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Crossing the finish line!

Well the 6 1/2 week radiation race & 10 month cancer marathon is complete! (Just hormone therapy, 5-10 years of it!, & reconstructive surgery in a couple months left in the treatment plan!) Amen! Praise the Lord for getting me through it with a plethora of His perfect (perplexing) peace, protection & presence bringing purpose & personal progress (aka spiritual growth) through it all! Hallelujah!!

My skin is healing up great! I saw my radiation oncologist on Tuesday after my second to last treatment. She said “it’s perfect. I want to see something to know it’s working.  It’s pink but not red & angry.” Especially for areas of my fair Dutch skin that’s never seen the sun! And the open raw areas are healing up beautifully! God has been so gracious! I just have this weird stinging tightness in that breast (even though there’s still not much normal  sensation) as the skin gets “shrink-wrapped” & burned with the radiation  

I saw my regular oncologist Tuesday as well & he prescribed Tamoxifen, a cancer drug I’m supposed to take for 5-10 years to basically suppress my hormones and decrease my changes of reoccurrence. He said to start it in the next month or so (praying about whether to or not...I really don’t want one more drug in my body🥺)

I read this poem in a great devotional a dear friend gave me, Streams in the Desert, that says it well...

Chance has not brought this ill to me.                             It’s Gods own hand, so let it be.                                      For He sees what I cannot see.                                     There is a purpose for each pain.                                   And He one day will make it plain                               That earthly loss is heavenly gain.                                Like as a piece of tapestry                                         Viewed from the back appears to be                            Only threads tangled hopelessly;                                    But in the front a picture fair                                  Rewards the worker for his care,                             Proving his rare skill and patience rare.                         You are the Workman, I the frame                               Lord, for the glory of Your name                              Perfect Your image on the same. 

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