The White Blood Cell stimulator continues to be the worst part of my treatment. I feel like I did when I was taking the highest toxicity chemo. It's painful, and knocks me out for days, with no appetite. Praying hard that my July scan will be good. My deformed disc in my back has been making itself known. I can have a procedure to put "cement" in to help, but I don't want to do that just yet. It's not terrible, but it is something to consider later.
I spent Mother's Day with family. YAY VACCINES!! My parents, my brother's family, and his parents-in-law. I ate a picnic type lunch out on the patio. I even got to snuggle Davis when he awoke from his nap before Drew. I am a very happy Aunt Suzy! Since Katie doesn't wish to have children, I am like an aunt and grandmother. Which means I want to spoil those boys silly!!
I want to leave you with some Scripture to remind us all that God is not just a good father, but the ultimate parent, a good mother, too:
Hosea 11:3-4
God: “Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I who took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.”
Hosea 13:8 God described as a mother bear
“Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and tear them asunder…”
Deuteronomy 32:18 God who gives birth
“You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.”
Isaiah 66:13 God as a comforting mother
God: “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 49:15 God compared to a nursing mother
God: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
Isaiah 42:14 God as a woman in labor
God: “For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant."
Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God as a Mother Hen
Jesus: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”
I spent Mother's Day with family. YAY VACCINES!! My parents, my brother's family, and his parents-in-law. I ate a picnic type lunch out on the patio. I even got to snuggle Davis when he awoke from his nap before Drew. I am a very happy Aunt Suzy! Since Katie doesn't wish to have children, I am like an aunt and grandmother. Which means I want to spoil those boys silly!!
I want to leave you with some Scripture to remind us all that God is not just a good father, but the ultimate parent, a good mother, too:
Hosea 11:3-4
God: “Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I who took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.”
Hosea 13:8 God described as a mother bear
“Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and tear them asunder…”
Deuteronomy 32:18 God who gives birth
“You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.”
Isaiah 66:13 God as a comforting mother
God: “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 49:15 God compared to a nursing mother
God: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
Isaiah 42:14 God as a woman in labor
God: “For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant."
Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God as a Mother Hen
Jesus: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”