{"id":14,"date":"2023-05-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris2\/?p=14"},"modified":"2023-05-26T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:51:03","slug":"prayers-answered-appointments-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/2023\/05\/26\/prayers-answered-appointments-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers answered &#8211; appointments scheduled!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear family and friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am living in the shelter of the Most High.&nbsp; I am abiding in the shadow of the Almighty.&nbsp; He alone is my refuge, my place of safety.&nbsp; He is my God and I will trust in Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am relieved and excited to tell you that I have all my appointments scheduled!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuesday &#8211; lymph node biopsy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday &#8211; start steroid treatment &#8211; this will stop cancer growth!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friday &#8211; chemo port put in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday June 5 &#8211; first day of chemo treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The echocardiogram today was quick and uneventful &#8211; the ultrasound tech wasn\u2019t allowed to tell me in detail how my heart looked, but said something general like \u201cIt looks pretty good\u201d.&nbsp; For a brief moment my mind flashed back to all the miles I\u2019ve done cycling and road running.&nbsp; \u201cUm, pretty good?\u201d&nbsp; My pride was hoping for something like \u201cWow &#8211; strong heart!\u201d but I decided not to pursue that and instead began wiping the gel off my chest.&nbsp; Every medical professional I have met, including the ultrasound tech, has been kind, compassionate and professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realize that I am at the beginning of a long medical journey that will take me to a dozen locations and&nbsp; have me interact with who knows how many doctors, nurses, staff and techs.&nbsp; May God give me eyes to see each of them as God&#8217;s image bearers, and the margin to shine the love of Christ whenever we meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear family and friends, I am living in the shelter of the Most High.&nbsp; I am abiding in the shadow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}