Chelsa Wojciakowski: Blog Updates

As I write this, I'm sitting in the iv room at the health and wellness center getting my weekly high dose of vitamins. I'm trying to remember the list of endless questions that Matt & I have compiled for the dr...should I get the whooping cough vaccine, am I taking the right  combination of supplements, can I get a refill on my prescription...every week it seems there's more questions.

I'm also listening to the Rain City Hymnal by various Mars Hill bands and reminded of Gods goodness and grace. I may not ever be fully "cured" of cancer but I trust my God has a purpose in this for my good and his glory. It may be a very long journey that includes a lot of frustration, suffering and pain but I know the my Savior will never leave me or forsake me and in that I will find joy along the way. Our hopes of a cure are high though; the proactive treatment that I'm receiving at the health & wellness/cancer research institute is pretty groundbreaking. We know that God has led us here!

Since the last update (I know it's been awhile, sorry!), I've gotten a port put in my chest to help the IV treatments go smoother, I've gotten another blood transfusion and I've gotten the first vaccine from the Cancer Research Institute. They sponsored my first of six vaccine treatments in order to get the process started. My body responded well to the vaccine--I had stomach flu symptoms following each dose of the vaccine, which the doctors found encouraging. I at least knew that I was feeling awful for a good reason! Although I'm encouraged, I struggle to keep my iron levels up and have much lower energy then I'm used to. So every week, I get my high dose vitamin iv, Matt gives me a B-12 shot & lately I've also been getting a very painful peptide shot every other day to help the vaccine continue to do its work. My body is responding to that as well, mostly in the form of nausea or wicked acid reflux but it's still encouraging. I have to be reminded that although this is a "natural" treatment, it is still cancer treatment nonetheless and I shouldn't be surprised that it's hard! 

Our lives kind of resemble those of an elderly couple now, which is kind of funny...we take short walks, I eat a lot of soup and usually in the course of an evening out, we end up at the pharmacy. I'm partially kidding; we do get out and have fun, it's just at a slower pace then before! We are beginning a fund raising process now to continue this treatment plan and hopefully wipe out this cancer! 

We are SO thankful for your prayers, love and support. 

*I was reading this below and was encouraged by it. I hope it encourages/inspires you.

Anxiety makes us doubt God’s lovingkindness, and thus our love to him grows cold: we feel mistrust, and thus grieve the Spirit of God, so that our prayers become hindered, our consistent example marred, and our life one of self-seeking.

Thus a lack of confidence in God leads us to wander far from him. But if through simple faith in his promise, we cast each burden as it comes upon him, and are not “anxious about anything” because he undertakes to care for us, it will keep us close to him, and strengthen us against much temptation.

--Charles Spurgeon

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” Isaiah 26:3