Marty's Struggle

"I'm in a win-win situation. If I survive this struggle, I have more time to be with my grandchildren. If I don't, I get to be with my Lord." - Marty Hess

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Location: Peru, IN, United States

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Tuesday Night

Greetings to all:

Praise the Lord always! What a beautiful, sunshiny, warm day this has been. In fact, it has been wonderful to sit on the inside, right inside the window under the air conditioning and watching the main entrance to the hospital. It is interesting to see people come and go all at different speeds and going in different directions, some alone and some with others.

For Marty, today has been another day about like yesterday, so – so. It certainly was not as good as the first couple of days in here, but not as bad as it was at home. Also, today we were very pleased to have a visit from Anna and John Peters. It was really great to be with them. Marty received two units of blood and her last scheduled chemo treatment. Now that she has had the 5 chemo we will wait until it does its work and kills off the white blood cells, the blasts, the cancer cells, and the abnormal cells. At this point the object is to kill the blasts off and take the white cells down so that Marty is in remission. Then, when everything is ready for the transplant she will get more chemo to kill the rest of anything that might be left, so that the new bone marrow does not have to deal with cancer or blast cells. Today, she had some stomach discomfort again after the chemo. So, we don’t know what that might mean for the future and the way that her body is responding and reacting to the chemo. She did not have it before and we certainly hope it is not an indication of what is to come this time. We shall see as we ask God for His grace, comfort, peace, and healing to be with Marty as His plan and will are fulfilled. Praise the Lord!

John 20:21 reads: “As the Father sent me, I am sending you.” Is that ever a significant and powerful verse that tells us so much! First and foremost, of course, it tells us that God sent Jesus into the world with specific tasks to do, mainly to reconcile the world to God and each other. Then second, Jesus is sending us, you and me, into the world to be His hands and feet and complete the work that He got started on earth. You know that is certainly trusting us a lot, and giving us an awesome responsibility. We are God’s children, God’s chosen, that are loved very much by God and cared for by God. We have a special place in God’s plan and thus it is that to God we should give the glory. Praise the Lord!

Since Jesus has sent you out as the Father sent Him, what is it that you are going to do today to glorify God?

Have a positive day and God bless.

Marty and Jack
John 3:16

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