What a wonderful couple of months it has been!
We just got back from a sun-filled, umbrella drink week in beautiful Kauai and thought it was due time for an update.
In Seattle, you really NEED a break from the grey and the rain this time of year. I had been secretly setting aside money from nannying and surprised Matt awhile back with this trip. An early birthday present maybe?
A highlight of the trip was a 5 1/2 hour catamaran and snorkeling ride with spinner dolphins swimming alongside our boat. We also saw about 30 whales breach, lunge and tail-slap during the course of the day! Amazing! It was such a welcomed break from the routine of doctors appointments and getting poked and prodded on a weekly basis. So thankful!
Also while we were in Hawaii, my brother and his wife had their first baby! She is a beautiful little peanut named Katarina!
Once again, your prayers are appreciated more then you know! Please pray for continued healing. We are so thankful for your overwhelming support and encouragement.
I have been feeling great and actually have been working out for a couple of weeks now. This is the first time I have felt healthy enough to exercise on a regular basis! What a blessing!
I have continued to receive weekly curcumin and high dose vitamin IV's from the Health & Wellness Center and saw my oncologist on Monday. My platelets, red blood cells and white blood cell counts were all low, which isn't great. We will find out the M-Protein levels at the end of this week. We do know that the chemo did not get all of the Myeloma and I will need to do some more. As to how much and when, we will know soon.
Reading in Elyse Fitzpatrick's book, Comforts from the Cross I found this prayer super encouraging: "I pray that your grace would remind me that you are here and that you're working toward a better good then I could ever imagine." Jesus consistently pursues my heart and enables me to live open hearted and trusting Him rather then becoming bitter and angry, folding in on myself. I don't think I could make it down this long road with out that. Or at least not very well anyways!
Once again, your prayers are appreciated more then you know! Please pray for continued healing. We are so thankful for your overwhelming support and encouragement.
*Pictures from top to bottom: Exploring the Grand Hyatt, cruising the Nepali Coast, living dangerously at the Waimea Canyon.
2 comments:
thanks for updating! So happy you guys got to do this! ♥
Thinking of you and praying for you!
Thanks for the update Matt and Chelsa! Sounds/looks like Hawaii was a much needed respite. We will continue to send good thoughts your way. Thank you for continuing to remind me through example of how we ought to truly cherish and take care of each other, in sickness and in health.
:)
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