As you see I am running a few days behind on blogging, it’s been another crazy week!! Friday ended my second straight week of radiation and I have 4 more days to go. Monday will begin the second part of my radiation treatment, this is where they will go back to the 2 biggest tumors and hit each with 2 high doses of radiation in an effort to get them as small as possible. This time around I have been doing physical therapy and focusing on the tibia and ankle so as to prevent the muscles from shrinking and causing the pain I faced when they radiatd my femur and top left hip. This is also the first time I have been soley responsible for my transportation back and forth, I have always had a driver (Mama J offered) but there was no way I was going to have her crossing the bridge to come all the way to Ogden to then go back over to the hospital and then bring me back to Ogden, that’s just nuts!!! but I sure appreciate the offer. SO much radiation, therapy, and driving has kept me very tired but (for me) being able to do hair and spend time with these friends has kept me going, it’s doing something that puts the focus on someone else and we need to do that more than we realize at times like this. Now I have to tell ya, I did do my share of complaining when it came to fighting the traffic and trying to get from one appointment to the other and still stay awake, but in everything there are blessings. If it weren’t for radiation I may not even be alive today and the physical therapy has increased my range of motion which helps with pretty much every thing involving my leg and hip. This is just another hill to climb before God gives me rest in the Valley once again. Also, I am sleeping a lot better these days!!
As for chemo, we won’t know anything until we see the doctor again on the 21st. I love my church family (and not just because several people told me that I looked like a teenager today) I’m gonna wear that outfit way more often!!! I love them because the care and concern is so very genuine and I feel it in my heart and down to my bones (no pun intended!) is that what they mean when they say “love hurts?” hee hee, I crack myself up! Anyway….as I sit and feel the warmth of the sun on my face and I look around at flowers in bloom, blue birds feeding their very noisy babies, and a squirrel acting like he got a hold of some “funny” nuts, I am once again in awe of God’s handy work. So many little things that we see and yet look right past because our eyes are on our own troubles, today is a good day to look at what God has created and hang the devil and his attempts to steal our joy. This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. I know that’s what I’m gonna do!!
Proverbs 4 11-12
“I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.”
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