We Have A Plan

O.K....Here's the plan:  Nick is being admitted this Monday and staying at Vandy all week.  They are going to aggressively hit the the remaining stupid cancer cells that mistakenly believe that they belong in my son's body.  He will then come home for 2 to 3 weeks while his body recovers.  During that time he will be in pseudo isolation.  I have to Clorox and Lysol everything in sight. (No problem...we have a plan!)

Then we will go back for another week (shampoo, rinse, and repeat...so to speak.)  After coming home again for a couple of weeks it will be bone marrow transplant time.  As Nick's doctor told him,"For your sister it's a one day process.  For you it's three months."  Amanda will go in for 1 to 2 days and have marrow harvested.  Nick will be inpatient for awhile, don't know how long, and will need to stay in Nashville for the rest of the three months.  We will have to have some sort of apartment-type accommodations so that Nick can be near Vanderbilt and receive treatments as an outpatient.  At the end of the 100 days, Nick should just need maintenance chemo.  It's good to have a plan!

I must add that this plan is just that...a plan.  We fully expect God to order our steps and intervene in ways that only He can.  He has moved in miraculous ways so far.  So, even though there are lots of questions about how this will all work, I know that He will work it out.

We are learning first hand about what God says about how He cares for us:

Luke 12
²² Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. ²³ Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. ²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds? ²⁵ And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ²⁶ If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest? ²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ²⁸ If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?

Personal request:  Please do not wait until a very difficult time in your life to begin to trust God with your life.  If we had not had the foundation of relationship with Him before this adventure began I can not even imagine what it would be like now.  Get to know Him.  Dare to take Him at His Word.  There won't be a moment of regret!  It is well.