Another Week Another Pill
lynnwv | June 28, 2008 05:17
Well it’s been a good week. Last Saturday I was feeling better and Katie went away with her sister. Pete and I took a drive and he briefly met some of my family, my Aunt, Uncle and my three wonderful cousins, Deb, Lisa and Ann and their children. It was really good to see everyone.
I’ve been working this week, but the beginning of the week I was still having pain in my stomach. The doctor ordered another CT scan, this time of my pelvic area. I went Thursday night. I’m really starting to hate CT scans even though my doctor really seems to like them. By the time I went in for the scan on Thursday I had finished the Cipro antibiotic and my pain was pretty much gone. I was only having an occasional twinge from time to time, not the amazing shooting pain from before. I even thought about canceling the appointment, but didn’t want to bring down the wrath of my doctor. Apparently I didn’t have a kidney infection, my symptoms were deceiving. The scan showed a slight case of diverticulitus. I imagine it would have been a bad case if they’d done the scan the week before when the pain was making it hard to walk!
So yesterday the doctor’s office calls to tell me about the scan and let me know that my doctor is putting me on two more antibiotics for a week. I told them the pain was better, almost completely gone. They said these would do a better job of making sure the infection was gone before I had my next chemo (which is next Thursday 7/3). So I’m popping two different kinds of antibiotics and on Weds I’ll start my steroids. Sometimes I feel like a lab rat. In my head I understand that they are trying to keep me from having the pain again after my next treatment, because the chemo will attack any weakness in my body.
Having said all that I want to share with you my devotional reading from yesterday:
2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.At the bottom it says: God uses our difficulties to develop His Son’s likeness in us.Paul is an inspiration to me. I am humbled every time I take the time to look away from myself and to the Word.
Have a great week!! God Bless!
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