Eric is doing good, he actually ate some chicken noodle soup and a cookie!! YEAH!!!! This is the first meal and food since he was in the hospital. His tastes are gone right now so he really couldn't taste anything which the doctors said is normal. Taste are gone for a while in bone marrow transplant patients. Eric's doctors said he is doing good, we will just keep up with what we are doing.
Eric goes in at 6am, some days he is done by 1:30pm and some 3:30pm it just depends what he needs and what is going on. His white cells are 5.9 today red cells 3.38 and his platelets are 79!! WOW!! He has not been this high in years! Eric has not had a blood transfusion for a week now which is pretty amazing considering he has been transfusion dependent for years and was going in every other day for transfusions back home before his transplant.
I am in awe and so amazed by the Lord providing us blessings through all of this and knowing every next step and what we need and placing someone or something on our lives for each obstacle we face. I think alot about Eric's donor, I hope he is doing well recovered and back to his normal life. I wish we could meet him sooner but we have to wait 2 years. How amazing it must be to know you literally saved some one's life, someone whom you have never met. Unconditional love!! That is true Christ like love and we will be forever grateful to him!
I am pretty busy working everyday right now, as soon I landed a few hours later I was at a Seminar and then meeting with clients and working so much. I feel bad I really have not been able to see the kids much since I am working so much but I am glad just to be home. I love when they walk in the door and are so excited to share their day with me! I miss it and I love being a Mom for those moments!! I am so proud of them!! They have alot going on in their lives and they still manage it all even with all this going on and I appreciate that from them! They are very mature and special children whom I am blessed to have them and raise them. I am honored to be their mother and I hope they know how much we love them every day and can't wait to have Daddy and I back home and be a family again! We miss the family football games, dinner, hanging out, golfing and boating- we will get that back I promise!
I miss Eric so much- he doesn't have much energy to talk on the phone and it's hard for him to concentrate. I miss talking to him and helping him with what ever he needs but we are so blessed to have our good friends Matt and Jodie Clark caring for him, it brings me such peace and I do not know how I will ever be able to express how much I love them and appreciate all they do for us! They are amazing and we feel like they are family, the Lord placed them in our lives and I know we are getting far more out of our relationship then they are but I just can't say enough about them! Jodie Clark told me that she feels blessed to be able to be here for us and repay back some of the blessings her and Matt had from when she went through her bone marrow transplant. She said the neat thing for her is that Matt and her will know what we need before Eric and I know it because they have been through it, that is so true!
Like the scriptures say " Doubt not, fear not" When we have no hope, everything seems so hard and impossible and we feel so alone it is in those moments that it is a true test of faith and unknown to despite the odds to go forward and trust that the Lord will provide a way and that even though it seems impossible he will open a door and help us through our trials. Like in the scriptures when our ancestors so many times had their faith tested, our ancestors who left all they had and packed up their families and headed to where the Lord told them to go. Some losing their children, fathers, mothers, even their whole family along the way not because they were promised some material thing or a perfect world on the other side, they left all they had because they had faith in the Lord. We complain in our daily lives and take things for granted so much but have we really sat down and counted all our blessings? I know Eric and I have been there and realize how blessed we are. I have so much I need to do to become a better person, a better daughter of God but I do know that the Lord loves me and my family and it is with that knowledge and faith that I continue to know we will be okay. I know we will have more obstacles and trials but I know he will carry us through.
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