduation from medical school, Dr Toni-Shae Jackson, may God continue to direct her path and make her dreams come true. I am blessed to be here to see and do.
Blessings!
16 More Days
So grateful that he can and do laugh at himself! Sometimes I envy how easy going he can be despite the problem at hand.
I know the scepter of this chemotherapy looms large for the family but we are staying the course! In a few hours I will be sworn in as a US citizen and then we head to the ocean! Ever since the cancer diagnosis I have dreamed of touching the ocean, feeling the sand under my feet and being reminded that as vast as the ocean is, is Jesus’ love for me. So today we will celebrate our 18 wedding anniversary 16 days early and, we will have the memories as we face the yucky stuff. And the good news doesn’t end there, yesterday Jacob was found eligible gifted so he gets to follow in brother’s footsteps. I am really blessed, I now understand the term, ‘God favors me’ Thanks for continuing to lift our family up in prayer.
Blessings!
17
I am pleased and grateful that he cares enough to let me rest. Even after a full shift he came home and addressed some issues with the boys and supported completion of a school project while I slept. I am blessed!
Blessings!
18
Today I am grateful for my husband’s patience, with our boys, with me, with others. I am also grateful that he always sees the glass as half full. Blessed I am!
Blessings!