LAST TREATMENT!!!!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Hello Family and Friends,
I love the title of this blog. I am so thankful to God for getting me this far and I am praying for His strength, grace and mercy to carry me through this last treatment. I know with all your prayers I will be able to make it through the next 12 days. Thank you so much for always praying. My friend, Chris, said the other day "the squeaky wheel gets the oil". Well, I have been one squeaky wheel to God and I believe His great might and miracles will be demonstrated! I look forward to my next blog to you because it will mean that the chemo is done. It has been a good weekend. I am trying to enjoy every minute before Monday. I had my friend and Bible study leader, Terri, come over today and pray me up for Monday. Thanks Terri and Colleen for your kindness and ministry to me! Hope you all have one terrific weekend and coming week! Love you all!

Specific ways to pray: Please pray God will bless me with restful sleep each night and takes away the nausea so I don't loose anymore weight! I will be getting chemo tomorrow at 10:00 am- thanks for your prayers!

Dana

Thanks Prayer Warriors!

Thank you all so very much for praying yesterday for this sinus pressure!! Today that pressure is nearly gone and I have my energy back :) It is so comforting to know that the Saints of God will pray and results ALWAYS follow! I was driving Chaz to school this morning and I just felt God whisper into my heart... "just think Dana, in a few months you will be taking Chaz to school in complete and total health! " Wow, that was a great thought!! I can't begin to tell you the things that I have learned through this whole cancer experience and one of them is to just enjoy life-every minute of it!! Just noticing all of God's amazing creation all around us and the opportunities to give and minister to people excites me soooo much I can barely keep seated! Life is too short to be hung up on the stupid things of life. I am thankful for this lesson because if anyone needed to learn to get her priorities straight and forget the offenses of people it was me!!! Taking the time and making memories with family is my excitement and joy! Thank you God for refining my heart and hopefully making me a better person! Hope you all have a great day and enjoy every bit of it.

Love you-
Dana

Please Pray!

Hello Family and Friends,
Just a quick prayer request! I think I am fighting the beginning of a sinus infection. I have a ton of pressure and it has wiped out any energy I have left and this is suppose to be my GOOD WEEK! I need to be strong and healthy for Monday's last treatment. Please pray for me that God heal this up! Thank you so much for your prayers.

Love,
Dana

Birthday Weekend

Hello Family And Friends,
Getting ready for a super fun weekend as Chaz is turning 8 years old! Can't hardly believe that my little guy is already 8! He is so excited because he gets to take birthday treats to school this morning and tomorrow is his "friend party". He is having 6 little boys come over for a Broncos Football party. Everything is football and hockey with Chaz! When I asked him what he wanted to do this year all he said was I want my friends to come over and play football with me and my dad! Well, that's pretty easy! His Aunt Debi is making one of her fabulous cakes! Then Sunday is the family party. Just one big birthday weekend - isn't that how it should be anyways :)? Marlene, my mother-in-law, has been a huge blessing to me and the familly. I just feel I need to thank her for all she has done for us! I literally would not make it through my treatments if it weren't for her incredible care for me! Thank you Marlene for caring for me so kindly and sacrificing so much of your time to help us! All the laundry, meals and watching Cade has been such an awesome help that thanks doesn't seem enough. We love you so much! Again, this morning she is helping me get this house clean for the weekend - thanks!!!! Feeling much better yet today. I woke up at 6:30am with more energy than I have had in awhile :) Each day just keeps getting better. I am so excited to be done with this so I can know what it feels like to feel "heathy" again. I have felt sick and tired so long that my body has forgotten what a healthy day is like. I keep dreaming of how God will show off His great miracles as we take those last MRI'S and Pet Scan probably in the middle of November. Please pray that as those x-rays come back there is absolutely nothing that shows up! That my body is clean and clear, white as snow from any trace of cancer! Thank you!!! God is a Living God TODAY! He is not just a God of the Bible but a God that is active and working just like He was in Bible times! Miracles still happen today all around us and if you can't say that you have never seen one let me come on over to your house - because I am a living and breathing miracle of God! Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". (cancer free!!!!)

I love you!
Soon to be: Dana - Cancer survivor and God healed!

Hello Again!

Hello Dear Family and Friends,
Just thought I could muster a little energy to tell you I made it yet again through a horrible treatment. Today is day 10 and the treatments are lasting longer in my body. Today I am dealing with a great deal of stomach difficulty (diahrea and nausea). Please do pray that God bring me completely out of this treatment so I can get strong again for the last one. I have contemplated not receiving that last treatment just for the fact that it keeps getting more intense and in my human mind I can't possibly imagine my body can take anymore. However, with the strength the Lord will give me I HAVE to do one more. The Lord is really revealing His greatness to me and has given me visions of the future to look forward too! Thank you all for your wonderful and encouraging letters and calls. I appreciate them all soooooo much. Lauren, I loved your cards girl! How I wish we could do a latte together. I will take a rain check on that though :) Thank you all for the meals. That has been the most welcomed blessings we could receive. Pamela, the venison roast was amazing and tasted so good! Thank you for your kindness. And one last thank you to my sweet and dear mother! Mom, you have been such a tremendous encouragement to me when I am completely down. YOU ALWAYS pick me up with God's word and you are so full of His Wisdom. Thank you so much for just listening to all the tears and heartache. YOu are one strong woman of God and I love you with all my heart! Thank you God for my mom! Well, have to go and rest AGAIN! I will tell you what, when this is over there will not be any rest'n for this girl. I am tried of that Lazy Boy - God's got a mission for me and I just can't wait.

Love you tons!
Dana

One More Prayer Request

Just getting ready for that 3rd treatment this morning and I thought of one more prayer request! Please pray that God blesses me with sleep at night! That my sleep would be good and help to give strength to my body! Thank you so much.

Love,
Dana

Calling All Prayer Warriors!!!!

OK family and friends here we go again for the 3rd round of FEC. I have been much more thoughtful and fearful of this round. I think because I know how horrible it makes me feel and how long it drags on! However, I know with your prayers and God's amazing strength I can do it!!! Please pray specifically for God to protect all of my organs and that the chemo only works against the bad cells! Also, pray for me to have the daily strength to make it through the next 10 days. That's how long the last treatment took until I was up on my own again. Pray for Mark as he is running solo with the boys and household responsibilities and for Grandma Marlene as she so wonderfully cares for me, Cade and Chaz as Mark is working. I have been encouraged by my dear friends, Terri and Colleen, who pray for me before each treatment to praise the Lord this week. Please join me in praising our Lord as He demonstrates His great power in me by a complete and total healing!!!! What the devil meant for evil the Lord is creating a beautiful testimony of His great love and miracles! God is good and I will praise Him ALL THE TIME! Love you all so much and can't wait to share with you soon how God pulled me through again :)

Dana

Good days!

Hello All! Thank you all for your comments and encouragement. Jan, it was soooo good to hear from you- thank you for your prayers! Well, this is my week to feel good before I get hit hard again next week. I feel really good this week and enjoying every minute of it! I am trying so hard not to think to much about next week but it just looms in my mind. Please pray for me that God give me the physical, mental and spiritual strength to carry through with the LAST 2 treatments. I am really beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel - that's what keeps me going! I was reading a devotional book written by Beth Moore and several missionaries and one section was on spiritual warfare. It happens to be the topic for the month of October. Pretty appropriate as the devil is trying so hard to beat me down as I close in on my last 2 treatments. However, what I wanted to share with you is what Beth wrote about our trials and when they are hard they could be for a couple of reasons and here's what she says: "Satan is into numbers not names. He wants to kill as many birds with one stone as possible. That's why he wants people of inflluence more than anyone. He'll also do anything he can to shut down those who show the potential for influence. Take Peter, for instance. At the time of Christ's earthly ministry, Simon Peter fumbled the ball as often as he carried it. Satan, however, watched him closely and knew he had the potential and passion to be dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. So he came for him. If you read the 22nd chapter of Luke carefully, you will note that Christ obviously allowed Satan to "sift (Peter) like wheat"(vs.31) Christ had the authority to forbid the enemy that right. Why didn't he? Because Peter apparently had some things that needed sifting." I love this passage because it makes me realize that Satan considers me a huge potential with passion to make a BIG difference for God's Kingdom. What the enemy may not realize is this time that I am laying low or feeling like a bull in a cage will back fire on his plan. Because this bull is raging to get out and scream at the top of her lungs the praises of a God who heals, restores and loves with compassion! God must be "spiritually pruning" me for something special and I can't wait to serve Him with everything I got! So bring on those next two treatments and masectomy because boobs or no boobs this girl got a mission from God and it sure is exciting! I love you all so much and trust that you will continue to lift us up this month! Monday October 8th and Monday October 29th are the last 2 treatments. Go prayer warriors Go! Let God be bombarded with prayers and praise!

Enjoy this day!
Dana