Flashback: So I called Cancer Treatment Center of America and happened to speak

to the same operator  that I had spoke to in May 2014. He was glad to tell me that the insurance was  accepted at their Zion, Illinois center. (WOW, I thought Zion, what a name for  a city that would try to help people heal.) There was a man who came into my job and his wife was telling me about the treatment center in Zion, when I told her she was very happy for me. Later, I told my niece, who sings gospel with a traveling ministry, she said their group had been there and let me read a book about the man who help start and pray out the city. When this all started I was hoping I would be able to go to the one in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I had heard good things about it too from some friends, and it would be a closer drive.

7-1-15 My daughter-in -law gave birth to the granddaughter twins. TYL I was able to speak with her and my son before and after she delivered. I was able to see,hold and pray for those precious babies. Although these was not their first children, it was the first since all of this had taken place in my life. I TYL that there were no real complications with mother or daughters.

7-4-15 The twins were being released, so we stopped by the hospital on our way out of town. TYL I thought Mom, Pop and Chris were going, Chris’s father would go to help drive but he didn’t. It was an amazing adventure, but the Lord helped us all of the way. We stopped, spent the night and then drove the rest of the way on 7-5-15, my first appointment was Monday 7-6-15 morning.

July 6 thru 12 This was a week of classes, prayer and more test. It is truly an amazing place. The television advertisements could not accurately portray the love, warmth and spiritual feeling I felt upon arriving. Everyone at the hotel, which is connected with the hospital, was just as welcoming to me and my family as the people at the hospital. Many of the people that I spoke with while I was there had been patients before they became part of the staff, so they had first hand experience of what people needed and how to be empathetic to our needs. We even stopped at a few stores and restaurants while we were there and the people that helped us seemed to have the same helpful attitude. After all of the testing, the end results was the same and even the treatment that they had planned was the same as my doctor at the KU treatment center at home.Overall it was a scary, uncertain experience, but with my family there to help me through each day and the peace of mind knowing what was happening with Chris, it made it easier. TYL for your continued strength, the time away and a place like Zion.

(I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13)

7-13-15 I returned to my home doctor who put me at ease. I didn’t want anyone here to feel I had put things off to seek help somewhere else. Instead he was glad I went for a second opinion. We both wished there may have been something different they could have done. I let him know that I would be staying here for treatments and that I had my first one there. He had received the records and scheduled my second treatment for Thursday the 16th. I told him about my trip and he was amazed that I had done almost all of the driving there and all of the driving back after my first treatment. TYL, it was only by His grace, love and the prayers of those that knew we were on the road, that we were able to make it.

7-21-15 I had my surgery to implant the port for future chemotherapy treatments. My first treatment was by “picc line”. The second was intravenous. I didn’t know how long I would be receiving these treatments but I knew I wanted something more stable and with less chance of infection.

“God wants me healed, I am His child,

I want to be healed, By His stripes I am healed, restored and alive

(Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24)

The devil wants to kill, steal and destroy

He will not kill, steal or destroy me

(The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10)

I am healed in JESUS’ name and by HIS blood