Updates: Keeping on the Fight
Dear friends, I pray that all is well for each of you and you have had a blessed beginning to 2022! These last three months have been challenging yet good. I have had to battle impatience and discouragement at the slow pace of recovery, while dealing with ongoing side effects of the diagnosis. I have also had to battle the peculiar feeling of being so dependent upon the intercession, love, and support of others after having long taken too much pride in my ability to work hard and be a successful student, scholar, and professional. Loved ones around me have been encouraging me that my continued fight for life and recovery is of invaluable encouragement to them and is especially important for my family. Thus I do keep asking God for strength and healing, and I choose to keep on fighting the fight, which now is also a fight of patient endurance. Yet I do have so much to be thankful for! I was told a year ago in December that the average life expectancy for the diagnosis was 12 month...