Well, my LAST chemo session is next Tuesday!!!! Yippee!!! I keep thinking, "One week from now, that will be over!" I am so glad to say good bye to this portion of my life! FOREVER!!!
This Sunday the Elders at my church are going to pray over me. I don't always understand just why God's ways work (OK, usually I don't understand the mind of God!) but I know He tells us to have the Elders pray: "Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord." --James 5:14
And He tells us that: "Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results." --James 5:16
And also: "Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you." --Matthew 7:7
Or how about this one? "One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. 'There was a judge in a certain city,' he said, 'who neither feared God nor cared about people. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, but this woman is driving me crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!’
"Then the Lord said, 'Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?'” --Luke 18:1-8
So, it's kind of a mystery how God decides to answer prayer. Or why we need to ask more than once. But, He says again and again to pray and keep praying and to have others pray. So, I'm taking Him at His word and asking the Elders--and You--to pray for me this Sunday (October 26) at 12:00.
Here are my prayer requests:
1. That this final chemo on Tuesday, October 28, would kill, annihilate, obliterate, eliminate, eradicate all the remaining cancer. Or any cells that will ever turn into cancer. Forever.2. That I would tolerate the final chemo--this last one has been tough. I've had to have two different magnesium IV sessions (not painful--just a bother). Lack of magnesium causes fatigue and muscle weakness. So, I do a little bit then rest. Then do a little bit, then rest.
3. That surgery would be able to be scheduled in November. That when Dr. Norris does surgery he would be very thorough and skilled. That I would recuperate quickly from surgery--physically and emotionally.
4. That Loy and I would have stamina for the remainder of treatment/surgery. We're tired and worn and beat up. Oh so tired.
5. I don't want them to pray this one, but probably should add it…that no matter what happens, I will be able to rely on and trust in God's will and goodness. (I don't want to pray this one because it acknowledges that things may not turn out the way I want them to.)
This week was Loy's fall break so we did do a few things…saw the "Alexander" movie, which is really cute--even if you don't take kids. Drove around two state parks to look around--sat on a park bench while Loy checked out the falls. (Falls? In Nebraska???) Ate noodles on top of mashed potatoes on top of toast at a small town cafe and loved every bite of it!
Thank you for all the praying. Thank you for all the cards and gift cards and scarves and earrings and visits and lemon slushes and notebooks and books and DVD's and music CD's you've sent me. I really feel the love!!
Kitt.
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