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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

I Feel Good

The great thing about AJ and Gracie is that they don't really know or care that I'm battling cancer. That helps me feel normal when I'm around them.

I'm feeling a lot better now that I can eat. For the past 5 days I've been eating anything I can get my hands on to try to gain some weight before radiation starts. The thing is that I still have to eat slowly and carefully lest I bite the sore parts of my tongue. My neck is still sore, but it isn't really uncomfortable unless little Gracie punches me in the neck when I'm cuddling her.

Being off work has been a blessing because I've been able to spend a lot of time with my wife. The only exercise that I've been able to do is take brisk walks with Grace around the neighborhood or up the hill to the supermarket. Those are my most enjoyable parts of the day.

I remember the first night in the hospital the nurse asked me to try to walk to help my circulation. I walked about 5 steps and then had to go back and get in bed. Now, other than being a little tired, I feel good. Praise God!

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AnonymousThursday, March 08, 2007 12:27:00 AM
Dude! You sound awesome. Praise God! I'm so happy right now =)
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GildaThursday, March 08, 2007 1:36:00 AM
It's great to see you getting better and hear you getting your speech (and appetite) back. BTW, AJ's dancing is way cute! You've got great kids (and a great wife). Great blogs.
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AnonymousThursday, March 08, 2007 5:34:00 AM
Thank you for this update. You are such an encouragement to us, Andrew. Your recovery is progressing so well, the Lord is so good & greatly to be praised!

We have not met you personally yet, but we feel so close to you already.

Tita Deena & Tito Mael
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AnonymousSaturday, March 10, 2007 2:45:00 PM
Your feeling good makes us all feel good too. Stay strong.

Uncle Francis, Evelyn, Jackie and Jason.
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AnonymousMonday, March 12, 2007 9:09:00 PM
It always blesses me to read your blog, Andrew. God is doing such a good work in you and Gracie--such beautiful, divine work of God. I love you both.
Gayle
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Our Heavenly Dwelling

¹Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. ²Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, ³because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

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¹¹Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. ¹²We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. ¹³If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. ¹⁴For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹⁶So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ¹⁸All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

I Feel Good

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