Mom's Hard Week

This is the second week of my mom's cancer treatments. Thankfully, she only has radiation each day this week, but unfortunately she is now feeling the after-effects of the chemo from last week. It seems like the treatments have stripped her digestive tract of the healthy digestive bacteria. This means when she eats food, her body is not able to digest it correctly and creates large amounts of excess gas which gets trapped inside and causes her a good deal of pain. She thought she might need to go to the ER on Monday night because it was so bad. Luckily, the hospital dietician recommended that she buy Pancreatic Enzymes from a health food store and eat six small bland meals a day. The enzymes have helped a good bit yesterday and today, but Mom said if she can only eat chicken broth and rice for the next month, she'll do it to keep those pains away. Please pray for the Lord to give her renewed strength each day and night. I keep reminding her that she only needs to get through each day. I pray her prayer would be, "The LORD gives strength to His people; the LORD blesses His people with peace." Psalm 29:11