This is the Bev Stark breast cancer recovery update site.
Grace and peace in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
God has done much good work in the healing of Bev's body. Her reconstruction continues on schedule into April will little or no pain and/or complications. Her final surgery will take place sometime in the near future, following a re-examination of her left breast.
Much of Bev's life, through the month of March, has been consumed with her Chemo-therapy treatments and the many side effects that brings. She began a new course of treatment at the beginning of the March and will finish the most intensive portions of those treatments in early May. The remainder of the Chemo-therapy will continue through the course of the next year. However, these drugs will have far less symptoms associated with them.
Bev has been receiving some form of Chemo-therapy each week since the beginning of March. Her symptoms range from, general fatique to bone pain as with the previous treatments with one exception. She has been having some spontantious bleeding from various mucus membranes. Most presumably her blood chemistry is off just a bit, but this is not totally unexpected. Subsequently, her treatments have been modified to include include some IV fluids to help counter act this condition. So far so good!
PRAISE REPORT:
With much thanks, and praise to God, Bev continues to grow in strength and stamina during her light chemo weeks. He hair also looks to be growing back somewhat, perhaps just in time for our daughter Abbie's wedding.
We want to thank you all for sending your loving gifts of food, heart felt prayers, flowers, and many cards for Bev's speedy recovery. She keenly feels your concern and God's provision for her life.
Blessings,
Dave and Bev Stark
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Dave & Bev, Abbie, Sydnie, Naomie and Andrew
Stark Family
Dave & Bev, Abbie, Sydnie, Naomie and Andrew
Prayer Requests
Specific prayer needs do change from day to day, and even at times, moment to moment. Therefore, please pray for continued healing from surgery and reconstruction, effectiveness of the medications for break-through symptoms such as nausea, headaches, bone pain and general fatigue, as well as endurance and strength for the rest of the family.
7 comments:
Hey Bev,
The website is great!! I hope the new anti-nausea med. is working better than the last. I will give you a call, but I knew this week may be tough. Let me know what I can do.
You are constantly in my/our prayers. We love you and your family.
Love,
Sharon
Bev,
I am thinking of you today as I have on many days. It's wonderful to have a way to communiate. You have some great friends at the Metrodome concession stand who sent out emails to pray for you. Also, here at school, we were kept informed by those who know you well. And now, we can do the blog thing!
Please let us know at school how we can be of support to you and the children. For sure we are praying, trusting God to meet your needs. "The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." James 5:16
In Christ,
Judy A.
King's Christian Academy
Hey Stark Family,
This is a fantastic way to keep updated. Please know that we as a class pray for your family daily!
Love,
Jen Van Haften (Andrew's Teacher)
Bev,
I prayed...
Lord you reminded me about Joy this morning. I the joy I have in you Lord, the Joy in you walking with me through everything from happy times to heavy sorrowed times. You are there every step of the way. Teaching me and showing me the way. The Joy when I am walking tall and the joy of your forgiveness when I need to be forgiven. Thank you! Thank You! Thank You! The Joy you give me is really unexplainable Lord, but please help Bev grab on to it today and not let go. Let her experience it today like never before. Amen
I was at a worship service last night and one verse they put on the screen was Psalm 62:5-8, It says : Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken. My victory and honor come from God alone. He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me. O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. We also sang a song that had the words at the end I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN!!! Wow so powerful.
I prayed...
Lord I thank you that you are my refuge, you are Bev's refuge. You are my rock! You are Bev's rock! My solid rock! Bev's SOLID ROCK! Thank you that you hear me when I pour my heart out to you. And Lord as Bev pours her heart out to you, you are hearing her call. Knowing and understanding everything she is saying. Thank you for being our refuge, our safe place where you care for us and heal us. I love you Lord and this precious daughter of yours Bev. Hear her call today, help her remember that place where SHE WILL NOT BE SHAKEN! Our strength is from you Lord, help us find it today. Amen
Bev,
I prayed...
Lord I want to thank you today as I look back over these last few years. You have brought me out of weary times when I thought you had left me alone. I stopped to walk and talk with you one particular night about how you had me on the wrong list of “You can handle this.” I kept saying, shouting that in fact I could not handle what I was going through and that I would like you to take care and relook at the list of ”You can do these things,” and take me off it right now! Cause I was so tired of one step forward two steps backward. I was very bugged to say the least. But God in His amazing way showed me in fact He had not left me, I had left Him in the dust of my way… Trying to do it all myself. I was able to see and say aaaahhhhh… oohhhh … I hadn’t seen it that way Lord…. He showed me what I was doing in a very clear way. I was juggling stuff, dealing with stuff, keeping stuff smooth…. Ect… All without calling on Him, I was just keeping my head just above the waves of life. So as I walked home after this 2 mile talk, God picked me up to where I could be on the “Can Do This List.” I poured out my heart and hurts, my fears and thoughts to My Loving Father and He restored me in an unexplainable flash second. I found my peace again, method to the madness of my life. All as I reached out to God again.
So Lord I lift Bev to you. Please help her hear your clear call if she is running ahead of you, trying herself to be on the CAN DO IT LIST. I pray she will look to you and pour out her fears, hurts, and out of control feeling . Then Lord that you will pick her up and restore her hope and strength again.
Reminding her you never left her. Amen.
Bev, March 13, 2007
I prayed...
Lord I want to thank you for being, My God, my rock, my strength, my fortress, my deliver, my trust that no one can compare to. Lord I lift Bev to you and ask that you remind her today of how you are all these things in her life too. Show her clearly. Protect her through this day. Amen
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