~Brag Time~

Okay this blog writing comes with a warning...if at any time during your reading of what I share this time you think I am bragging about myself...STOP reading and move on to something else in your day! I am serious! Brag Time is NOT about me! Brag time is about Father answering my prayer of being humble light. Okay, I just sort of smirked and laughed with you at being humble light while I call this writing Brag Time...but it is...I will show you...spell it out...but again, STOP reading this if at any time you think this is Brag Time about myself.

During my Inspirational times with Father, one thing I pray daily is that I will always be humble as Jesus was humble and that I will shine Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I pray that I will Light up people's lives, bring them Joy, and that they will sense the Crazy Peace that Jesus gives. My desire is to humbly spread Light of Life.

Yesterday I had to go to the "chemo lounge" to have my port flushed as it has been a while since I have had chemo (HUGE grin) and the port hadn't been  used so it needed clearing. I drove the nearly 40 minutes to the "chemo lounge", waited in the waiting room, and then heard a chemo nurse call me back to the lounge. I entered the lounge...I call it a lounge because you enter this room with a series of reclining chairs facing the entrance with the chemo poles by each seat that the medicine bags hang from and there are chairs in the corners of the lounge that you don't see as you approach. Each chair has a drop down television and on each side there is a built in little table to hold drinks or food. The windows behind the series of chairs has a patio and shrubs around it so as to hide the highway. (Maybe someday I will take a picture of the place and post it here). On the side of the doorway is a higher chair for people who simply come for blood work or port flushes. The chemo nurse told me to take a seat there. As I sat down I scanned around the room noticing that many of the chairs were taken. My buddy was catty corner from me in his usual chair.

A little side note...I had been feeling blah lately. I can't sort it...but feeling sort of sad, melancholy, quiet minded..just for of ...well...like I needed encouragement.

Anyhow, I entered the room, took my seat, looked around at the people...there was this older gentleman in the corner seat to my left and I suppose his son was with him as there was a younger man there sitting beside him. The one chemo nurse was talking to them...I over heard her tell him he wouldn't be able to have his chemo treatment today...and I stopped my ears as I didn't need to know the reason....to my right was a first timer. She was in her chair with a friend sitting beside her...we all need someone to come with us because we are not able to drive home after the treatments....there was another gentleman catty corner to my right that another chemo nurse was taking care of...and one in "my" chair to my left in a curved corner sitting beside my buddy.

I learned from my buddy's wife that when he was diagnosed he was given 1 to 2 years to live...she smiled (beamed actually) and told me that it's been nearly 6 years since that diagnosis. My buddy loves to take care of his wife....showing her how much he loves her in doing things for her around the house.

Okay, so now...back to me entering and sitting in the higher chair for my port flush. This is the Brag Time so stop reading if you think this is about me! 

It was a really unique experience...as I entered the room I felt this (could almost see) light around me. I sat down, smiling, greeting those around me and giving my buddy a friendlier (I know you) greeting. He smiled back asking how I had been. Then I felt it...I felt this Light and Joy...it was honestly like the room lit up and there were angels of gladness in the room...no I couldn't see them but I could feel them near...we all began to talk about a variety of things...I felt the atmosphere of the room change...I felt the people change...a daily prayer had been answered...Jesus and the Holy Spirit were shining through me bringing these people Light and Joy! You should have seen them! They were even lit up from the time I had entered to when we all began conversing...well all but the little man in the corner were talking but he was listening. My buddy was sharing with me about how he rescued his wife's cat from their roof. A while ago he had fallen from his ladder and broke his nose, arm, and rib...so I smiled and asked, "but you were okay this time right?" He laughed and said he was but that his nose still isn't right and his arm and ribs still hurt. We entertained the crowd for a bit with our stories.

My chemo nurse apologized for the delay in flushing my port. I smiled and said, "Oh no problem. You all have a lot going on here." She had been caring for that other man...getting his med bags set up.

Then the new comer's beeper began to go off letting my chemo nurse know that she needed her next dose of something. We were all still carrying on. She hung the next bag of liquid on the pole for the new comer. Her friend asked if it was her chemo med. The nurse said, "no it's Benadryl". My buddy exclaims from across the room with a chuckle..."Well, good night!" He isn't joking. That stuff makes you really sleepy. I doze on and off when it's given. I looked at my buddy, laughed and said, "yeah I remember last time I was here you looked at me and said you can't rest but you can sleep with it and then suddenly you were off and snoring." He laughed...everyone laughed. 

My chemo nurse took about a minute to flush my port and apologized that I had to come in for it (due to insurance policy) and that it couldn't be done when I had my appointment in two days with my oncologist. I simply smiled and said it was fine but silly that I drove 40 minutes for a 1 minute flush. 

When my port was flushed, I got down from the chair and visited with my buddy for a few minutes. He joked with me about some things then we said our good byes. I told him I'd probably see him whenever my new set of treatments are set up.

As I left I realized that a few things took place in that chemo lounge...I was encouraged...I was encouraged by the conversation of people I don't even know...I was encouraged by their smiles and laughter...AND my daily prayer was answered...there was Light and Joy given to them...Jesus and the Holy Spirit whooshed in with me shining Joy and Light on them. I felt it even as I left...and I felt those angels of gladness.

It was a really unique time yesterday in the chemo lounge. It brings me smiles in my soul today as I think about it and the people who were there and their reactions.

God is good! All the time! All the time...God is good!

Be blessed!