It's Friday morning! What a week. Rex has had an exceptional week, overall. Yesterday, he spent most of the day nauseous. He has still been able to eat; he just hasn't wanted to eat because of the nausea. Rex was pretty quiet Thursday most of the day. He doesn't complain at all. His nurses have been great! They have all commented that Rex has been a delight to care for through this week.
He is so ready to come home and get in his own bed. I think he has plans to come home and sleep 24 hours without anyone sticking him or taking his vitals.
The next two weeks are expected to be harder on him than this week as this chemo takes his body to a low. He really hopes to be able to come to church Sunday. Pray that he will be able to do that. The most critical time will be 7-14 days after chemotherapy -- that's when his immune system will be the weakest. If he comes to church or goes out in public, he has been strongly advised to wear a mask.
I got to spend the night with Rex Thursday while Erin & Amber were at a friends' house (friends of theirs and ours) and Lindsey spent the night with my sister-in-law. We had a little excitement Thursday evening. Amber in her total excitement of being with friends fell down and got a nasty little gash above her eye. The good things is that I didn't have to go far to meet them for stitches. :) She has officially been initiated to turn 7. She now has seven stitches on her head, one for each year she has blessed us. She didn't want to stay with mommy; she was ready to return to her friend's house after being stitched up.
I was feeling a little down through the night as I spent a great deal of time awake watching Rex and thinking. When it's apparent to me that he is very uncomfortable, I get discouraged a little because I can't do anything to make him comfortable. I also tend to get ahead of today, and I have to remind myself to take one day at a time; God has given me enough grace for today; He hasn't given me the grace for tomorrow yet.
I read Psalm 8 this morning. That certainly lifted me as I pondered the Excellence of God. -- O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who has set they glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Whatever you face today, will you stop and thank God for being who He is? -- the Master of the Universe and our Loving Father!
Donna Meadows
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