{"id":3409,"date":"2021-02-22T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:37:14","slug":"me-and-car-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/me-and-car-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and CAR-T"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As some readers will know I\u2019m about to get CAR-T therapy <\/a>for the lymphoma cancer. In short, this involved extracting some of my T-cells, genetically modifying them into CAR-T cells<\/a>, growing more of these special cells and infusing the new CAR-T cells back into my body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, that\u2019s right I\u2019ll be genetically re-engineered and there is no turning back. Once they are in my body they will replicate and become \u201cthe new normal\u201d a \u201cliving medicine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I feel about that? Well, at this point it\u2019s the only currently available shot at a cure so I\u2019m doing it. Unlike other treatments like chemotherapy the drugs do their work and leave your system hopefully without any lasting negative side effects. This is different. The new cells will be a part of me, a \u201cliving\u201d medication that will hunt down and destroy the lymphoma cancer cells. I was feeling a little so so about all this, until this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My day starts out with devotions using the youversion<\/a> app. The first thing I read every day is \u201cThe Story\u201d which is an introduction, the verse of the day, a video of someone explaining the verse of the day, and a prayer. Today\u2019s verse was Isaiah 43:19 and it was explained by Levi Lusko<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right at the end of the explanation Levi says \u201c… your (my) good God is seeking to do something new inside of you (me)<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do something new inside of me?!?! Something like new T-cells? Like CAR-T cells? It just struck me hard in a very literal sense. I made a note of the thought in my journal and moved on to the next devotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really should not have been reading this next devotion today. I\u2019d gotten behind and I should have read it yesterday. But, here I am reading this.

\u201cthen God\u2019s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you<\/em><\/strong> through Jesus Christ.\u201d
\u202d\u202dPhilippians\u202c \u202d4:7\u202c \u202dTPT\u202c\u202c
https:\/\/www.bible.com\/1849\/php.4.7.tpt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are coincidences and then there are God arranged circumstances. To me this was a God thing. These two insights, back to back, it was like God speaking to me. God is making a path in the wilderness, a river in the desert, a way where there seems to be no way for me to receive this treatment and He is doing something new inside of me, <\/em><\/strong>literally and making the answers known to me<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.\u201d
\u202d\u202dIsaiah\u202c \u202d43:19\u202c \u202dNLT\u202c\u202c
https:\/\/www.bible.com\/116\/isa.43.19.nlt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result? I\u2019m at peace with the treatment that is coming up in a few weeks. God is it it, He is with me, He is a good God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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