Understanding her journey

Friday I was stoked come to work and find out that I would be with my new friend. She had a bulletin board full of pictures and told me about each person in each picture and the surrounding events. That got us on the subject of guy talk, which was fun to hear her stories. I had some time to ask her about when she was first diagnosed this past summer. I asked her what her symptoms were and she replied, "I just felt weak and tired all of the time. I started to look quite pale and was bruising all over. Every once and awhile I would just throw up, or feel like I was going to pass out. The doctor ran some tests and discovered I was extremely anemic. But it didn't stop there because they wanted to run a lot more tests. Two days later I found myself in the hospital and starting chemotherapy. Talk about a major life switch." She described the many ups and downs of Leukemia. Later in the day, I sat next to her as she told me about the hopes she has for her dad through this - mainly, that he would find God. That was a level we were definietly able to connect on. I asked her if we could pray for our dads, and we did. After that, I told her that she was an answer to prayer for me because when I started my job a few months ago, I prayed that I would be able to understand the whole journey that someone with a blood cancer has to go through. It wasn't until I had her that I was able to read her very well-updated carepages in their entirety and hear her many stories about having Leukemia. She has really helped me to better grasp what the day-in, day-out process looks like, even though I will probably never be able to fully understand.