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But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Psalms 103:17-18

❤️ Happy Valentines Day!! ❤️

Today was a day of celebrating. One: Valentine’s Day. And Two: I am officially half way done with this chemo treatment!! <Insert happy dance!> I am so excited to be on the downhill side of this one. I don’t want to make any of you ladies too jealous… I know it’s every girls dream to have a nice romantic getaway to infusion room 12 for chemo. And let me tell you that’s exactly what I got to do! 🤪 Aaron took the day off so we could do a lunch date. And as luck would have it- we didn’t even get to do that. At least not like we planned. Saturday I noticed the inside of my ankle was sore when I slid my shoe on. It hurt to walk and the pain went up my calf. It was still hurting on Sunday. If I touched it it felt like a bruise. Or like when you had a really bad leg cramp and then the next day your leg is sore. The only thing is, I didn’t have a leg cramp or do anything that would make it sore. It just started hurting. On Sunday I noticed that it looked a little swollen. So, on Monday I messaged the doctor. I honestly thought about waiting and just mentioning it today, but didn’t want to get scolded and told that I should have said something sooner. They weren’t too concerned but said to keep an eye on it. (Not concerned because one: I sent a pic in and two: I didn’t have any redness and the area wasn’t warm to the touch.) At my appointment today I had the nurse look at it and they wanted to have an ultrasound done to rule out a DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis). I finished with my chemo at 1pm today and the ultrasound was scheduled for 2:15pm. Not a whole lot of time to get a nice lunch in. So we did fast food and then headed back to the clinic for the ultrasound. I’m glad to say they didn’t find anything concerning. No DVT. So hopefully the swelling will go down soon and my ankle/leg won’t hurt anymore.

Things are still going well. One side effect I forgot to mention last week is the bone/joint pain. It isn’t super painful. But it makes me restless. So when I go to bed it’s really hard to fall asleep and stay asleep. The last two nights I’ve taken Tylenol and that has helped a lot with the achiness of it all. Now if I could get the hot flashes to go away I’d maybe get a full nights sleep! haha. I’m hoping after the chemo that my hormones will go back to normal. You don’t always realize all of the little things that chemo affects… like hormones. Thankfully that only seems to be an issue at night. I still haven’t noticed anything with tingling in my fingers or toes. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Prayers are being answered! ❤️ I do think my fingers are more sensitive to hot and cold. But I’ll take that over having trouble buttoning up a shirt! Another verse that was shared with me:

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proved; he is a shield to all those who trust him.
Psalm 18:30

Some fun pics from the week. Aaron led music on Sunday and Evalyn wanted to sing with him. She did a great job. She doesn’t like talking in front of people so we were really proud of her for doing this. She said she wanted to because she like singing. If you want to see it you can click here. Kaden had a part in a skit in youth group on Saturday. They all did a great job. He was in the first skit if you are interested in watching that you can click here. If you come to Sunday School you’ll have to take note of the bear with napkins… We’re going through Luther’s Small Catechism and on Sunday we were talking about the 7th commandment. And what does that mean. If you go into a restaurant and take a handful of napkins from them are you stealing them? (We concluded it was a heart issue.) I only grabbed a couple (four to be exact) and we used two. I took the other 2 for the car because I couldn’t just throw them away.. and I knew they wouldn’t reuse them. So I had to take a pic. Haha!