Dear Huntsman Cancer Center, I'm not dead!

Dear Huntsman Cancer Center,

I'm not dead! Everyone there predicted I would be gone by July 1st and now it's the 31st and I'm still here on earth!!!!

 Do you remember that I got "discharged" to hospice in January? Well, thanks to the tender care of my husband, family and friends I'm still living a really good life. Although the spring months were difficult, I was very blessed to have constant daily care. For reasons known only to God I have been able to steadily improve my ability to take care of myself. Lately I've been able to visit my children that live a plane ride away! We have been cautiously optimistically planning other things to look forward to.

I have to say that I sleep a lot. I can't drive because of all the meds I'm on and I need a wheelchair to get very far but those are small prices to pay! I don't have to look very far to find someone that has it worse off than I do. I feel like I have multiple blessings!

PRAISE THE LORD! THANK THE LORD!                                                                                    
Love, Debbie Beus
Still surviving melanoma

My friend, Kirsi Jarvis, posted the picture below and I burst into tears when I saw it. I wore my hair in a ponytail in my prime years and immediately saw myself hugging my Savior in this image. I will bow down first, overwhelmed with tears when I see him, but hopefully a hug will follow.

"First Day in Heaven" by Kerolos Safwat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Hope

Bucket List: Ring the "treatment finished gong" at Huntsman Cancer Center. Check. 

Family Photo

Family Photo

New chapter begins this week! No more Pembro - lost too much weight to keep taking it. Just prayers and scans every six weeks now.

And hope... Lots of hope. 

While I was getting my last infusion, looking out the wall of windows at the beautiful view, a cute old man came by to see if we wanted or needed anything. We asked what brought him to Huntsman today? He smiled sweetly and humbly said, "Well, I was the architect. When we met with Jon and Karen to get their ideas they said only one thing: We want everything about our center to bring about hope. (He paused and smiled again.) My daughter had bone marrow cancer and was one of the first patients here. She helped me design this infusion center."
       I was almost afraid to ask, "Is she doing okay now?" 
He smiled and said, "No, that is why I like to come here. It makes me feel close to her."

(Hope Photo by Debbie Beus)