Today I'm feeling like.... "it's always something", "when it rains it pours", "if it's not one thing, it's another".
Our prayer warriors have gotta be as weary as we are.
This morning Cody woke up with intense pain on the left side of his rib cage. A month or so ago, I noticed a lump there. We pointed it out to the doctor about 3 wks ago, but because it wasn't hurting or bothering him, she wasn't super concerned about it.
When we left the hospital on saturday, it was a little achy and has only intensified over the past 2 days. This morning he was in so much pain that it was hard for him to get out of bed. I checked the lump to see that it had taken on a different shape and size.. and seemed puffy and swollen. So I prayed, then went downstairs to call the doctor.
Basically, Cody's already scheduled for 5 days of inpatient chemo beginning thursday morning so the doctor just wants him to keep taking pain medicine. Temporary fix.
Cody's also been coughing a lot today, which is so unlike him. He's still pretty weak from being in the hospital so it's really hard for him to muster up the slightest bit of strength to cough. It hurts my heart to watch :(
We just went to Target and Safeway (grocery store for you east coasters :) ... and I guess this is really the first time we've been out since leaving the hospital. I should've expected it, but wasn't prepared for all the stares we got because my precious husband has 60 staples in the back of his head! :) At first, I didn't mind it so much... but after about the 10th one, I started staring back! I don't know why it bothered me so much, but it did. And I just wanted to say, "please don't stare, it's not polite!" but I guess not everybody's parents taught them that.
Moving on.
The rest of the week is gonna be busy. Here's our schedule, so please pray as Holy Spirit leads.
Tues, Aug. 12th @ 12:30 - Cyberknife Set up (basically an MRI and "set up" for radiation on the cavity where Cody just had surgery)
Wed, Aug. 13th @ 5:00 - Cyberknife treatment
Thurs, Aug. 14th @ 9:15 - Oncology check-up and admission to the hospital for 5 days of inpatient chemo (this will be our 3rd time in the hospital in less than 1 month! *sigh)
P.S. Thank you for the cards - we've gotten a couple from people we don't even know and that just blesses our socks off!
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Prayers for the week (and the weak!). In our weakness His strength is made perfect.
**from God Calling...August 12, 2008
Rule The World
Remember no prayer goes unanswered. Remember that the moment a thing seems wrong to you, or a person's actions to be not what you think they should be, at that moment begins your obligation and responsibility to pray for those wrongs to be righted, or that person to be different.
Face your responsibilities.
What is wrong in your country, its statesmen, its laws, its people? Think out quietly, and make these matters your prayer matters. You will see lives you never touch altered, laws made at your request, evils banished.
Yes! Live in a large sense.
Live to serve and to save. You may never go beyond one room, and yet you may become one of the most powerful forces for good in your country, in the world.
You may never see the mighty work you do, but I see it, evil sees it. Oh! it is a glorious life, the life of one who saves. Fellow-workers together with me. See this more and more.
Love with me, sharers of My life.
I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee. Daniel 2:23
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