Last week was a scare but kind of a false alarm but all is well now. Recovering from the flu but up till now there are still some residual symptoms like phlegm in the chest.
Here are the latest updates and the good news.
1. The cancer that had spread to the liver had regressed and functionally the liver is back to normal.
2. The primary tumor in the pancreas is still there but it had not grown in size and is termed “stable”. As the tumor is in the part of the body that has multiple tissues/organs and the fact the tumor had attached itself to various organs make it difficult to distinguish specifically. In other word, the mass could also comprise of dead tumor cells alongside the live ones.
My Oncologist is “happy” as I’m one the few that responded to therapy and he is prescribing another 4 cycles of chemotherapy (had completed 8 cycles). He is also holding off on Radiotherapy until the chemotherapy option is exhausted.
I looked back on this whole period since last August and can't help but wonder how I had made it through. There are many people to thank, from family to friends, church, colleagues and associates, everyone that supported me mentally, spiritually and other ways such that words cannot fully described my gratitude well enough.
My journey is not at an end there is still a distance to cover before this race is completed. 2 passages that come to mind when I reflect on my current status:
Hebrews 12:1-2
1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NASB)
2 Timothy 4:7-8
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. (NASB)
These are verses are usually used in funeral services and eulogy but here I want declare God’s faithfulness towards me and the Grace that he had shown for I know I will complete the race regardless what the outcome might be and every steps that I had taken and the steps that I will continue to take in this race, I take them knowing the strength is from the Lord.
Many of us would know the peom/story of the footprint (http://www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php) but I say this, He is the ground on which I stood, the air that I breathe, the warmth that surrounded me, the hand that held mine, He does more than carried me, He sustained me.
In Him We Trust.
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