His Grace, My Journey

  My Room in the Hostel at the Regional Hospital   Feb 22, 2013 The Bend in the Road This journey certainly has presented its unique challenges.  Oh how my heart sank when I spiked a fever the night before I was suppose to go home, after a week in the hospital, after my last chemo treatment.  Finally, I got my brain around the fact that I needed to be grateful that I was still at the hospital.  How disappointing it would have been to have gotten home and had to go right back to the hospital.  The thought that plays over and over in my head is my new favorite number ZERO.  I keep telling myself, as I fight my way back from my last frenamee\chemo treatment this time, that I  don't  have to do it again!  The slow and steady gains that I make, no matter how insignificant it may seem to someone else, are great steps forward for me and encouraging.  One step at a time, I keep trying to acclimate to my "new normal".  On the journey wi...

Feb. 13, 2013 - Mixed Blessings Made it Home - ZERO Frenamee Treatments Left. Thanks to all of your love and prayers, I made it home today! My idea of freedom and yours are probably two different things. Mine is not being hooked up to an IV!! You know the one that you get to pull around everywhere and forces you to get up all night long to go to the bathroom. Not only do you have to get up to go but you have to put the hospital measure hat in position, measure and chart your output. That's why I say being unhooked from the IV is my idea of freedom. I felt like new person when that was gone. Prayer that my granddaughter, Audri wrote for me. She was 11 years old. “Dear god please help nana as she’s going through the radiation treatments Let there be no pain, as she gets tattooed.” Now the task at hand will be to recover from this chemo treatment. When I got a fever the other night, they did a chest X-ray and lots of blood work. Then they gave me antibiotics through...

Feb. 8, 2013 - An Update from the St. John Regional Hospital   Well I thought I would give an update before the big storm hits later this evening here.  It sounds like a huge storm.  Last huge blizzard I got my first ambulance ride ever to the hospital.   Peter had to come plow me out so the ambulance could get in the yard to get me.  THANKS PETER!  I am glad I am all tucked in at the hospital.  I arrived last Tuesday and had my   last   chemo treatment Wednesday!  ZERO LEFT, PRAISE THE LORD. This place has kept me hopping today.   At 7:00 am  they came in and told me I was going to have an ultra sound  at 8:00 , so I got up out of bed quickly and at least got my face washed and brushed my teeth and got to the bathroom just before they showed up  at 7:40  to get me.  When they got done doing the ultra sound of my organs they took me to nuclear medicine and injected me with radio active dye.  Then they b...