On the tearful drive home after dropping Mazy off at school yesterday before heading back to U of M for chemo treatments, God reminded me of one privilege I do have in all of this: I GET to have chemo. If I lived 100 years ago with leukemia, I doubt I would be alive. I…
I’m finally the young one in a picture! Sweet Mazy had her 100th day of school today and was encouraged to dress up as an old person. It’s moments like these that I’m thankful I didn’t have to miss, but it also makes leaving Mazy and my best friend Dan, all the harder. After dropping…
I thought I would give an update on my cancer journey. We are still celebrating that my blood tests are showing NO leukemia!! What a humbling result and it only spurs me on to keep sharing of His goodness because surely those results aren’t from anything that I’ve done. This past round side effects-wise was…
Do you believe in God’s promises? The Sunday school answer would be, “Of course, yes!” But do you really? Believing means you accept something as true, that you are SURE of it. I think there is a difference between knowing and actually believing the promises of God. This is something I have wrestled with in…
When I received the portal message last week that no trace of leukemia was found in my body, of course I cried, but I wasn’t quite sure what to do next? In a way, it was anticlimactic in the sense that I wasn’t in a doctor’s office, celebrating with my doctor. Dan wasn’t home, and…
John Piper once said after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, “Don’t waste your cancer.” I have been chewing on that idea for awhile now, especially after being told I’m in complete remission from my leukemia. I don’t want to waste my cancer either. This past summer, I remember at one point, my feet were swollen,…
