Donna's Not Dead!

If you've been reading my blogs very long, you know about my niece Donna. Every other week I go to Stanford Cancer Center with Donna so she can receive two apheresis treatments within a 36-hour time frame. We are gone two days each time.

Donna needs these treatments for "Host versus Graft" disease as a result of a bone marrow transplant by which God miraculously healed her from what was to be a fatal disease: two forms of leukemia. Her doctors said she was not going to make it. ONE OF THEM WAS QUITE POINTED ABOUT IT.

But Donna's not dead. Below is an email I got from her a few minutes ago. Quoted with permission:

Hey You two! I hope your day has gone smooth. I caught up on my emails and blogs from your way and it sounds like you had quite a week! I too have had an interesting week. But it is so true, as we Christians well know, but sometimes forget. That we should just give it to the LORD! All is well in his hands.

As I traveled through the sites catching up on my reading , I clicked on to Iona's Myspace. As I did I saw Jesus being beaten. It took me back in time. I found my self flashing back on the day when I was told I would die. But at that movement the Lord gave me peace in my heart and a whisper in my ear that I would not die. My lord gave me a gift of faith and I never looked back.

Oh! but how satan tried to discourage. But the Lord Reigns!!! So when I saw the beating I remembered that when I was at my worst with no hair or fingernails, no food and hooked up to every machine imaginable, I would think that if Jesus could go through what he did I could get through this! And here I am today! I still try to remember to live by that. And the nice thing about being a child of God is........
..........He reminds us and he never forgets!!!!!!!!!!
Love You two & All
LOVE DONNA