June 15, 2023 - Better

     I am apparently rather strange when it comes to medical stuff.  It appears to me that the culprit causing the allergic reaction is aspirin.  That was the only medicine added to the list and after four days of not taking the aspirin, the rash and the itching are very much subsiding.
     Go figure.  I didn’t have a reaction to two different chemotherapy drugs but it seems that I did to aspirin.
     I actually slept eight hours last night, including one stretch of five hours, which hasn’t happened but once since the radiation.  Thanks for the prayers.
     Teresa’s two friends from high school did make it over yesterday and I bolted as much as possible.  Teresa got from them what we have heard often in this, “He doesn’t look sick.”
     I am glad that I don’t look like I have cancer.  As I have shared, I know that day is coming in the fall.  Until then, I am very happy to look and try to function normally.
     I may look healthy on the outside, but if left untreated, the multiple myeloma would eventually kill me.
     One day Jesus said this, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.”
     Woes are never good in the Bible.  Neither are hypocrites.  Appearing to be one thing when you are actually something else is as deadly as a disease that makes you appear to be healthy, when in fact, you actually are not.
     Cancer can take your physical life.  Hypocrisy can take your eternal life.  I’d prefer the former of those two.