Well it has been a busy week and it is only Wednesday!
Today Jeff and I met my oncologist. His name is Dr Alan Keller (no relation to Helen – Jeff’s joke). We both really liked him and he was very excited about my case!
He spent two hours with us yesterday afternoon getting medical history and explaining this cancer to us. Today we go to the Chemotherapy Education class for 90 minutes.
Next week we begin Chemo (10/14)– a cocktail of Taxol and Carboplatin will be served. I am supposed to have a central line IV catheter surgically implanted before my first Chemo treatment. So outpatient surgery will be scheduled very soon. I think that I will receive treatment once a week at the office.
This week Jeff and I will be getting our pneumonia vaccine. I will be getting a PET scan on Friday morning, Echo cardiogram Friday afternoon
As you can see it has been a whirlwind week so far, with no let up near the end.
If you have wrote me and I have not responded, please do not take it personally. My schedule just seems to change by the hour and oh ya – that whole work thing……
I get overwhelmed very easily these days and cannot concentrate very well. I understand this is all normal. Jeff has had to learn a great deal and re-educate me on what the doctors say each visit – I must have some sort of mental block. That’s my story – would be able to use the “Blond joke” – but not for long. I have been told 3 weeks after chemo starts the hair goes.
God continues to bless us and guide us though this process. He is the great healer. Please pray for my doctors and that this cancer will shrink with the chemo treatments. And pray for my family. This is very difficult on all of them.
In Lamentations 3, Jeremiah explains, “The Lord will not reject forever, for if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness. For He does not afflict willingly or grieve the sons of men. . . . Let us examine and probe our ways, and let us return to the Lord” (vv. 31–33, 40). God uses the adversity in our lives for several reasons: to get our attention, develop important character traits, teach us to rely only on Him, and train us to minister to others. The point that is important for us today, however, is that the difficulties will not last forever. They have an appointed time and purpose, and we can profit greatly from them if we will simply trust the Father and set our hearts to learn from Him.
Thank you for the Blessing you are in my life,
Love
Jane
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