Sunday, July 8, 2018

CANCER CARE JULY, 2018

On the 4th of July we made our way to Tom Baker Cancer Centre to see Bob's oncologist.
   An aside:
 Have to say the new parking structure is getting closer to being done.  Someone said in the fall yahooo!!!  The tension, as the many cars drove round and round and in and out, was sure building that day.  Not only mine!!!  Soon there will be an uprising of parkees!!!  PLUS the new cancer centre is very much under construction.  The hole is mega and now concrete is going into that hole.  I presume that will be for more PARKING under the new centre.

Our meeting with Dr. B. was once again very encouraging.  The cancer marker numbers are great.  The protein chain is a bit higher but still amazing.  After checking out Bob's shoulder really well, Dr. B did not believe it to be bone pain from the cancer.  However Bob had an xray plus an MRI and his yearly PET scan are being ordered.  It has come down to thinking that the shoulder pain could be from the way Bob has been using his cane.  Now the cane and I are changing sides.  Bob is often unsteady on his feet so needs to have the cane but perhaps not lean into it all the time.  That has become a habit.
We shall see how changing things up works out.  Status quo as far as the chemo continuing.  Bob will have an extra week off this time as we take some time away from Calgary.  He wont be seeing the oncologist again until the week of Aug. 8.

Generally Bob is feeling not to bad.  He is tired and does nap several times through out the day.  Bob has low strength but I did notice he was walking much faster the last time we were out.  Bob is my super cheerleader as I undertake some new things---again!!!

This update is to say Bob is doing ok and staying positive, as he has always been, throughout this decade.  We are grateful of the hope we have through Jesus,that what we see here is not our home.  We are being prepared to be home with Jesus.  The older we get the more urgent it seems to let people know they need Jesus.  You will have nothing to loose and everything to gain.

Monday, July 2, 2018

JULY 2018

July is a neat month for us.  I especially look at July fondly.  It is the month in which Bob and I were married.  As I think about it we knew so little about planning the event and what went into it!!!  We now know that weddings can be made to be so much more meaningful and look so spectacular and exotic and epic!!!! All we knew was that we wanted to be married and be together forever.  (Ahhh how romantic) . AND so it happened, planned and directed mostly by others but what did it matter!!!  That has now been 48 years ago!!!!  We always thought anyone married more than 25 years was elderly, that was of course, until we celebrated our 25th.  We moved to Calgary as we celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary.  Still so young and totally gungho to be involved with our family here in Calgary and all things Calgary.  This was what we dubbed our Freedom 55 year.  Anniversary 40 happened several years after Bob's diagnosis of cancer.  We were so blessed to celebrate that year.  WOW.  Each year following has been an exceptional gift to us.  No matter what the year held at Tom Baker Cancer Centre we have had July.  Here in this month, we are once again those wide eyed young adults stepping into life together.  Fearless because we have each other and were totally in love.  Since that wedding day we have accepted Jesus into our lives as our personal Savior and have followed Him through reading His Word in the bible and through the teaching of godly men in bible believing churches.  We honestly, remind each other that we would not have survived these 48 years of marriage without God in our lives each day.  It has been an amazing learning curve to follow Jesus, to trust Him and look to Him each day.  Amazing to know the answers to prayer.  Prayers large and small.  Each of us, with faith in Jesus, know that it is our own personal surrender to Him.  Our family does not have eternal life because Bob and I have faith in Jesus.  Each of them need to accept faith in Jesus as their own.  Where will you spend eternity?  I will spend eternity in heaven with Jesus.  Bob and I will both be there and no matter how many Julys we celebrate together on earth, eternity is forever.  Coming?????