With all that's going on with Coronavirus consciousness, Evie's compromised immune system and mom's positive test result and declining health, we missed an important anniversary.
April 3, 2010, the evening before Easter Sunday, as Evie was changing into her jammies, she noticed a lump.
Beginning the next Monday, she did all the things required by all the doctors, underwent all the testing, received the diagnosis then suffered through eight chemotherapy treatments, two surgeries and 33 radiation treatments.
It was a difficult year. The last radiation treatment took place in mid December.
2010 is a year we'd love to forget, but, of course, never will.
And, it's a year we should rejoice in and praise God for, and, honestly, most of the time, that's what we do.
Ten years.
At the time, we weren't sure that we'd have ten years.
We've cherished each day since then in a way we could not have had the cancer not appeared.
Certainly, the trauma of the chemo and of the radiation has taken a toll on Evie's body and she's paying the price...
...yet she lives each day as a brighter light for the Kingdom than she was even before.
God's love, mercy and grace are amazing things and the more personally you experience them, the more vividly you can bear witness to them.
And, she does.
I am so blessed to have her in my life and these last ten years have been an especially precious gift.
Who knows about tomorrow? But, there are many sweet yesterdays.
Praise God.
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