Day 27

I'm back.  Though day 7 of the cycle seems to be the toughest, I seem to be doing ok.  I am surrounded with reminders of life lately.   I just found out our friends had their baby in Costa Rica.  I just got news the other day of my other good friends being pregnant with their first child.

Even around the treatment ward, there are talks amongst the patients about where we are going to celebrate once we beat this thing.  We talk about restaurants and food that we are currently restricted from eating.  Even the nurses lift us up with stories of accomplishments from patients once they are done with chemo.  It's easy to sit here and sulk or complain about the pain but focusing on the positives is so much more therapeutic.  I met a lady the other day that was diagnosed with liver and colon cancer- she was given a few years at best.  Once she started the chemo, it began to shrink all her tumors at such an alarming rate that she is now expected to make a full recovery and in record time.  She told me that she never gave up no matter what the doctors said.

I pray Lord to let me focus on the light, rather than the darkness

John 9:1-5

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

 ¹ As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”   ³ “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”