{"id":492,"date":"2025-01-01T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/?p=492"},"modified":"2025-01-01T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:23:47","slug":"new-year-new-opportunities-to-trust-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/2025\/01\/01\/new-year-new-opportunities-to-trust-god\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New opportunities to trust God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Christmas Eve, just as many of you were admiring the beauty of lights in your home, church, and community; while celebrating the birth of our Savior, Chris received the gift of news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about-cancer\/treatment\/research\/car-t-cells\">CAR T<\/a> cell therapy was approved by insurance.\u00a0 He will go to Northwestern in Chicago mid-January for the T-cells to be collected.\u00a0 Then, the cells will be sent to a lab to be re-engineered in the goal that once they are put back into his body (4+ weeks later) the new T-cells will be like the Terminator and terminate any remaining cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are at Round 2 of TEDDI-R, doing NYE and New Years Day chemo style, inpatient here downtown Grand Rapids, MI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By God\u2019s amazing grace:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Chris is feeling better after two days of chemo than he was feeling last time around, despite having sinus and chest cough going into it.  The doctors had him get a chest x-ray as a baseline precaution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; We are so thankful to have spent a wonderful time with family over Christmas.\u00a0 The gifts I am most thankful for are the loving words shared between family members, the near endless playtime for my kids with family whom they know and love and who know and love them in return, and the break from the rigors of our current medical journey.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prayer points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Pray against any complications that could delay God\u2019s plans for Chris\u2019s treatment.&nbsp; Chris needs enough T-cells to make the collection successful.&nbsp; We will&nbsp;update this blog and future ones when dates are firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Prayers for good results for the Pet scan on January 6, and MRis the following week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Pray for a quick recovery for our family as we are all under the weather after being with extended family for the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We welcome you to join us as we trust God for all these things and the Lord&#8217;s plans in 2025!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6561.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6561.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6561-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6561-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6561-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun with cousins in the snow.  Yes, I got pummeled, and I asked for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","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\/492","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}