Done With Chemo

I am finally done with chemo!!!  Well, at least the bad stuff.  I have been on three different drugs, and two of them I am done with.  I still have to take one of them through the end of the year, but it only attacks the cancer cells, so it doesn't make me feel bad like the other ones do.  I am sooooooooooooo thankful how God has carried me through these treatments.  I feel so blessed that the side effects were not as bad as what I know they could be.  The last treatment was not that bad.  I am still having really weird side effects, like my toes are numb and I think my fingernails might be breaking off, but I don't really care...I'm done!!  I had an appointment with my general surgeon this week to go over the plans for surgery, and when he did an exam, he said he couldn't feel anything.  So awesome!  The surgery will be on April 3rd.  Until then, I have to do an echo cardiogram since the one chemo drug I will be on until the end of this year can do damage to my heart.  I also have to do a pet scan to see how much, if any, of the cancer is left.  And I also have to do preadmission testing.  So I think these three weeks and a half weeks before the surgery are going to fly by.

Yesterday while driving into work, I was singing Healer, by Kari Jobe, at the top of my lungs, and suddenly I was reminded of how I used to sing that song before I was diagnosed with cancer.  I have always loved that song, and I can remember singing it back then, and thanking God then that He healed me from so much, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  It was just crazy thinking of how I used to sing that song, not knowing the trials that were coming.  I am thankful that I am still singing it with the same, if not more, fire and passion.  I am just overwhelmed by God.  Overwhelmed.  Then on the way in to work today, I heard a prayer request for a girl named Jamie, who was in her thirties, had two children, and has been diagnosed with rare form of cancer.  The doctors have told her that it is terminal, and that there is not much hope.  But tomorrow they are doing some kind of surgery.  Her friend that was calling in the prayer request said the most amazing thing about her.  She said that while Jamie has asked for prayers for healing, she said that her number one prayer request is for God to give her a powerful testimony through this.  How awesome?  I would love to meet her.  The word testimony has taken on such a powerful meaning to me through all of this.  Testimony is what makes all of what we are going through worth something.  It's part of how we overcome.  So please pray for Jamie tomorrow, for healing, but also and more so for her testimony.  That many many people would come to know and love God through her testimony, and that she would find strength and fulfillment in that.  And please pray for her children, and for her family.

Thank you so much again for how you all have blessed me and my family during this time with your acts of kindness, and with your prayers.  Where would I be without all of you???  With all of my heart, thank you.