November 11

Oh boy, there went another 1/2 of a month before I made it back here.  I have however been checking up on all of you on my blog roll!  Life sure has a way of moving right on by. So many good things seemed to have happened this week, I just wanted to jot down a few before this day takes off at full speed ahead!

When I went to Clinic on Tuesday morning this week, Dr. Taber told me that he was comfortable enough with my progree to start to seeing me only once a week now.  He double checked my lab work yesterday just to spot check a few items, then called and said I really didn’t need to come to Clinic today, Friday!  I will see him down at IU every Tuesday morning through the end of November , then he will start seeing me up at Clarian North Hospital, which is exactly 7 minutes with all lights red from my house.  It  takes about 45 minutes to get to IU, just so you know why I am so excited.  I do not enjoy driving downtown before daylight, it is a scarey place for all the beauty that is there. 

I have been on a tremedous roller coaster of emotion ever since the transplant.  I had been counseled prior to the surgery that this would happen.  One minute it seems like I am excited, laughing, overwhelmed, and just plain full of joy, then in an instant I can start having overwhelming fears that this is all to good to be true.  I am learning to deal with these emotions but it has been a journey for sure.   I am learning to immediately when the feelings of fear start overwhelming me to start praising God for all the miracles that He alone worked out prior to the transplant, how HIS hand was so evident.  With such overwhelming evidence it doesn’t take long to get on the upside of life again.  How thankful I am for our wonderful God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Another praise worthy idem is Dr. Taber said he will give the order this coming Tuesday to have all of the dialysis equipment removed from our home. Wow, we will have another room to decorate.  How fun that will be!  Believe me I have plans. Our deck has been being redone outback and that should be completed today.  So you see there’s just all kinds of fun stuff.  Next Wednesday we find out if our wood floors that we found in the flood can be fix and refinished.  If not then to decide what to replace them with! Ok, that enough of my schedual.

I will end this post by once again just stating that we serve a great big God friends. I read everyday on FB about friends who are going through challenges that they never dreamed would happen to them.  If I could only get through to each one the message that my dear blog buddie posted so long ago now, “There is nothing, no circustance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until…it has past God and Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose, which I might not understand at the moment, but refusing to panick, I lift up my eyes to Him, and except it as coming from the throne of God.  If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose of blessing to my heart. No sorrow will ever disturb me, No trial will ever disarm me, No circumstance will cause me fret, for I rest in the joy of what my Lord is…that is the certain rest of Victory!”  The prayer of my heart each day of late has been that I can be this kind of person from the inside out.  

Blessings,

Bethany