At 8:20, my breakfast tray shows up and I do my standard "sit there and look at it for five minutes." I took the lid off the coffee and slowly sipped on that. I managed to eat a little box of cereal and milk, with a glass of apple juice. I got a hard, green banana... to save for another day. Barb arrives and shortly after, a nurse comes in. She says, "You weren't supposed to eat or drink anything since midnight for your ultrasound!"
Well.. I didn't know that. So the ultrasound was pushed back to Tuesday morning. Another thing to add to the busyness of tomorrow.
I don't expect to need blood tomorrow, though I might need platelets. In the afternoon at some point, I will get the donor stem cells. The conditioning program is all done. Chemo finished on Saturday and the biodrug finished today. The doctors have done everything they can to prepare my body.
We talked or skyped with all of our kids today. We even had a phone call from Opa, which was nice. Everyone realizes the importance of tomorrow and our prayer is that my body has been sufficiently prepared, that the stem cell collection will go very well tomorrow for Clarence, and that the change in methodology may allow for success. We know that this is my only shot at it. I have no stem cells and the few that I did have left are hopefully killed now because they were cancerous. So we all plead with the Lord for His blessing.
I wrote about it in September, that spot of being in between conditioning and the new cells as being on the precipice. How much higher this one seems! And so we rest in our Lord's good hands. And that's the best place to be, the only place to be. We pray that it may be His will to grant healing through it. If not, that He will prepare us for that too. Thank you for praying with us.
3 comments:
Love you. Praying that all goes well for you and Uncle Clarence tomorrow and trusting that God will carry all of you through this wherever He leads. Sleep well tonight.
Dear Richard, Barb & family,
We understand the great importance of tomorrow and the transplant. We pray fervently, that all will go well. That God will cause the transplant to miraculously do all it is supposed to do, so that your life may be spared. We appreciate your gaining strength from the Word, and that you are in God's hands...hold on with all your might. He has promised He will never fail us nor forsake us and that nothing and no one can separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. May God prove to be your refuge and strength in these crucial days. Thanks so much for the updates, they have helped us in praying for you. If we could, we would give you all a BIG HUG,
Love in Christ,
Rev & Bev Van Hal
Isaiah 53:4 "Surely Jesus took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows yet we considered him striken be God, smitten by God and afflicted, But Jesus was pierced for our transgression, and was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Jesus and by his wounds (stripes) we are healed." Jesus suffered for us, became our passover lamb bearing the sin of many, reconciling us ... and having compassion on us ... Praying for God's complete healing and intervention for you and your family. with Love from Ottawa R&L
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