Monday, October 13, 2014

Take each day as it comes

Looked at my last post, wanted to update you all. I do indeed have PBC and its Stage 2, determined via biopsy. I seem to be doing well with my treatment and have more energy and less pain. I found out, also, that, as of now, I do not have any other autoimmune diseases. I also tested negative for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic test for breast and ovarian cancer. Now ahead of me is a fibroid that has been growing since January of last year. I have been monitoring it most of the year and get it retested in November. Along with normal screenings for other things, I hope my health life will calm down a little bit in 2015. On top of all this, I have been dealing with some personal things unrelated to my own health. A good friend of mine died of cancer in September. She died of metastisized liver cancer. It was sudden and hard to deal with. I can be an anxious person sometimes. I have embraced it and pray for guidance each day to overcome it. But I also find that my anxiety is less about things that will never happen as much as things that seem to be happening. Life can throw some serious curve balls into your little bubble. Between stresses at work, home, and church, I find that Ebola is now one of those things I have to concern myself with. Everyone says that I am overreacting to it, but I don't think so. But what I have learned through my Mother's illness and my own is that you have to take each day as it comes. In Phillipians 4:6 "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God" He may not always answer in the way you want Him to, but it is always what is in your best interest, if you are one of his children. So I take each day as it comes. I listen to Christ's words that each day has troubles of its own, so don't worry about the next day. So today, I will be satisfied that I am well, my husband is well, my father is well and those I care about are all alive today. Because tomorrow isn't promised. Only today.