Happy Summer! My breast cancer treatment continues with monthly Lupron shots, every 3 weeks, Herceptin infusions (Kanjinti), physical therapy and such. I continue to seek help to get well and recover from the damage cancer, surgery, chemo and radiation did to my body. God is faithful to heal me and give doctors and nurses the insight and knowledge to help me feel better. I’m so fortunate that I have great healthcare nearby and access to oncology and medical resources.
I shared with my family this weekend that I was a sad because I have to get hearing aids. I have moderate hearing loss at some frequencies and it’s better to deal with it now than wait. I’m also going through medication-induced menopause with Lupron shots and having hot flashes, severe aches and muscle soreness. It’s all part of the process to keep cancer from recurring and repress the estrogen and progesterone from feeding cancer. My breast cancer is ER+ PR+ and HER2+ so every little bit helps to deny it food for growth. It’s amazing the developments in the BC research and developments over the last decade!
On another note, I’d like to encourage you today. You are created to have abundant life in Christ. God created you to love you. In Psalm 139:13-18 God says, ” For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body, all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand- when I awake, I am still with you.” The psalmist wrote this passage trying to explain in our words God’s love and care in creating you. God loves you immensely! No matter what is going on in your life or happening to you, He cares about every detail. He desires an abundant life for you that carries over a relationship with Him into eternity.
Have a great week and stay cool! ~Tamela
Thank you Tamela for continuing to share God’s goodness with us through out this journey. Love you lots!!