Dear Shanda - I am so glad that I was able to share hope with you regarding your Dad's cancer. If you will send me his first name, I will put him in my prayer journal so that I can pray for him by name.
There are a few other things that I wanted to share with you. At the time that my husband was diagnosed, our daughter was a senior in high school and our son had just started first grade. Because the surgeons thought they were removing a hernia, the initial surgery did not go very well. He was left with a large open wound in his abdomen about 4 inches in diameter. Because he started chemo which was the ECF regimen, the wound could not heal, and we had to dress this open wound twice a day. This was for 9 months. He was on a 5FU pump which pumped chemo 24/7 and went in every 21 days for 2 other chemos. The treatment was very agressive. My husband went into surgery for a hernia at the end of August, and for 9 months after that he was home and could barely walk from the bed to the refrigerator while doing chemo. On June 6 the following year, my husband returned to his office and sat down and started working again!! It was a miracle from God!!!
During those nine months, our senior was in charge of our first grader. I worked everyday. The only place my husband went was on Sunday morninings I took him to church, and then he went to the Dr.'s appt. For nine months, these were the onlly places he could go because the treatment was so agressive.
When he had Dr. appts, I gave the nurses sticky notes to give to the Dr. which said we know the statistics for this cancer, but do not speak any negative words over my husband. I basically kept my husband drugged with anti-nausea meds. and painkillers for most of the nine months. He remembers little. From work everyday I would call him at least 3 times, I would make him say back to me every time, "It is written, by Jesus stripes, I am healed of cancer."" It was God's power and love that made the journey one that was filled with joy and peace in spite of what we were going through. Every Dr. has acknowledged that my husband is a walking miracle, and I give all the credit to HIm.
As I told you earlier, my husband worked during the whole time of his next two recurrences.
Another thing that I did not share is that I actually finished chemo myself in February for a rare agressive cancer called uterine papillary serous carcinoma. Had it not been for the journey with my husband, I would have been devastated. But, during my chemo treatment I didn't miss a day of work - I would go in the morning and get chemo and come back to work and worked throughout the 6 rounds of chemo. Not only that, but I serve as the choir director for my local church and we were working on our Christmas program. I continued to hold all the practices, didn't miss church, etc. During this whole time, I have spoken the healing scriptures and continued to believe, and God gave me the strength to walk through the treatment without hardly any side effects. My hair is now growing back, but I have even had fun wearing my wigs, although I was getting a little bit tired of redrawing my eyebrows on several times during the workday. :)
I tell you all of this to encourage you and your Mom and Dad. With God's love and power and faith and the life that is carried in His Words in the Bible, I truly believe that the miracle can happen. The first thing that I told the oncologist on my husband's first visit was, you will see my husband receive a miracle healing from this cancer. And no matter what the reports said, if they did not agree with the scripture that by Jesus' stripes, John is healed, I would just tell the Dr. that we did not receive the report and that he was healed and that he {the Dr.} would see it happen. I was determined and relentless that what the Bible said would come true for my husband,a dn I am continuing to take that stand for him and for myself.
I will be praying and believing that your Dad will be healed. Based on our experience, we had to be proactive in pursuing the miracle.
I hope you are blessed today, and I am expecting only good reports for your Dad in Jesus' Name - the Name of the Greatest Physician and Healer!!!
{{{{HUGS}} and love,
Billie
On 4/16/2009
shanda39 wrote:
Hi Billie,
I appreciate your positive words. What a blessing for you and your husband there is a god!!! Yesterday my parents went to speak with another oncologist for a second opinion. I have not spoken with them as of yet, they are usually wiped out when they come home. I believe so much in the power of prayer and that god can perform miracles becasue I've seen it in my own life just like you. Your story is just the story I was looking for it gives us hope that this cancer can be beat as horrible as it may be. The sadness that you feel when this hits your loved one is something that you can't explain unless you have been through it. I have been so sick over this. Just hoping and praying everyday that god will pull him through this. Thanks again Billie!!!!!!!!! godspeed to you and your husband. I know you enjoy everyday with him more than ever before because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
Shanda