On Saturday afternoon my friend Jerry Buckholtz went to be with the Lord. He was a good friend and encouraged me quite a lot when I found out that I had cancer. He was one of those people who was a family man, a business man and you knew he knew the Lord. Jerry gave me some good advice after I talked to him about my bout with thinking about suicide due to some medicines I was taking. We did not know it at the time that the medicine was causing it but he gave me the following advice: Put ending it out of your mind. You are only cheating everyone else around you. Put God first, your family second and yourself third. You owe it to God to stay strong, your family to stay strong and yourself to stay strong. He told me the last time we spoke on the phone that he would never have taken the treatments for cancer, but he did it for his family. He owed it to them as they believed in him and supported him so much. He felt that after God, family was the most important thing in an individuals life. We all will miss his counsel.
For me right now, my burns on my collar bone and under my arm are curing very quickly. I am applying some bee's wax salve and it has made the burns go away rather quickly and it is making my scar under my arm from the surgeries nearly vanish. My chest is a different story as the burn seems to be intensifying and the skin pealing off in layers more and more. I had the most uncomfortable sleep last night as the burning increased dramatically every couple of hours after the salve soaked in or was wiped away by the blankets. I am also very sore in my right hip and upper leg area from working at my mom's on Saturday. We put in a new floor and the 7 hours sitting on the floor snapping together the flooring and the ups and downs to cut it got to me. I will work on the boys bunk beds the rest of the week as well as help on some bids at the office. Work seems to make my day for me.
Remember Mary Buckholtz and the family in your prayers.
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