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THE LULU CHRONICLES
Hey, family & friends,
I’ve decided to
use LuLu’s Chronicles to give updates on our cancer journey. So if you want to
find out how we’re doing, please check here from time to time. We’re home now.
Gary had his first ‘ipi’ treatment last Friday at Mayo. It’s an immune therapy
drug that, hopefully, will help his body stand up and fight the cancer. Not
too many side effects so far.
Last weekend, most of our family came and we enjoyed some
time together. Our daughter-in-laws have decided that fighting cancer means
eating lots of cancer fighting foods. Hence, the delicious spinach lasagna we
enjoyed last weekend, made by Sarah. And this week, Erin and the kids have
stayed with us to make all kinds of juices from veggies and fruits. Who knew
that chard would taste so good through a straw? She’s been working so hard to
make main dishes fortified with cancer-fighting combatants like beets, broccoli
and other good stuff. She’s made us this whole wheat bread filled with flax
seeds and tree bark (just kidding) that would crack the marble countertop if
dropped, but is wonderful tasting.
She’s freezing things like wheat and flaxseed and lemon pancakes and cleaning
out all my ‘bad’ foods from the cupboard that contain sugar and other ingredients
none of us can pronounce much less should be putting in our bodies.
On Monday, a friend from church who is a massage therapist,
came and gave Erin and I each a one-hour massage. She said it was her way of
helping us with the fight.
We received cards and emails and Facebook messages from all
over the country that have warmed our hearts and made us truly feel that we are
not in this fight alone.
The other day our doctor spent lots of time with us
explaining and answering questions. He’s a Believer and even asked us if we
needed time to pray about our next steps. We told me him ‘no’ that that was
already covered by an army of folks. We told him we were ready for treatment.
He continued to explain that melanoma is not curable, but that he’d do all he
could to help us with this fight. He did say though, “If the next time we take
a PET scan and find the cancer is gone, we’ll know that I had nothing to do
with it.”
Our doctor cannot heal Gary’s cancer. But, we all know Who
can. I can’t tell you what a blessing it is that our doctor with all his education,
research and experience knows that too.
We’re doing okay for now. We feel loved, supported, and
prayed up and down over. We truly do not feel we deserve such honor, but are so
grateful you’re all willing to give it.
Love you all,
deb
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