Going Hypo, hopefully not Hippo :)

Hello Everyone,

It has been a while since I have written.  This is a good sign because I have more behind me now than ahead of me as far as treatments go. 

Today is the day I start getting ready for the next treatment by going off of my thyroid medicine.  I am not looking forward to it.  Time will tell but I feel like I am about to enter a long dark tunnel.  The good news is that there is light at the end.  The reason that I put “not Hippo” in this blog title is that there may be some weight gain involved as one of the side effects of going hypo thyroid.  Hopefully not.

I had a wonderful trip to Texas with my sister, Dee seeing the rest of our family.  One of the activities my neice Kelly (Dee’s daughter) planned was a one night camp out on a lake which was lovely.  Kelly is so organized, generous and thoughtful to name a few of her attributes.  It was tent camping Holiday Inn style.  The camp site was clean and our sheltered picnic table had white lights strung around at the top.  Our picnic table was covered with a lovely plastic table cloth complete with picked wild flowers.  We had air mattresses with all the bedding for sleeping.  We ate grilled salmon, chicken, corn on the cob, salad and smores of course!  For breakfast it was scrambled eggs over the campfire along with toast and potatoes and some fruit to top it all off.  We also enjoyed a family picnic last Saturday at the clubhouse facility where Kelly lives.  There was a lot of good food and it was so nice to be around family again.  It had been three years since I had seen most of them.  On Mother’s Day after church we grilled and had leftovers from the day before.  That evening Kelly arranged for an in home massage for her mother and myself!  Very, very nice.  So, as you can see our trip was enjoyable.

I sent another card off to Isable yesterday.  I have tried to find her phone number but it is not listed.  I asked her to call because I would love to arrange a time to take she and her mother for breakfast or lunch.  That is something to pray about, that I would get a response back.  If I don’t I think I will drop by their home some day with some flowers, cookies or something  just long enough to touch base very quickly.

~ I am  requesting  prayer  that I would feel as good as I can during these days and that when I am not that I would be patient with myself and Curt.  He and I are very ready to put all of this behind us but the journey is not over yet.   

~ I also need your prayer to face the mental spiritual battles that are not over with yet regarding my illness.  That is that they will not find any more cancer anywhere when they do the body scan prior to the radioactive iodine therapy.  For some reason I have been allowing myself to get bogged down with that possibility.

~I am asking for God’s protection for my body from all these harsh treatments that I need to get through to get better.

Mark 4:35-40

And the same day, when the evening was come, he saith unto them, “Let us pass over unto the other side.”  And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the boat.  And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was now full.  And he was in the stern of the boat, asleep on a pillow; and they awake him , and say unto him, “Master, carest thou not that we perish?”  And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, “Peace, be still.”  And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.  And he said unto them, “Why are ye so fearful?  How is it that ye have no faith?”

 

Love,

Carmel