I am grateful for your excellence!
I appreciate you.
Thanks for your prayers.
God heard.
God answered.
Bob & I are so grateful!
Our WordPress family is so great! Our family and friends have been so comforting during this last year while we went to a gajillion doctors and finally got the reason for Bob’s congestive heart failure diagnosed = TTR Amyloidosis. Oh my! Never heard of it!
We are grateful for the expertise of the Bozeman, MT hematologist who suspected the problem after ruling out the need for a pacemaker or a stent. Neither of those was the problem.
Dr. Hool had encountered two other patients in her career with Amyloidosis. There are two types. One is AL. It is cancer of the bone marrow. Chemo is the only treatment and the life-expectancy is short.
The other type of Amyloidosis is TTR. It manifests itself as a collection of extra protein (it can happen in any of your organs – liver, kidney, brain, etc.). Usually it attacks the weakest of your organs. In Bob’s case it was TTR (thank God – not the cancerous type) and the protein collected in the heart muscle. It stiffened it, causing the heart to function insufficiently.
We are grateful for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and for Dr. Borgeson there who positively identified the TTR variety and prescribed a medicine to (hopefully) fix the problem.
We are grateful to Pfizer for developing the medication and approving Bob’s application for assistance to afford it. It’s outrageously expensive! So, thanks to Pfizer, the medication is on its way. And we are so grateful to all who prayed for this outcome. Thank you! And thank God!
Live in Gratitude! It’s a great state to be in!
Living with an attitude of gratitude
Can definitely change your life!
Focusing on your blessings
Instead of your challenges
Turns frowns upsidedown.
Try it!
That’s my great-granddaughter, Sienna.
I dare you to look at her and not smile!
So how does an attitude of gratitude change your life?
What does the Bible say about that attitude of gratitude?
22 Corinthians 9:11
“You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.”
Thank You, God. Thank you, dear friends. We are, indeed, feeling enriched in every way.
Hugs to you, my WP friends … let me know if I can be in prayer for you about something specific, will you?
I have a couple of specific prayer requests:
1) Please add my friend, Alex, to your prayer list. He’s in surgery to have a malignant tumor removed from his lung. God, bee 🐝 with him! 🙏🏽❤️
2) Please pray that the medication Bob needs is here (in the mail) soon – and pray that it does what it is designed to do – to help break up the protein that already is damaging Bob’s heart muscle – and that it helps to keep further protein deposits from forming.
Thank you from Bob and me –
JanBeek
See ya tomorrow (God willing)
Hugs!
Comments on: "Gratitude" (5)
I said a “yippee”!!!! Thank you, God for giving the Beek’s answers and SOLUTIONS! Half of the battle is in the waiting. I’m so happy that Pfizer is providing assistance and I will remember to pray for Alex and that Bob’s medicine arrive pronto! God bless you both so much. Thank you for being a light and testimony to us all, Jan. Sending love, hugs, and prayers! 💛🤍🙏
Thank you so much, Karla. I appreciate you! Have a happy, healthy week.
You’re welcome, Jan! You both do the same! Thank you for being a light ✨🥰💛❤️🙏🏻
Thank you for your prayers – and for the cheers as we move forward with great hope and anticipation for Bob’s meds to do their magic! Turns out Alex was not able to have the surgery … not sure why – but I suspect he is not strong enough to endure it. The risk would not be worth the possible outcome? Don’t know… but chemo or radiation is the next step. My heart is hurting for him and his wife Susan.
A great post Jan. We have so much to be thankful for, especially when we watch the news of the devastation in Ukraine!