This is a picture of freedom! Thought it was time to give a little update… Yesterday I had a blood draw to see if I needed a blood transfusion and lo and behold, my white blood cell count is in the normal range again! The rest of my counts, such as my platelets and hemoglobin…
Over the past week, I am finding myself mourning what leukemia has conveniently taken. I know, this isn’t one of those “start on a positive” posts from Kristin, but I am still processing what happened on September 15. I feel like it’s one of those “Ebenezer” moments where I can see God’s hand in so…
What battle are you currently fighting? Is it a physical one? Mental? Emotional? Spiritual? Relational? We all have our battles and I believe no battle is necessarily worse than another in the sense that each battle carries often the same emotions of defeat, loss, grief, pain, frustration, etc., just the circumstances look different. The journeys,…
Tomorrow I should be busting out of here and boy, I couldn’t be more ready! In my head, I thought these days would go pretty smoothly, but they’ve been proving to be harder and harder as they go on. Chemotherapy sure does a number to the body, which to me, hopefully says that it’s still…
Packing what I’ve now deemed my “hospital bag” once again, was hard to do. I was packing for many unknowns, a cancer journey that I’m still working on accepting, and just wishing I could be home. I thought I was getting to the point of accepting leukemia, but it’s easy to accept it when things…
My oncologist called yesterday and the first thing she asked was if Dan was around to hear the results. Immediately I started to panic and thought oh no, maybe it’s not what we thought it was. We were thinking that I had little to no leukemia in my blood, but maybe this wasn’t the case?…
