My Lemonade From Heaven (Part 3)

 Part 3: Thank Goodness For Lemonade From Heaven

(Go here for Part 1, Go here for Part 2)

 



We had not been home from our trip for more than a month, when I found out I was pregnant. We were happy, we were very excited, but I must admit that I was scared. Afraid of the unknown. Not sure what to expect.

We decided to make plans. Plans of what we could do to make things hopefully easier for our new baby and myself. We decided to take health precations of what to feed the baby and so on in hopes that our new little one would feel happy and well.

Little did we know what was instore for us....many hard things to come, but many many more blessings.

Many weeks passed.

It was not long before my first prenatal exam that I found blood in my underwear. It worried me. And as the day progressed and the cramping in my stomach continued, I became more alarmed. Was I losing the baby?

I called my nurse and she suggested that we head to the ER.

It was a tear. Not very big, but none-the-less, a small tear in my uterus. But, the baby was just fine. They told me to take it easy for a week and they would check it the following week at my prenatal exam.

It was there at my first prenatal exam that my doctor found it. She had just finished checking my uterus, all was fine - it had healed nicely and the baby was well. She continued on with the same regular checkup that I'm sure she had done hundred times before. But, when she got to my neck, she stopped.

There it was. A little nodule. A little nodule that we would soon come to find out was cancer.

Had she not pointed it out to me - I would have not noticed it probably for a very long time.

Had I not gotten pregnant, she never would have even done the exam and the cancer would have continued to grow in size.

It's funny how I had fought and fought the idea of having another baby. I had fought the idea of having to endure the possible trials that could accompany having another one with health problems. And yet becoming pregnant saved me from trials that would have been far more worse - had the cancer been allowed to grow more.

Does Heavenly Father know what is best for us? Yes.

Does He see the big picture? Always.

Does He have our best interest at heart? Every. Single. Time

Thank goodness for lemonade from Heaven.


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