His Grace, My Journey

29MAY2013 Peaks, Valleys, Joys and Sorrow Dedicated to Bernie my Beloved Friend  Today was a day filled with mixed emotions.  Funny how this journey has had a lot of peaks and valleys.  The view is very different at each place.  God has it planned that way because He wants to teach you different things all through the journey.   For the first time since last October, I got my blood tests back and everything was within the "normal" limits... white cells, red cells, potassium etc.  I am not sure Jamie will believe the fact that I am normal.  Guess what?   That means that I can go out in the real world now!  I have been confined to home, because of my low white cell count.  I think God had a purpose in even this... because staying home made me stay focused on the task at hand... cleaning out the house where we have lived for 30 years this July.  The closing date of July 26th, for the sale of our house, will come sooner than you th...

  Recovering & Seeing the Breath Taking View     May 18 th , 2013   One month ago today I had my last radiation treatment.  After nine days of healing and recovery at my parents, I returned to Campobello still with a sunburn on steroids, but well on my way to healing.  If anyone had told me last year that I would have breast cancer… go through chemo and radiation treatments… and then sell our house of 30 years in less than a year, I would have told them they were crazy!  If you want to hear God laugh just tell Him your plans.  My plans were simple last summer… I was going out to Kansas for two weeks bringing my grandchildren home for two weeks and then going back, until sometime in September when Lindsay’s baby (Owen) was to be born.   Well those of you who have been on this journey with me as I journaled it, know the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say.  Sometimes I start to reflect back, b...