Katie goes in tomorrow morning for her final treatment in this phase. Hopefully she will tolerate it as well as she has been - which has been remarkable! I am glad she has done so well!!! If all goes well this time, then she will get two weeks "off" prior to starting her next phase of treatment.
Yesterday, I met a woman who said her daughter had had ALL, just like Katie. I asked her how old her daughter was when she got it. Her daughter was 15 when she was diagnosed. Naturally, my next question was, "So how is your daughter now?" The woman paused, and then she told me her daughter had died. Her daughter sucessfully went through treatments at age 15 (the cancer went into remission), but then at age 20, her cancer came back and she didn't survive. Granted, the survival rate for ALL is better if diagnosed at a younger age, so I am not really trying to draw a comparison there. However, her story did hurt my heart... I told her I was sorry, and that I have wondered how long I will need to worry about Katie's cancer coming back. One year, five years, ten? Her response was, "I think as a mom, you will always worry about it coming back."
I talked with Scott about it last night. Living in permanent worry about Katie relapsing, would be a hard way to live. It is a fear. It is a possibility. It is a part of our reality. However, Scott said we just need to accept it, knowing that it could happen and knowing that someday we could loose Katie. He said we need to "walk the talk." Live our life according to our beliefs, accept the Lords will in all things and trust in him. And then he went into how it is one thing to believe in something and it is quite another to be tried in it. I laughed and told him I had wrote that in my blog last week - I said, haven't you been reading my blog? =) Poor man is feeling overwhelmed and behind in everything right now. Anyway, at least Scott and I are on the same wave length! We will walk through this life together, hand in hand, sharing in the joys and in the sorrows that life brings.
President Harold B. Lee said, "Every soul that walks the earth, you and I, all of us - whether rich or poor, whether good or bad, young or old - every one of us is going to be tested and tried by storms of adversity, winds that we must defend ourselves against. And the only ones who won't fail will be those whose houses have been built upon the rock. And what's the rock? It's the rock of obedience to the principles and teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ as the Master taught.
"I make no apologies...in asking you this morning, to believe with me in the fundamental concepts of true religion - of faith in God and in His Son Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world and that in His name miracles have been and are being wrought today and that only by a full acceptance of these truths can you and I be anchored to unfailing moorings when the storms of life rage about us.
"I invite you therefore, to humble yourselves...and with prayerful hearts dare to believe all that the holy prophets have taught us of the gospel from the Holy Scriptures from the beginning.
"So the all important thing in life isn't what happens to you, but the important thing is how you take it. That's the important thing. In the closing of the Sermon on the Mount, you remember, the Master gave a parable. He said:
"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock...." (Matthew 7:24-25).
"What was he trying to impress? He was trying to say that the winds of adversity, the floods of disaster, the difficulties, are going to beat upon every human house upon this earth; and the only ones who will not fall - when the bank fails, when you lose a loved one, in any other disaster - the only thing that will hold us through all these storms and stresses of life is when we've built upon the rocks by keeping the commandments of God." (Teachings of Presidents of the Church, 211).
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