Melting Icicles

Finally the huge icicles on our house are melting. Monday my heart was cold and disappointed and now it is melting too. I hate cancer! But I have a mighty God who made me and He has a plan for my life and He loves me more than I love my own children.

Monday we left our house at about 8:00 a.m. and headed to the Cancer Center. When Dr. T showed us the cat scan results we were both in shock. Yes, I've been noticing the old symptoms coming back...but I was hoping I just had a bad cold or pneumonia. But it was that darn old tumor that was growing again. Obviously the maintenance didn't work. Dr. Tezcan asked if I'd like to start chemo that day and I said "Yes, definitely!" He explained that the new chemo drugs would be very aggressive and possibly harder for me to tolerate. I said "Okay."

Then we waited. It was so weird to be sitting right beside Greg in the waiting room and both of us were totally silent. We were both just so lost in our thoughts. Finally I got to go to a chemo chair and the nurse couldn't access my port. So I had to go to Radiology so they could figure out what was going on. Then it was Back to Chemo and finally everything got figured out and my port worked just fine but it was 1:30 and my chemo was 4 hours. We drove into our garage a little after 6:00 p.m. Except for 2 1/2 hours when I was having chemo Greg was right there with me. And during that little "break" he was actually shoveling snow off our roof. What a guy.

The Russells came over to celebrate my birthday and we had take out Chinese Food and Em made a wonderful chocolate cake. Unfortunately I could barely keep my eyes open so I was the life of the party.

Today I was much more alert and my good friends Debbie and Annette came over for Bible Study this morning. This afternoon I had lots of visitors! It was wonderful. Teri and Linda came. Carol Quiring came and gave me a manicure. I feel so special! Em popped over for a minute. Sherma came for a little while. So good to see friends.

Abbie, thank you so very much for making my blog look and sound so amazing. You are so appreciated! Hope you're feeling well. Thank you, everyone, for your continued prayers. Greg and I are so humbled by your love. Love, Julie