October 11, 2008 ~ The Latest
While I was taking a break from blogging here, I received some requests for updates on how things are going, so I thought I’d share a little bit about what’s been going on with my treatment.
Not a lot, really.
Thats’s the short answer, and that’s the best news actually. Once the chemo treatments stopped on July 23 our little routine of going to MDA for doctor visits, blood work and chemotherapy was changed, and while it wasn’t a good routine, there was a little bit of comfort in our perception that we were doing something about such a big problem. So once such a hectic schedule grinds to a screeching halt there is – after the screeching – a sense of confusion and fear. What happens now?
As if we were ever truly in charge anyway. I wish you could hear me laugh as I write that. In another of God’s loving blessings to me, the fear didn’t last long and His reassurance replaced the dread. I am in His hands – and He loves me! I couldn’t be in a safer place. He is at the wheel. He is Lord of my very life. How often I have said, and believed, that He was Lord over Lori, but now I see – and KNOW – that it is the truth. I live and breathe because of the blessings of His hand, and when I cease to live and breathe here on earth, that too will be because of the blessings of His hand and His promise to walk with me through this entire journey is stronger than the mightiest oak.
So I am almost 3 months beyond treatment and still doing well. I periodically have bloodwork drawn to be certain that the marrow is still functioning healthily. And it is. My platelet count is a bit below normal, but still at a place that makes my doctors happy. I am on a couple drugs that remove estrogen from my system, since this cancer feeds on estrogen. One’s a shot that I get every 3 months, and the other is a pill that I take every day. No big thing really.
The eyelashes and eyebrows have grown back, and my hair is growing back too (ever so slowly!)
We’ve been to genetic counseling and I agreed to genetic testing so that our family can be more aware of their risks. We don’t have the results back from the test yet, but the doctor said that it appears possible that there will be no genetic component in my case, though, and I pray every day that that is true.
Beyond the illness, the treatment, the drugs and the doctors there is a lot going on inside of me: a deepening of faith, and of love for my family. What a blessed woman I have been, and am now. This little side trip has only made me more aware of the love that surrounds me and each day holds a new revelation of that truth.
My life, like yours, is a walk of faith and trust. What I know more clearly now, is that God loves me with a love so magnificent that learning to rest in it makes the faith and trust a whole lot easier!
Has anyone reminded you today of just how much God loves and cares for you? Well, consider yourself reminded! 
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