The past few months have gone by so quickly, leaving me with four days until I leave for YWAM. I am so excited to finally do what I’ve always dreamt of doing; missions and traveling the world. God has perfectly planted this trip at my feet. The support that I needed to pay for dts came flooding in and jobs lined up perfectly to keep me working until today.
I can’t wait to see what God has in store for me. This whole experience is going to be filled with so many stories, revelations, and new inspirations. To keep everyone up to date on what God is doing in my life, I have started this blog. I hope that you all check this blog regularly and give me your feedback.
As far as my dad goes, two and a half weeks ago he went into the emergency room due to abdominal pain. While he was in the ER, doctors pumped four liters of a dark blue liquid out of his abdomen. The fluid is constantly coming back and needs to be drained every so often. After a week or so of endless tests and the doctors not doing what his diagnosis was, they discovered that he has stage 4 gastric cancer (his 3rd cancer) with around 6 months to live. We found out so late into his cancer because symptoms don’t show until the patient is in the late stages. Thus far, the journey has been so crazy and unimaginable. He’s currently been in the hospital for a week and a half. We’re hoping that he’ll be able to come home in about a week. We’re going to get a hospital bed for him to be in when he gets home. At home, he’ll still have all of his iv’s hooked up and my family will have to change out the bags and all of those medical things for him.
A few more details on his current condition; he hasn’t ate in a good month or so (he has nourishments and fluids coming through an iv), he was throwing up quite a bit but now he has a tube that goes into his nose and down to his stomach (sucking up the bile from his stomach because there isn’t any food for it to break down), I suppose the list goes on, but that’s a brief update on his health.
The doctors started on Thursday, and today he’s been feeling pretty good. He’s been up and walking around the hospital, which is awesome. The chemo isn’t going to get rid of the cancer because there is no cure for gastric cancer. It’s just going to shrink the tumor to make him more comfortable.
Two and a half weeks before my flight was leaving I had a HUGE decision to make. This is probably the hardest decision I’ve been faced with. Do I stay or go? I have sought a lot of council and prayed so hard. The Lord new that my dad was going to be in this condition when I got accepted to YWAM, my support came in, and I got a job at Gap after the preschool. He knew this was going to happen and He still aligned everything up perfectly for me to do dts.
My family is in complete support of me still going abroad. My dad really wants to see me live my life long dream. If anything happens to his health at all, I’m on the next flight home. God calls us to live by faith and this is a huge example of completely trusting Him and His will. I know that being away from my dad at this time is going to be really hard for me, but I God has called me to do an amazing thing and I need to live in His purpose.
God isn’t a God of sickness; He is a God of healing. Please be in constant prayer for my dad and my family. Most importantly, for their salvation.
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