{"id":125,"date":"2023-02-09T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.standingonfaith.blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2023-02-09T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:09:15","slug":"a-royal-flush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standingonfaith.blog\/a-royal-flush\/","title":{"rendered":"A Royal Flush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The probability of making a royal flush in poker is 0.00000154% or 1 in 649,740 hands. Royal flushes are extremely rare. In life, we are all dealt cards \u2013 good ones and bad. As the saying goes, it\u2019s how you play your cards that is important. The same two players can start a Texas Hold \u2018Em Game with the worst cards \u2013 unsuited 7 &amp; 2. Player one likely folds before the flop. The other bluffs her way to the pot. One threw their cards in before the hand was over. One threw all their chips in regardless of what happened in the end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mom, Ginny, fights cancer like she&#8217;s bluffing holding an unsuited 7 &amp; 2. She has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Doctor says there is no curing it. The goal of chemo when she had stage 3 breast cancer in 2021 was to cure it. The goal of chemo now is to slow it down and hopefully prolong her life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those were the cards my mom was dealt. She could have easily rolled over and wallowed in anger, fear, anxiety, depression, \u2026 But she hasn\u2019t. What did she do six days after her last cancer treatment? She bowled. Not one game \u2013 THREE. What did she do after she bowled the three games \u2013 go home and take a nap? Nope! She went grocery shopping &#8211; at a bulk store no less.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a recent doctor appointment, the one when she was diagnosed with stage 4, I asked her how she was doing. She said, \u201cGood, I know Jesus is walking with me.\u201d I put my bent arm up and so did she.\u00a0\u00a0We left the hospital that day walking arm in arm with Jesus between us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently asked my mom what she wants to do with whatever time she has left to walk this Earth. She said two things \u2013 ride a horse in Monument Valley where the John Wayne movies were filmed and drive a car as fast as she can on the Salt Flats of Utah. Um, anyone have any connections???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mom has chemo two Fridays in a row, then one Friday off. On each week off, we\u2019re celebrating with No Chemo Friday Fun Day. We\u2019re celebrating one day off from the hours-long process of putting potential cancer causing drugs into her system to fight cancer. We\u2019re celebrating having a few days off from the lovely chemo side-effects. We\u2019re celebrating having more time with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For our first No Chemo Friday Fun Day, we went to the Falls Family Restaurant for breakfast with some family members. Then to the West Side Market. It wasn\u2019t a long outing. Mind you, it was just one day after that bowling and shopping spree. Her body wasn\u2019t quite able to follow-through with her heart\u2019s desire two days in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For our second No Chemo Friday Fun Day, we stayed home. Mom\u2019s white blood count was too low for her to be in public. We made the best of it. We played a card game called Hand and Foot and ate her favorite pizza \u2013 Pizza Hut \u2013 all day. She beat me every single game. Pretty sure she enjoyed every moment of her No Chemo Friday Fun Day. Mine was pretty good too \u2013 even with the butt kicking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She will keep fighting. She will keep throwing all her chips in the pot regardless of what happens in the end. Only God knows how many days she has left to walk this Earth. 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