It's been a year since my last post. My doctor has increased the frequency of my visit's to every two months, but nothing has changed in my situation. I am at 2 years + since diagnosis, other than bruising and a slight discomfort in my abdomen you would not know anything was wrong with me. I have had two ct scans in the last year both showed enlarged lymph nodes and a very enlarged spleen (23 cm) and a couple of other anomalies, nothing of any major significance.
A couple visits ago my doctor told me I cannot expect to remain the same, this disease will progress, my situation will change. I took that as a challenge to pray that it shows improvement, not decline. I thought if my situation is going to change I would pray that it change for the better. In Dec. my WBC was 35.6 and my platelets were 62. That is the visit he told me Leukemia would not stay the same. My wife and I prayed. Jan '17 visit (Dec.'s visit was a month later than originally scheduled, Jan was back on track) I got mixed results WBC got worse 42.4, and platelets improved slightly (70). My wife and I kept praying and I asked God specifically that my next results would show WBC down and platelets up. I believe that when it comes to prayer what goes up must come down. Prayers go up, answers come down.
Saw my doctor on 3/15 he says I have some good and some not so good news for you. WBC are down and platets are down slightly. But he said, no treatment for now. Just before he left the room I told him I had been praying my WBC would go down and my platelets would go up, he voiced support for my prayers. Anyway when I got my actual results in my hand I was pleasantly surprised WBC 33.3 (down 25%) and my platelets had gone up to 72. (Improvement of 2, statistically unchanged, but they had gone up as I prayed.) My doctor had misspoke, I am more determined than ever to pray specifically about these results, what I sent up as prayer, God sent down as an answer.
As a pastor I am painfully aware that many people are having a much different journey than I am with Leukemia. I wish and pray the best for you, and can only say my experience, and the bible teaches, is that prayer changes things. Some times it helps us cope, other times it helps us overcome. But just as there are laws of nature that say, "what goes up MUST come down," so is there a spiritual law that says, "Prayers that go up, Must and Will, have an answer come down." The bible says there will always be three things we can count on: Love, Hope, and Faith. Hope is the expectation something good is on it's way. Romans 15:13 - "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
-Maurice
P.S. I went scuba diving two weeks ago, went down more than 100 feet deep. Leukemia is not slowing me down!
