Feb 26: +10 The GI

The GI Tract, gastro-intestinal. From your lips to your "exit."

It's lined with rapidly dividing cells and constantly being repaired/replaced. Chemo did a major number on that back -3 thru +3 days. Now the fallout. I thought I might have dodged the mouth sores, but no. I have a sore developing on the back of my throat. My Exit is a source of many challenging pains. In between are some rumblings. They have lots of strategies to cope - Pepcid for the stomach, special mouth rinses to try and protect the mouth and upper throat lining, but they come. 

Part of what makes this whole is not only cells able to divide and be replaced, but worker WBCs that work to repair it all. 

So that's where I'm at. Hopefully, around day 15, things will start to kick in and the WBC count will start to climb. Right now, I'm at <0.1 for WBC's. Normal is 4.5-10k for adults. 

No great corollary insights today. Closest I got is we all gotta work together to make it all work in our families, neighborhoods, communities, etc. No one person can do it all. 

I Corinthians 12:21-26 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

May grace and mercy be yours in full measure today.

Gary

PS. Another surprise benefit. it's easy to pluck your eyebrows when you can just pull them out by the handfuls.