Thursday Update

The Lauer Family, Easter 2008

It was a rough night last night. Apparently, they implanted a single port instead of a double port so I had to go back into surgery today to get the right port. Someone read it wrong. I didn't sleep much and could feel discouragement coming on. So I just had Shelly pray for me all night, as well as all of you praying for me. I felt the discouragement lift today.

I had a talk with the oncologist today. He says that they have a high success rate with this type of thing and because I am physically in good shape, he's confident I can get through this. They're going to try and keep me quarantined which will help.

Pray for Shelly. She developed a cough yesterday, and until that's taken care of, she cannot be around me. She is such a comfort to me. Please pray for her healing.

I think of a hedge, like the hedge that protects us from the enemy's darts. But this time, a fiery dart poked through that hedge and was allowed to touch me. But I feel that through this, the LORD is causing me to refocus my life so that, in the years that I have remaining, I will have more compassion and a clearer vision of what I need to do. That is what I'm getting from the LORD through my reading and praying, and people talking to me, and hearing HIS voice.

Thank you all for praying. I will try and update you as often as I can, but it will get more difficult in the next few weeks. We have to kill all the bad cells, but it also kills all the good cells. So it will get harder before it gets better.

Pray for the doctors and nurses to stay on top of every future detail as they treat me. Pray for Shelly's health.

Love,

Kit

Day one of chemo

I am so thankful for all your love and support of me and my family. I literally feel everyone’s prayers. I am doing good…day one of chemo…feeling ok…

Here's how you can pray for me:

1. The chemo kills all the bad guys.
2. The Lord is merciful to me in the second and third week of treatment. Traditionally the worst nausea, vomiting, runs, cold sores, hair loss (no big deal there). Take them away and/or give me strength to endure!
3. The chemo sends the “blast” cells into remission; where they stop producing…I need less than 5% blast cells by end of week 2-3.
4. My family remains healthy so I can see them, especially Shelly for the long term, because she will be with me most.
5. Pray God protects me from catching anything.
6. Pray my mind will be fixed on the LORD and my eyes, heart focused on Him. I would hear his voice, and that my thoughts would be HIS thoughts.
7. Pray that God supply our needs during this time.
   

Shelly and I are so very thankful for every prayer, every kind word, every card, every gift. My heart is overwhelmed with the response and love of the Body of Christ. Like my spiritual children into whom I have sown the love and knowledge of God for all these years, you rise up now and bless me and oh how I feel your blessing. You sustain me through the love of Jesus Christ that flows so abundantly through your hearts!

Fighting the good fight,
Kit