The Lord’s Day April 12th, 2015

What a great day today. My Karen and I were not able to go to church and we greatly missed our local church. I just don’t know how people who are perfectly healthy can avoid going to church and enjoying the fellowship of God’s people. It’s always been a mystery to me how folks who claim to belong to the Lord can be so little committed to their local church.

However I can tell you that my sweet wife and I had such a precious time of worship. She has committed her life to the Lord Jesus and she loves Him with all her heart. Our medical team strongly advised us to avoid crowds for the next two weeks. She is in the most susceptible times of her life. With the amount of sickness all around us, she could easily get sick. This would be a very serious situation.

We are thrilled that the side effects of Friday’s chemo therapy are not as bad as they could be. Because the medical team was able to give her the biggest dosage of the big gun chemo therapy, I had to give her a special shot on Saturday. This injection is called Neulasta. It stimulates the bone marrow to produces the body’s immune system. Many of our friends prayed me through the giving of an injection to my dear Karen.

Such stimulation of the bone marrow results in flu like aches and pains in the muscles and joints. She surely has this today. She also is very fatigued. So we appreciate your prayers as she continues on this course.

Tomorrow she has a follow-up appointment with the vascular surgeon who wants to drain her pleurix catheter in the office. She sees him at 10:45 tomorrow morning. We’re not sure if he is going to take the stitches out or just what he is going to do. We are confident that the Lord has everything planned out and we are going to follow Him. I will update you tomorrow afternoon on Karen’s progression. Thank you so much for choosing to be on the journey with us. I hope you know how much you mean to us.