Ding Ding Round 2

So, 3 weeks have gone by and its time for chemo treatment #2 (of only 4 we hope). Allison has felt so good for the past week that I really hated to take her back to have another atomic bomb dropped in her. Her taste buds had even started working again (before that everything tasted the same, a bit like cardboard).

We say a prayer together and head to the cancer center for round 2. We've made this trek so many times lately that I halfway think I could sleep and the car would still know where to go. Today the parking lot was more full than normal. A lot of people are fighting this dreadful disease and fighting it very courageously I might add. You can just see the contentment on everyone's face. There's no longer that fear that everyone most certainly had at first. These "veterans" walk through each day with courage like I've never known.

When we first found out about Allison's cancer I couldn't understand why everyone else just continued their life as if nothing was wrong. "My wife has cancer, how can you still go to work?" "Why isn't this all over the news?" "How is the world still spinning and the sun still rising and setting like it always has?".....My world had stopped so I wanted everyone else's world to stop too. Certainly I was having my own little pity party and bitterness wanted to work its way into my inventory of emotions but then...."This is YOUR trial...YOUR opportunity to let Me Show Off, and I will if you'll let Me". At that moment it stopped being about me and I realized it was all about God. These people at the cancer center seem to have realized this also. Or at least they "fake" it well.

Today was the "graduation day" for one of the patients, no balloons or party favors but everyone was very happy for them. They were leaving the office and heading to Charleston for a few days. Lord, how I long for "our" graduation day!

Allison's white blood count dropped too low after her first treatment so this time they're wanting to give her a shot of Neulasta. She has that tomorrow. I've read some horror stories about it, flu-like bone pain, words like "unbearable" and "excruciating" are used when describing it. Father, please show off and spare Allison this pain, but even still Your will be done.

We're home now, she's lying down...tired. This week will probably be a little challenging but with our Lord's help we will be able to face round 3 in a few weeks. Oh, and the Body of Christ healing itself again....Tollie and Ashley brought dinner for us tonight. God's timing is perfect...