This past Thursday I had a good checkup at Hopkins. Usually we look at my blood counts and see how much lower they have gotten, but this time we were able to see the counts coming back up towards the normal range.
Since changing the dosage of my medication, my white and red counts have been able to come up on their own and my platelets are almost in the normal range (which hasn't been anywhere close to normal for at least 6 months. We are still watching the count of the cancer cells- they have come down a lot since starting this med but I am still not close to remission yet.
This was great news and as my nurse practitioner was going over the numbers I was amazed. Many people (some of who I do not even know) have been praying for me and I appreciate it because I know that God hears His people. My prayer has been that God would be glorified through whatever happens to me. He is working, and I am still believing He will heal me completely.
God is good and He can do all things. Sometimes people have to go through some rough situations but they can turn out for good. Think about Paul in the New Testament- he was close to death many times, shipwrecked on multiple occasions, and many other bad things happened to him BUT through all of it he was able to share God's message of love and redemption through Jesus Christ to much of the known world at that time.
For the past month or two I haven't been feeling up to doing much because of being sick or sore from meds or biopsies, but the past few days I have felt more like myself. I was able to go surfing with a couple guys. It was a real treat to be able to get out in the water and enjoy the beauty of God's creation.
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