2022 has been quite a year. But isn’t every year? Each year brings it’s own joys and challenges. John 16:33 says, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Proof that each year there will be trials,…
I made my way to the cancer center to get my blood drawn to test my blood levels. It was an ordinary drive, though this time the sun was finally peeking through the clouds. For Michigan, this is an oddity in the winter! As I let the sun hit my face, God gently reminded me…
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?…
