Every little achievement is a great big joy for us. Mom passed several milestones in the last week, including her one week out from surgery and her ten days out from surgery (which is a notoriously tough milestone). She also got permission to return to a couple of personal comforts (such as shaving her legs and wearing deodorant). We celebrated each of these moments with smiles, jokes, and congratulations!
One of Mom’s goals is to have some “normal” time before she must begin her chemotherapy treatments. Every step along the way will bring her closer to feeling like herself. Please pray that she will recover quickly so that she can have some wonderful, 'regular old days' before the chemo!
Mom will have her first oncologist appointment this Wednesday at 1:40pm with Dr. Janell Seeger. This is another item to keep in your prayers. At that time Mom will find out about her chemotherapy regime and what it will entail. Let’s hope and pray that this Wednesday’s appointment will be encouraging and uplifting to Mom, even though the subject of chemo is scary.
Another topic that needs prayer is some bruising that has shown up around one of Mom’s incisions. Her plastic surgeon will be watching it and, if it doesn’t improve, she may have to have another procedure to repair that spot. Please pray that it will heal up just fine on its own!
I’d like to finish with a gigantic THANKS to everyone who has been behind our family in this last week. The prayers, visits, meals, songs, e-mails, comments, hugs, cards, flowers, and scriptures have flowed continuously from you! I hope that you will be blessed double what you have supplied us (because that will absolutely knock you over)!
-Sarah
My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:20-23
Monday, July 30, 2007
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This is my favorite passage about bold and persistent prayer. (I referred to it Sunday when we prayed).
Luke 11:5-13
Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.'
7"Then the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.' 8I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness[e] he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
11"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for[f] a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
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