From Bristol to Boise with Faith

  From Doris: Jesus Christ knows and understands my pain. He knows how to support me, strengthen me and comfort me. Because of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice I will one day have a resurrected, perfect body. I will not have cancer. I only have one more infusion scheduled in my treatment. Kyle and Greer put up their Christmas tree in our front room. They do not have room for a tree in their apartment. Greer decorated it, and it is gorgeous. It adds a wonderful festive feeling to our house. Kyle and Greer's tree in our home Greer created another gallery wall for our house this week.  This time it has pictures of the following temples: Salt Lake, Mesa, Jordan River, Draper, Nauvoo and Meridian. We decorated simply for Christmas. We put up Christmas quilts and two nativities.  I was privileged to purchase the Mama Says Nativity years ago. It is one of the two we displayed. The other is our Fisher Price one for grandchildren to enjoy. Christmas music fills my heart wi...

  Original map From Amy: Fennec fox Original map From Paul Grumpy the Dwarf

  From Doris: From my brother Steve (Best appreciated if you know Spanish.) From Tom: What do you call a snowman with a six-pack? An abdominal snowman.

  From Doris: Silent Night

  From Doris: Our family has walked 1168.26 miles to Bristol. Lachlan let me read  The Little Ghost Quilt’s Christmas Surprise  to him. It is the second book in a series. For some reason, he never let me read the first book to him.  Lachlan was Paul’s shadow yesterday. He and Grandpa played with stuffed animals (Lachlan giving directions as to what each animal did) and raked some leaves. I have made 35 English paper pieced flowers. When we walk at Costco, I have three places I stop to rest…the furniture display, the chairs by the pharmacy and the food court bench.  Paul and I have played the piano duet  Sleigh Ride  every Christmas time since we got married forty-four years ago.

  From Doris: Elder B. Corey Cuvelier  October 2025 General Conference   Perhaps the greatest sermons are the ones we never hear but those we see in the quiet, unassuming actions and deeds observed in the lives of ordinary people who, trying to be like Jesus, go about doing good.

  From Doris: Isaiah 53:3-6   3   He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were  our  faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4  ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5  But he  was  wounded for our transgressions,  he was  bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace  was  upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  From Doris: Today I had to take Tylenol in addition to Celebrex due to what my primary care physician calls break through pain.

From Doris: I learned at my Thursday oncology appointment that I only need to have one more infusion. 

  From Paul: Cycle 7 Begins! Doris has officially completed 6 of the 24 cycles! As a small reminder, each cycle is 28 days, or four weeks. The first treatment day was May 29. She did take a break in her treatments because she was having side effects and the PPA (medical provider) at the time felt it was better to pause her dose increase of one of her oral medications for three weeks. The welcome news we received this week with the beginning of her seventh cycle is that there will be only one more infusion. That means that Cycle 8 will be the last one to include the infusion treatment. I looked back on my notes that I took during our initial “Chemo Teach”. I apparently started to write something about “After Cycle 8…” but I did not finish the sentence. I think it registered in my memory that infusions would be completed after Cycle 8, even though I did not document it fully at that time.   With that news, we can rejoice that we will pass another milestone of treatment. ...