Okay, I’ll confess that when I left Dr. Bennett’s office Thursday I felt “snake bit.” I also felt that if I “didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck atall.” (A quote from Hee Haw.) However, after getting home and praying and meditating on the situation, I am now in a “git’er done” mode. (A quote from “Cable Guy.”) After all, “it is what it is.” From the people I am quoting, you can see that I have become deeply philosophical over the last few days. All kidding aside, you can imagine that a lot of things have run through my mind since I discovered that I had a second cancer. Giving no great credit to whatever spirituality I have, and all credit to a loving God, I have accepted that this is the reality that I have to deal with, so I will deal with it. Now, would I have preferred to have had a better report from the doctor? The answer is a “no-brainer.” (I know, I know, another cliché.) Of course I would have preferred to hear him say that I was a “perfect specimen of health.” Dr. Bennett would prefer to have said the same thing. He hated to tell me that I had another cancer and informed me that he did. Even a great, genteel guy like Dr. John Bennett cannot give good news when the news is not good. (Mary and I have known Dr. Bennett since he was a little boy. I was his grandmother’s pastor in the 70’s. I refuse to call him“John,” since he will be running a long tube through my colon, then cutting off part of my colon. I prefer to think of him as Dr. Bennett instead of the four-year-old boy running around his grandmother’s den.) Dr. Bennett thinks that he can get all of it with surgery, but he doesn’t know that for sure. We will have to deal with what we will have deal with when the surgery is done and we know the outcome. I want to hear him say that he got it all (duh). I feel, however, that if I lived through the past seven or eight months with lymphoma and chemo treatments, I can live through whatever comes of the surgery, including further chemo treatments. I am praying, and want you to pray, that this will not be the case and that I can leave the hospital with a “clean bill of health.” (Is that another cliché or is it only a quaint saying?)
Believe me, prayer partners, January 17, 18 and 19 will be trying days. I will go from Nulytely (17th) to colonoscopy (18th) then surgery (19th). All of that without food and then after surgery a liquid diet. (Gee, I hope I’m not making you envious.) Set aside those days, plus the days of recovery afterward, to pray for “yours truly.” I mean this from “the bottom of my heart;”I am glad that you prayer partners are out there. You are a great deal of comfort to me. Bro. Joe
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