Greetings to you from the valley! The two weeks after chemo bring a myriad of health challenges and this week has brought some entertaining new ones and really done a better job of turning up the screws on a couple others. It's amazing how the body gets a little irritated and out of whack when you dump a bunch of toxins in for 5 days!
No part of my body seems immune to breaking down this time, at least a bit. My skin, sense of touch, taste, energy, stomach, balance, and thinking all have taken a pretty good hit. Still I try my best to stay at least a little active- even get out of the house on cold days for short periods of time to help bring mental healing if nothing else.
Like last Saturday, how I was getting ready to go watch Jake play basketball in Missouri and backed our van into the garage door shattering the back window out. I chalked it up to what some people call 'chemo brain'. Thankfully the garage door was okay- in this case the clear winner of car vs door.
All this allowed me the opportunity to drive without a back window on the coldest day of the year to go get a new one this past Monday. It was 25 degrees plus colder outside than the temp we keep our freezer at- that just boggles my mind. Anyway, thanks to insurance we're only $100 poorer but I'm sure it will cost me much more than that in a lifetime of jokes and comments if nothing else.
Not having the energy to get out and shop which I do enjoy, I've been doing some internet shopping which has worked out very nicely. After finishing a recent purchase at Amazon.com I was given the opportunity to select or make up a 'payphrase' for a one-click checkout which seemed like a pretty cool feature. But the most interesting thing was the phrase they suggested for me- 'Keith's existing hope'.
Now if you've read more than one or two of my blogs you know that 'hope' is one of my most favorite words meaning 'sure confidence of salvation'. Christmas only reminds me even more of my hope thanks to a baby born in a manger. Angels hearalded my suggested payphrase for all mankind over 2000 years ago proclaimong, 'you now have an existing hope!' Who among us can really grasp the depth of such an amazing proclamation and gift?
Health adventures help remind us He, Jesus is the only hope that really matters. And while I am so very thankful for all the healing hope God has shown Sherri and I so far, this Christmas we will again be focused on the hope that knows no valleys! Have a blessed Christmas!
Hopefully Yours,
KP
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