Habbakuk 3:19

Good afternoon and happy Monday! I hope everyone has had a splendid day and a wonderful start to the week. It has been a while since I wrote and my blogging frequency is slowly going downhill due to school and other things that have been going on in my life lately and I apologize for my absence! Since I last posted in here I have had 2 "St. Jude days" and they both went well. My first appointment was another round of keloid treatment but this time I forgot to take my loopy medicine so it was a little more painful than I was expecting. The nurses in C-clinic are nothing short of extrodinary so when the tears started coming, they were right beside me holding my hand. The most recent appointment consisted of another meeting with my surgeon and we looked at before/after pictures of my neck. As I have mentioned before my neck has been starting to hurt so we believe that the keloids are growing again. The pictures showed that the scar is starting to raise up and grow larger, like it was before. My doctors also said that I am done with the keloid treatment and we are just going to wait it out to see what happens. I am extremely excited that I do not have to do anymore treatment, but I am a little disappointed that the pain has slowly started to come back again. This is just the way that my body scars and I am at peace with the situation. Of corse I would love to have a scar that does not hurt, but that is not the case and I am completely okay with that. There is a reason for this, and although I do not really understand it right now, I know that there is a reason. There is absolutely no flaw in the LORD's plan that he has for each and every one of us. His plan is so magnificent and sometimes we might wonder why he allows certain things to happen, but we have to remember that his plan is so GREAT! Greater than any plan we could think of ourselves. A couple of weeks ago my friend Luis was told that his cancer has come back in both of his lungs. Luis is one of my closest friends from St. Jude and he always helps me on the days when I am frustrated with my situation or when I need someone to talk and I can always count on him understanding because he has been through this before! Today Luis started his first round of treatment. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as he starts this process all over again. His faith and positive attitude never ceases to amaze me and I am so blessed to have him in my life. The treatment he is going to be receiving for the next couple of months is a form of chemotherapy but not the stereotypical chemo that he received the first time. This treatment is supposed to cause extreme pain while he is receiving it, and afterwards. Please pray that he will not experience a lot of pain and that this treatment will be the one that cures him. The LORD gives us things that we are not capable of handling so we can learn that we are not able, but HE is. He is our strength on the days that we feel we cannot go on and he is the one who enables us to the heights. "The sovereign LORD is my strength, he makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to go onto the heights." Habbakuk 3:19. I hope you have a blessed day today! :)

This is from last night when Luis went in for fluids (day before treatment). 

Right after his surgery on Friday to put in his port! So tough and strong!