I can remember when I was young and I saw my first really bad “boo boo”. The blood and the ripped skin looked like it would never be the same. The cut was cleaned and a Band-Aid was put on top. Several days later the Band-Aid was removed and “poof” the skin was perfectly healed. That’s amazing! Our bodies are so amazing!
I don’t – didn’t take time to really think about the thought process that God had to put into the creation of our bodies. They are soooo complex. They heal themselves. They can reproduce life. They are totally amazing. He created us with thought and love. We aren’t just thrown together. He thought about every detail.
When you are sick – a normal cold and cough let’s say – you don’t think anything about it. You may take something to ease the symptoms, but you know that your body will fight it and you’ll be fine. That’s what our bodies do. You may have a mild fever but most likely until it reaches 102 or more you may even go on with your daily living – just watching it a little.
I have learned to treasure my body. The chemo has altered my body from the original state God created it. I don’t have many white blood cells these days. Those are our “sickness fighters”. So, this week, my “normal cold and cough” could be life threatening – yes, life threatening – if I don’t watch it. My low-grade fever of 99.5 could mean – if I’m not careful – that I’ll be visiting a hospital. Now, I am watching myself. By having just these common sicknesses (ones I’d never think about) I am staying under “house arrest” and watching my hand washing, fluid intake etc. I don’t have time for the hospital. The nurse made it clear to me how important it is that I be careful. If my fever gets to 100.5 (again, low enough that before chemo I wouldn’t even think about it), they may need to do a blood transfusion to give me some white cells. I pray I don’t have to go that route.
It’s been a hard week because I do get paranoid with the temp taking. I get into one of those hour long dry cough from the chest spells and wonder if my body can work through this on it’s own. I am scared. PRAISE GOD that normally, we don’t have to be afraid of most things. Our bodies can heal themselves! Sometimes, we have to take some medicine to help – but God has it all worked out.
Don’t forget what a gift your body is from God. Don’t forget what love went into your creation! Just think, besides just the creating of a body that heals itself, God created you with your own personality – your own thought process etc. WOW! I must actually be very important to Him to have spent soooo much time working on my creation! Lon always gets very upset with me because I’ve never been one to be pleased with my outward appearance. He tells me that I’m telling God He made a mistake. I can see Lon’s point now! I have learned how incredible our bodies are made up by not having that “normal” body. I praise God for me – He’s creation!
Only 4 more treatments and then my body will get itself back to normal – the right amount of red and white blood cells. Until then, I’ll continue to be very careful. When I am back to regular counts – my prayer is that I never forget how wonderful and complex God created my body. When I have a cold or a “boo boo”, I want to raise up in PRAISE and thank God that my body will heal itself !