Round 2

A friend sent me beautiful flowers, I found them on the porch as I came home from round 2. Such a blessing!

Today I started round 2 of chemo. Fortunately my first infusion was shorter this week, it only took 3 hours. Now I’m at home receiving my 5FU chemo for the next 46 hours. Fun. My CEA number (a tumor indicator) was really low this week (this is good), 1.5 to be exact. This is good news. My liver enzymes were elevated, but this is supposedly common because of the 5FU medication. The doctor will lower the dosage of the 5FU if the liver enzymes continue to climb. All the other blood work was normal though, Praise the Lord!

I love this poem that I found in my Streams In The Desert devotional, it’s so comforting and so true:

When is the time to trust?

            Is it when all is calm,

            When waves the victor’s palm,

            And life is one glad psalm

                        Of joy and praise?

No! For the time to trust

            Is when the waves beat high,

            When storm clouds fill the sky,

            And prayer is one long cry,

                        “Oh, help and save!”

When is the time to trust?

            Is it when friends are true?

            Is it when comforts woo,

            And in all we say and do

                        We meet but praise?

No! For the time to trust

            Is when we stand alone,

            And summer birds have flown,

            And every prop is gone,

                        All else but God.

When is the time to trust?

            Is it some future day,

            When you have tried your way,

            And learned to trust and pray

                        By bitter woe?

No! For the time to trust

            Is in this moment’s need,

            Poor, broken, bruised reed!

            Poor, troubled soul, make speed

                        To trust your God.

When is the time to trust?

            Is it when hopes beat high,

            When sunshine gilds the sky,

            And joy and ecstasy

                        Fill all the heart?

No! For the time to trust

            Is when our joy has fled,

            When sorrow bows the head,

            And all is cold and dead,

                        All else but God.

Excerpt taken from Streams In The Desert, p.282, by. L.B. Cowman (amazing devotional by the way!)

God is good ALL the time!

Trusting in Him,

Debbie