Over two weeks since chemo. Diane continues to be nausea free and feeling, generally good. Friday a blood test revealed a low white blood cell count. She’s eating high nutrient balanced meals and taking supplements designed to build the immune system. Today’s test showed the white blood cell count is up to an acceptable level; however she’s been increasingly tired.
Heather, Nate, and their children come Saturday for a week’s visit which we’re looking forward to. The doctor suggested a blood infusion would increase her energy and enable her to enjoy time with our twenty-two grandkids and their parents next week. Please pray Diane’s strength allows her to be fully present while the Wilsons are here and that the children are all healthy (a miracle) so they can lavish joyous strength on their beloved Nana.
We’re committed to a medical protocol overseen by some of the leading doctors for this type of cancer. We’re also employing nutritional therapy and products introduced by trusted friends experienced with their immune boosting properties, and in some cases cancer eradicating abilities. Pray for wisdom in responding to many well meaning tips we receive about products that’ll eradicate the cancer.
Two weeks after the next round of chemo Diane goes to Stanford Hospital for another PET scan. Pray it will reveal the tumors are responding to the treatments and are shrinking.
We continue to be blessed by God’s grace expressed through family and friends. All our material needsare being met, as well as emotional and spiritual support. It’s humbling to be on t he receiving end of so much unearned love and makes us ever more appreciative of the ultimate exchange, His life for our sin.
While praying, please lift up my (Bill’s) mother who had a stroke a few weeks after Diane’s diagnosis. I had tickets to visit her in Arizona, but canceled to stay with Diane. Since then I’ve been unable to leave. My brother brought her to his home in Los Angeles. Tomorrow, I’ll fly down for the day. May my visit encourage her (and my brother) and minister to her spirit.
A friend from Moscow put together this new website (www.goteamgaraway.com) that will carry these updates and provide a means for contributing to the deductibles necessary to cover our medical bills. Your generosity has been overwhelming, but most important are the prayers for our reliance is not on doctors, diet or financial gifts, as important as they are, but rests on God’s good providence.