Nutrition, Port and First Chemo

We continue to be so blessed by the enormous support and prayers surrounding our family daily. Our dear neighbors have blown us out of the water by bringing over delicious meals, and we continue to receive such beautiful notes of encouragement. We can’t thank you all enough. I have found myself in tears a lot lately, just pretty overwhelmed by all of this love.

I wanted to briefly update you on some important dates moving forward. This Wednesday, Josh will receive a nutritional IV from his naturopath to help support his immune system before his first round of chemo next week. After much prayer, consideration, and consulting the advice of trusted individuals in our lives, we believe this will be a good move to help his body throughout the brutal process of chemo. While the job of chemo is to attack the cancer, we also want to be proactive to help his good cells be as healthy as they can.

Josh will have his port put in on Monday (May 19th). The procedure isn’t that long, but it will require us to be at the hospital for a few hours. The following day, the 20th, Josh will have his first chemo treatment. As you probably know, this will be a longer day (about 6 hours). He will go home with a machine that we will go back on the 23rd to have removed and receive an iron infusion on that day.

Please continue to pray for Josh through this process. This is obviously new territory, and chemo can be a scary word. Pray for his heart and mind throughout this process. Pray for the Lord’s faithful peace to cover his body. Pray for the chemo to help shrink the cancer and for the IV’s to help support his body in good, thriving ways. And continue to pray for healing! We know our God can heal Josh’s body if that is his will. And if not, we know and believe that there is a purpose in this cancer. Pray for our faith to expand in this process. We don’t want to miss what God is doing here and all he is capable of doing in his sovereignty. We know he is continuing to write this story, and he never plays games with our hearts. Help us to know His heart and to have a bigger picture of his character throughout this. We are clinging to what is true and trusting who God has always been in the unknowns. It’s not easy by any means. I don’t want to see my husband have to walk through this. This is where I want to keep reminding our souls of Truth, because it can be really easy to believe the lies in our humanness.

We value your prayers so much!

Anna