Apr 27 2009
Getting ready for treatment day
I don’t know how many of you are religious but I received an email that I want to pass along. It struck home with me especially right now. Tomorrow is to be my 1st. treatment and I am getting more than a little nervous about it.
I have some questions about the port. I still have some pain there, not only around it, but on top of it, too. I am used to sleeping on that side but now I have to be careful of how I move. So I don’t sleep well. I can’t sleep on my back for very long, the other side and tummy is out so I will have to wait until everything heals I guess to get a good nights sleep. I didn’t sleep that well before, so I am not expecting much improvement.
I am wondering if it is going to be painful when they connect the needle to it. I have a friend who is starting her chemo ( not for breast cancer) today but she couldn’t help me with that question because she has had hers in a lot longer than I have had mine. Bless her heart, she came down with an infection and has been fighting that off for a while now. So I guess I will just have to wait until tomorrow to find out the answer.
I started working on some Bottles of Hope last night and am going to finish them up today. That way I can hopefully keep my mind busy. I will post pictures in my flickr album when I get them finished.
We are having some really nice weather here in Michigan so I am going to go outside and just enjoy the day. I have a little bit of shopping to do so I will get that done. Anything to keep from thinking about tomorrow. I have heard that the first one is not to bad as far as side effects go. It takes sometimes 2 or 3 treatments. So I will see. Of course some people start right out getting sick. But I have all the meds. that they gave me and they (the doctors etc.) are not to hard to get hold of so I will be just fine.
Well with that being said I will copy the story, I hope you like it. And that is what I am going to be saying tomorrow, God I don’t know why, but…
The Ant and the Contact Lens
A true story
Brenda was almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite cliff She was standing on a ledge where she was taking a breather during this, her first rock climb.. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped against her eye and knocked out her contact lens. ‘Great’, she thought. ‘Here I am on a rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the bottom and hundreds of feet to the top of this cliff, and now my sight is blurry.
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She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had landed on the ledge. But it just wasn’t there.
She felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying.. She prayed for calm, and she prayed that she may find her contact lens.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm now that she was at the top, she was saddened because she could not clearly see across the range of mountains. She thought of the bible verse ‘The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth.
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She thought, ‘Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me.
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Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the cliff they met another party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff.
One of them
shouted out, ‘Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?’
Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across a twig on the face of the rock, carrying it!
The story doesn’t end there. Brenda’s father is a cartoonist.. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the
prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens with the caption, ‘Lord, I don’t know why You want me to carry this thing. I can’t eat it, and it’s awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I’ll carry it for You.
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I think it would do all of us some good to say, ‘God, I don’t know why You want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it and it’s awfully heavy. But, if You want me to carry it, I will.
Until I post again, stay healthy, Linda
