Chemo

I am sitting here in the Cancer Center of Oakwood Hospital beginning my first chemo treatment in this round. From what I understand (and sometimes it's hard to understand) I will be getting this treatment once every 21 days and another once every 7 days. This first treatment will take the longest about 4 -5 hours. After that it will reduce by 30 minutes each week. I believe the one treatment will be for 4 weeks and I'm not sure how long the other one will last.

The nurses told me today that this particular kind of chemo gives you a skin rash and it is not pretty. It stays in your face, arms, chest area and maybe even your stomach area. I am just believing that it doesn't happen to me. It does not happen to everyone, so I want to be one of those, of course.

Yesterday I got a call from a dear Jamaican friend that is truly a prayer warrior. Her name is Mother Beckford. Now let me tell you, if anyone can pray and if anyone hears from God, it is her. She spends much of her days on her face in prayer.

She called because she thought something might be wrong. I told her that I would begin chemo again today and she was highly disappointed. She then told me a lot of things and how it was not God's will for me to be sick because we are so involved in the Prison Ministry and the prisoners need us. She also said something that totally "clicked" in my Spirit. She said that she could not find any place in the Bible that people got sick again after being healed. Because of the shrinkage and everything else going on in my life, all of the good reports, that she believes that I had been healed. I agree. If no one else in the Bible had to be re-healed, then why should I.

Then I was talking to Barry and he was saying to God, you don't have cancer and we are made in your image, so why should Arlene have cancer. This was never God's plan for us to stay unhealthy.

I can't wait to see what God has in store for us and the ministry when this is over. We are really excited. Please pray for us as we are on this journey.