You are looking at posts that were written in the month of May in the year 2010.
Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by Cam.
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Last Monday I donated my usual 5 vials of blood and jar of urine whenever tests are due. On Thursday I went to see Dr Brad to find out what the results were. To refresh the memories, I had bloods done several weeks back and they detected no cancer – stunned. A couple of weeks ago I had scans done and the report said ‘results in keeping with healed myeloma’. This set of results could’ve been the third lot that said no cancer.
And they were. Dr Brad hadn’t seen the results before I went in for the consult and so he had no pre-warning that they would once again be completely clean. No cancer detected anywhere. “When do you finish chemo?” he asked, expecting that I was still on chemo. “I finished a month ago”, said I with a grin.
All my results are completely normal – everything – kidney function, calcium, platelets, haemoglobin, blood counts, proteins, blood red, urine yellow – everything was completely normal for a normal healthy human. This is the first time in 3 years that I have had normal results. I feel great, I am happy, I have an intense desire to be and stay alive. This is the complete opposite to how things were only 6 weeks ago. This, indeed, is miraculous.
God has done the amazing, the impossible, the unexpected. I declare that all things that may have contributed to my healing have been wrapped up in His goodness. Medicine, prayers from the persistent, one-off prayers for healing, the power for healing in God’s Word, the encouragement and care from friends and family, the provision of people who have intervened in my life to show hope – they have all been a gift from God, nothing less.
From here, I don’t really mind what happens in some ways. I know that a miracle, or many miracles really, have taken place. Even this weekend, I have been able to come off my painkillers with relatively little shutdown physically and breakdown mentally as has been the case before.
There is much more to explain, more to understand. But for now I am happy not to worry about that, and just be thankful, plan to have a future, live in the now, and get excited about not being sick anymore.
There is no way this life could have turned around this quick without the swift workings of a loving Creator. Of this I have no doubt. The prayers requesting God somehow be glorified through all of this have been answered, and I feel there is more to come.
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Cam.
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Last week. we said goodbye to Judi Jones, and celebrated her amazing life. She pressed on through many years of cancer treatment, and did so with dignity, grace, and incredible courage. Those who knew her count it a privilege, and I am one who will never forget her nor take for granted the impact that she had on my life.
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Cam.
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A month or two ago I got the results back indicating there was no trace of active cancer in me. Then last week, I got the results back from an MRI I had a few weeks ago on my knees, hip and spine. The report read that all findings were “in keeping with healed myeloma”. Yesterday I had another lot of tests done and I get the results back at the end of the week.
If this third lot of results come back all clear, I feel like I will be able to rest a little more in the knowledge I am not sick anymore. After three years of getting news that has not been at all good, it is difficult to be able to rest in news that doesn’t come with a ‘but…’.
Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Cam.
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I was driving on the freeway today, and I could not believe how fantastic I felt. It was only just over a month ago that I was wishing my life would dissolve rapidly into oblivion. Now, the opposite is true – I don’t want life to stop as I am loving it at the moment. This is such a complete change in such a small amount of time – I am having difficulty believing how good life is at the moment.
There has still been some very difficult things to get through this week, some really sad stuff, but even in the midst of that, I feel that life is progressing rapidly in an upwards direction.
May is birthday month in our family, where there are quite a few born in the month, so lots of celebrating and thankfulness for the gift of life.
I have really been enjoying my work with the Wyemando Bequest Inc, as I project manage the production of a language and culture DVD for Indigenous kids. We will be filming the tutorials in they Nyangumarta language of the Western Desert region of Western Australia – the Pilbara. The website can be found at www.wymando.org.au
As from today, I am officially employed by Edith Cowan University as a Uni Colleague, doing prac supervision and possibly some tutoring as soon as positions come up. It has been on my mind for a while, and last night I got an email offering as much work as I want, on a very flexible timetable.
I have also been able to fit in plenty of doco filming this week. Really enjoying that. I have found a car to replace mine that was written off in the hail storm last month. The silver work has been picking up too with another retailer in Sydney taking on some stock and some good orders through. It has been great working with Dad up at the studio in York. He usually finishes all the things I start to do when I run out of time – I like this set up a lot!
My health continues to be good, I feel better than ever, and my hip is feeling better all the time thanks to intense physio and pilates. The last hurdle I have is to get through my painkiller dependency. This is proving to be extremely difficult, and I really need to come off them soon – they have been flowing through my veins now for nearly six months solid, and I am sure they can’t be good for you over long periods of time.
So I am so thankful for where I am, how I am, and what I am. The space between how I feel now, and how I felt a month ago is like the Grand Canyon. If there is a happy ending to this journey, I feel it is just about to begin, and I feel it will go for a long time yet.
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