Wednesday, July 27, 2005
SURGERY IS SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW
After Karon's unexpected trip to the hospital last weekend we wondered if the surgery scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday, July 28th) would occur. But the blood work done this afternoon at the Oncology Center showed the counts, though low, were near enough to the normal range to allow surgery.
They are going to "install" a "Port" into a major vein so they won't have to keep "poking" Karon to get blood and to give the many infusions her chemotherapy and other intravenous treatments continually require.
It is an outpatient procedure with (hopefully, prayerfully) no complications. We should be home by noon. The plan is to get her settled in at the house and I will go to work. But we'll see.
We know we are prayed for and that is good. It is a comfort.
Someone told me one time that life is like an elevator, one long series of ups and downs. In a previous Journal entry quite a long time ago I wrote about the "Hairballs of Life". They occur frequently! *Sigh*
But then some contact in some form or other from a friend (or from more than one) gives a definite lift and brings great joy.
The writer of Proverbs had it right (25:25): "Like cold water to a weary soul is good news form a distant land."
I have been given several "cups" of cold water lately. "Distant land" can have many interpretations! One of my "cups of cold water" came from a good friend right here in Indy. He has been a good friend for several years. And some of my words of encouragement have come from Canada, from Louisiana, from North Carolina. And so it goes. God is good, all the time. "Thank you, God. Thank you, friends."
Jim
posted by jim 5:10 PM 1 comments
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I'm so moved to learn what a wonderful support you and Thames have been for one another.
I will keep you and Karon in my prayers.
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I will keep you and Karon in my prayers.
