From Lisa Stearns, Hi friends, family, and supporters, This has been quite a journey I have been walking through and I wanted to give you an update. I know it has been a long time since I have touched base and for that I apologize. I know many of you have wondered how I am doing and not hearing anything may have caused some worry. I am sorry about that. Well, I have been through the big surgery and now have started chemo. I am now facing my 2nd of 8 treatments (each 3 weeks apart). So after my first treatment my 3 week cycle kind of went like this: The first week was debilitating with nausea and exhaustion and various aches and pains and other side effects. The second week I kind of climbed up out of that debilitation and the 2nd week and a half of the 3 weeks weren’t too bad. I have been tired and dealing with some side effects like my nose and eyes just running and my eyes burning. It has affected my vision, still have headaches and joint and muscle aches and pains and various other symptoms. Along with that I have had some minor complications in the healing from the big surgery. I started losing my hair about two weeks after my first treatment so I went ahead and shaved it because it was just so messy and anxiety producing as a constant reminder of my condition and all that I still have to go through. Emotionally and Spiritually I have been continuing as best I can to continue to keep moving towards healing and wholeness and God has been very gracious to me in this. I wish I could explain some of that more, but that may not be for this update. Phil and I have notified my mom and sister (who I am estranged from) about my condition so that they know for their own family health history. It is just the right thing to do. I have already got a response from my sister that is still (like all of her other messages to me) not very caring and angry – which is hurtful and I am praying about the best way to respond. My therapist has begun the process of helping me confront and hopefully find the closure I need with a spiritual father figure who impacted my life deeply and then turned around and used the vulnerabilities he knew about me to hurt me very deeply. He has not yet responded and it’s been a couple of weeks. So, there is a lot going on in my heart. However I have, thanks to God’s graciousness I mentioned earlier, a safe and secret place to meet with Him and am working on being able to receive His love for me. As I face this next treatment on Thursday May 29th I would very much value your prayers. And for the week that follows is when I need to feel your support surrounding me. For those of you that live close to me visits are great diversions from the debilitating nausea and pain. For the rest, just messages through any kind of media including snail mail helps too. Just anything that helps me feel your support draw close really helps. Thank you for your support and your friendship. I do appreciate all that you have already done. I really do. Lisa
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:38:16 +0000
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