It is done! My last chemo treatment was a week ago and I'm starting to feel like it's really over. We've been at this for six months and I'm so accustomed to it that it's hard to comprehend that I don't have to hook up any more. I feel relieved every day.Yesterday the boys were off of school for Martin Luther King, Jr. day. We celebrated by taking the train from Waukegan to Evanston (home of our alma mater - go cats!). It was great fun. The boys were excited coming and going.
The end of my treatments gives me occasion to look back on the long list of people who helped us get through these months - family and old friends who took entire weeks out of their lives to stay with us and take care of the kids while I slept and moped around the house. New friends from Bethel who brought us meals, entertained our children, encouraged us. People from every corner of our lives who prayed for us, sent us notes of encouragement, shared our sadness about a crummy situation. My doctor, who has been compassionate and attentive; the nurses who took great care of me and remembered the details of our conversations from one treatment to the next; the receptionist who learned my name and always greeted me warmly.
Ben and I have needed every ounce of love God has shown us. Perhaps that - noticing that God is with us - is the blessing of miserable circumstances.
2 comments:
I noticed you were beaming today...you can see such relief sweeping over you....God is good!
yea... you made it Susan and praise God from whom all blessings flow! He new what you needed and he provided. We are thinking of you and missing you always. :)
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