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| Celebrating with pizza |
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between,
Count your blessings, not your problems.
-Mandy Hale
After months of anguish and worry over my dad’s low white blood cell count, we heard the most beautiful words at today’s appointment, “there is no lymphoma or leukemia!” In fact, he doesn’t have a bone marrow disorder at all. Because dad has celebrated a few birthdays (#85 will be celebrated with great rejoice on August 27), his bone marrow is aging and elongating, thus crowding out the white bloods cells and sometimes the red blood cells. The doctor says all he needs now is “supportive care.” What that means is that they’ll monitor his levels monthly and if they get too low, he can be given an injection of a drug which stimulates white blood cell production for 3 weeks. We couldn’t be more thrilled and relieved! Dad was right all along when he kept insisting he was fine.
Best of all, because these results were determined through an extensive and very thorough review of a bone marrow biopsy, we have 100% certainty that he is correct: he is fine! And we can stop worrying and start rejoicing! What a powerful reminder that 1) God is Great and 2) worry is nothing but a stealthy, poisonous thief.
As Kim so wisely pointed out this afternoon, had we allowed worry to consume us, we would’ve missed out on months of our lives. Among my many flaws is the inability to not worry. While I didn’t lose those entire months, I lost a healthy chunk of my life worrying even though I rationally know worry can’t fix or change a thing. Point being, to cross bridges when (and only when) I come to it is a trait on which I need to work more diligently. Pray for me … this old dog is set in her worrying, OCD, hypersensitive ways.
Referring back to the quotation above, I do very well counting my blessings … I just need to stop the arithmetic there and not factor in the problems (and potential problems).
I didn’t feel comfortable sharing this journey of the past months with many people, so to those of you who walked with me , listened when I needed to talk or cry, held my hand, prayed with and for us, and celebrated with me today, thank you! Most of you managed this feat from many miles away! You are huge among my blessings and I love you!
To sum it up, my blessings today are many and magnificent. The end!
Team Wilmore 
Celebrating with you!!! It's a joyful day indeed!
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Thank you for helping me through the dark days … I wish you could be here to celebrate with us in person! Love you, my dear friend!!!
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