Luan in Hospital

We praised God that Luan’s health generally had improved from the time she was in hosp in Oct.

However, early Sunday morning, she woke up to notice some discharge in her lower abdomen and washed it and discovered she has a hole (close to an inch) in her lower abdomen where the discharge came through. Doc was to tell us that this was probably caused by the aggressive cancer cells. The opening was along part of the operation wound that had healed in August. We admitted her on Sunday early morning. There is no visible bleeding so we thank God for that. Blood test then revealed very low hemoglobin reading of 4! Half of what her reading was after the third chemo (then it was 6—the normal reading about 11)—so she might had been having slow bleeding somewhere where the tumor is at work. That might be the reason why she had had sudden burst of fever the last several weeks—but each time the fever came only for a short period (an hour or the longest was 6 hours) and then back to normal after prayers. She was given 2 pints of blood and her reading gone up to 8.9 yesterday.

Pray for wisdom for doc as they discern what to do with the almost 1 inch puncture/wound in the abdomen—they did some test yesterday. Pray for wisdom for us too as we respond to doc’s suggestion for course of action. Pray for God to heal and close up the wound. Meanwhile continue to pray that Luan will have appetite to eat her meals. She seems to eat better since she was admitted on Sunday! Praise God. God’s peace still reign in our hearts as we discern the way forward as He guides us.

Pray for our children too—Chung En studying in England and Hui En away at a missions trip to Philippines—in fact, mum was admitted one day after she left. We were able to get some short messages to her so far.

Be Thou Our Vision

Luan is getting stronger physically and is now able to go downstairs for her lunch--a big improvement from two weeks ago when she had to be helped to sit up in bed. The doc who seen her 2 days ago was satisfied with her steady recovery from her near fatal infection last month. My load for caring for her has eased considerably and I am able to leave her alone for a short period of time. We thank God for the sisters from our church and few others from several other churches who have been provided meals (lunch and dinner) on wheel since her discharge two weeks ago.
Our ever grateful thanks for standing with us in prayers--it is uplifting to us to be reassured--no matter how many times people had told us. From another source we hear of a dear Malaysian friend of ours who had requested prayers for us in a Vancouver’s church he preached in. We thank God for those of you whom we have never met but are upholding us in prayers. We are sorry as we are unable to reply to all of you who write personally.

A dear Christian couple sent us the words of this song of prayer:

"I feel Your peace
You’re here with me
You bring me all I need
Lord breathe on me
And as I wait
Draw near to me
My soul it longs for You to breathe on me"

Indeed, through the darkest night, our Lord has never leave or forsake us—He is always there and as we reach out for His hands—we experienced deep peace. And as we wait for God to heal Luan of cancer, we trust in His perfect timing. Surrounded by many witnesses of faith who cheer us on, I fix my eyes on Jesus as I walk on waters—though like Peter there were times of doubt (when this walk is taking much longer than I expected!) and I started to sink but He is always gracious to lift me up and keep me walking towards Him.