Looking for a Fifth Horse

  

 

Sometime within the last year, a friend who is also walking the Multiple Myeloma Road quoted her doctor as saying, “Multiple Myeloma treatments are like Pony Express Ponies. When one gets exhausted, you have to find another horse.” It looks like, for me, that my doctors and I will soon be looking for my fifth horse (5th type of treatment).

Recent blood tests show that the number that I and my doctors watch was no longer creeping upward but climbing rapidly. Not the news I wanted to hear, but not totally unexpected either. MM treatments don’t always have a long period of effectiveness.

 

I got the news by phone, and after I hung up, I opened my Bible to Psalm 16.

 

Psalm 16:1-2

Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

² I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

    I have no good apart from you.”

 

Psalm 16:8

I have set the Lord always before me;

    because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

 

Those were the words I needed to hear at that moment. I know I am very blessed to still be here since my diagnosis in October 2009. I'd like to stay a bit longer.

 

I am scheduled for a visit to Emory on July 6. They called Friday and are hoping to get me in for a PET Scan either here in Augusta or there at Emory before July 6. That is kind of a tight schedule. Pray that happens.

 

So, please pray:

1.     That God will be glorified

2.     That we’ll find a very good next treatment.

3.     That I will tolerate the treatment and its side effects well, and that it will work.

4.     That I will get the PET Scan before I go to Emory on July 6.

5.     That the new treatment can be done here in Augusta, if possible. It is so much easier.

Your prayers are the main ingredient in my treatment. Thanks!