CANCER FREE
I have been somewhat slack in my posts the last several months. It was un-intentional, however, I have been factually ill some of the time. However, I had been given some depressing news about 4 months ago. It had the potential of capping my life at 5 more years. Now do not misunderstand, I am ready to go. But like the old joke I told many times from the pulpit, {There was a firey evangelist pouring on the coals at a summer revival. He asked the question, "How many here want to go to Heaven?" Everyone in the Church raised their hands, except two men in the back.
The evangelist asked the question three times. And all three times, he got the same results. He finally walked half-way down the aisle and asked those two men, specifically, "Don't you two want to go to Heaven?" Their response was quick, "Oh Yes Sir, but we thought you were trying to get a boat load up tonight."}
Most of us are ready to go, but not tonight.
It has cast a pall over my psyche. Even with all of the promises of Scripture, I just felt I had so much more to do for God, and yes there are some relations I need to heal. So I was not ready in the Earthly sense.
I had been given a test here in Mobile, that I learned last week, is no longer used at your major Cancer Centers. I was at M.D. Anderson in Houston when I learned it. Dr. Word, a surgeon at the Genito-Urinary section of M.D. Anderson had done a masterful job of doing a 'Reclamation Cyro' procedure a year earlier. But indicators showed that it might have rfeturned, along with this test I mentioned. He walked in the morning of my appointment and explained 'false-positives'. It seemed that this test 'smelled' live cancer cells as well as live cells. Biopsies proved, I had no Cancer.
I do not mean to make a case for Health Care Reform. I believe we need some reform: tort reform; cross state purchasing and other very simple fixes. However, what is on the table now is not Reform, but take over. I am almost 64 years old. If we had some of the measures on the table now, I would probably have died years ago or at best, would still be depressed, because I probably could not get to M.D. Anderson.
God Bless
The evangelist asked the question three times. And all three times, he got the same results. He finally walked half-way down the aisle and asked those two men, specifically, "Don't you two want to go to Heaven?" Their response was quick, "Oh Yes Sir, but we thought you were trying to get a boat load up tonight."}
Most of us are ready to go, but not tonight.
It has cast a pall over my psyche. Even with all of the promises of Scripture, I just felt I had so much more to do for God, and yes there are some relations I need to heal. So I was not ready in the Earthly sense.
I had been given a test here in Mobile, that I learned last week, is no longer used at your major Cancer Centers. I was at M.D. Anderson in Houston when I learned it. Dr. Word, a surgeon at the Genito-Urinary section of M.D. Anderson had done a masterful job of doing a 'Reclamation Cyro' procedure a year earlier. But indicators showed that it might have rfeturned, along with this test I mentioned. He walked in the morning of my appointment and explained 'false-positives'. It seemed that this test 'smelled' live cancer cells as well as live cells. Biopsies proved, I had no Cancer.
I do not mean to make a case for Health Care Reform. I believe we need some reform: tort reform; cross state purchasing and other very simple fixes. However, what is on the table now is not Reform, but take over. I am almost 64 years old. If we had some of the measures on the table now, I would probably have died years ago or at best, would still be depressed, because I probably could not get to M.D. Anderson.
God Bless
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