Here goes nothing

Well here I go trying something new, we will just have to wait and see how long this lasts. I feel like this can be a way for me to share how God is being awesome in my life. For the past couple years I have had grand ideas come to mind on ways to share my story of God's greatness but in the chaos of life I have never followed through. So I see this as my outlet, my way to update others on my current status and share what God is doing.

Here we go...

This is just a little intro and many questions will be answered as I go.

Let's go back a couple years (#throwbackthuraday ya'll!) to 2011. On February 28 I was in the ER for what I thought was vertigo only to be told "you have leukemia" cml to be more specific. Now over the past two years of fighting we are back to square one. As if it were a board game and I drew the dreaded "return to start" card.

The medications which I have taken for two years have helped control the cancer but they haven't really been as successful as hoped. These meds kept the cancer in check but never got me into remission. The most recent side effect, which caused us to discontinue treatment for now, was a low platelet count. Now for those who don't know- platelets are the part of the blood that stop bleeding. When they are too low it can obviously cause major problems. So now we are waiting for my platelets to rise to a safer level before moving forward with treatment.

In the past couple weeks I have had to get some tests done including a bone marrow biopsy to check that there was nothing besides the cml going on. This procedure was supposed to take 5 minutes but due to my "cement-like" bones, it took 2 nurse practitioners over 30 mins to get what wasn't quite enough of a sample. That was two weeks ago and I am still stiff and a little sore from it.

Now I am just waiting...
For my platelets to come up.
To hear what my doctor wants to do next.
But ultimately to see what God is going to do through all this.

I don't want pity, I don't want to be treated differently because I have cancer. I want God to be magnified through whatever comes my way.

I hope that as you read my posts that you will be encouraged and amazed by what God has done and what he will be doing.



Colossians 1:15-20 The Son is the image of the invisible God,the one who is first over all creation, Because all things were created by him:both in the heavens and on the earth,the things that are visible and the things that are invisible.Whether they are thrones or powers,or rulers or authorities,all things were created through him and for him. He existed before all things,and all things are held together in him. He is the head of the body, the church,who is the beginning,the one who is firstborn from among the deadso that he might occupy the first place in everything. Because all the fullness of God was pleased to live in him, and he reconciled all things to himself through him—whether things on earth or in the heavens.He brought peace through the blood of his cross.