Cancer: Journey to Victory - Post surgery Results Day

 Wednesday, 6 March 2019 is the D-Day. Today is the day to get the pathology report following my surgery on 15 February 2019. I was not worried about it because I believe God has everything in control and everything will go well and will be fine.

I was told I will need another surgery. Apparently, the border or margin of the normal breast tissue removed around the cancer cells during the first surgery came back positive with pre-invasive cancer cells so that meant I would need to have another surgery to remove these. There are two areas where there were cancer cells one is 29 mm and the other was 19mm from the point where the cancer was removed. This blew me away, I was shocked because this wasn’t what I was expecting and my thoughts were all over the place. Another surgery was a setback - to my recovery and plans. 

I was also told that 15 Lymph nodes were removed during the first surgery and six came back positive with cancer so as a result I would need to undergo chemotherapy. So my course of treatment will no longer be Radiotherapy and Hormone therapy but will now be the dreaded Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and Hormone therapy. The doctors will decide on the type of Hormone therapy I will need to undergo after further test.

Chemotherapy- no. I have seen the side effects of chemotherapy and this was something I didn’t want to go through. The hair loss and nausea.

I was very teary because this wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought I will be given the results and then discuss the next course of treatment not that I will be told I needed more surgery. I then asked myself why are you crying, you trust God don’t you, you have faith in God don’t you. I wiped away my tears and made a conscious decision to not let this news take root in my heart and then put fear in me or doubt God’s word. I decided that I will not be moved or shaken by this news because I am standing on the word of God to me. I believe in those words and I trust in those words so I do not submit to or agree with this report because it opposes God‘s will for me that says by the blood of Jesus Christ I was healed; by the blood of Jesus Christ I was made whole. This is the report I agree with, this is the report I trust in, this is the report I believe in and this is the report I submit to. 

This is my journey and I intend to travel it well. I intend to travel it with courage, boldness and no fear because I am not alone in this journey. God is with me and He is holding me with His victorious right hand. I will not give up, I will not be impatient, I will be entwined as one with my father. I will be brave and courageous and I will never lose hope. Yes I will keep on waiting on my Lord for I know he will never disappoint me.

“Here’s what I’ve learned through it all: Don’t give up; don’t be impatient; be entwined as one with the Lord. Be brave and courageous, and never lose hope. Yes, keep on waiting—for he will never disappoint you!”Psalms 27:14 TPT

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