Letter from Jane Rush update #4

Life has been crazy and will not let up anytime soon.

I have been trying to get my house in order, but I do not believe I have enough time before chemo starts!  All my would of should of could of things.

Monday – outpatient surgery to implant the IV port

Tuesday – Dentist – last time while on chemo  (Never looked forward to the dentist before)  Sorry Kim!  I do have the best dentist so that helps

And Liz and I are going Wig shopping – Jeff will meet up with us for the final vote.

Wednesday – Ct scan of several areas and bone scan

Thursday – Chemo

Last week my Pet scan was cancelled but I had a wonderful lunch with my daughter Carol and then tried on a few wigs.  They were FUN.  Looks better than my real hair!  So I am excited about trying on the wigs.

Thank you all so very much for the e-mails, calls and cards.  They are sometimes just what I need for encouragement.

I decided to cut my hair off next weekend and donate to locks of love.  My daughter is a cosmetologist and will cut it short.

Jeff and I are going to Green Bay to watch Green Bay vs Minnesota on October24th.  It is one of the things on our Bucket list – go to a professional football game.  Neither of us has been and we planned this last summer.  So after this week, things should be calm until the end of the month.  I will be glad to get this week over and see what our lives will be like for the next year.  I am sharing one of the passages that Dennis sent to us this week.

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God:      those who are called according   to His purpose.

Remember that the first part of this verse is the promise; the last half is the condition. The first part tells us what God will do in working all things for good. The last part gives us our responsibility-to love Him and be true to His purposes in our lives. Robert J Morgan

Everything that happens to you is for your own good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship toward the port. If lightning and thunder come, the rain clears the atmosphere and promotes your soul’s health. You gain by loss, you grow healthy in sickness, you live by dying, and you are made rich in losses.

Could you ask for a better promise? It is better that all things should work for my good than all things should be as I would wish to have them. All things might work for my pleasure and yet might all work my ruin. If all things do not always please me, they will always benefit me.

This is the best promise of this life. – Charles Spurgeon

We cannot fully understand now, but when we stand upon the heights of glory, we shall look back with joy on the things we have suffered, for we shall know then that our severest trials were a part of  the “all things” which worked together for eternal good. – John A. Broadus

Thank you all for letting me share this time with you

Love

Jane.