All-time favorites? The Shawshank Redemption!!
Wizard of Oz
Lately? Seven Pounds

Christian Rock....any artists....especially fond of Mercy Me, Point of Grace and Natalie Grant!

The Bible of course, anything by Max Lucado.
Big fan of anything that takes me a-w-ay!!

Kelly Green

PASTA!! Preferably with shrimp somewhere in the vicinity!!

DUSTYS DAILY THOUGHT !!

THE LORD did SAY "VENGEANCE IS MINE"
HE DID not SAY HE REQUIRES MY ASSISTANCE!!

C'mon by and rock awhile over at my place...
www.dustysfrontporch.com
Read the thought for the day, holler at me in the Chatbox, check out the chapel to see who needs prayers today....read today's Bible verse, or just let today's GIGGLE make you smile!!

OK gang, here's where things stand: I've been undergoing chemo for almost 7 months and there's been no appreciable change in the size of the many tumors on my bones. At last check there were 3 or 3 on my femurs (thighbones), a rather large one on my clavicle (collarbone) and 2 or 3 small ones they spotted at the last CT scan located near, but not touching my kidney. The biggest one is the one on my spinal column... it's literally wrapped around it, which makes removing it surgically not an option.

We did sign a DNR (do not resuscitate) form a few weeks ago, because they were able to ascertain that the numbness and tingling in my legs and left arm were due to the spinal tumor growing denser and "squeezing" the nerves in my spine. Basically all of our nerves are located there and I was told that eventually, it would affect my heart and/or my lungs, so if I didn't want to be tethered to a machine or kept alive artificially, that I'd better get a DNR order in place.... "WHERE DO I SIGN?" LOL!!


The doc said he's not going to put me through any more chemotherapy or radiation treatments because I'm more concerned with quality of life at this point! My cancer, according to him is 4th stage or end stage. There simply isn't any more that they can do except try to monitor it with the occasional scan. They also can't give me any kind of definite prognosis. Could be tonight?
Could be a year from now.

They are much more concerned with the WHEN then I am.....I'm content to leave it where it's always been....in the Father's Hands, while I continue to do what I've been doing all along....which is work as hard as I can as fast as I can to spread His Gospel, His message & the mission He's given me to show the world what it looks like when a Christian with strong faith faces the whole death and dying thing.

The doctors are also totally baffled by the fact that I'm not in any pain. Granted, the numbness and tingling are annoying, but not painful. As long as I can hold a microphone, strum a guitar and type? I'm in good shape! They keep saying it's not possible that I'm not having pain....and they won't listen to MY explanation so let them run in circles trying to figure it out!! LOL!!! WE know it's because God
simply isn't done with me yet....I have more to do before I leave and obviously serious pain would interfere so He's keeping it at bay.

So that's where things stand.....I'll post another update at the end of July when
they do the next CT scan, but until then? Just keep me in prayer for grace, strength and endurance so I can finish this race successfully and bring GLORY to the One Who died rather than live without us!!

If you're local? Come see me!! If you're not? Shoot me an email and either way? Be sure to sign up and read my new blog!! The link is over on my website www.dustysfrontporch.com

Do your best to stay like me: HEAVEN-bound and GLORY-minded!
WOOHOO!!!!

Love Dusty


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Just a Christian disciple...working overtime to spread the Gospel as far & as fast as I can in whatever time I have left on this side of the River. I manage a website of spiritual stories and poems called Dustys Front Porch...(Y'all come visit!!)

I give free poetry readings all over Charlotte of the stuff on the porch...most of which I've been scribbling over the last 30 years...

I publish a THOUGHT FOR THE DAY that goes out (at last check!) to over 20,000 people in 40+ countries!! (Ain't the Internet grand???) plus, I used to have a regular spot on a local Christian Rock radio station here in Charlotte (basically because the morning DJ is a HUGE fan of my Front Porch website, but that got derailed too, with the diagnosis and resulting medical commitments....

I've also started a series of blogs over on Wordpress....you can find the link over on my Front Porch website.

I belong to various Christian communities on the Web, make and give away Disciples Crosses to new believers, paint a line of T-shirts I call "Witness Wear" (you can find the gallery on the Porch's site map (pg 2) ...I also spend all year crocheting what I call "Hats 4 the Homeless"
(long story!!)

The prison ministry has been discontinued due to this whole cancer thing....and the poetry readings have turned into speaking engagements all over Charlotte plus a series of podcasts are planned for the near future so I can get my message out without having to travel outside of the Carolinas..... THANK YOU GOD FOR THE GIFT OF TECHNOLOGY!!!

Lilacs, the smell of line-dried sheets, that first cup of coffee in the morning, sunups, sunsets, hummingbirds, windchimes, summer mornings on my patio, rainbows

Dentists, doctors, needles,(SIGH) liars, bigots, hypocrites, anyone who's mean to others, my inability to quit smoking (me 'n God are working on that one!)

GARDENING, CROCHETING, EATING, READING, WALKING, TENNIS, EATING, SCRAPBOOKING, WEBSURFING, BLOGGING,EATING, SCRIBBLING RHYMES, BIBLE STUDY, SINGING, PLAYING WITH MY GRANDDAUGHTERS, EATING
JOURNALING, TRAVELING, DID I SAY EATING?????