Bolstered by Love and Medicine

Understatement.  We are INFUSED through and through by the OVER THE TOP love and support of Cindy’s Village as well as the EXCELLENT customer service provided by Cindy’s Beaumont medical team.

Pictured above, arrayed on our mantel at home, are most of the cards received by all of you. Friday night (2/15), Cindy read aloud letters received from Maimie G's class and valentines cards received from Emily L’s class at Hillside Elementary - first graders Cindy reads with.   All we can say is WOW!

VIP visitors included Char S. and Jan F. Oh, and me too (Glenn).

MRI was bumped by an emergency elsewhere.  To be done whenever, “A moving target,” explained Cindy, who has quickly become an expert on hospital stuff (technical term).

The latest, greatest is Cindy’s hairy pillow. Either the pillow is evolving into some kind of animal or she is slowing losing her hair.  We’ll let you know but as a precautionary measure, she’s ordering an extra meal for the pillow.

I (Glenn) was FREAKED OUT by PostHope being down for two days.  During our walk around the oncology floor, I dumped on Cindy about this because, ya know, she has nothing else to be concerned about except to counsel her falling-apart-at-the-seams husband!. True to form, she reminded me that we are more in a spiritual battle than a physical one.

She gently offered, “Perhaps you should try taking to heart that little, ‘Let Go and Let God,” card on our frig at home.”

I suppose we should also pray about Cindy’s next bone marrow biopsy at 8 a.m. Tuesday, February 19 that will  tell us how all this is working and inform what to do next. Pray boldly, for remission but allowing for God to do as he wills, trusting in his plan for us that exceeds what we can ask or imagine.  Still, go ahead and imagine.

We ended our day together listening to “Our Daily Bread” that colluded with Cindy’s counsel to me

Unless the Lord builds the house,
   the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
   the guards stand watch in vain.
In vain you rise early
   and stay up late,
toiling for food to eat—
   for he grants sleep to[a] those he loves.
(Psalm 127: 1-2, NIV)