Ask Miss Lisa (Love, Inspiration, Straight-talk, Activation)
If TODAY is THE day…
I started this journey sharing my diagnosis for Multiple Myeloma. A form of cancer that I had not even heard of before I was diagnosed. But life comes at you fast so you learn to keep up or you will get run over.
Since I have quickly become acquainted with MM, I would like to share some of what I have learned and my story in the process. Diagnosed on April 22, 2021 - time STOPPED and I was NOT prepared. I have always stayed on top of my doctor appointments so finding out that I had MM was a sucker punch in the stomach and throat at the same time. Because what I would learn almost immediately was that I would not be able to hold anything over 8 ounces nor would I be able to walk. Can you imagine that!!! On March15th, I flew across country to move one of my clients to Arizona now I cannot hold a 16-ounce bottle of water to take ALL these PILLS!
I started chemotherapy treatment almost immediately (me and my new friend the walker). Treatment was not too bad because my treatment consists of having to take 10 pills the morning of treatment, then going to the hospital for a shot in my stomach and then I take another chemo pill at night for 14 days on and 7 days off. All was going well until I found out that in addition to the chemo treatments, I will have to have two bone marrow transplants! So off I go in my wheelchair (by this point I cannot use the walker) to the transplant consultation.
During the appointment, the doctor asked if I could get up on the table and my hip hurt so bad, I could not move. The doctor said “I have seen all I need to see. I am sending you for an X-ray of your hip.” So, during my second chemo treatment, I was informed that I would have to stop chemo because I had two large holes in the BONES of my right hip that must be operated on before it snapped!
Now on the orthopedic oncologist who tells me that I will have to have surgery for him to put a rod in my leg from the top of my right hip down to my knee to brace my bones enough for me to be able to walk without snapping the bones. The surgery was scheduled for June 10th. I have never had more than a cold in my life now surgery…I showed up…PRAYED UP and I was ready or so I thought…right before they wheeled me into the operating room a fear came over me because my doctor had previously told me that there was a “chance” that I might not survive the surgery.
I was a reck in that moment! Then they wheeled me in, and I saw a man wearing a large cross and he comes over to me and leans down and whispers “My name is Kevin and Debra called me last night.” Debra is my roommate’s sister and she use to work at the hospital where I was having this surgery) I said, “ok God, you got your folks up in here, so I am good!” Next thing I knew I was being wheeled to a hospital room. In addition to the holes in my hip, I find out that I also have fractures in my spine but THANK GOD!!! No surgery, just a back brace that must be worn whenever I am out of the bed.
Science says I have 3 to 5 years, but only GOD knows the day He will call me home.
I share all of this because I want us all to help take care of each other and at the very least…cut a little SLACK! We are in such crazy times right now, people fighting because they do not want to wear masks and I do not even watch the news anymore because I just cannot handle how we treat each other sometimes. I am asking for each of you to show a little more kindness each day because life happens to everyone and you never know what the next person is dealing with.
I pray that this has blessed you in some way and hope that you share my story with others who might be helped by my ability to tell my truth in love!
Peace be with YOU!
Lisa
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