I want to thank everyone who so generously donated to us for the IPOD and the extra funds that came in. It is such a humbling experience to receive and feel so loved and touched by so many.
When we joined the trial we thought how great they pay for the Hotel while we are down in Santa Monica. Well they don't pay for food and parking and gas and every days co payment to have blood drawn. Now even for the 2 weeks taking the medicine we have to pay a co pay for blood draw. It all adds up and the the extra funds that came in have been a blessing to help cover that. We are all feeling the crunch of funds right now and we really appreciate all that you have done for us. You really have touched our lives!!!
Thank you, Thank you
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Yummy
Well I have started the REAL DEAL. Its a liquid type of chemo and I have to take it for 2 weeks. It does make me tired and a little nauseous but I have pills for that. I have been sleeping well. I am on oxygen for right now. The airways have pressure on them so as the airways open from the the tumors shrinking I won't need the oxygen.
Fred is my great nurse and driver and maid and cooker and FRIEND. I really appreciate ALL he does. Pray for him for his physical body to be strengthened. Before all this he had his own back surgery and I was taking care of him!!!
We are enjoying every minute we get together. So give your husband an extra hug today for all they do for us.
Fred is my great nurse and driver and maid and cooker and FRIEND. I really appreciate ALL he does. Pray for him for his physical body to be strengthened. Before all this he had his own back surgery and I was taking care of him!!!
We are enjoying every minute we get together. So give your husband an extra hug today for all they do for us.
New Life!!
Which is a greater demonstration of the Lord's power--changing something around me or changing something within my heart?
Wow I read this today and it really made me think.
It has been quite the battle this week of believing in healing when your not physically feeling well!!
This week when we were in Santa Monica for the 12 hour day which includes going from Hotel to Dr. office every 2 hours I was so short of breath that I made it the first time at 7:30 am but asked for a wheel chair for the rest of the day. Fred had to push me every 2 hours to have blood drawn. I was so devasted and felt like I lost the battle. I had this melt down on the our little patio outside our room. But the Lord is so good he showed me that I had won the battle by keeping the conviction that the Holy Spirit had shown us weeks earlier. I could have started a different chemo much earlier and felt like I was in control. But the Dr had said you will know which is the right treatment for you. Well that meant waiting and waiting for the some other things to get done first to get to the this treatment that I am on. The Lord had to change my heart. I have to trust Him and get strength from him which is so much more important than just changing my circumstance and me being in control. I could have started another treatment but I was trusting and relying and getting a heart change waiting on the Lord!! WOW Its nots an easy place to be but but a very joyful, peaceful place once I had my melt down. I have a renewed strength that I didn't have before. Its not about me but my relationship with Him. And I am still learning and seeking!!
Wow I read this today and it really made me think.
It has been quite the battle this week of believing in healing when your not physically feeling well!!
This week when we were in Santa Monica for the 12 hour day which includes going from Hotel to Dr. office every 2 hours I was so short of breath that I made it the first time at 7:30 am but asked for a wheel chair for the rest of the day. Fred had to push me every 2 hours to have blood drawn. I was so devasted and felt like I lost the battle. I had this melt down on the our little patio outside our room. But the Lord is so good he showed me that I had won the battle by keeping the conviction that the Holy Spirit had shown us weeks earlier. I could have started a different chemo much earlier and felt like I was in control. But the Dr had said you will know which is the right treatment for you. Well that meant waiting and waiting for the some other things to get done first to get to the this treatment that I am on. The Lord had to change my heart. I have to trust Him and get strength from him which is so much more important than just changing my circumstance and me being in control. I could have started another treatment but I was trusting and relying and getting a heart change waiting on the Lord!! WOW Its nots an easy place to be but but a very joyful, peaceful place once I had my melt down. I have a renewed strength that I didn't have before. Its not about me but my relationship with Him. And I am still learning and seeking!!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Fri and still kicking to the music of the Lord~~~
I can not believe how having this i pod has just so enriched my times with the Lord~~ The Lord knew how much I really needed these words of encouragement through the words and music. I went to have blood drawn this morning and I was telling the nurses how the church had blessed me with such a great gift that I we all started crying with Joy. They could just tell what a peace this gift has given me. Thank you thank you,.
We are off to Santa Monica on Sunday night and now with a special plug I can plug the i pod into the speakers and Fred can hear at the same time. WOW. This is big, huge for me.
I didn't realize how dry my worship time had gotten with out music. I have enjoyed the last 3 sundays being able to worship with everyone. When I get in a regular schedule I would like to come down on Tues night and worship with and pray and read scripture with the group. There is such power in that kind of setting.
But this Tues I will be receiving the liquid part of the the study for 2 weeks everyday. I just have to go to Santa Monica to pick up the the liquid and have blood work done at a local lab here in Simi. Wally Wolfs sister in Law who is also in a study in Santa Monica had great news this week that her tumors are shrinking from the trial she is on. PRAISE THE LORD~~ I am so excited for her and her family.
Fred has been such a big support through all the traveling and different sleeping arrangements and a big support in going out to eat. This has been hard on his back and has been in more pain than normal. Please pray for his health during this time.
Fun times hopefully at the end of this month I will get to go around Willow Springs race track as a passenger. My brother in Law has offered to take me around the track in an BMW. That will be so much fun.
Well good night for now my talks alot pill must be wearing off.
Love you all,
We are off to Santa Monica on Sunday night and now with a special plug I can plug the i pod into the speakers and Fred can hear at the same time. WOW. This is big, huge for me.
I didn't realize how dry my worship time had gotten with out music. I have enjoyed the last 3 sundays being able to worship with everyone. When I get in a regular schedule I would like to come down on Tues night and worship with and pray and read scripture with the group. There is such power in that kind of setting.
But this Tues I will be receiving the liquid part of the the study for 2 weeks everyday. I just have to go to Santa Monica to pick up the the liquid and have blood work done at a local lab here in Simi. Wally Wolfs sister in Law who is also in a study in Santa Monica had great news this week that her tumors are shrinking from the trial she is on. PRAISE THE LORD~~ I am so excited for her and her family.
Fred has been such a big support through all the traveling and different sleeping arrangements and a big support in going out to eat. This has been hard on his back and has been in more pain than normal. Please pray for his health during this time.
Fun times hopefully at the end of this month I will get to go around Willow Springs race track as a passenger. My brother in Law has offered to take me around the track in an BMW. That will be so much fun.
Well good night for now my talks alot pill must be wearing off.
Love you all,
Monday, February 16, 2009
Great Family!!
Thursday night Keri calls and says she wants to come over and visit. So with her she brought some other friends that had this big bag and card for me. It had a card that said WE LOVE YOU!!
Inside it said You have opened your heart and touched us all.
Inside the bag was a I POD TOUCH!!! and was even engraved on the back how I touched others lives!! Well I can't see or breath from all the tears of Joy that this has brought me.
In Sept 08 when the cancer had reocured Ceci's friend said that the Lord told her to tell me to surround myself with worship music. The enemy has made that so difficult for me that all the cd players in the house and in the cars and the portables have all stopped working!! I was making a joke about it and Keri said the Lord just put it on her heart to start calling a We Love Cathy Campaign.!!
So thank you thank you thank you for all those who have blessed me with this great gift of worship to the Lord. Most days now are spent just seeking him for his strength and the music for me is how he really speaks to me. I also have healing scriptures that I listen to over and over for extra strength. I don't know how people go through times like this with out the Great Physician and also great support from their families and brothers and sisters in Christ. You will never know how much this means to me. I can't hardly see to write through tears of Joy!!
It is God who arms me with strength and mkes my way perfect!! 2 Samuel 22:23
Also having a great supporting husband who is always there for me is the best gift a wife could have.
Love you all,
Inside it said You have opened your heart and touched us all.
Inside the bag was a I POD TOUCH!!! and was even engraved on the back how I touched others lives!! Well I can't see or breath from all the tears of Joy that this has brought me.
In Sept 08 when the cancer had reocured Ceci's friend said that the Lord told her to tell me to surround myself with worship music. The enemy has made that so difficult for me that all the cd players in the house and in the cars and the portables have all stopped working!! I was making a joke about it and Keri said the Lord just put it on her heart to start calling a We Love Cathy Campaign.!!
So thank you thank you thank you for all those who have blessed me with this great gift of worship to the Lord. Most days now are spent just seeking him for his strength and the music for me is how he really speaks to me. I also have healing scriptures that I listen to over and over for extra strength. I don't know how people go through times like this with out the Great Physician and also great support from their families and brothers and sisters in Christ. You will never know how much this means to me. I can't hardly see to write through tears of Joy!!
It is God who arms me with strength and mkes my way perfect!! 2 Samuel 22:23
Also having a great supporting husband who is always there for me is the best gift a wife could have.
Love you all,
Good Week in Santa Monica
Ceci was able to come out Wednesday and have dinner with us. We drove around the busy streets looking for some fun place to eat but traffic was backed up because of making TV shows or lots of firetrucks but we got tired of waiting in traffic and ended up a block away from the Hotel at Sizzler!! It was sure good. I never eat chocolate whipped mouuse dessert but it tasted good that night. I kept going back for more and more. It went down so easy!! Ceci went back to San Diamas and its always hard to see her leave because I worry that I will get this call " MOM I"m LOST which way do I go" She made it that night. But she has done it in the past. Alex Stewart happens to have a GPS we can borrow and see if that will help her.
Rheanna took it to her tonight. Ceci also dropped her phone in the rain and is not working so Laura happen to have an extra and get her hooked back up. But no phone for 2 days.
Thursday night we went to Redondo Beach and saw the sun set and met my sister and her husband and went to a local mexican resturant that was so good. I ate 2 huge fish tacos. They just moved to a beautiful new place near the beach and had fun catching up with them. Hopefully we will be going to Willow Springs at the end of the month to watch him race his car and maybe I will get to go around the track at the some part of the day. Watch out!!
Rheanna took it to her tonight. Ceci also dropped her phone in the rain and is not working so Laura happen to have an extra and get her hooked back up. But no phone for 2 days.
Thursday night we went to Redondo Beach and saw the sun set and met my sister and her husband and went to a local mexican resturant that was so good. I ate 2 huge fish tacos. They just moved to a beautiful new place near the beach and had fun catching up with them. Hopefully we will be going to Willow Springs at the end of the month to watch him race his car and maybe I will get to go around the track at the some part of the day. Watch out!!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Another Super Tues.!
Good Morning,
We made it another long Tues with no problems. This last Tues I had to swallow 8 pills that were easy to swallow. The week before they gave me the liquid which was not as bad tasting as I thought it would be. But I could see where some people would not be able to tolerate it. No side effects this week or last week. I did have to have some extra potassium by IV given which was only 2 hours sitting looking at a gorgeous view of the ocean from the 6th floor.
Well we are getting ready to go out and will talk to you later.
I was having problems with the computer earlier in the week when I had time to blog but the sun is shining and its not to cold out so we are going to take advantage of the daylight and have some fun time.
Thank you for your continued prayer for us. The Lord is so good to continue to give us the energy and strength we need.
Love you,
We made it another long Tues with no problems. This last Tues I had to swallow 8 pills that were easy to swallow. The week before they gave me the liquid which was not as bad tasting as I thought it would be. But I could see where some people would not be able to tolerate it. No side effects this week or last week. I did have to have some extra potassium by IV given which was only 2 hours sitting looking at a gorgeous view of the ocean from the 6th floor.
Well we are getting ready to go out and will talk to you later.
I was having problems with the computer earlier in the week when I had time to blog but the sun is shining and its not to cold out so we are going to take advantage of the daylight and have some fun time.
Thank you for your continued prayer for us. The Lord is so good to continue to give us the energy and strength we need.
Love you,
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