Melissa's platelets are holding on, mid 60s Monday. She gets a lumbar puncture tomorrow, prevention against the cancer returning in the brain/spinal column.
If we dare to dream, we say that she is on the upswing-- the cancer hopefully does not return and she just has to deal with recovering from treatment and transplant, and that takes 6 mos- 1 year. Her intestinal tract has been the source of most pain and slow recovery--first in response to radiation, then, when she developed graft-vs-host disease (which she needs to have- it fights cancer) it attacked her GI tract. Then, she dealt with a long GI infection.
It seems to me that Melissa is finding more in the prophets these days, esp Jeremiah and Ezekiel. If you can enter into the painful story of Israel, you can also enter into the redeeming work of God. He is faithful, and because His story is real (a very raw and human story)you learn to depend on Him even when it seems darkest, because it is the darkest.
p/g
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